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Man this channel is officially epic and educational. It's like a pc "how it's made" episode. Thanks for the likes 😄 It would be neat to see lots more videos like this. And maybe some coasters for the glasses and mugs.
I worked at a lamp manufacturer in the '80s. We had our own glass production facility in a separate building and I can tell you exactly how bent panels are made. They run the glass through a kiln with a positive and negative buck, the negative on the bottom and the positive on top. Then the kiln is heated and gravity pulls the positive buck into the negative buck and the glass is formed between the halves. Then the temperature in the kiln is slowly lowered to prevent thermal shock and breakage. After the glass has cooled to room temp (or close enough it won't shatter) it's removed from the kiln. In the case of tempered glass, the tempering would then be done after the panel is bent. Doing it first would result in the glass reverting to un-tempered glass just like heating tempered steel will remove the tempering.
Thanks for doing this whole trip and the manufacturer's allowing you to show off this stuff. I know it may not be the most popular thing, but it's awesome to see the processes and behin the scenes of where the parts come from! Great job guys 👍🏻
Slave labour is cheap and plentiful. If one person doesn't want to do it, they'll just bring someone in who will. Nobody's even wearing safety glasses, or "safety" shoes. At least form what I saw.
I used to work in the Autoglass industry so I’d like to correct a point you made at 9:20-ish. Windshields are not made from this type of safety glass, and saying it in the way that you have may cause some confusion as what happens when a rock hits your windshield. The most common configuration on cars today is your windshield is made with a laminated glass, meaning two layers of glass with a polyvinyl plastic in between, this type of glass doesn’t shatter, it will crack. Also, because it’s two layers of glass, it won’t fall in on you. The rest of the glass on the car are typically tempered glass, and are typically referred to as door glass, back glass, or vent glass, whichever one is set to be replaced in the case of the industry I was in. I would suggest instead saying “Sidelite” as it’s a good catch-all term that references strictly the tempered pieces, but also excludes the recent trend in laminated door glass.
Mort Mort Mort totally true, sidelite isn’t an overly popular term in ag, but it’s the only thing I’ve seen that covers all the tempered glass w/o just calling it tempered.
@@Malus1531 cheap vinyl ones can be had for 375, 800 bucks if you want there to be blinds in between the glass. Special order ones can range anywhere from 1200-3000 USD.
@@LiLBitsDK you cant use steel tip shoes. if it drop on your finger you may get it broken, but if you drop it on steeltip shoe it may clamp your fingers off :D
@@StrongOneX You wouldn't want the windshield tempered. If a stone or other object hit a tempered glass, the whole piece would break and block your vision.
On the oven part there is a second piece to the oven, the quench. The quench is what actually seals the temper into the glass by adding cold pressured air onto the glass immediately after it exits the oven. I worked in a glass tempering plant for 5 years very similar to this one.
@@John-ik2eg Yeah she's a medical scientist so although computers aren't her thing, how things are made is really interesting. Especially because it's also crazy to see the similarities between some of the manufacturing equipment and some of the automated medical analysers and sorters. Glad to see you're enjoying it too mate :-)
I work in an automotive glass company named Vitro. I find it funny that their safety standards are way not the same as ours, but it is China so yea. I'm also amazed by how much they can do with the tech they have. Also to get the bends they would have more than likely press at the end of the furnace, but even then it would be hard to do. Just to let you know the glass in a windshield is not tempered, but heat treated and then laminated together. The side windows of a car are mostly tempered but can be laminated as well.
Press immediately after furnace would be my guess too, or possibly vacuum forming, however there are steps that are needed to ensure the glass doesn't fracture from shock cooling when the press makes contact. Processes for mitigating this are likely the trade secret kept from clients that was mentioned in the early part of the video. The curved panels have a known high failure rate, likely due to warping stressors when cooling.
@@maggiejetson7904 The factories are in China - H&S regs as the west know them don't exist If operating in the West such trade secrets still need proper H & S compliance, inspectors just sign an NDA that is void if they find such violations as you allude to
I think this has been my favorite factory tour so far. All have been great. I kept looking over at my Phanteks case with its tempered glass side panel in awe.
