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wvrons

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  1. From what I have found out Champion never had any machine larger than 3/4 inch.
  2. If you can find a way to DNA glass, you will be very very rich and fast.
  3. They are thin pastel colors and more colors than usual Tiger Eyes. The colors above are very common for Easter Egg.
  4. Glass colors do not mix or blend to make a new different color like paint does. Jabo had a few tons of burnt colored marbles. DAS made a few hundred pounds of them Monday. Started with opaque white base glass and cooked it high enough temp. and long enough that it ended up clear, then brown and finally translucent black. It has nothing to do with sand. It is temperature control. Many dark brown colors started as red. Burnt color is a Peltier collector trait, not a marble trait or company trait. When a unusual color shows up on Peltier marbles, and it is not understood why ? It is called burnt. Not a mistake or error, and that way the value stays up for it. A burnt Christmas Tree with dark brown ribbons to almost black, many times will sell for the same as, what a pure white base red and green Christmas Tree sells for. Burnt colors are a mistake or error. and with about every marble except Peltier's, worth a lot less than what was intended to be made.
  5. My vote would also be Ravenswood Novelty.
  6. I worked with formaldehyde for about fifteen of my thirty years for Dupont. The main and largest ingredient in Dupont Delrin plastic. It will burn your eyes and nose. I should not need to be embalmed. Delrin = auto parts, Bic lighters, Bic ink pens, and much more.
  7. I have had two or three Green Fizz. Nola has some. They should glow and bright. I think some have small fine aventurine and some do not. The last few I saw sold were about $100.00-$150.00. There is also a Purple Fizz. But I have never seen one for sale. I do not see big numbers but I do see two or three a year at six or eight shows a year.
  8. Champion had a 3/4 inch machine but never a one inch machine.
  9. No Popeye. First requirement is a clear base.
  10. Who-yes . How much- yes . Nothing final yet. Your ticket will have to be a good one. One million will not do it.
  11. They have a cash offer(a big one)for the collection. The city of Clarksburg does not want the collection.
  12. My reply's were for or near 3/4 inch marbles. At 9/16 inch, I would totally go with Sammys. I was present at every run until the last couple years. I may have some of these. Not time to go find them now. Not a Alley.
  13. All machine marbles are cut or sheared twice. Except the very first one when the furnace is unplugged or opened. The first one or first hundred or more are always trash. The cut lines or a cut line can fold inside. A cut line can get twisted, Two cut lines can end up very close together. Temperature can affect cut lines, stretched longer. The amount of space or distance between the two holes of the cutter blade affects what cut lines show. Some cutter blades holes are round, some are horseshoe shape with a straight edge on one end. Older cutters can be scissor type, manual pedal operated or air operated. There are many cutter or shear designs. But all machine made marbles are cut twice, bottom and top, of the hot glass stream as it flows from the furnace to the shear. The glass stream from the furnace to the shear is long and round like a smooth tootsie roll. Some glass streams can be only two inches long, some can be six, eight, or ten inches long. As long as it stays hot enough to shear correct. The striping color will be in a near straight line as it flows from the furnace. The longer the glass stream the more it will twist before entering the shear. Like water going down a drain. Some twist can start or be built into the inside of the furnace. Ribbon or patch marbles will have a straight line on the side or sides of the glass stream from the furnace to the shear. With a short distance from furnace to the shear. The glass stream has a viscosity like warm salt water taffy or maybe caulk from a caulking gun. The one single opening going into the shear can affect cut lines. The cut line can change if the hot glass stream is not centered in the single entrance hole into the shear. If the glass stream rubs the side of the cutter entrance hole, it can cause the glass glob to fold some. If the glass stream hits on the top edge or top of the cutter entrance hole, the glass glob can fold over in half on itself and a cut line may fold totally inside the glob. After the glob is sheared it is still cylinder or elongated shape. It then falls into a rounded funnel cup and then out onto the marble machine rolls. Rather than a cup some use a rounded tube like a pipe on a 45 angle, to get the hot glob to the marble machine rolls. Then the marble machine rolls round the hot glob into a round marble, in the first three grooves of the rolls. The rest of the length of the rolls is for cooling. As it goes down the rolls the marble is cooling and getting harder to keep its round shape. Many things can and do affect cut lines. Like everything making marbles, one very small misalignment or adjustment will make changes in the final marbles. Plus temperature changes with gas and air flow, different kinds of glass, fast or slow flows, etc. and etc. Watch(over and over)one of the many You Tube videos on making machine made marbles. Jabo - How To Make A Marble is a good one. All machine made marbles are cut or sheared two times. They have to be, the hot glass stream is a long tube shape flowing straight down. The stream of tube may be six inches long. Making one inch marbles, that six inch long stream may make six different marbles. The glass stream is a steady constant non stop flow. Size 5/8 inch many companies made 200 or 250 marbles per minute. Cutter or shear blade used at Jabo and by several companies. This is inside the two hollow water cooled shear blade bodies. A new shear cost about $6500.00-$7500.00 .
  14. Nice Master, Unusual to see that purple yellow combo on Master.
  15. I agree not a Helmet. Not MK green Hornet, old or newer. Newer MK.
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