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What I want to accomplish

  • Build a machine to polish glass surfaces very smooth,
  • Wring some smooth glass surfaces together,
  • Characterise a wrung glass join.

THE MACHINE:

Wrong machine.

The idea is to ensure that each portion of each surface of both parts touches every other part:

Using the Three-plate Whitworth method I should be able to create very smooth and flat surfaces.

What I've done

I built a few rotating platforms. The first one was too weak, using a geared DC motor. I was using water and various grit compounds:

  • Toothpaste,
  • Titanium dioxide,
  • Bicarbonate of Soda.

When the two test float glass pieces got wet and smooth-ish they would bind together very strongly, stalling the motor. I needed to build something with more power and some inertia to overcome the spiky friction.

My second

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bv8tEChs2u8&t=5s&list=PLT7ckgz8vcoYF_h7MpIxL4VIjMGFeJyNN&index=3

projects/glass_sphere/work_logs/work_log_2.1546683595.txt.gz · Last modified: 2019/01/05 10:19 by tjhowse