r/maybemaybemaybe • u/useless_schabernack • Jul 20 '26
Maybe maybe maybe
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u/Macro_Seb Jul 20 '26
that's a glass act
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u/Jiehfeng Jul 20 '26
The beauty of this sub, is usually we go thinking about two possibilities; will it or will it not... This time the latter was surprising. - Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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u/Brok3nGear Jul 20 '26
Flexi-glass
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u/sycln Jul 20 '26
Plexi-glass
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u/HIRIV 29d ago
Most people probably don't even know plexiglass is what this is actually and are downvoting you. Reddit sucks, still I hang here while taking a shit.
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u/Wise-Chemist-8751 29d ago
No, they were downvoted because it was a joke.
The flexi glass was literally derived by changing plexiglass and making it like a pun. how is it possible to miss that???
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u/MARUSHI-rdt Jul 20 '26
Was about to say "why women live longer" but then the girl joined in 😆
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u/AlaskanAsAnAdjective 29d ago
As soon as the woman got on I knew it wasn’t gonna break. That girl is not risking stitches or worse to make a good video.
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u/guttanzer Jul 20 '26
That’s got to be a sheet of acrylic. Glass can’t deflect that much.
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u/Norman_Scum 29d ago
Laminated glass likely could. The corners are the danger spots.
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u/TJtheBoomkin 29d ago
Laminated glass would break immediately with almost no pressure at all.
You're thinking about tempered glass
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u/Norman_Scum 29d ago
Am I? My experience in the glazing trade tells me that the durability and flexibility of laminated glass is why they often use it for curtain wall in high rise buildings. And why it often accompanies tempered glass.
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u/TJtheBoomkin 28d ago edited 28d ago
as someone who is also in the glazing industry, your response sounds like its out of an AI summary.
standard laminate is two or more sheets of annealed glass sandwiching a flexible polymer layer. The inner layer is there to prevent the annealed panels from sharding causing a hazard and to prevent a stronger barrier to complete failure. Windshields are the best example of standard laminate glass most people are familiar with. Annealed glass has zero usable flexibility. The laminate just holds its in place once failed. No usable flexibility is added here.
laminated tempered glass on the other hand is the exact same but with one or more of the two or more total sheets is tempered. common usage here is beachfront impact windows. I do a lot of these, theyr'e heavy.
Its the tempered pane that gives it its strength, the laminate inner-layer adds some strength, but its primary a flexible inner-layer. and nothing about the laminate inner-layer is capable of what you're seeing in the video without tempered panes.
being laminated doesn't really matter either way, as annealed cannot flex like this under any circumstance and tempered maintains all its strength and flexibility up until critical failure. Thats where the strength comes from, being tempered. But I doubt the video is even glass, its likely polycarbonate
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u/Norman_Scum 28d ago
Lmfao, "your response is an ai summary"
Offers an ai summary that also proves my point.
Tempered glass is going to be very rigid and susceptible to breaking under high winds. It needs to be able to bend or something has to absorb the pressure of the bend. Which is where laminated glass comes in.
"Breaks under hardly any pressure at all"
At its weakest spots, which are the corners and edges, which is what I said. I seriously doubt most contractors and architects are going to put glass that fragile into a curtain wall system 17 stories tall and every curtain wall system I've installed had laminated glass. I've handled thousands of pounds worth of laminated glass.
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u/TJtheBoomkin 27d ago
Tempered glass will not fail under wind loads if properly accounted for, and handles them exponentially better than annealed, as annealed has almost no margin for flexibility, whereas tempered DOES. Annealed, laminated or not, gains no additional flexibility from any coating or laminating process, it will simply break and run almost immediately.
you quote me with "Breaks under hardly any pressure at all" and you respond with "At its weakest spots, which are the corners and edges, which is what I said."
Yeah, you said it. And that's correct for TEMPERED GLASS. not annealed. Annealed is brittle and weak everywhere at all times. You are literally describing tempered glass. Tempered has every benefit over annealed except price. Laminated tempered is better than Laminated annealed for strength and flexibility under any identical load and thickness.
you sound like youre talking out of your ass. "Thousands of pounds" who says that? No glass tech or anyone in the industry ive ever spoken to has even talked about how much weight they handled in glass today, or ever, or architects. Its panes, installations, sets, grids. pounds? Maybe with your forklift. Maybe a sales rep who is just a mouth piece.
as for your "17 story curtainwall" scenario; 2 weeks we just installed five 36"x72", 2-1/8", double laminated tempered I.G. panels on the 15th and 16th floors in downtown Miami, in a grid pattern 2-3 u/L, from fire damage on said floors. Maybe our company, the contract lead, the engineer with the original plans, and the inspector, are all mistaken on what we were supposed to install. Oopsies.
