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If the camera is good, why is the video horribly shaky? It means the camera is crap if it doesn't have image stabilization.
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Cut that extra wire and you could at least double your current (and quadruple the power output). At about 11 ohms/ft, decreasing the wire length to just wrap the bottle will get you there a lot faster. Scoring the bottle first helps, too.
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Obviously the person holding the "NICE CAMERA" has Parkinson's disease? Suppose this is one of those "Videos" which would better suite a radio because you can hear more about whats going on than what you can see..... unless you're up for getting motion sickness.
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maybe next time the camera person can drink the wine first to help that shakes?? or maybe they did drink it and need to pee??
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potato cam
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potato cam
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Zoom the fuck out!!
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hello rose, did you used transformer or ac/vc variable supply?
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The wire can not touch or it will short out... it can be very close but not touch, some grinding helps smooth out the edges
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im thinking if you rotated the bottlewhile the wire was hot, you wouldve had no stress cracks, as the entire surface that was to be cut wouldve been heated not just one side of the bottle...just a guess
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For some reason, it didn't give me the option to directly reply to Mike.Sorry I'm just getting to this! We did not have any hairline stress fractures -- as for the wires touching each other, they can get very close but not touch - if they touch, they short out - so it is not a perfectly straight cut - we grind em down if necessary after wards -- as to "Gotdesign" = that's great. You sound so awesome. So awesome in fact, I bet everyone would love if you share your method.
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Also when you say "doesn't cross itself" (in description) do you mean when you wrap it around the bottle that the wire does not actually touch itself? are you talking millimeter separation? How do you get a clean cut if you the wire does not touch? Just wondering so I can do this project as well. thank you
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first thanks for sharing this! good stuff! I just bought a variac. I currently us a bottle cutter device, fire to heat it and just an ice cube to separate it. this method seems faster. but just wondering about stress fractures. Any success on limiting stress on from heat making random hair line fractures? These really bum me out when cutting bottles. I grind them down but man i just want to refine my process (quicker) with limited stress on the bottles. any help?
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How is the electrical setup ?
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Skip to 4:50
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congratulations on your successful bottle cutting career :D I stand in awe, good sir.
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Yeah, but he is showing you another technique, just like you are showing us this technique. The boiling water approach also costs very little.
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This is totally useless... a waste of time and electric energy. I used to cut bottle in a small workshop. theres is a faster method than this, we used to cut bottle every 30 to 45 second, cause it was a bottle cutter workshop...
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dang. Where is the fucking? I missed it!!! Is it in the background of the video somewhere? Could you give me the exact time on the video where this occurs!?!?
I'd been trying to find the best way to cut wine bottles for a while. We ended up using heated Nichrome wire. Gary made a version of the device shown here http://mikegigi.com/bottle.htm#CUTTI for me, and we tested it at non-profit LVL1 Hacker / Maker space. We tried cutting the bottles with strings on fire, but it didn't work and this was so much easier once the non-conductive board was built. This makes for an interesting science experiment or maker project. We cut a bottle from Huber's - Their spiced apple wine is my favorite! Once the wire is hooked to the non-conductive device with insulated fence knobs and wrapped around the bottle (make sure it doesn't cross itself). If you don't know how to gauge best amp/voltage for your gauge of wire, don't try this alone!! Get help from someone who knows what they're doing. I had help. We ended up using 28 gauge wire at about 30 volts (about 2.7 amps)...we let it heat until the temperature got to about 200 (used an infrared thermometer). It's a homemade bottle cutter. Thanks to Mike Firth for sharing how to cut wine bottles! www.lvl1.org