From: goodsoldierschweik@invalid.com   
      
   On Thu, 01 Jul 2010 19:51:11 -0500, greylock    
   wrote:   
      
   >On Fri, 02 Jul 2010 07:16:21 +0700, Schweik   
   > wrote:   
   >   
   >>On Thu, 01 Jul 2010 10:53:46 -0500, greylock    
   >>wrote:   
   >>   
   >>>On Thu, 01 Jul 2010 07:20:19 +0700, Schweik   
   >>> wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>>>On Wed, 30 Jun 2010 13:04:07 -0700 (PDT), rigger    
   >>>>wrote:   
   >>>>   
   >>>>>On Jun 28, 7:35 pm, greylock  wrote:   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>>For the car I bought a S&W with a glass breaker and a serrated blade   
   >>>>>with a seatbelt cutter.  It's real loose and the liner lock doesn't   
   >>>>>look   
   >>>>>all that great but it was cheap, $5- $10, and good enough.   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>>dennis   
   >>>>>in nca   
   >>>>   
   >>>>I've seen these, what would you call them? Safety devices? Survival   
   >>>>devices? And always wondered how well they would break modern tempered   
   >>>>glass? Has anyone ever tested one of them?   
   >>>>   
   >>>>Cheers,   
   >>>>   
   >>>>Schweik   
   >>>>(goodsoldierschweikatgmail)   
   >>>   
   >>>   
   >>>I have seen TV presentations that would lead me to believe that they   
   >>>work pretty well on side glass and possibly back glass (which I   
   >>>believe is tempered glass by law these days).   
   >>>   
   >>>Windshields are another matter - being safety glass.   
   >>   
   >>   
   >>Are they? I realize that laws are different in different places but   
   >>I'm sure that windshields here in Thailand are tempered glass, just   
   >>like the back and sides.   
   >>   
   >>Cheers,   
   >>   
   >>Schweik   
   >>(goodsoldierschweikatgmail)   
   >   
   >I've no way to know for certain - but I'm betting that the windshields   
   >are safety glass there too - simply because the cost of making them   
   >differently fromt he rest of the world would be too high to be   
   >worthwhile.   
   >   
   >The only difference is that the windshield has plastic laminated   
   >between two sheets of tempered glass - the side glass is generally   
   >just the tempered glass with no laminate.   
   >   
   >It is the plastic that makes the windshields so hard to get through -   
   >not impossible by any means - but a lot harder than glass that   
   >basically crumbles when rapped sharply.   
      
   Yes, I know about safety glass. Tomorrow I'll check a couple of cars.   
      
   I'm not so sure about the idea that all cars are the same as I   
   remember in one of the previous economic crashes here that some guys   
   in Indonesia had the idea of buying up new Mercedes, for hard   
   currency, cheap, and exporting them to New Zealand and selling them at   
   a profit. One of the brighter sparks checked with the N.Z. motor   
   vehicle people and discovered that a Mercedes sold in Indonesia was   
   illegal for sale in N.Z. because of either emission or head lights...   
      
   Cheers,   
      
   Schweik   
   (goodsoldierschweikatgmail)   
      
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