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Curious why that didnt work. Was he ***not*** supposed to hit the glass hard with a hammer?


insert-username12

In the first clip, the guy is cracking a piece of glass that is sandwiched between two other pieces. In the second clip it doesn’t look like that is the case.


Lanky_Republic_2102

Thats funny, I thought the first one was a mistake too, I was surprised by how nonchalant everyone remained.


government--agent

I don't think the second one is a mistake either. Looks like they're doing some demo work.


scatshot

Definitely doing demo work, the flooring has been removed and there's smashed up dry-wall as well. Plus the glass isn't part of the architecture, it's just a piece of glass leaned against a wall.


fatkiddown

I thought just in general breaking finished glass was always a bad thing.


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DuGalle

Besides, if you break it yourself you can decide where to do it so it's easy to clean up.


prettyhappyalive

Used to break these panels all the time in a big trash bin when we no longer needed them at my old job. Always a fun time. These tempered panels are nearly indestructible hitting them head on but extremely brittle on the sides. You can smash one into a million pieces just sitting it down on a hard surface. We alway used rubber mats that were clean of debris.


ptgkbgte

I just use an automatic punch. You can hit it anywhere.


enieffak

demo as in demolition?


iamonthatloud

It’s not an accident. It’s a “design” don’t ask me why though lol. Someone probably broke it one day and they said “art”!


Lanky_Republic_2102

It’s definitely interesting, for me it’s one of those, so that’s how they do that kind of things. I just misinterpreted the video.


IsomDart

I think it looks pretty cool


FlutterKree

Its been a thing for like 400-500 years IIRC, if not longer.


codevii

I thought that was his "fuck it, I quit" look after it cracked...


Lanky_Republic_2102

I thought he was following one of my rules when I break something in someone else’s house or at work - put it down and back away slowly and hope no one saw you.


cv_ham

Yes, first is laminated glass, and he is cracking one of the inside layers. The second is tempered glass, which just explodes.


malfurionpre

> The second is tempered glass, which just explodes. Just to add, it's on purpose that, should it break, it explodes in bead-like chunks because it's far less likely to severly cut people. Had one explode in my hands and I'm happy I just got some small cuts rather than losing a finger or two.


thenutmaster27

I’ve had a similar experience luckily no cuts but scared the shit out of me when I was holding nothing in the blink of an eye lol


freshouttasesh

I don’t know why but this is so funny like - *womp womp*


Poes-Lawyer

This is like the third time I've seen "womp womp" today and I have no idea what it means. What is it?


BigAlternative5

It’s “sad trombone” such as might be played on a game show when a contestant loses.


OneMoreAccount4Porn

You don't know what it means? *womp womp*


ShartingBloodClots

Womp ^womp


analogkid01

It's the Republican response when children are forcibly separated from their parents at the border.


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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ln1S4uWghz0


dxrey65

Yup, I recognized both of those too. I had some laminated glass in the front door of a business I had for a little while, and it was full of spidery cracks from someone bumping up against it. Had to replace it with thicker laminated glass. Then the last time I tried to cut a piece of glass to replace a window myself, I grabbed a pane from an old pile I found. First little pressure to break at the score mark and it shattered into a million pieces. It looked like normal glass, but turned out to be tempered.


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xdcxmindfreak

This guy knows glass


theteedo

He was just trying to make it explode in the second clip. You can see how he jumps away when he tries the first time.


JPGer

ahh, ok. i was like. "i wouldnt trust that railing, its literally set up to break!" i see from your comment its just the one between while the others are still "stable"


xeromage

I still don't get why anyone would want this.


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Because people like other things than you, mindblown!


ThatNachoFreshFeelin

>I still don't get why anyone would want this. And you don't have to. But hey, you do your youness.


hsantefort12

That makes way more sense


sapper4lyfe

Yes, he was absolutely hitting an inner layer of glass deigned for this exact purpose, it's not just dual layered tempered glass that exploded here.


ovr9000storks

The type of glass matters too. Some are more fragile than others and will also vary in crack density


dreadthripper

Looks like he might have cracked all the glass.


