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Posted: 3/6/2006 12:26:44 AM EDT
Got a carbide device on the knife, how do I use it?
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Posted: 3/6/2006 12:30:26 AM EDT
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Is it a pointy thing ? If so, a good solid rap should pop a window, I'd think.
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Posted: 3/6/2006 12:35:25 AM EDT
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I think you hit it at the middle near the bottom. Isn't used for car windows or I am thinking of something else?
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Posted: 3/6/2006 1:07:10 AM EDT
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to answer your specific question: 87 PSI. If this fails, use a repeated blow technique 87 times. If that fails, step back 87" and throw, you guessed it, an 87 pound rock thru said window.
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Posted: 3/6/2006 1:13:00 AM EDT
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Dumbass friend in backseat on road trip: "Hey, what's this thing?"
Me: "That's a glass breaker/seatbelt cutter combo tool." Dumbass: "Huh." (Lightly taps back driver's side window, sending spiderweb cracks thruout) Dumbass: "Oops. Guess it works." |
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Posted: 3/6/2006 1:17:24 AM EDT
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Plate glass is the easiest. A lite rap near the frame will take it out. Tempered glass is a different story. I dropped a cinderblock on a 2'X2'X3/16" piece that was laying over a hole in the ground. It bounced off. More than a few times. I finally had to heave the bloch with etreme force to shatter the little piece of glass. My sun room has 3/8" thick tempered glass panels. I'd guess that a .22 wouldn't bust it.
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Posted: 3/6/2006 1:25:14 AM EDT
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You use it against glass the same way you'd use a "rock".
Although more technical and more expensive then the average "rock", the principles are still the same. Remember... use it as if it were a "rock". 
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Posted: 3/6/2006 1:45:35 AM EDT
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Microtechs are awesome aren't they?
 I always thought it was for mashing people on the skull with and "glass breaker" was just a PC way of saying "skull cracker."
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Posted: 3/6/2006 1:51:02 AM EDT
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Window punches cost about 3 or 4 bucks and have an increased "cool" factor when used.
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Posted: 3/6/2006 1:59:58 AM EDT
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till it breaks is a good answer.
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Posted: 3/6/2006 2:30:04 AM EDT
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Go to a junkyard and ask the owner if there's a car in there that you can use to test your new toy.
More than likely, there is. Some common car that he's got way too much extra glass available for. CJ |
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Posted: 3/6/2006 2:39:51 AM EDT
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Throw any dead dog you have handy at it.
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Posted: 3/6/2006 2:49:52 AM EDT
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I've actually got a bit of experience breaking car glass, and will add, it's not as easy to break as you may think. Newer glass is pretty damn tough. I've swung at it with claw hammers, claw end first, multiple times, and it did not break. When you unload cars with a loader, and put the forks through the glass, you can watch the glass flex a significant amount before it breaks. It flexs to the point that the car will actually move before the glass breaks. After seeing this, I myself would put little faith in those hammers.
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Posted: 3/6/2006 3:14:37 AM EDT
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w00t! |
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Posted: 3/6/2006 3:31:27 AM EDT
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actually they work quite well. the object is not to knock a hole in the windshield <laminated saftey glass> but to shatter a side window. it not difficult at all and with a good point takes fairly little pressure with a sharp strike. that said cover anyone inside the car or they will be covered in glass chunks. |
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Posted: 3/6/2006 4:11:36 AM EDT
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In high school I managed to break a floor-to-ceiling tempered window next to the door by hitting it with a blackboard eraser. I believe they are just felt stitched together. Damdest thing I ever saw...started as a spot and over the space of a few minutes it spread throughout the entire window, groaning and creaking as it progressed. The eraser was thrown across the room with maximum force. I'm guessing that the building shifted after the window was installed, and put some angular stresses on the glass panel. So I guess that a pointy object would not require much force to do the same thing.
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Posted: 3/6/2006 4:14:06 AM EDT
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 Only windshields spider. Door windows and the rear windshield shatter completely if broken. |
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Posted: 3/6/2006 4:28:41 AM EDT
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You dont have to hit it that hard if you hit it in the right spot. Any window will break if hit in a corner. Side windows, corner nearest the rearview mirror. Windshields, in the corners. I got this info from a guy who deals in glass and it works. The idea is to find the weakest spot. I've tried it on many occations, '98 Chevy Lumina with an ASP baton, 1 hit glass gone.
