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window shattering tool

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rh71

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You know, for those emergency situations where you end up either upside down unable to open the door or in the river. But after receiving it, there's a disclaimer that says it will not shatter laminated windows. I recall seeing ads from window tinting companies showing that thieves cannot shatter your window if you do tint. How true-to-life is this? A quick perusal of the comments in the product link shows no mention about tint.

The product: http://www.amazon.com/ResQMe-Keycha...0EZO/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1328299997&sr=8-1

The tint film: Suntek Carbon

The realization: maybe that's another reason they don't let us tint the front windows here... so we can survive driving into the Hudson River.
 
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The tool's disclaimer is referring to laminated glass (like windshields). If you see a broken windshield, notice how it breaks into a huge mess of cracks but stays intact:
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Compared to a broken side window, which just shatters:
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Window tint may hold the shattered pieces together somewhat, but if you break the window on the door of a car, even with tint you should be able to push it out of the track once it's broken, if the water pressing in on the vehicle doesn't do it for you.
 
Windshields are laminated standard glass. They cant be tempered glass because you'd risk obscuring visibility or cause a safety hazard from a simple rock chip on the freeway. All other windows are tempered glass, like used in desks and entertainment centers.

Tint is nothing. Once the glass is shattered you can just push it out like food wrap.
 
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Yep, the local fire department uses a center punch to break tempered side and rear glass. They use a sawzall to cut through the laminated windshield.
 
Perryg114 said:
All you need is a spring loaded center punch to break auto glass. You may have to pop it more than once to get to the second pane in auto glass.

http://www.harborfreight.com/spring-loaded-center-punch-621.html

Perry
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I've never been in that type of situation (knock on wood), nor do I hope to be any time soon, but I don't think I'd wanna cheap out with a HF tool in a life/death situation. 😵

HF tools have their place no doubt, just not there IMO.
 
pcgeek11 said:
Not underwater.
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Actually, underwater, a window would be under more stress, and be slightly easier to break.

I still wouldn't try it with an elbow though.

It's worth noting, that as soon as the water covers the inside of a given door, it will open right up though, so this is one of those weird fears. It's not as bad as fan death, but it's still a really odd scenario.
 
ThatsABigOne said:
I think it would be fun just to go to a scrap yard and try different methods of breaking the tempered glass. 🙂
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Here is one for those that would like to try it...

Get a reg spark plug and break the ceramic and pick out a little chunk of it and throw it against the tempered glass you have a sample of... You will be highly surprised as the little piece of spark plug with do the trick... Be sure to stand back a bit as the piece of glass will "pop" and kinda explode and possibly back at you...

I would guess you could fashion you a little hammer and use the ceramic piece as the head...?
 
Bartman39 said:
Here is one for those that would like to try it...

Get a reg spark plug and break the ceramic and pick out a little chunk of it and throw it against the tempered glass you have a sample of... You will be highly surprised as the little piece of spark plug with do the trick... Be sure to stand back a bit as the piece of glass will "pop" and kinda explode and possibly back at you...

I would guess you could fashion you a little hammer and use the ceramic piece as the head...?
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Yup that will definitely do it. Years back we had a group of kids around here going around breaking peoples windows with just that, the ceramic insulator from spark plugs. They weren't stealing anything either, just breaking peoples windows.
 
Ferzerp said:
Actually, underwater, a window would be under more stress, and be slightly easier to break.

I still wouldn't try it with an elbow though.

It's worth noting, that as soon as the water covers the inside of a given door, it will open right up though, so this is one of those weird fears. It's not as bad as fan death, but it's still a really odd scenario.
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No it wouldn't.
 
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