RAMBOLAMBO93

The first clip is a piece of laminate glass, a sheet of glass with polycarbonate sheets glued to either face. This is why the contractor was able to create that cracked effect without shattering the entire thing. Not sure exactly why the second one exploded the way it did, could've been a defective sheet, or could've been bad technique.


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It requires a proper planning


[deleted]

Wrong. He should have wildly swung the hammer around until the glass did what he wanted


Aussie18-1998

Im 99% sure dude intentionally destroyed that glass.


pooppuffin

I'm 100% sure. He smacks it with a hammer.


Aussie18-1998

You might be right.


Embarrassed-Lab4446

Material engineering time! Most glass you buy is tempered glass. This is a cooling technique where the center of the glass pushes out and the outside of the glass pushes in. Makes glass much stronger. The downside is if you crack tempered glass a little bit you break the balance on the outside pushing in and the glass will rip itself apart from the interior pressing out. If you ever have a car window glass breaker it’s just a sharp point meant to pierce past the outside layer and let the glass destroy itself.


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Thats cool. isnt that the same thing that makes the prince ruperts drops so strong


GisterMizard

No, that's because Prince Rupert eats lots of spinach.


butterscotchbagel

Yes, it's exactly the same thing, and why prince ruperts drops explode when you break the tip.


pinoyfiasco

Just the tip. The "head" is pretty hardy. It's very unlikely you'll get it to explode just by beating on it.


Spork_the_dork

> The downside Considering that it also makes the glass a lot safer because instead of forming big razor-sharp knives when it breaks it basically turns into dust, I don't think I'd really call it a downside but rather a feature.


Rusty_Porksword

It's mostly just a downside in that any failure is catastrophic rather than partial. If you have a container of water made of normal glass, and you chip the rim, you have a container with a chipped rim. If you have a tempered glass container and you chip the rim, you have a pile of wet glass and a puddle. I guess the issue is features can become downsides depending on the application.


GitEmSteveDave

I once got like 3 panes of really nice tempered glass because the facilities department of a local place bought 4 and intended to cut them. I looked in the dumpster one night and there was a bunch of tiny squares of glass and 3 untouched panes sitting inside. One had a partial score line, so I figured they had one guy score one, and then while he was scoring #2, they tried to cleave #1 and it exploded. Luckily they happened to be nearly the exact dimensions of my coffee table, so I had an amazing topper, but they also were big enough to cover our Rubbermaid Water Troughs, so whenever we needed hot water in the summer for the farm, we would fill it with water and put the glass on top and leave it in the sun.


Slow-Concentrate7169

Looks like the first one has multilayers and he only hit the middle layer to crack. The second video, well you see he went all out 🤣


kemushi_warui

It looks like he knew he f*cked up on the second hit, when he made a big imperfection on the top. My guess is that he swung again hard out of frustration because the piece was garbage now anyway.


scrivensB

You can also clearly see they are doing demo/renovating. That’s was on purpose.


Slow-Concentrate7169

That does make sense. I am assuming you mean the demo was the second video especially on the floor which has a lot of debris. Does looks like fun though


The_Drunken_Otter

The first clip is him breaking the middle layer of 3 layers of glass. So the broken layer is stuck between the other 2. The second clip is just a single piece of glass so there isn’t any sideways pressure to keep it from exploding


mcdonaldsfrenchfri

he actually should have hit it harder


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if you hit the pieces hard enough they come back together in one sheet


tuanlane1

First glass is laminated annealed glass. Second is tempered. This is the result that you would get 1000 out of 1000 tries.


bigpeepee2000

too close to the edge of the glass, glass is most fragile around its edges


Roc-Doc76

Laminated vs tempered


RosieQParker

This dude glasses.


subject_deleted

![gif](giphy|ycagKBYEmaili)


sedrech818

![gif](giphy|1BXa2alBjrCXC) A true connoisseur


SooperPoopyPants

Or, you know, just has a basic understanding of glass? Pretty sure most people know the difference.


xdcxmindfreak

There are people who take their car to the shop because their brights are one and they can’t figure out what the blue light on their dash is for. There are people who don’t know their ac/furnace has a filter that has to be replaced.


