Engraving hard liquor bottle with liquor in bottle ?

[Kasey Maxwell]

Is it just a good rule of thumb if a customer brings a full bottle of Jack (yum) over and wants me to engrave on it to drain out the Jack 1st ? I could only imagine if you engraved on a full bottle of Jack and the glass broke from the laser then the flammable liquid inside would catch fire ? ? True ?

Thank you

[shawn zumbrum]

Kasey
dont think jack is flammable 151 and grain is.

[Kasey Maxwell]

so its safe to do this job ? its Gentleman's Jack 80 proof, I just wasn't sure.........

[Chris DeGerolamo]

It will not light because of the proof, not that it would ever get that hot on the inside anyway.

Etch it and admire your work - the bottle will be fine.

[Kasey Maxwell]

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[Dan Hintz]

The laser itself will not ignite flammable liquids... at best, you'll heat something else up enough to ignite vapors, but this is only really a concern for extremely volatile substances (e.g., gasoline).

[George M. Perzel]

I would tell them that I am compelled by OSHA, under law, to replace the liquid with non-flammable tea prior to lasering and the replced fluid was comsumed by the process.... or processor.
Best Regards;
George
Laserarts

[Dave Gates]

I've never had any problems with liquor catching fire in the laser. I just run it with normal glass settings and never had any issues.

[Neil Pabia]

Crack open a bottle, drink the contents and then rethink the question. Sort of explains my sobriety...LOL

[Bill Cunningham]

I've done lots of bottles, full and empty, never had problem with any of them.. I think the only piece of glass I have ever had crack in the laser was a globe from a oil lamp (quite thin, and back in my newbe experimental days). I was etching a wolf face in the surface, and way over powered it. Any bottle I've seen was probably 10 times thicker.. I have done glass Christmas balls (paper thin glass) without cracking.. A bottle is not going to crack in your laser, full or empty..

[Kasey Maxwell]

[QUOTE=I have done glass Christmas balls (paper thin glass) without cracking.. A bottle is not going to crack in your laser, full or empty..[/QUOTE]

how did you engrave a round object like christmas balls? was it with the rotary attachment ?

Thanks

[Terry Swift]

Kasey,

Rotary works best for going over a certain area of the diameter of the cylinder / ball. If you keep things simple and small - a rotary is not exactly necessary; but NICE to have. I've done baseball bats and other cylindrical items without a rotary and kept the pattern small and it works. You just have to figure in high and low points and your focal length (I have 2", so it works okay).

[Carrol Fleming]

I have just engraved two bottles of whiskey and painstakingly highlighted the engraving with gold rub n buff. The bottles were donated by my husbands company as prizes for a fund raising golf day. Good advertising I thought. Guess who won the whiskey .... my husband and brother-in-law!!! No chance my husband was going to re-donate good whiskey - if it comes back, it is yours he claims!!!

[Gary and Jessica Houghton]

I would tell them that I am compelled by OSHA, under law, to replace the liquid with non-flammable tea prior to lasering and the replced fluid was comsumed by the process.... or processor.
Best Regards;
George
Laserarts

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