Warning...Exploding Glass Tables!!

There was rubber between the glass and the table. It was well made furniture...or so I thought. It was solid cast aluminum patio furniture.

Interesting and thanks for the warning! The video report also says this is happening with shower doors, oven doors and sinks!

Sheee, and there's me thinking of buying a greenhouse.

Right? If I was having a wild party and the table blew up that would be fine. At least I would have had some people around to help me clean up the mess.

The chairs are still fine now that I got all the glass out of the cushions. Ya got any tips on how to make a wood table top? No more glass tables for this girl!

My patio table exploded!

BEWARE .... If you have a glass table, it could blow up all by itself. I’m not kidding, here’s my story:

I have a large glass patio table and chairs that’s located under a covered patio in my back yard. Yesterday (the 4th of July) I was sitting outside at the table having a beer when the phone rang. I went inside to get the phone, chatted for a few minutes, and went back outside to finish my beer only to discover that the table had shattered into a million pieces. Tiny pellets of glass were everywhere.

I was totally freaked out. How the heck does a tempered glass table just explode? It was 4th of July and lots of people were shooting off fireworks but none of my immediate neighbors were shooting them off.

Then I started thinking, maybe the table was hit with a stray bullet or a kid with a sling shot, but someone would have had to be a well-trained sniper to hit the table under the patio and not break a window too.

What else could be that powerful to disintegrate a glass table and not damage anything else around it?

Then it came to me, (thanks to GLP threads) the table was hit with a scalar weapon and I was under attack! So, I waited for a few minutes to make sure the attack was over before I started cleaning up the glass.

Anyway, regardless of how the table was broken, my 4th of July was pretty much ruined because I spent the next 3 hours, sweeping up glass, running a shop-vac and hosing everything down. Good news is, I only cut myself twice.

After I got everything cleaned up, I started searching online for “exploding glass tables” and discovered that I’m not the only person this has ever happened to. Who knew??

>>Glass Patio Tables Explode Without Warning
Glass-topped patio tables are shattering into thousands of pieces, and federal records show it’s been happening since at least 2004. And, yet, the government has never put out a safety warning.<<
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And then I found this video:


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So just remember, next time you are sitting at a glass table, chances are it's tempered glass that has been weaponized by Chinese manufacturing.

What about replacement windshields/ glass on cars? Are some of them manufactured in China?

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They were just sending you a message. They waited till your table was out of view to fire their weapon.

They don't want to hurt you just yet. Take this as a warning.

Wish I would have seen this GLP thread before I bought a glass table! It was posted in 2011.

Thread: Exploding glass tables

If you wanna go for the rustic look...

or as i call it... 'cheap as hell' rofl :)


Tobacco sticks cut, sanded level, stained and laid together tight make a nice look



you have to secure them to the table on the underside and brace em on the bottom etc... but i've seen tables that have this pattern with them before...

:tsticktable:

if done right... they can be cheap and look good

There was rubber between the glass and the table. It was well made furniture...or so I thought. It was solid cast aluminum patio furniture.

That's it! I'm not going outside without my tin foil hat on again. I knew those bastards were after me.

Car windshields are laminated. It prevents this


The WTC glass was made in the US..
Shipped to China to be tooled.
Shipped BACK and now they are having issues with the glass as the tooling ruined millions of dollars of work and shipping costs.

WOW...that's beautiful.

I was thinking about a piece of wood and doing sort of a mosaic tile on top of the wood. Well, if nothing else I have a new project to work on now. One thing for sure...no more glass tables for me.

Glass table shatters


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WOW...that's beautiful.

I was thinking about a piece of wood and doing sort of a mosaic tile on top of the wood. Well, if nothing else I have a new project to work on now. One thing for sure...no more glass tables for me.

Nice! I agree!!

What're tobacco sticks?

oooo that would look good :)

i... dont trust glass tables.

When we got our patio table, we went for a metal mesh type.

its held up very well over the past several years, had some abuse... as it serves as a canning table too...

so its held a few hundred pounds of produce without being destroyed.

I like the metal mesh type. Concrete tables are also a nice option. They aren't hard to make if a person knows how to make forms and finish concrete.

Tobacco sticks are used to hang tobacco in barns... so that the tobacco drys out...


they look like this when hanging in a barn:
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the sticks look like this:

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Seriously, OPTARD, you can't figure out why that glass might have busted and you have to tell about it on GPL?

Maybe it was already stressed and the sound waves from the fireworks finished it. Or maybe it was just the fireworks. Or maybe you drag the table around. That might stress glass.

This is what is looks like


Patio table explodes


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