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Old Feb 26, 2005
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Question Easiest Way To Shatter A Window?

My cousin locked himself out of his car and threw a brick at the window to shatter it. He says he did it because he was frustrated and just wanted to get home. Anyways, I remember when I was like 12 a friend of mine use to shatter windows by throwing this little tiny thing and the window would completely shatter. Anyways, I just wanted to know what iits called or what it was.
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poclin, porcalin..... i cant spell.. whatever that stuff is that fancy dolls are made out of.. that stuff shatters the crap out of windows..

easyer than that though is just get a window punch.. http://search.ebay.com/window-punch those things are rad as hell
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i heard somewhere spark plugs work ?
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When they where changing the glass at my dad's store a while back, they used a diamond tip thing that looked like a pencil and shot ita couple inch from the window, they siad it went over 100mph and when it hit the glass the glass just shattered like normal glass. It was the same glass they use in windshields that isn't suppose to crack. It was something to say.
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Originally Posted by xgimmick
i heard somewhere spark plugs work ?
aren't spark plugs mostly porcelain? (that's the correct spelling, by the way )...someone said porcelain is supposed to do the job, so i reckon that would kinda make sense...
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yeh porcelain works really good, and the glass usually stays together too.
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its the white part of the plugs... and it can supposedly shatter the windows without setting up the alarm..
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Yea, so throw a toilet bowl at your window and you'll be set.
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Ricer X is right, the porcelain part of the spark plug can shatter a window without setting off the alarm.
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good to know, hehehe j/k
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Something metal with a sharp tip will shatter it. Sharp awl or something like that....
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Actually, one of the bearing rollers from a wheel bearing. I was blown away by that. One tiny bearing shattered a window, and it barely made a sound at all.
I broke a bunch of windows at a junkyard trying that one out.

Yes, a car thief told me that one. Don't ask.
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how about a lug nut from the wheels? Id be too sad to do that becuase i have tint.
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Originally Posted by usafcushman
aren't spark plugs mostly porcelain? (that's the correct spelling, by the way )...someone said porcelain is supposed to do the job, so i reckon that would kinda make sense...
porcelain, ceramic might work too. i thought most spark plugs have a ceramic piece on them. i dunno.
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fastest way is an elbow, or foot. quietest way is a ball bearing or the white part of a spark plug (porcelien, again)
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Firearms work well...Actually, I have a knife I carry for work that has a spring loaded window puncher and a seatbelt cutter in addition to a regular blade. Smith & Wesson makes it.
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the spark plug thing is the way to go. 10 yrs ago, when I was an ignorant teenager, we would break into cars. You smash the tip of a spark plug with a hammer, and shoot the little white piece at the window with an elastic band, like a sling shot. The window spiders into a million pieces and drops fairly quietly.
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Originally Posted by TMRakip
Firearms work well...Actually, I have a knife I carry for work that has a spring loaded window puncher and a seatbelt cutter in addition to a regular blade. Smith & Wesson makes it.

isint that their ERT knife? an EMT friend of mine used to carry one like it.
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Originally Posted by xgimmick
i heard somewhere spark plugs work ?
yeah that white piece of the spark plug
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Originally Posted by I FuSe I
Yea, so throw a toilet bowl at your window and you'll be set.
lol

my neighbor told me that spark plugs work, so we tried it at a junk yard, and it worked.
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Glass can be pretty sensitive to really minor abbrasions. If anyone has the chance, try taking a Canadian dime (or coin w. serated-like edge, I think American quarters have them too? But not as defined?) and shaking it around inside an empty beer bottle. Then hit it over your head. The bottle will shatter with ease.

Please don't hold me accountable if anyone does terrible things to their head w. beer bottles. I also can't account for foreign currency, but I know Canadian dimes work best, be sure to shake the dime around in the empty bottle a lot so that it makes several small cuts all over the inside of the bottle.
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Originally Posted by dre2600
Glass can be pretty sensitive to really minor abbrasions. If anyone has the chance, try taking a Canadian dime (or coin w. serated-like edge, I think American quarters have them too? But not as defined?) and shaking it around inside an empty beer bottle. Then hit it over your head. The bottle will shatter with ease.

Please don't hold me accountable if anyone does terrible things to their head w. beer bottles. I also can't account for foreign currency, but I know Canadian dimes work best, be sure to shake the dime around in the empty bottle a lot so that it makes several small cuts all over the inside of the bottle.

Hummm.... that could go good for making me look tough in the bar.

Yeah, American, dimes and quarters have the correct edges.
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Originally Posted by 7r4c3r
isint that their ERT knife? an EMT friend of mine used to carry one like it.
I believe that is the name of it. Nice knife if you are in that line of work!
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ya..the porcelain part of a spark plug is what does it. you gotta throw it just right and it will make a really quiet snapping sound and then the window will start to spider web. it makes the glass really soft so you can literally bend it in half. thats how they broke into my car....when i got outside in the morning the window was bent in half and leaning out of the door.
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Spark plug you say..... time to make a trip down to the wreckers.
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i dont mean to ruin this thread, but should we really be talking about how to break windows? i've only been on here a minute or two and i've already learned how to shatter a window. lol
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