Repairing a cafetiere

garishglobes · March 17, 2011, 05:58:39 PM

OH's son has come home tonight with the cafetiere from work, minus a lip. Somewhat optimistically, he expects me to repair it (yes, so that he can go on drinking his beloved real coffee without splashing out on a new flask

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I'm just wondering what the chances are of putting a new lip on? I'd prefer to do it from cold, which I am guessing won't help! It has broken flush with the cylinder, if that makes sense - I do have the old piece, or could coil clear stringer and attempt to shape. Not sure which would be most practical.

I have to say that it is also very, very tempting to take that cylinder and...ummmm....'enhance' it

ARBeads · March 17, 2011, 06:01:13 PM

When you've done that one can you do ours, exactly the same break, now being used for stringers

♥♥Tan♥♥ · March 17, 2011, 06:06:56 PM

This is interesting, there used to be a chap who did boro sculptures for tourists down here, ships and animals that kind of thing. When I was teaching myself and could find no information I used to go and hang on his caravan window and just watch what he did, he had funny shaped glass and I asked what it was.

Apparantly a local dairy used to give him their cracked churns to repair and any that were beyond repair he got to keep, those MUST have been done from cold but I have no idea how?

Blue Box Studio · March 17, 2011, 07:02:08 PM

Mine's not broken but is used as a water bath. The replacement glass bits never used to be that expensive, have they gone up in price a lot? Apart from the challenge (and just making a round bead is enough challenge for me) is it worth the faff? I'm sure it is if someone is doing, but thankfully we got given rather a lot of them as wedding presents 6 years ago and haven't managed to break them all yet.

Steampunkglass · March 17, 2011, 08:18:11 PM

Are you sure it's boro? Maybe warm it up in the kiln first then flame polish it out and pull to shape without adding any more glass in case it's a weird COE

garishglobes · March 17, 2011, 08:28:37 PM

That's an interesting question. I'd assumed all cafetiere glass was boro, but I guess nowadays it might very well not be

I don't think it is worth repairing unless you are a cash-strapped 20something in need of coffee, with a lampworker prepared to experiment in the kitchen

♥♥Tan♥♥ · March 17, 2011, 08:38:34 PM

Charity shop

Hotglass28 · March 18, 2011, 12:44:08 PM

I have seen replacement glass for under £10 in sainsbury's. Bodium ones.

Could you not stretch out the glass and form a lip instead of adding glass to it?

Have fun, sounds like a challenge