Exploding glass tumbler

naedanger

hollydays wrote: »

Not to take sides here.. But naedanger there is a discussion board on mse for you and people who like to debate a lot.:)
It's here
http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/forumdisplay.php?f=57

Thanks, but it is not the board for me.

robin58

ripplyuk wrote: »

robin58, you must be brave, working with this stuff .

Could it be because it was sitting on a metal drainer, like coffehound said? Does it cause some sort of reaction? It's never been a problem with my normal glasses.

I can see how tempered glass is very useful in a lot of situations for safety reasons, but tbh, I think it's debatable how safe it is for drinking out of. It exploded with enough force to hit the ceiling and cover the room, so I don't like the thought of it near my face and eyes again.

To be honest I was more worried when I carried large sheets of normal glass around. We were told if it cracked whilst carrying it, the safety advice was to drop it in area safe from anybody else as quick as possible. A cracked sheet falling around you could easily slit your wrist.

If you think that you don't want or trust the glass tumblers you have, take any of the pieces you have and the other tumblers back to the place you brought them and ask for your money back.

The trouble is it toughened glass is installed and used in many places as a security feature because it does shatter.

Take it from me you don't want chunks of normal glass which has not fallen out of a window hanging around you.

ripplyuk

I've just read those reviews and I wish I'd read them beforehand. People describing them exploding in their hands is exactly what I was concerned about. They also mention how the pieces were sharp, and cut them, which is what I found too.

I have another tumbler made of a different brand of tempered glass (its a wholesale glass from a pub). I've seen these ones break and they just seemed to collapse into a pile of quite smooth glass 'beads' which is great for safety. There was no explosion of glass everywhere. Totally different to what happened with this Duralex.

I've already ordered replacements. Its not worth stressing about it happening again with these ones so they're going in the bin.

somethingcorporate

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spontaneous_glass_breakage

It's a thing and it comes up fairly regularly on these boards in a variety of situations.

Poorer/cheap manufacturing would increase propensity of this failure.