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  • Topic: Turn your beer bottles into glass cups! (5 easy steps)

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    • August 20, 2013 2:24 PM CDT
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      Anyone wanna try this and report back how well it worked?

       

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      Glassware can get pretty expensive especially if you’re in college and always getting sh*t faced and breaking your glasses. Start just using your empty beer bottles and turning them into your new glasses.  Look dope, easy to make and cheap! Follow these 5 easy steps.

       

      Step 1 – Grab a beer bottle preferably with thick glass such as corona bottles. Tie a string just above the label on the empty bottle.
       
      Step 1 – Grab a beer bottle preferably with thick glass such as corona bottles. Tie a string just above the label on the empty bottle.
      Step 2 – Keep the string tied and soak it in lighter fluid.
       
      Step 2 – Keep the string tied and soak it in lighter fluid.
      Step 3 – Put the string back on the bottle and hold it horizontally. Light the sting rotating the bottle so the flame spreads. You should hear the bottle crack slightly in about 10 seconds.
       
      Step 3 – Put the string back on the bottle and hold it horizontally. Light the sting rotating the bottle so the flame spreads. You should hear the bottle crack slightly in about 10 seconds.
      Step 4 – After you hear the crack, pour cold water on the string and the top of the bottle will fall off.
       
      Step 4 – After you hear the crack, pour cold water on the string and the top of the bottle will fall off.
      Step 5 – Now grab sandpaper and sand the edges of the bottle till it is smooth.
       
      Step 5 – Now grab sandpaper and sand the edges of the bottle till it is smooth.
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      Some interesting comments on that article. Read them. Here's one:
       
      This is a fun idea for crafts and "party tricks", but not for something you are going to put to your lips like drinkware. Due to the way you "stress " the glass apart, small chips can pop from the lip long after you are done making them- cracks too :( Use a bottle cutter, or a tile saw instead:) Want to see what else is possible w/ recycled bottles? Go to http://antiquitaglass.com/

      Someone else recommended NOT putting these in the dishwasher for the same reason (micro cracks along the edge of the glass).

      Anyway, I haven't tried this, so be careful out there! Maybe we'll see this on Mythbusters sometime soon.
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      "Go read a book and flunk a test." -Iggy

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