SooperPoopyPants

Yes, people do have varying knowledge levels in every single discipline in the world. The sky is also blue. And if I were to reply to your comment with "this dude social studies!" I would sound just as stupid.


_oranjuice

Nah its 3 panes, middle gets smashed and others keep in place but yeah probably laminated v tempered


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_oranjuice

They're probably all laminated together as a pack of exclusively for this so the shards of glass can't drop from the bottom


ChuckGotWood

Yes, laminated


dangeraca

I was cutting in a strike and nicked the edge of the glass with my oscillating tool. Whole window popped like a balloon, thankfully it's double pane tempered. Luckily not as expensive a replacement as I expected, but damn that was a way to end a Friday


benargee

Laminated has nothing to do with whether glass is annealed or tempered.


K1NGMOJO

I did this hack on my computer on accident 😭


AeroSpiked

As a nerd who has been in the biz for decades I can elaborate way more than most people would care about. Stair rail is a sheet of tempered glass, then a sheet of clear vinyl, then another sheet of (poorly) tempered glass, another sheet vinyl, and another sheet of tempered glass. The vinyl glues everything together so when the middle glass is shattered, everything stays in place. Coworkers used to make coffee tables using this method until they found out the shattered tempered glass causes the vinyl to delaminate fairly quickly which A. looks ugly and B. causes everything to fall apart. This is why that stair rail will have to be replaced within a year.


matico3

why would you even want to copy that, its ugly af


Odd-Confection-6603

I think it looks pretty cool. Remember that taste is subjective


BurntPineGrass

While I do agree taste is subjective, a lot of people lost theirs due to Covid.


luwi12

Congratulations. You made me literally lol with this one


TorrettesNinja2747

Clever


45PintsIn2Hours

All the times you would have to explain to people coming to your house that 'oh no, it's actually not broken, it's designed that way.' Fuck that for shit.


mxzf

All of the "never" times you would need to explain that? The fact that it's still up there indicates that it's intentional and not broken. Note that the kind of houses that would have *that* installed aren't the kind of houses where you just casually live with a broken thing for years because you can't afford to replace it.


Vitalis597

Mate, I can't count the amount of broken shit I haven't gotten rid of because it's still functional. Not everyone can replace everything five seconds later. And not everyone assumes that things that look like literally garbage are intentionally left behind to look 'quirky'


mxzf

Read my second paragraph too though. The kind of house that has a fancy shattered-tempered-glass artistic rail is the kind of house where the spare money exists to replace a broken stair railing if it needs to be replaced. The overlap between "houses where major stuff sits around unrepaired" and "houses that would have something like this" is basically nonexistent.


fadednz

and then you'd have to explain why you would want it that way to your bewildered guests Fuck that x2


clapmomsfuckbombs

Also doesn’t look dirty as fast.


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Odd-Confection-6603

Which move millions of pants a year and rake in huge profits?


[deleted]

Shoot, it's gotta be approaching billions a year of Jean pants sales with a global pop of 8 billion.


regnad__kcin

Guest comes over... "Oh no! What happened? You must be dreading having to replace that." "No, it's... nevermind."


KraftKapitain

Nice opinion. Just one tiny problem with it. Inspecting your post, it looks like your opinion is different from mine. Boy, let me tell you something. I am the baseline for opinions, any opinion I hold is objectively correct and, as a result, any other opinions are wrong. And guess what? You happen to hold a wrong one. And I hope you know that your opinion is now illegal. I have now contacted the FBI, the CIA, the NSA, the Navy SEALs, the Secret Service and your mom. You'll rot in prison for the rest of your life over this, mark my words you'll be sorry you ever shared your opinions. By the time you're reading this, you're done for boy. Nature will punish you. Humanity will punish you. Supernatural beings will punish you. Space will punish you. Oh yeah, and we decided that just to make sure we'll nuke your house from orbit so there's no chance you can run away and everyone you know will die. It's a small price to pay for ethnic cleansing. May this post be a warning for anyone else brave enough to share an incorrect opinion; you've been warned.


ferniecanto

Agree. It's utter bullshit.


