Clumsy bastard

Any excuse not to tell if you are sticking to the diet

Oh dear, it will not be long before you are looking for a short piece of approx 10mm diameter high speed steel to make a one-off cutter for something! You probably had an idea in mind when you saved it originally?

As an aside, would not float glass be better as a flat surface? Less stresses?

Back to the recent CRT destruction thread? BTW, if it was a 10mm drill shank shirley you must have dropped it around 300mm. Not good, mixing units early on a Sunday morning.

There was a loud bang, followed by a sound like rain and I realised it must have hit, only from about a foot above, a medium sized piece of toughened glass I used as a flat surface before getting some granite worktop.

There were drinking glasses like that, made from a form of toughened compressed plastic/glass, the petrol garages were giving them away free years ago if you bought enough fuel

If one was dropped the wrong way it exploded into a million pieces on contact with a hard surface

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Edited By Sam Longley 1 on 25/09/2016 12:01:25

I thought this would be easy. Melt a tablespoon's worth of glass and pour it from a few feet high into a bucket of cold water. Then carefully retrieve the Drops from the bottom of the bucket and use them to make friends and influence people.

Wrong again. A 'Camping Gaz' blow-lamp doesn't have the heat needed to melt broken bits of a glass Dolmio sauce jar, not even in a firebrick enclosure. It took a lot of welly just to soften the glass.

I have a bigger Seivert and was ready for another go when it ran out of gas. As the spare cartridges are AWOL that was the end of that.

Health and Safety note: broken glass is razor sharp and it may crack and spit when the flame first hits it. Gloves, googles and apron recommended.

Dave