Soldering 101

A fast overview of products and tools used for soldering Memory Glass jewelry

How to make fire without matches or lighter. The old fashioned way. The rock is quartz (very common in association with granite, which is what the bare “koppies” or hillocks around here are made of; good for climbing too) which is hard and crystalline. Difficult to find flint around here, but occasionally one can find obsidian (basically volcanic glass) which will also work. The plan was to shoot this video around sundown, to get an impressive shower of sparks showing up against a dark background. Unfortunately it also meant I couldn’t see very well what I was doing. A fair amount of footage was edited out of this. When I practiced this BEFORE turning on the camera, I managed to get a viable spark after two strikes. HONEST. There is a bizarre parallel universe that opens up once we turn on the camera. The file (actually a wood rasp) was out to get me. I should have used a bigger rock. This video is part of a series of 101 videos, showing different ways to make fire. It started out as a challenge to myself, to understand the physics and chemistry associated with combustion. Enormous resources go into firefighting and firefighters put their lives on the line every day to save lives and property from destructive fire. Obviously it is easier and cheaper to prevent fire in the first place. Hopefully I can teach people how easy it is for fires to start as a result of ignorance or negligence. Many of these techniques are very old and it is just a question of re-learning ancient …
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