I Can Cut Glass!

Teetorbilt

We use to make quite a few leaded glass windows, Dad would cut and I would solder. Dad could cut a rose stem from old pulled glass and I could always make shards from anything and gave up.

Today I was faced with taking down a 12 X 5 mirror solo. I went and bought your standard, cheapie glass cutter. Scored the stuff into 4 sections, wedged a tapered 3/4" dowel behind each score and took the sucker out in 5 pieces (the second piece hit a sink faucet on the semi-controlled fall and knocked off about a 6" X 24" piece).

I may be old but still catchin' on. Should I really push it and try and recycle the pieces? I'm feeling pretty confident because I'm not in the ER. LOL

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Glasshousebltr

Did an old store front with about 12'x12' of 3/8 plate glass and aluminum extrusions back in the 80s. It had a crack diag one corner to the other, the kinda crack that would cut a fella in half.

The glass was heavy to say the least.

I told my fellas to construct a barricade wall out of 2x4s and OSB outside on the sidewalk then call me.

I arrived back to a total state of confusion, the wall was up but all three of them and the store owner couldn't figure out how that wall was going to make it easier for me to remove this huge dangerous slab of glass.

I gave as straight a face as I could, and said "It's a fine point where skill and years of knowledge come together." I picked up an extra 2x4 and slung it through the glass. "unfortunately, this isn't that point."

I still laugh about that from time to time.

Bob

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MinConst

I've never had a problem cutting new glass. I don't think I have ever had luck with old pieces. the old stuff gets brittle.

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I will never leave you hanging!

kenvest

bob...you're killin me....

Mike Finley

Damn Teetor, I cringe every time I am faced with pulling a sheet mirror off the wall, I treat that mirror like it's nitro or a rattlesnake and can go off any time and reach out an bite me by cutting me to the bone. I stand as far away from it as possible and am always ready to jump back at the slightest moment.

What the hell are you doing messing with mirror removals personally for anyways? Don't you have a ton of crew memebers working for you to do that stuff?

Teetorbilt

Way to go Bob! I'm filing that one away for future demos.

Did anyone else know that glass is actually a fluid?

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kenvest

last time i removed a large piece of cracked glass, i COMPLETELY covered both sides with duct tape. pulled the whole thing out in one foldable piece...worked well and only took a few minutes and one roll of tape...

fluid.....

RobertCDF

I have to agree with bob's methods. Its not hard to sweep and vacum up glass. But driving your bleeding self to the hospital is kind of hard.

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Glasshousebltr

No driving if the top half of that one had come down, I think some arms would have hit the floor if not a head. I would have had to dock somebodies check for the extra mess.

Bob

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JustaFramer

The last mirror I pulled off I used a flatbars and a little pressure.Pulled the whole thing off the wall in one peice. The piece was only a 3-4'x5'