hey guys we’re back today with another
experiment that I’m personally excited
about and been looking forward to for a
couple of months I went picked up a
couple of bags of marbles from the
dollar store and then bring it back my
mini arc furnace because I’d like to
bring the two together and see if we can
get those marbles to melt so you
probably remember from a previous
project we took a piece of refractory
brick and cut it to form a mini arc
furnace this thing’s capable of
withstanding temperatures over 3,000
degrees Fahrenheit and possibly even
more now something that I haven’t really
played with yet but I’ve seen popping up
a lot in the comments is to make glass
but before I actually make glass I
wanted to try melting at first just to
make sure we had the capability so the
purpose of this experiment today is to
take some of these glass marbles strike
up a ripping hot electric arc powered by
my homemade arc welder and bring the two
together to see if we can actually get
electricity to melt glass now some of
you faithful long-term viewers will
remember that the electrodes I use on
its arc furnace are carbon rods that I
pull out of lantern batteries and
unfortunately I use my other ones up and
threw them away so we’re going to need
to start this project by harvesting a
new badge
[Music]
and there we have a guys with that very
simple lantern battery hack we now have
ourselves four black carbon electrodes
that should work perfectly for this mini
arc furnace now we can pretty much hook
these up and use them as is the problem
is they’ve got this goofy stuff on the
ends from where they’re capped off at
the top but I find the quickest and
easiest way to clean this goop up is
simply to strike an arc and let it burn
for about five seconds just be careful
not to breathe in the fumes because the
smoke is toxic
alright guys so our carbon electrodes
are now prepped and ready everything’s
good to go so at this point let’s just
take one of our white marbles place it
down inside the furnace and strike an
arc just to see if we can actually get
it to melt and I think the chances of
that happening are quite high and I did
make a lid for my arc furnace so it can
go on top and help contain the heat
however for this first experiment I’d
actually like you to see the arc so I’m
going to leave the lid off strike our
arc and then turn it so that it splashes
downward over top of the marble let’s
watch what happens
[Music]
[Music]
oh wow okay I’m going to stop it right
there because that’s only been ten
seconds and I can already see the glass
is melting now pull it out for you so
you can see oh my goodness that’s ten
seconds in the arc furnace guys that is
crazy so this is kind of cool and very
encouraging our marble is only in the
arc furnace for ten seconds it melted in
half and then when I went to grab it
with my needlenose pliers
it actually conformed to the shape of
the pressure so it’s already moldable at
ten seconds let’s see what it will do in
a minute
[Music]
[Music]
okay so I actually meant 225 seconds and
look at that it is completely molten
that is crazy
and stick a screwdriver in there wow
that is molten glass liquefied glass in
25 seconds
good and it’s still hot enough I can
sculpt it around you see if I can pull a
loo that out ah super cool
[Music]
well me arc furnace vs. Marvel’s
apparently no problem at all so for this
next experiment let’s grab five more
marbles and see if we can melt them all
together at the same time
[Music]
[Music]
check that out that has gone completely
molten ha ha ha those marbles are
nothing but a molten sea of glass right
now look at this oh gosh that is cool
that is like lava look at that look at
that it’s like liquid glass putty except
it’s actually glass what it’s starting
to harden up here at the top look I can
pull it and form strands and fibers oh
my god ha look at that I made a nice
long fiber there by pulling it well guys
it seems to work pretty well we just
took down five marbles in less than a
minute and when I stuck my screwdriver
in there and started pulling it out you
could see it was actually very liquidy
like I could pull it up I get stirred
around it kinda had the same viscosity
as liquid chocolate or liquid silicone
before it cures up I also tried dipping
the tip of my screwdriver and pulling it
up as high as I could get it and it made
this nice long strand of glass fiber
noir I’m going with this that’s right
this right here is a homemade piece of
fiberglass now it’s only one piece but
you can see how flexible it is if you
flick it with your finger you can see it
bounces up and down and it’s got a
surprising amount of flexibility to it
unlike a sheet of glass which would just
crack if you try and bent it so
fiberglass seems to have different
properties than a sheet of glass
interesting but one final experiment
let’s take a whole handful of these
colored decorative marbles and try
melting them down
these are yellow-green feel a little bit
