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by echoangle 409 days ago
Is the heater keeping the material liquid not enough to re-melt it again?
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Its not an oven alone, its a kiln that smelts up the components for glass of the desired recipe, then purs the glass on a long (~half a km) basin of molten tin where it stretches and cools slowly, pushing the solidifying mass down the basin until the end. Re-Melting it is as far as i know not possible, as the melting is done before the pouring. You can melt the tin again, but not the glass.
I'm guessing that liquid glass gets into some spots/crevices that it cannot be remelted from using built-in heat sources.