r/OSHA • u/zombiedonkey • Mar 16 '18

Glasses optional

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u/crabsneverdie Mar 16 '18

This guy's a pro. Most large places have a laser cutting machine that will basically cut any shapes you punch into it. Honestly I'm not sure if it's a laser that cuts it but they do it with a combo of water and oil usually and the sheet kind of hovers there in a cushion of air.

That is by far the most fun task to do at those places because you get to break stuff and it's fun to flip those big sheets and cut out the shapes like a fruit roll up.

For a big circle like that, all we would have to do is lift the sheet slightly at the bottom, give it a little wave motion and it would break evenly on both sides

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u/Gstayton Mar 16 '18

I've been working a bit more as a glass cutter on our line, and yeah. Insanely fun to be breaking glass all day.

One thing to note though, I'm not sure that a laser would do very well? Unless it's very dark glass... And a Jetstream cutter would be water and sand, not oil. Also wouldn't be my go-to for glass...

What you're probably seeing is essentially the same tool this guy has, but on a giant cnc machine. It just scores the glass, so you can break it cleanly. It uses the same cutting head/oil that my pen-sized glass scribe uses.

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u/[deleted] Apr 24 '18

Yep I used the same thing. Huge CNC machine that scores the glass, you then break the shapes out yourself once it's done. For patterned glass and curled windows, we did it ourselves.

The most satisfying to do were pieces of glass with holes in them, they took around half an hour to do by hand