Anyone remember that cullet maker used on the show?
The series was on the box a few years ago. A family built an eco-home. One of the do-dah's introduced was a machine that ground glass bottles using acoustic shock.
I want to know how it worked. I can't find anything comprehensive about it online.
It's on-line somewhere, but their description was quite gee-whizz and very secretive on details of how to make your own 8-)
Ask them: now called Newhouse Farm:
snipped-for-privacy@newhousefarm.tv
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Implosion is a mechanically induced high-speed process that creates a harmonic resonance that results in the destruction of glass whilst rendering it sharp free.
The result is similar to the effect of an opera singer shattering a wine glass when hitting a very high note, except that Implosion shatters the glass inward on itself, and creates no glass shards or sharp edges.
Implosion does not grind, mill, hammer or flail the glass, therefore the high wear typically associated with traditional glass processors is vastly reduced. Implosion naturally produces a range of fraction sizes from approximately 0.2mm up to 16mm. The size range can be varied towards smaller or larger fractions.
Imploded glass is sharp free and safe to handle. Container, flat, toughened, heat-treated and CRT glass can all be Imploded. Implosion densifies container glass to 5% of its original volume thus reducing storage space and transport movements compared to bottle bank storage.
Implosion is =93tuned=94 to only process glass, therefore non-glass objects such as bottle tops, labels, corks, and straws, pass through untouched allowing them to be easily screened off enabling the glass to used as an aggregate substitute.
Full sealed bottles can be Imploded thus saving disposal time with faulty or =93out of date stock=94. Imploded glass is sharp free and sub-angular making it an ideal blast abrasive for surface preparation. As Imploded glass is not abraded it retains a smooth shiny surface giving it high percolation and low bio-fowling characteristics beneficial in water filtration applications.
Imploded cullet can be more easily colour sorted for the re-melt industry. The process has a lower power requirement compared to traditional =93high torque=94 glass crushers.
Convergence in the atmosphere refers to the development of storms. Dedicated Weatherlawyer nuts will know that he has equated this phenomenon to the increase in magnitude of earthquakes.
Hence the research.
Most of the detritus exed from Eekyerfountain is glass, which got me wondering if the convergence of infra or ultrasound in a chamber below the volcano would produce it.
I am of the opinion propounded by Prof Thomas Gold, that the depths of the planet are filled with microbes of astonishing abilities. And that redox reactions take place in magma chmbers due to the interactions of these animals and perhaps plants and as yet to be described life forms that are more like rock than plankton.
I was just wondering if the so called igneous rock they produce is capable of being rendered sand by the acoustics of such chambers.
Maybe I'll ty a different search parameter but I get the idea that loading "Imploded glass" will get me back to the same links as before.
I did a search for "ultrasonic glass crusher" and it came up with a couple of hits, but they looked industrial scale rather than home use (ie. one was a waste disposal site).
replying to Andy Burns, durdy wrote: this is the smallest I could find.
What's the point of such a machine?
Seems obvious to me,vastly reduces storage costs and space and transport costs.
to make make pozzolan from glass to use in mortar/concrete instead of mined/dredged sand.
Compared to mechanical crushers, they are quieter, give a more consistent cullet size and have no moving parts.
I was thinking about making a kiln to melt some and make glass blocks with it. How much do you suppose a toy like that will disable me?
then why would you need to pulverise the glass?
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ith it. How much do you suppose a toy like that will disable me?
Is this a troll?
The smaller the surface area the greater the reaction to the heat source. When the first man melted the fist ore to produce a bloom he must have real ised that all his banging it on an anvil will do is make it smaller as he k nocked the crust to the floor, so he found some way to crush it to a finer gravel and mixed it with crushed charcoal and put it in a furnace and hit i t with compressed air once he got it red hot.
(Just a wonder down memory lame for the sake of helping a neighbour in dire need of some physical educat-ion.)
Once you have accomplished the melting of the first few shards to droplets, the rest of the glass follows the flow.
Most pubs throw the empty bottles into the recycling bin and even the landf ill one. I have always thought it a waste. It may as well be recycled to co ncrete as that. And even concrete made of glass is interesting -or could be .
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