Enormous Glass Tube Is First Step Toward Building Bacta Tanks
It's almost big enough to pickle a Skywalker
In August, SCHOTT AG in Mitterteich set a world record: A DURAN® tube with an outside diameter of 460 mm was produced. This is the largest industrially manufactured glass tube at the moment. The reason for this experiment were customer requests with regard to larger tubes than the usual ones fabricated by SCHOTT, with a maximal outside diameter of 420 mm. Furthermore, tubes with a diameter between 400 and 420 mm and a length of 3 m were produced on request of architecture applications.
Great Schott, what a tube! Industrial glassmakers Schott have created a tube that measures over 18 inches on its outer diameter, besting what was previously the world’s largest glass tube by over two inches. The tube is almost five feet long, and its walls are less than a third of an inch thick.
From a Schott press release:
This is a neat tube, but still a bit small for our tastes. What we’re really looking for is something that can contain an entire wounded Jedi knight, suspended in healing liquids, until he’s ready to defeat the Sith. Something like this:
Luke Skywalker In A Bacta Tank
Let us know when that tube is ready, Schott.