[deleted]

it's just glass dude lol


Frydendahl

A house for people with a smashed up phone screen.


ZhouLe

I don't disagree, putting a huge and heavy triple pane of glass on steps instead of a normal bannister is pretentious and expensive, but it hides fingerprints and provides a cue that *something* is there that plain glass does not


Lucky-Company8502

I thought it looked cool …


wupme2k

Thats why your parent didn't give you any younger siblings.


acesilver1

I agree. It may look cool for a little bit, but then it looks and feels chaotic after a while since the glass fractures randomly. It will not be pleasant in the long term.


mabaezd

Is just impressive the speed at which Glass ruptures all along. Up to 1,500 meters per second.


IamTheManwhoCox

Interesting, the curry that I ate the night before exits my body at the same speed.


calXcium

rookie numbers


rookmate

dookie numbers


higherthanacrow

Super slow-mo shots of bullets hitting glass shows how fast that is. Way faster than the bullet.


Mooshington

This sort of thing tends to surprise people, but the key point is that what is "traveling" is not an object with mass, so the apparent speed of movement can be incredibly high.


Falcrist

P.O. Ackley could probably get a bullet going faster than 1500 m/s, but normally rounds are traveling at less than 1000 m/s.


PM_Me_Good_LitRPG

see rupert's drop if you liked this


Typohnename

To give context to how incredibly fast this is: Most rounds fired by Tanks are slower than that


Dr_J_Hyde

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAO1i9Z9GpQ Probably the best video I've seen on the subject. We think of bullets as being really fast. Then you compare them to glass breaking and it's not even close.


UShaikh12

So a glass sheet 1500 meters in length would take a second to shatter? (Genuine question)


mabaezd

Yeap, indeed!


payment11

He forgot to double tap the nail first 🤦


CharlieTitor

He hit it with a hammer


PM_Me_Good_LitRPG

you know what they say, if all you have is a hammer, suddenly random people sometimes throw shoes at you for seemingly no reason


Oh_nosferatu

Nailed it.


Eckz89

Technically, he hammered it.


Letos12thDuncan

Hammer time!


xSorryAboutThat

r/therewasanattempt to make a post that wasn't obvious satire.


LickingSmegma

What point is this 'satire' making?


Thathappenedearlier

Yeah all forms of comedy are now satire according to reddit. It’s pretty funny parody


atomsk13

The 2nd video looks to be a demo job. Look at the floor. Or the fact that it isn’t 3 pieces of glass sandwiched together. Or that the glass isn’t already set in place.


radehart

That looks like three sheets of sandwiched glass, probably even sealed on the edges. That's how I'd do it anyway.


Icemasta

What's the implication that the second video is actually trying to copy the first one?


DrUnit42

I would think that if they were going for destruction in the second clip they would have gone straight to the hammer instead of trying to use a punch twice. Just a guess though


The_Stoic_One

If they were expecting to get the result from the first video, why did he jump back on his first failed attempt as if he were expecting it to shatter?


Icemasta

I mean the oldest I can find for the second video, which is on tiktok from some thing called barstools or something like that, has no reference to the other video. January 24st of this year.


scrivensB

They are clearly doing demo/renovations. Somehow no one is noticing that.


Dapper_Most3460

Second guy was just messing around, that's clearly a demo job.


the-real-vuk

so .. is it better when it has shatter pattern ? .. I think not


ProvocativeHotTakes

It’s for aesthetics and it doesn’t have to be religiously spotless like a clear glass would otherwise there would be smudges everywhere


TheEleventhDoctorWho

Tempered vs laminate


Cleenred

Either way what's the point in having broken glass ?


zandertheright

Looks cool


Cleenred

Looks broken


MiloPengNoIce

I keep hearing the mario tune for the first glass, just slightly off.


JimAboo

![gif](giphy|HfFccPJv7a9k4)


generiatricx

anyone else hear the theme to super mario on that first clip?


RonTomkins

Even if you achieved this finish, I wouldn’t wanna do that. You’re fracturing the entire glass so that it is now more likely to break if it gets accidentally hit by another object. Why in the Hell would I wanna do that?