of purple in there as well it’ll be
interesting to see the result after
they’ve been melted and mixed man that
thing is full and you know what I might
do to conserve a little bit of energy is
put the lid on this time and we’ve been
getting the melt even faster
[Music]
[Music]
yeah we’ll hold on
[Applause]
wow that’s cool I’m going to take the
lid off here so we can see inside ooh
that’s beautiful I look at the lid here
you see how cozy hot back I I would like
to keep that up from the top now you can
move the warmer
[Music]
I’m actually underneath the molten glass
you see that
[Music]
oh wow that’s cool cool all right let’s
stop there and take a look that’s
cooling down fast but their pockets
notice super hot look in there Wow
looking down inside it was almost white
hotter
Wow just keep going and going what this
stuff is amazing cools down very quickly
but it pulls like putty it’s like a big
tip-off haha wow that’s crazy it looks
like some kind of a lava pit monster
from the nether realm and look how all
the colors are blended together here to
form this charcoal gray it almost looks
like a pink it’s kind of smoky in here
this Glasper we did a guy’s we melted
that whole handful of marbles within
about a minute maybe a minute and a half
but it didn’t take much at all you can
see when I tried pulling it out with the
head of the screwdriver you made these
nice long glass strands which are very
very brittle what I found was amazing
about this is it pulled almost like
putty if you were to stick a screwdriver
in something like silly putty and
stretch it it has about the same
consistency the difference is that after
this sets it’s as hard as glass which is
exactly what it is it’s also very sharp
and very pointy now just for fun I’m
going to break down these shards melt
the glass one more time and then take a
glob of that molten material and just
drip it into a glass of water just to
see if we can get anything cool to
happen
[Music]
[Applause]
[Music]
[Applause]
she had her didn’t it
[Music]
[Applause]
got on the side of the glass oops
I missed I was trying to melt down some
of this glass and drip it into the water
but I actually missed and it dripped
down it onto the side of the glass
instead which is hilarious because now
it’s actually fused with the glass and
become part of it
that’s crazy it’s also warmed if the
water quite a bit as well oh no it
didn’t just chips right off I just
knocked it off but it looks like it was
welded to the glass because it left a
little pock mark there when it fell off
all right guys bonus experiment since
this arc furnace seems to be taking down
glass without any problem at all I
thought it would be fun to try striking
arc and just running one electrode on
the inside of the glass and the other on
the outside just to see how quickly it
would melt the edge so let’s fire it up
for one more experiment to see what
happens
arc furnace versus drinking glass here
we go
[Music]
[Music]
Wow look at that is crazy that was
amazing what I tried doing was holding
one electrode just on the edge of the
glass itself and using the heat and the
flame to kind of direct down the side
and what it did is it made almost like
an improvised plasma cutter for glass
you see it took that thing out no
problem now as this thing is cooling it
is cracking and spattering and spewing
glass all over we do have this really
cool the molten drop down the side here
though that was so much fun I’m gonna
try it one more time on this opposite
end and we can call it a day
[Music]
[Applause]
[Music]
so quick summary of what we did here
today we start off with the purpose of
seeing if we could use high amperage
electricity to melt glass we took one
single marble and expose it to an
electric arc in the mini arc furnace and
found that not only did it melt glass
but it melted it within seconds so we
threw in five more marbles and melted
them in less than a minute we threw a
whole handful of colored marbles in
there and melted them down to a bubbly
liquid lava type suit we also found that
if we stuck the tip of a screwdriver in
there and slowly pulled it out the glass
acts like putty and if we stretched it
out high enough and fast enough it was
thin out into little strands of
fiberglass we tried dripping a glob of
molten glass into a cup full of water
put it missed and landed on the side
where it solidified and fused into the
sidewall and when we removed it it left
a little crater behind for our last
experiment we drew out one more juicy
arc and test it on the side of a common
drinking glass where we found the
electrodes almost form an improvised
glass cutting plasma torch where the
glass flows away like butter these are
very cool experiments and very
satisfying to see the results we now
have the power to melt glass thanks for
joining us for this video guys I’ll be
looking for the next one talk to you
then because now we have the power to
melt glass
[Music]
