quattro Digest, Vol 9, Issue 62 - Re: removing rear quarter window from part-out Avant

[Larry C Leung]

Actually, US specs since the early '60's is laminated (plastic
lined) windsheilds and tempered glass everywhere else. For
awhile European spec was tempered all around (a difference
in safety philosophies, each had it's merits) now it appears that
Europe has adopted the US standard. The easiest way to tell
is to look at the glass. Laminated Safety Glass is labelled as 
such, Tempered Safety Glass (the stuff that breaks into little
pieces) is also labelled as such. It appears, as previously 
stated that laminated glass all around has been made optional
by Volvo. Great for security (especially in a wagon!) bad
for underwater escape. However, the easy thing for underwater
escape would be, once the car is relatively full of water so that
the pressures are even is OPEN THE DOOR.

LL - NY - glad that safety glass is used on cars, just sucks cleaning it
up



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> Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2004 01:26:15 -0400
> From: "Ben Swann" <benswann at comcast.net>
> Subject: Re: removing rear quarter window from part-out Avant
> To: "Dan DiBiase" <d_dibiase at yahoo.com>,        "Brett Dikeman"
>         <brett at cloud9.net>, "Craig Gary" <cgary at psu.edu>
> Cc: quattro at audifans.com, 200q20v at audifans.com
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> Well - it fragments into randomly shaped bits about 1/4" in 
> diameter.  Basically the thing went from being one large peice of 
> glass to a million peices in sub-second time.  made a big POW! 
> noise, but absolutely no injury to myself.  Non-safety might have be 
> shards that could have severed a limb or gone through my foot.  The 
> safety glasses keep a piece from going into your eye, and wearing 
> gloves prevented me from having a few small peices imbeded in my 
> hand.
> 
> The stuff is safe(er) because you don't get sliced up, but might get 
> pretty well abraded in an accident.  I think most windsheilds and 
> door windows have all the glass iencased in a plastic sheet of 
> material that retains the  glass bits.
> 
> Ben
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