Bottles to Broken Cups
Alex B., Jeremy T., Oliver Hi.
6B
Price
Basic setup (for method #1) can cost about $20-$40: this should include:
One tabletop glass-cutter
One pair of gloves
Sandpaper
One handheld glass-cutter (sometimes)
A few rubber bands (sometimes)
You may also need to buy some cutting oil (about ten dollars for a four oz bottle) and some candlesticks about $1 per candle
Acetone $5-$10 about 10oz
Yarn or string $2-$10
Table top bottle cutter $20-$40 (not necessary but recommended)
A bin to fill with water for safety and to catch the broken glass
Sand paper
Our Maker Faire was taking bottles and trying to turn them into cups/glasses. Unfortunately most of them broke, and we weren’t able to drink out of them. Our inspiration was the fact that recycling glass is extremely expensive. Luckily Oliver had a bottle cutting kit because his mom likes to work with glass. We had to find bottles first, so we sent out an email. We asked everybody to, if they have old glass bottles, to donate them to us. Surprisingly we thought we were going to get none but we got a lot of them. Since we had such little time, we weren’t able to use all of them.
We looked at a couple of videos on the web that showed us some strategies for cutting the bottles. There were some ways that took longer than others and also some that were really dangerous. The first strategy that we used was the most simple, we started with taking a bottle, making a cut with the glass-cutter, holding the bottle over a candle, and then pouring ice water on the cut. The second strategy was using acetone. We cut the bottle, and it involved fire. Then we took a string dumped it in acetone, and wrapped it around the bottle at least three times. We then lit the string with a lighter and once it went out we poured some ice water onto the glass bottle(over a tub of water). If lucky we would have a good enough cup to sand down, unfortunately none of the cups were sanded down enough for someone to drink out of it safely.If you decide to do this at home, make sure you have all the necessary materials, also, most methods you will find on the web will also require safety goggles. If your very first bottle doesn’t break super cleanly, don’t get frustrated, only a few bottles that you try will break cleanly.
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