The replacement of the aforementioned harsh, mid-high pitch shriek of cutting wheels and sanding drums against glass with the soft hiss, barely audible in comparison with the former, of power going into the e-fag heating element after I finish the glass trap. Although I still need to butcher a metal spoon, to make a sodium-spoon (basically, a metallic or other conductive spoon which has many many very small, narrow holes drilled through it; used as an electrode during electrolysis of molten sodium salts.
Its operating principle is that of surface tension, the spoon itself is dipped into the melt and permitted to fill with it, connected to a power supply so that it functions as the anode in the electrolytic cell. Sodium metal forms in accordance with the principle of electrolysis, whilst being retained within the sodium-spoon owing to its surface tension denying it the capacity to flow through the holes drilled through it, due to their size; whilst the molten electrolyte does not have a sufficient degree of surface tension and flows through the holes, back out into the electrolytic cell, when the spoon is lifted, breaking contact with the melt and interrupting the electrical circuit, meanwhile one pours off the molten sodium into a jar of high-boiling, high-flash point alkane type petroleum spirit product or other alkane-based oil after having first dried same such as via distillation over a suitable drying agent to exclude water and air, and if your really thorough, also sparging the 'solvent' (its not functioning as a solvent in this case, but to protect the reactive metal from both water (airborne vapor included) and oxidation in the air, which even in the case of the modestly reactive sodium is still very rapid
