Bottles on the roof? Or bats in the belfry?

[kumtow]

Hi VaChick,

Not a lot you can do with cracked bottles, except position them on your shelf to obscure the damage as best as possible. Check this discussion out https://www.antique-bottles.net/forum/fb.asp?m=12463&key=

 

[VaChick]

Alan, thanks for the link -- I know someone who is learning to blow glass -- after reading the link, I definitely won't ask him to experiment!

I guess I could still take up stained glass or mosiacs, most of these bottles are cracked all around. . .

Actually, for the few that did survive, the color is wonderful. Here's one I just washed that isn't broken. . . .

So putting them on the roof can be worth it!

vachick

 

[KentOhio]

I wouldn't do it. Too many of them will break. Roofs get incredibly hot during the day, and then a sudden rain shower cools them off, and BAM! Cracks.

 

[sodabottle]

would using a heat lamp make clear bottle change the color or does it have to be out in the sun

 

[KentOhio]

It needs to be ultraviolet radiation, which could be sun, or also a black light. Interestingly enough, heat actually makes them less purple and more clear. They say putting a purpled bottle in the oven will turn it clear again.

 

[Tony14]

Well since you said that I might have to buy a black light to color some of my more common bottles. Thanks for the tip Kent.

 

[whiskeyman]

KENT is correct. Years ago many peeps did that...You have to enclose the bottle & UV light together, inside some type of box...and just leave it until any changes occur.

 

[sodabottle]

Hey Does Any one Know if there is any thing other than a black light and the sun that you could use to chage color?



How long does it take for the bottle to change under a black light or the sun