Breaking a sheet of 1/2 inch tempered glass

[1993whitenoise]

Damn !!! thats so cool! i wonder. would it break like that if you smacked it with a hammer on the outside on a flat edge rather than the small side? i Have extra pains i wanna find out:) is is safe?

[helgih580]

It's neat how fast the cracks travel, it's so fast it seems as if it's instantaneous.

[razzamanaz79]

wow what a waste of money

[rossesc]

now that was awesome!!!

[UzumakiNarutoX3]

This happened to me as I wanted to carry a piece of hardened glass up the stairs. Just bumped it slightly at one step. Than I lifted it up, holding it at the edges and boom! I had many glass diamonds...

[qcages]

What are you doing braking such a big piece of glass for???? I so would have taken that, or even bought that from you.

[n00kkin]

@qcages I was thinking the same thing... but I suppose it would have cost a crapload of money to ship something that big.

[bioobird]

how did it break at the right corner at the same time as the site of impact?

[Yelkwood9]

@bioobird

the force transferred so fast you didnt notice it

[MomoMaxedOut]

Awesome lol. Now I know when my glass table break it will not split my leg in two like my friends lol.

[insidetheoutside20]

@MomoMaxedOut Only if it is tempered.

[MomoMaxedOut]

@insidetheoutside20 Yeah it is xD that's why I said I won't get my legs chopped off :D

[ihatestupidvideos]

damn

[oscar2hot4u]

can i enter my text here

[mrking0205]

it became snow

[jdmeghatch]

its real thats how its designed to break so you dont end up with sharp jagged pieces.

[myspaceuser567]

100% fake

[thirty5mm]

100% real

I used to work at a window factory, and whether or not you believe me, this is EXACTLY what would happen to a tempered window when it was broken. A normal piece of glass will only produce a few runners (lines where the glass has broken), but tempered glass instantly shatters all throughout the piece.

[apauln]

doesn't everyone know this???

[pixuma]

your myspace use obviously rots your brain... thats real

[myspaceuser567]

i dont have a myspace i just couldnt think of a good name

[chilado1985]

yes the explosion is very cool.. now comes the shitty part... the clean up!! lol

[superwhiz88]

2k dollars.. ghetto smash

[MISSEDHERSIR]

why do you think they call it dope?

[Foxiesz]

You should have got two guys to carry it in front of traffic and recorded it lol

[cichlidkeeper89]

this looks like the back of a building near my house, there is allways a big sheet of glass behind it. does this video take place in colorado springs?

[insidetheoutside20]

Ashland, Kentucky

[irishrover1967]

hahaha yea i if i seen a sheet of glass that size i couldnt help but break it

[microbio2004]

technology

[roadkill33]

i dropped a 12mm toughened glass 3m x 4m off a truck onto a hill of bicks an when it hit it bounced a foot then blew up its some wicked shit

[operazanotaijin]

I work in the glass industry. I can't tell you how much I've seen break in the more than a year that I've worked there. Lots of it falls under the quench! XD

[antsnstuff]

what a waste i woulda payed good money for that

[hw6743]

look at :10 its awsome

[lacostemat]

now that is good

[mindsafari]

I broke the back window of my Excursion with a borrowed jack wrench one night at the airport at 3 AM. Exploded into little pieces..but didn't require much effort. Definitely not sledgehammer effort. Best part, seeing the look on the parking attendant's face when I did it.

[RUSTYBUBBLEJUICE]

I work in the glass industry and I can tell you it is not fun having a 4X8 peice off glass shatter like that. Seeing it yes, having it, Hell NO. If you are not expecting it it will scare the living crap out of you

[boardupking]

Yeah, that was probably a $2,000 to $4,000 piece of glass, you cant cut it down, but I'm sure SOMEONE could have used that SOMEWHERE. I see that 1/2" tempered all the time, I do board-ups and glass replacement 24/7/365

[insidetheoutside20]

I don't know where you live but we ge all of our 3/8" and 1/2" tempered from Oldcastle or Cardinal and that piece was more like $400 our cost. Glass is expensive... but not that expensive.... not here anyway.

[boardupking]

I just meant that's what you could have CHARGED a customer (if it could have fit somewhere) you're right though, I live in Chicago, (we got Oldcastle here)

[mattwizard123]

you union or a fuckin rat? houston got a strong glazin union

[boardupking]

I do "BOARD-UPs" aint no union for board ups.

[insidetheoutside20]

I was non-union. I don't work there anymore. I now work for a very large non-union door service. We are owned by Dorma.

[pylsy]

I am the glass god! Sacrifice everyday a piece of glass for me. If you have some Low-e glass i will get a hard on!

[unforgiventeen]

we need to see this in slow mo!!! :D

[noobsrock7]

that will do it

[beauch]

I have never seen anything like that before. Oh gosh wow.

[quelin1]

Tempered glass does that. Its created by the rapid cooling of a piece of glass. The resulting internal pressure makes it very strong. However, if you exert an external pressure that is higher than the internal pressure the entire piece will shatter. Car windows (not windshields) use tempered glass. You can hit it as hard as you want with a sledge hammer and it wont break. Or poke it with a nail and it will nearly explode. Material Science is fun.

[beauch]

Wicked.

[insidetheoutside20]

I thought about it and I guess I should have showed how you can hit it with a hammer in the middle and it wont break... but the edges... you have to be very careful of the edges... the slightest tap and cause tempered glass to explode.

[dryice0002006]

not true i break car windows all the time at the dump with a sledge hammer.

[quelin1]

O'rly? Maybe you are just superman. To break temperd glass you must overcome the internal force with your force applied to it. Its similar to bullets and kevlar vests. Bullet is fat and flat. A knife is pointed. The pressure on the tip of the knife is greater than the pressure on the end of the bullet, thus knifes defeat vests. If you swing hard enough you can break the glass.

But a 4 yearold with a nail can accomplish the same feat.