Ok, who did it?

jerry flanary · Post by **jerry flanary** » Fri Jan 02, 2004 11:50 pm

Has anybody made anything of the spun glass fiber from home insulation yet?

rosanna gusler · Post by **rosanna gusler** » Sat Jan 03, 2004 8:42 am

yep. it pretty much dissapears. did a test between and one under. rosanna

Bert Weiss · Post by **Bert Weiss** » Sat Jan 03, 2004 10:53 am

I've heard of a recpipe to make your own fiberglass batt. Heat a crucible with a hole in the bottom with a million BTU burner. The burner is placed so that it will blow the glass exiting the crucible in to fiberglass. You have a steel barrel placed so that it picks up the batt. The slower you turn the barrel, the thicker the batt gets. I don't know how you have to flux down the glass to get it to do this.

I was once looking in to what you could do with bottle glass to recycle it in to something useful and that was the answer I got. Since I never heard of this actually being done, I don't think it is too practical.

watershed · Post by **watershed** » Sat Jan 03, 2004 1:21 pm

Ya know Bert, That sounds suspiciously like how they make cotton candy. Not that it wouldn't work, and that's probably where the idea for fiberglass came from.

Greg

jerry flanary · Post by **jerry flanary** » Sat Jan 03, 2004 4:28 pm

Those dang sugerguys get to do all the cool stuff before the glass people-http://www.pastrywiz.com/sugarart/sugarswan.htm

Well thanks, Rosanna, you saved me some serious goofing off time. I knew somebody had to have done it. Still it seems like you could pack it in a mold and a flower pot and make something. You could even just stuff more in the pot hot without pre-heating; it's not like it's going to crack or explode...