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The oven-34 viewsthe oven kis build with breaks,which are not effected with high temperature.diesel oil is infiltrated as to make the needed fire,this fire is to produce the high temprature needed to melt glass and turn it from its solid case into liquid.which may needs some overnight start.

The worker-34 viewsthe worker,he is called Khalid,he is the worker and the owner,he inherited this buisness from his father,in the past the father and two sons and couple of workers were contained in this buisness.
Now its only khalid and his mother are the only two people in the factory. CON.

The worker 2-39 viewsThe factory is not working all days of the week,while years ago it worked almost shifts day and night,khalid sets next to the ovens door, it is really hot there,so the door must be a small one and could be easly closed as to make protection to khalid from direct ovens fire.
As well we see next to the door a tiny hole,through this hole khalid can just insert the top of iron piece as to heat again the liquid piece of glass which he took in order to keep its ability to be shaped.

The worker 3-32 viewsKhalid has a piece of irpn pipi,one meter in length,he usualy dip its top in the glass liquid,and keep rolling the top inside as to have there some of the glass,the needed ammount enough to make the intended pot.

liquid glass-37 viewsCertain amount of glass is now on top of the pipe,he can cut some of it if it was bigger than the needed ammount,he has a special scissors to do so,or he can dip it in the oven in case he needs some more glass,by taking glass away from oven it catch cold and gets hard again,which makes work not easy.

Glass hard again-29 viewsnow the glass is hard he cant form it,here comes the usage of that tiny hole next to the door of the oven,so he lay the top of the pipe in this hole,and as to consider the time and heat,so he has to do it right.then he has to roll it over a plate next to the oven and as hot as the oven, making it round and cuts the extras or if there is any pivuliar stuff which some times could be an air buble in the glass.

Another pipe must be used-36 viewsso khalid intents to have another pipe and another piece of glass on top of this pipe,so he keeps himself busy preparing for the next pot as long as he is staying with this ammount of heat.with a certain tool khalid put it on the glass rolling the bar so the glass is rounded and shaped as a small baloon.

Shaping the baloon-36 viewsinstruments he uses are not that advanced,but he knows very well how to use them,shaping the baloon is not easy,but he has got expert eyes.he has to plough som air as we normally do in baloons,he knows when to stop because the glass is getting hardened.

Back to oven-31 viewsLittle baloon is fregile an expert only knows when to stop ploughing the air in, and as long as he do it with no machines so he knows right well when the baloon is getting hard more than he can affort,so it needs to be softed and more fire.

The baloon is getting bigger-33 viewseach time he feels that the glass is getting hard,he must then put it back in the oven in order to have the glass ready for shaping nd do not resist.till he gets the the shape he desired,for this pot ,now we can say pot, it needs to be carried in a certain way,so he release the pot and holds it from its bottom

Simple tools-25 viewsthe top of the pot is the place were khalid was ploughing the air making a baloon,with this tool and instant rolling he gets it rounded and widend,and with a small touch he made that nop for it,then a piece of the liquid glass ,he made it fiat,adhere it to the pot,so we have a pots handle.

Pot and a handle-30 viewsnow its almost ready,whats left is a tiny little knock knock on the bar in a section in the oven itself but not as hot as the oven,as to let the glass dry slowly and easily,and not to crack

once again-29 viewsthe work just started now,and wat we missed before we will see it here,a new pot,and a new piece of glassbut mean while things would be better off with a nice cup of tea.

Shaping and rounding-24 viewsagain the same thing,with a new piece of glass,but why do nt we have that cup of tea.

Cup of tea-37 viewsMother is here,she looks after khalid in so many differnt ways,this is one of them,she knows that khalid expects a cup of tea,so here we are a nice cup of tea.

Tea time is over-25 viewsback to work,but fact the tea was nice,khalid says,i myself enjoyed it,but let us see once more things which we talked about.

Thanks mom-37 viewskhalid says with admiration,thanx the tea was perfect,he says propably yes he might have another cup of tea later,he asked his mother to leave there it will be hot then.

The oven-30 viewsthe oven gets the fuel,the fuel burns giving energy enough to melt the glass and turn it to liquid.

the pipe-21 viewsit is essential in this buisness keeping the bars with some

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One is ready-24 viewsagain hold it like that,move over,little knock knock on the bar,and put it in incupator.

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Plough air in-29 viewswe mentioned before,thats how khalid plough the air in.

Water to brake-18 viewswe need now to have the pipe and drop the glass as to hold it differently,for that reason we need few drops of water,so the glass just get a crack,and thats how the pipe is seperated.

Hold it again-29 viewswe hold the shaped baloon from a different place,and we can see the hole which will be shaped later on ,and it is needed all the time to heat the glass.1 comments