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To: Red Badger

The process of makin Price Rupert’s Drops is sort of like making Fried Marbles, except you don’t heat them until they’re molten. Always wear goggles or safety glasses. In making fried marbles you take pretty swirl pattern marbles, place them in a skillet or other suitable vessel and heat them to 400 - 500 degrees. Then, using a pair of tongs, drop them into ice water. The glass will instantly develop all sorts of crazy stress cracks internally in the marbles, making their translucent patterns even more interesting.


24 posted on 05/09/2017 11:59:38 AM PDT by Tucker39 (Known as the Father of modern agriculture)
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To: Tucker39

I tried frying marbles when I was a kid.

Never could get them tender................


25 posted on 05/09/2017 12:01:15 PM PDT by Red Badger (Profanity is the sound of an ignorant mind trying to express itself.............)
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To: Tucker39

I tried cutting a piece of tempered glass from a storm door with a tile saw once.

what a mess........................


28 posted on 05/09/2017 12:20:44 PM PDT by Red Badger (Profanity is the sound of an ignorant mind trying to express itself.............)
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