experiment that I’m personally excited
about and been looking forward to for a
couple of months I went picked up a
couple of bags of marbles from the
dollar store and then bring it back my
mini arc furnace because I’d like to
bring the two together and see if we can
get those marbles to melt so you
probably remember from a previous
project we took a piece of refractory
brick and cut it to form a mini arc
furnace this thing’s capable of
withstanding temperatures over 3,000
degrees Fahrenheit and possibly even
more now something that I haven’t really
played with yet but I’ve seen popping up
a lot in the comments is to make glass
but before I actually make glass I
wanted to try melting at first just to
make sure we had the capability so the
purpose of this experiment today is to
take some of these glass marbles strike
up a ripping hot electric arc powered by
my homemade arc welder and bring the two
together to see if we can actually get
electricity to melt glass now some of
you faithful long-term viewers will
remember that the electrodes I use on
its arc furnace are carbon rods that I
pull out of lantern batteries and
unfortunately I use my other ones up and
threw them away so we’re going to need
to start this project by harvesting a
new badge
[Music]
and there we have a guys with that very
simple lantern battery hack we now have
ourselves four black carbon electrodes
that should work perfectly for this mini
arc furnace now we can pretty much hook
these up and use them as is the problem
is they’ve got this goofy stuff on the
ends from where they’re capped off at
the top but I find the quickest and
easiest way to clean this goop up is
simply to strike an arc and let it burn
for about five seconds just be careful
not to breathe in the fumes because the
smoke is toxic
alright guys so our carbon electrodes
are now prepped and ready everything’s
good to go so at this point let’s just
take one of our white marbles place it
down inside the furnace and strike an
arc just to see if we can actually get
it to melt and I think the chances of
that happening are quite high and I did
make a lid for my arc furnace so it can
go on top and help contain the heat
however for this first experiment I’d
actually like you to see the arc so I’m
going to leave the lid off strike our
arc and then turn it so that it splashes
downward over top of the marble let’s
watch what happens
[Music]
[Music]
oh wow okay I’m going to stop it right
there because that’s only been ten
seconds and I can already see the glass
is melting now pull it out for you so
you can see oh my goodness that’s ten
seconds in the arc furnace guys that is
crazy so this is kind of cool and very
encouraging our marble is only in the
arc furnace for ten seconds it melted in
half and then when I went to grab it
with my needlenose pliers
it actually conformed to the shape of
the pressure so it’s already moldable at
ten seconds let’s see what it will do in
a minute
[Music]
[Music]
okay so I actually meant 225 seconds and
look at that it is completely molten
that is crazy
and stick a screwdriver in there wow
that is molten glass liquefied glass in
25 seconds
good and it’s still hot enough I can
sculpt it around you see if I can pull a
loo that out ah super cool
[Music]
well me arc furnace vs. Marvel’s
apparently no problem at all so for this
next experiment let’s grab five more
marbles and see if we can melt them all
together at the same time
[Music]
[Music]
check that out that has gone completely
molten ha ha ha those marbles are
nothing but a molten sea of glass right
now look at this oh gosh that is cool
that is like lava look at that look at
that it’s like liquid glass putty except
it’s actually glass what it’s starting
to harden up here at the top look I can
pull it and form strands and fibers oh
my god ha look at that I made a nice
long fiber there by pulling it well guys
it seems to work pretty well we just
took down five marbles in less than a
minute and when I stuck my screwdriver
in there and started pulling it out you
could see it was actually very liquidy
like I could pull it up I get stirred
around it kinda had the same viscosity
as liquid chocolate or liquid silicone
before it cures up I also tried dipping
the tip of my screwdriver and pulling it
up as high as I could get it and it made
this nice long strand of glass fiber
noir I’m going with this that’s right
this right here is a homemade piece of
fiberglass now it’s only one piece but
you can see how flexible it is if you
flick it with your finger you can see it
bounces up and down and it’s got a
surprising amount of flexibility to it
unlike a sheet of glass which would just
crack if you try and bent it so
fiberglass seems to have different
properties than a sheet of glass
interesting but one final experiment
let’s take a whole handful of these
colored decorative marbles and try
melting them down
these are yellow-green feel a little bit
of purple in there as well it’ll be
