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 ====== What I want to accomplish ======
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 I crushed them up into chunks no larger than about 40mm in any dimension. I then washed and sieved the glass to remove dirt, dust, and very fine glass powder.
-I dried the wet crushed glass in a stainless steel pot on a hotplate. I weighed out six equal quantities of glass into a muffin pan and melted it in my furnace.
+I dried the wet crushed glass in a pot on a hotplate. I weighed out six 145g quantities of glass into a muffin pan and melted it in my furnace.
-=== Video ===
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+After I started that profile running I realised I'd forgotten to paint the muffin tin in release agent. This could be bad.
+Results:
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+Looks promising...
+But no. I had to destroy the muffin tin and peel the steel off the glass in strips.
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+I suspect the coating on the muffin tin decomposed at high temperatures and bubbled gas through my slugs. I threw one on the linisher to see whether it would be workable for testing polishing techniques, but the bubbles are very close to the surface and I broke through almost immediately. This results in glass fragments getting caught between the polishing surfaces and gouging around.
+Next time I will try to buy an uncoated stainless steel muffin tin, or I will pre-fire the tin on a dry run to burn off any coatings, then add a layer of release agent.
+=== Video ===
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 ====== What I want to accomplish next time ======
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+  * Pre-fire the muffin tin to avoid bubbling.
+====== Bonus pics ======
+The underside of the muffin tin developed this very nice colour:
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