square sight glass

by **googe** » Sat Jan 19, 2013 3:54 pm

Been working on this lately, every still ive seen has round ones and thought there must be other options surely. I'm going to connect it from the inside using similar to pic 1, I'm getting some special mounts mad at work from stainless and will solder a copper frame on the inside to hold it, will be easier to understand when I get the bits. Its going to clamp from the back onto the glass pushing it against a seal between the glass and the column. Any thoughts welcome, good or bad.

by **kiwikeg** » Sat Jan 19, 2013 4:48 pm

:handgestures-thumbupleft: dudeyouthinksofaroutsidethesquareitsnotfunny!!!

p.s.gotnospacebar

by **crow** » Sat Jan 19, 2013 6:46 pm

i give up , where the hell did you get curved glass. did think about this awhile back having a continuous piece of glass running almost the length of a column , thought about splitting say 4mm copper pipe ,partly flatten it . Then insert some sort of seal fit glass and just solder the frame to the column :handgestures-thumbupleft: would look snazzy hey plu you could very clearly see what was going on there. This was an idea to make a column to test different packing strata's in

by **kiwikeg** » Sat Jan 19, 2013 6:49 pm

crow wrote:i give up , where the hell did you get curved glass

glass tube eh googe...very clever

by **crow** » Sat Jan 19, 2013 6:57 pm

Yeah I enlarged it to see ifen he'd just slipped a jar in there as a "serving suggestion" but it really did look like, well not that :laughing-rolling:

by **Rumdrinker** » Sat Jan 19, 2013 9:19 pm

Not sure how it's going to seal or work but you gotta call it the "Ned Kelly"......

by **emptyglass** » Sat Jan 19, 2013 9:47 pm

The difference between genius and insanity is results.

by **Lowndsey** » Sat Jan 19, 2013 9:51 pm

Rumdrinker wrote:Not sure how it's going to seal or work but you gotta call it the "Ned Kelly"......

or the Dustbin

by **Goldie** » Sun Jan 20, 2013 5:29 am

If you need spares Mac has a huge load of square sight glasses, they aren't curved though.....

by **Cane Toad** » Sun Jan 20, 2013 8:47 am

Fuck me Googe ^:)^ ^:)^ ^:)^ You just never stop thinking,do you :laughing-rolling: :laughing-rolling:

by **googe** » Sun Jan 20, 2013 5:51 pm

Thanks fellas, your clever kiwi and no flies on you crow. It is a jar crow, well spotted. Ive got some glass tube lined up kiwi and I'm getting it split. I like that name Ned Kelly!. I'm hoping for some sort of result empty. An idol mind is the devils work or something like that cupcake. Thanks Goldie.

by **Yummyrum** » Sun Jan 20, 2013 7:51 pm

Googe,
when I watched "playschool" the square window was flat. :-B not kinda roundy

No doubt about it your definitely out there .Shit can't wait to see you pull this one off .You,re a thinker .Thinkers find solutions .Go for it .

The 4 plated Ned Kelly just picturing it with riveted construction , :D

But hey why are you wasting precious time on this ,haven't you already got a project almost finished :happy-partydance:

by **tasteslikechicken** » Sun Jan 20, 2013 8:00 pm

Yummyrum wrote:The 4 plated Ned Kelly just picturing it with riveted construction , :D

First thing I thought of when I saw it.

Marketing is sorted Googe. :handgestures-thumbupleft:

by **Lowndsey** » Sun Jan 20, 2013 8:24 pm

WOW ..I am blown away. Absolutely blown away...that Googe has got a picture the right way up . :laughing-rolling: :handgestures-thumbupleft:

by **crow** » Sun Jan 20, 2013 10:01 pm

In all seriousness googe if you are going to make this consider my suggestion of fitting it externally in some sort of frame. see the thing is the glass will expand and contract at a different amount and at different temps than the copper, so if you fix it solid it will break that is for certain

by **emptyglass** » Sun Jan 20, 2013 10:40 pm

How would you fix it solid without a clamp?

Lowndsey wrote:WOW ..I am blown away. Absolutely blown away...that Googe has got a picture the right way up . :laughing-rolling: :handgestures-thumbupleft:

Me too. :teasing-neener:

by **MacStill** » Sun Jan 20, 2013 10:54 pm

Looks like the lighting bollards at Goulburn jail :shifty:

by **Brendan** » Sun Jan 20, 2013 11:21 pm

You visited someone Mac? :romance-ballandchain:

:text-lol:

by **MacStill** » Sun Jan 20, 2013 11:27 pm

eerrr yeh the ones out the front :whistle:

by **Brendan** » Mon Jan 21, 2013 12:17 am

What you needed was a decent law-abiding hobby o:-)