interesting to see the result after
they’ve been melted and mixed man that
thing is full and you know what I might
do to conserve a little bit of energy is
put the lid on this time and we’ve been
getting the melt even faster
[Music]
[Music]
yeah we’ll hold on
[Applause]
wow that’s cool I’m going to take the
lid off here so we can see inside ooh
that’s beautiful I look at the lid here
you see how cozy hot back I I would like
to keep that up from the top now you can
move the warmer
[Music]
I’m actually underneath the molten glass
you see that
[Music]
oh wow that’s cool cool all right let’s
stop there and take a look that’s
cooling down fast but their pockets
notice super hot look in there Wow
looking down inside it was almost white
hotter
Wow just keep going and going what this
stuff is amazing cools down very quickly
but it pulls like putty it’s like a big
tip-off haha wow that’s crazy it looks
like some kind of a lava pit monster
from the nether realm and look how all
the colors are blended together here to
form this charcoal gray it almost looks
like a pink it’s kind of smoky in here
this Glasper we did a guy’s we melted
that whole handful of marbles within
about a minute maybe a minute and a half
but it didn’t take much at all you can
see when I tried pulling it out with the
head of the screwdriver you made these
nice long glass strands which are very
very brittle what I found was amazing
about this is it pulled almost like
putty if you were to stick a screwdriver
in something like silly putty and
stretch it it has about the same
consistency the difference is that after
this sets it’s as hard as glass which is
exactly what it is it’s also very sharp
and very pointy now just for fun I’m
going to break down these shards melt
the glass one more time and then take a
glob of that molten material and just
drip it into a glass of water just to
see if we can get anything cool to
happen
[Music]
[Applause]
[Music]
[Applause]
she had her didn’t it
[Music]
[Applause]
got on the side of the glass oops
I missed I was trying to melt down some
of this glass and drip it into the water
but I actually missed and it dripped
down it onto the side of the glass
instead which is hilarious because now
it’s actually fused with the glass and
become part of it
that’s crazy it’s also warmed if the
water quite a bit as well oh no it
didn’t just chips right off I just
knocked it off but it looks like it was
welded to the glass because it left a
little pock mark there when it fell off
all right guys bonus experiment since
this arc furnace seems to be taking down
glass without any problem at all I
thought it would be fun to try striking
arc and just running one electrode on
the inside of the glass and the other on
the outside just to see how quickly it
would melt the edge so let’s fire it up
for one more experiment to see what
happens
arc furnace versus drinking glass here
we go
[Music]
[Music]
Wow look at that is crazy that was
amazing what I tried doing was holding
one electrode just on the edge of the
glass itself and using the heat and the
flame to kind of direct down the side
and what it did is it made almost like
an improvised plasma cutter for glass
you see it took that thing out no
problem now as this thing is cooling it
is cracking and spattering and spewing
glass all over we do have this really
cool the molten drop down the side here
though that was so much fun I’m gonna
try it one more time on this opposite
end and we can call it a day
[Music]
[Applause]
[Music]
so quick summary of what we did here
today we start off with the purpose of
seeing if we could use high amperage
electricity to melt glass we took one
single marble and expose it to an
electric arc in the mini arc furnace and
found that not only did it melt glass
but it melted it within seconds so we
threw in five more marbles and melted
them in less than a minute we threw a
whole handful of colored marbles in
there and melted them down to a bubbly
liquid lava type suit we also found that
if we stuck the tip of a screwdriver in
there and slowly pulled it out the glass
acts like putty and if we stretched it
out high enough and fast enough it was
thin out into little strands of
fiberglass we tried dripping a glob of
molten glass into a cup full of water
put it missed and landed on the side
where it solidified and fused into the
sidewall and when we removed it it left
a little crater behind for our last
experiment we drew out one more juicy
arc and test it on the side of a common
drinking glass where we found the
electrodes almost form an improvised
glass cutting plasma torch where the
glass flows away like butter these are
very cool experiments and very
satisfying to see the results we now
have the power to melt glass thanks for
joining us for this video guys I’ll be
looking for the next one talk to you
then because now we have the power to
melt glass
[Music]
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