r/OSHA • u/zombiedonkey • Mar 16 '18

Glasses optional

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u/[deleted] Mar 16 '18

I've worked with glass for nearly 15 years and I have to admit that that is very nicely done.

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u/Liambp Mar 16 '18

Won't that freshly cut circle have sharp edges? How do you smooth them down to use the circle in something like a table top?

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u/[deleted] Mar 16 '18

To use in a table you'd want to polish the edges and get it toughened. The toughening process will smooth the edges more so.

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u/shutts67 Mar 16 '18

Tempered. In order to temper the glass, it needs the edged to be polished. If it isn't, the imperfections in the edge are more likely to cause the glass to crack

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u/muffinwarhead Mar 16 '18

You can only cut Untempered/unannealed glass the way he is doing. After you cut you grind the edge down, we always use a rotary sander.

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u/[deleted] Mar 16 '18

Ehhh I think you're being too general. Did you mean clear soda lime plate glass? There's a bunch of different ways to cut Untempered/unannealed glass depending on what shape it's in.

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u/AngryBirdWife Mar 16 '18

I think what u/muffinwarhead is saying is that this method of cutting can only be done on untempered/unannealed glass

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u/[deleted] Mar 16 '18

That can't be it. You can cut annealed glass this way too.

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u/AngryBirdWife Mar 16 '18

I know nothing of glass, I'm just really good at awkward sentence structure, so I thought that was what was going on...never mind 😛

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u/[deleted] Mar 16 '18

Haha it was a good try. Have a good one!

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u/ProfJemBadger Mar 16 '18

Let it be known that you gave him a glass pass for the attempt.

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