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Posted: 3/6/2006 4:31:24 AM EDT
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only 1 way to find out my brother, try it at your next felony car stop!
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Posted: 3/6/2006 4:41:07 AM EDT
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lol |
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Posted: 3/6/2006 4:42:00 AM EDT
[#20]
My window punch is an ASP
And once it was a P229 
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Posted: 3/6/2006 4:42:15 AM EDT
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I don't see it ... which part? |
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Posted: 3/6/2006 4:43:43 AM EDT
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It's at the rear...you can see it better here:  Fixed it BC |
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Posted: 3/6/2006 4:59:56 AM EDT
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I gotta get me one of them 
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Posted: 3/6/2006 5:18:06 AM EDT
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I would, but they're banned here in the UK. Go figure. 
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Posted: 3/6/2006 5:25:59 AM EDT
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Microtechs are the shit. I have three. BC |
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Posted: 3/6/2006 7:05:44 AM EDT
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A cop once told me the best thing for breaking a car window is a spring loaded automatic center punch like you can find at many tool and hardware stores.
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Posted: 3/6/2006 7:09:20 AM EDT
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I've seen similar things done before. Never fails to amaze me. I've taken firearms away from people before for saying "Gee! Will this .22 go through......" |
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Posted: 3/6/2006 7:17:29 AM EDT
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Word. When I was a vol fireman, we all carried spring loaded center punches in our turnout coat pockets. These were used on the side windows of vehicles involved in wrecks. Most people have their car doors locked and if they are ringy or unconcious after a wreck, it's the only way to get to them. You can bang on those windows with a hammer and they wont break, but that little point with 20 lbs of force behind it and poof! When the thing is used, the glass just crumbles. It's pretty cool. I carry one now in my jeeps' console. You never know when you might need it. 
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Posted: 3/6/2006 10:40:01 AM EDT
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 I have time to get three things, gun, light or knife (with carbide glass breaker), a spring loaded punch in the patrol bag is no good. Prior to gettting the knife, the above scenario was completed by the strategic application of a flashlight, sending shards of glass across the drivers face. He thought he had been shot.  I take it few have used such a tool..... Off to the junkyard! |
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Posted: 3/6/2006 10:40:57 AM EDT
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Not when coated with window tint. |
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Posted: 3/6/2006 10:44:23 AM EDT
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I have used the one on mine. A stiff swing will do it. Think of what it takes to do it with an ASP, cut the required force in half and you about have it. FWIW....I still use the ASP 99% of the time. The bonus being that if I have to lay a beat-down on the douche driver who's trying to take off with me hanging out his window.......you get the picture. BC |
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Posted: 3/6/2006 10:48:06 AM EDT
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You longshoremen are so squirrelly! |
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Posted: 3/6/2006 3:12:31 PM EDT
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Years ago, I was looking for parts at a junkyard and a friend of mine who was with me showed me a very neat trick. He pried the trim molding off a car, where it covers the window seal, told me to place the tip of a flat blade screwdriver into the gap between the window and the body, in the seal, and twist with moderate force and see what happened.
The gap between the body and the edge of the window (rear window) was narrower than the blade of the screwdriver, so twisting the screwdriver placed force on the edge of the glass. I swear, I barely twisted it at all and suddenly the window just turned white and fell out in a million tiny cubes of safety glass. I could not believe how little force it took to break the window. It wasn't enough of a twist to break most screws loose. Try it. It's amazing. CJ |
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Posted: 3/6/2006 4:26:58 PM EDT
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I just got my Microtech, waited a long time, but I wonder if I hold the glass breaker to the glass, with the blade out, will the force of retracting the blade cause the window to break?
Can you test that? Mine only has the one large breaker on it. ByteTheBullet (-: |
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Posted: 3/6/2006 4:31:07 PM EDT
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I always heard that if you get a torch(like a portable blow type) and heat a small spot to red hot on a car window then wait, after a few minutes the window will crackle then fall to pieces, without any real noise. Anyone know if this is true. My buddies brother was a bad boy if it is true. ByteTheBullet (-: |
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Posted: 3/6/2006 5:53:40 PM EDT
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whoops, busted. You caught me redhanded making up lies about glassbreakers on the internet so I can win friends and influence people. |
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