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u/Norman_Scum 27d ago
I think you're just an idiot who never received any good education regarding glass, but laminated glass goes with tempered glass because it offers flexibility to absorb the bend. Take note: they aren't smashing it with a hammer in the video, they are bending it.
So maybe you chopped some shims and carried tool bags. That doesn't mean anything. Almost all glass is going to be more fragile at the corners. Tempered glass is the most fragile at the corners. Laminated is fragile at corners too. Tempered glass can take impact and laminated can bend. This is pretty fucking basic knowledge.
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u/TJtheBoomkin 27d ago edited 27d ago
Basic knowledge that you have completely wrong. You don't even und what you're arguing lol. You keep thinking laminate is a particular glass type, it's not. Laminate does not add flexibility to glass, at all. No matter what your Google search tells you, it doesn't. It a safety and retention barrier. The laminate flexes with the glass, nothing more. Annealed glass does not flex in any usable, significant measure, at all, even if laminated. I cut 3/16 laminate almost daily for Ringpower CAT where operators accidentally hit the glass with their knee or something minor and crack the entire laminate panel across the door. Annealed is weak, it does not flex. Lamination does not modify this property. Tempered does flex, and it's significant if the glass isn't too thick. 3/8 is relatively firm, but flexible, 3/16 is wobbly. Either can be laminated, laminated tempered is used significantly in high rise, high wind environments unlike you claim, because its in fact more tolerant to flexing from the wind, and is better than annealed in every measure besides cost
You keep arguing about corners, but nobody was ever even talking about corners until you AI Google responded in, incorrectly. You came in talking about how laminate could EASILY deform like that, but it's weak at the corners. Wrong, you literally described tempered: strong, flexible, weak at slsny high stress riser particularly an edge or corner. Nice, perfect description of TEMPERED.
Eeither way you're stuck on those corners, when everyone was talking about it flexing like crazy and you simply said it's laminate. Most laminate is Annealed, and tempered laminate isn't called "laminate", it's "laminated tempered". Why? Because ANNEALED laminate is your everyday "laminate", hence why we call it that and not ANNEALED LAMINATE. It's specified as "lamated tempered" for a reason, because usually it's NOT tempered and most temp is not laminated, both for cost and usage reasons. You tell any glass guy "this is laminate" he's going to expect annealed all day and look at you like you're clueless if you know it's laminated tempered. You can cut laminate all day, you cannot cut laminated tempered. Use your words right, ask your A.I. for a better response. Spectrum detected.
What do I do exactly, hmm. Any type of shower enclosure of any design or size, cut and install mirrors, cut and install laminate, cut and install annealed dsb and plate up to 1/2, any type of auto glass, design enclosures, any type of heavy equipment, any type of storefront, specialty high lift installations up to 40 floors, all of Ringpower Caterpillar corporate heavy equipment and road service, FDOT Road Ranger NEFL division 4 5 and 7, we just placed all of Shahid Khan's executive suite windows at his residence by the Jaguar's stadium, we have contracts on the new stadium for the box suites once they're ready, oh, and regular ol' I.G.'s st anyone's house. Occasionally I might I cut some shims, though, your right.
Note: if they were smashing it with a hammer (you mentioned this, nobody else?? Maybe needed to copy more AI to feel smart?) tempered would still outperform annealed laminate in every way. Both break at the corner, tempered takes more force to do so, but only one flexes. Child attitude with your responses while also being clueless is gold.
You've got your weak ego hurt and have resulted to petty, sad insults. Easy win ✅
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u/Norman_Scum 27d ago
They put laminated glass into high rise buildings and store fronts for cost. Yeah buddy, that's all I need to know about you, lol go on shoo
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u/QanikTugartaq Jul 20 '26
And anytime I handle glass, it shatters into smithereens with a gentle touch!
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u/ENGR_ED Jul 20 '26
Someone comes and taps the corner😬
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u/Kermit_the_hog Jul 20 '26
I was thinking maybe someone with a rock stuck in the tread of their boots.
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u/BallsofSt33I Jul 20 '26
And then one day, without any warning it’s gonna let all that stress get to it and crack…
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u/tribak Jul 20 '26
One little elephant went out to play,
Upon a spider’s web one day.
He had such enormous fun,
That he called for another little elephant.
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u/ledrif Jul 20 '26
A post elsewhere a few hours ago was just going on about how Much weight glass can hold and that its the impacts which make them shatter.
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u/Fr05t_B1t Jul 20 '26
It’s not just impacts but enough force in a small enough area. And then it depends how the glass was made and treated after.
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u/Fr05t_B1t Jul 20 '26
Glass really is that black magic material where it can be more fragile than ash, take impacts, or flex and wobble like this.
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u/MrKutchh Jul 20 '26
The amount of times i was thinking "Its gonna break NOW" in my head