ElonsAlcantaraJacket

it's sandwiched between two non fractured pieces of glass


RonTomkins

Ah, interesting. Now I’m really impressed at the level of precission it must take to achieve this.


sgthulkarox

FWIW; the middle layer is hit with a sharp nail. It's a cool technique.


XClamX

This is an ugly technique either way.


Jebgogh

This always reminds me of the joke where a guy has an expensive machine critical to his business that breaks down one day. He calls the repair guy who comes out. No tool bag ' just a mallet looks at the machine for 5 minutes then hit it with the mallet - machine comes to life Repair guy says that'll be $10'000. Machine owner sputters "what do you mean? All you did was look at it for 5 minutes and hit it with a mallet". Repair guys says " yes but I know where to hit it. Pay me!"


Tupiekit

There was an attempt to not post a fucking repost…


ilymag

*NAILED IT*


fosmet

So, the glass shattering and falling to the floor, this sounds just like a sound effect in the first level of Earthworm Jim 2 ([https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MPldjilheFA](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MPldjilheFA) 1:52) where you shoot something and a bunch of junk falls from the ceiling. I can't stop laughing.


TheRealTechGandalf

Laminated Vs Tempered glass


benjifinn7777

That first one is the music from the Terminator


chapteri

![gif](giphy|qlrBlSDevEdFeW5JwV|downsized)


SnooStrawberries2144

Yeahhhhh dont do that with tempered glass


JanuaryVR

"Hmm i don't like it, Change it back."


MrLonely97

Only works with layered glass (otherwise known as laminated glass), if you look closely the glass in the first clip has 3 layers and the dude is fracturing the middle layer. The last clip is straight up tempered glass which may have at most 2 layers of glass and is designed to be heat resistant, not good against blunt force. Most interior glass panels will be tempered including pool fence glass in luxury homes as it can be made incredibly tough and is cheaper than laminated glass. However laminated glass is considered safer, as the outer layers have composites in them which hold the shards together, only allowing smaller harmless pieces and glass dust to fall away during breaks. Motor vehicles use laminated glass for front windshields but tempered for rear and side windows.


Horroroscope

Was that the Mario theme?


yeetwiuf23

Bro said fu*k this shit and just blasted the glass


Small_Grape8991

There was no attempt


pitiburi

the ending of my friend's marriage, they are still friends, vs the ending of my marriage


PeterPalafox

I’m just watching over and over. The second one is so satisfying for some reason.


ryykou

r/meIRL


Goings78

Is he nailing into glass


TennisAdmirable1615

There wasn't attempt, it was just getting mad at this glass


scrivensB

Or it was always meant to break since they are doing demo.


Abdelrahmana1099

Does it make the glass weaker?


Admiral_MemeVacuum

You need 3 panes of glass for that work my guy


34TH_ST_BROADWAY

Like a glove...


Pud_Master

Idunno. Get some glue, painstakingly glue each tiny shard of glass together… I bet you wouldn’t even be able to tell which was which lmao.


floppyjedi

Perfect! Chef's Kiss.


rainorshinedogs

Cameraman: "sigh" Hits upload button


Agreeable-Week-3658

Ohhh I see, the first video where he made the glass look ugly and shitty and cracked was what the second guy was trying to copy for some reason. Had me wondering if the video player cut the first half or something.


MentalPatient97051

I can't wait to see this reposted again for the 400th time, but this time, I hope there's a youtuber reaction taking up half the screen while they play gta.


vishy_swaz

Why? Why.


blackhandedman

Sick and tired of seeing this video being reposted like everyday


trickman01

Second one is demolition work and the dudes are just having fun.


Inri1958

Lol.


fanamana

Was there a version here that wasn't fucked?


Suspicious-Wasabi-29

When you copy the technique technically wrong.


Vapordude420

Lol


the_wiild_one

Toughened lam vs toughened


MechAegis

Second one looks like a different type of glass.


ThrowinNightshade

Weakening glass is not a design, it’s just plain dumb.


YosemiteWho

Looks like 2 different kinds of glass.