Thank you very much for these videos. This really differentiates you from the other tech channels. Keep up the good work and I'll try to keep that like button pressed
Steve, I learn more useful information from your channel than all of the other channels combined. It's vids like this that really make a difference! Been building since 2004 ..Keep up the excellent work
FYI: The cutter at 2:40 scores only the surface a minimal "deep scratch" to create a week point for which the glass will break and follow. "half way through the glass" is incorrect.
Man this factory got charm, it looks like they made a lot of the machinery for the production line themselves. I have to visit this factory once in my lifetime.
Ill never go back to acrylic, I got a tempered glass case and I am amazed at how scratch resistant it is compared to acrylic, its a night and day difference. Its really cool to see how they are made.
This brought back memories when I was a silkscreen operator in a factory that produces side windows for cars. I also worked behind that airtable where you break off small pieces of glass from the precut piece. :)
These are so awesome! Thank you for going above and beyond and taking us on a behind the scenes trip into the heart of these facilities. It's great to see how all these items are made and I really enjoy them. Thank you Steve and the team for such an entertaining ride. Keep it up!!
I want to respectfully correct a few things. It is a carbide cutting wheel that doesn't actually cut, it merely scores the glass which is sufficient to snap the glass along the score line with ease. The wheel is perhaps 5-10mm in diameter depending on the type of head in the machine. A properly aligned wheel can score a total length upwards of 10km or more. I know this because I used to work a glass cutting table at a window factory. It is NOT a safe job to do without proper ppe.... Fun fact - If a pane of freshly scored glass is left on the table for too long, say for example over break, the sheet of glass is likely going to break in random places and be scrapped due to the 'healing' nature of the score line. It becomes nearly impossible to snap the glass along the score line after too long
Why don't companies use Lexan? it's not as brittle or scratch prone as acrylic. A lot of people in off-road motorsports use it for windshields..you can have a big branch smack it and not leave a mark.
To correct one thing here. Windshields are made of laminated glass not tempered glass. It does not shatter but cracks like regular glass with the exception the laminating prevents it from falling apart.
So teh fact that many clients use the same glass supplier is not surprising, as glass is one of those "recipe and technique" products where one companies style and recipe could be completly differant from another and they are gennerally mostly trade secrets. Its why you ahve corning gorillia glass on nearly all smart mobile devices now days.
@Gamers Nexus I work in a mirror processing factory and we use the same machines, only the corner cuts are done at the end in the grinding machine, since any grinding machine in the last 10 years has corner cutting motors that do it automatically, also, we are polishing the edges, so our production is about 100 mirrors per hour.
Shattering this glass is fun. I use to inspect cooker hoods that had tempered glass and we would order one extra panel of glass. I would randomly pick a carton out and take out the glass and shatter it to ensure it was tempered. The extra panel we bought would then replace the one broken. As no-one could assume which carton i would pick then I was confident that all had tempered glass.
These tours are so interesting. Before I clicked on this i assumed it would be kinda boring, but you really pack in great information about process and economics.
Always wondered how tempered glass was cut. I use a waterjet at work and I was always told that the waterjet could "cut any material on Earth except tempered glass because it shatters." Love this content.
Steve, many thanks for the educational videos lately, the tours and also the time spent with Vince...simply nice change of pace from the usual tech videos. Keep up the good work sir.
And they test with a specialist tool for breaking toughened glass, yes it’s called an automatic centre punch as used within the fabrication /engineering industries.
I have a glass factory next to my work place here in Mass. I've never been inside of it. But this must be an idea of what goes on. Very cool video Steve. Thank You.
I must say this factory surprised me. I am working myself in an automotive factory in Western Europe and we were always thinking of Chinese factories as manual labour, unsafe and hellish conditions. This one however reminds me my own work place in many ways. First of all it seems that the majority of the operators are either in quality or packaging stations, which is also true for automated industries in Europe and NA. They are however more inventive with in-house made equipment, which I support wholeheartedly. "Creeping professionalism" resulted in purchases of fancy things that a worth several months salaries, when all we asked for was a stick with a plate welded on one side to drag something.
Not at all dissimilar from a company like NWI here in Seattle that makes tempered glass for everything from auto glass to windows for houses and commercial buildings. They also do curved glass through a pressurization process. Still very cool. Great episode.
Gotta be one of the most unique series on a tech channel. I love this type of stuff. Great editing job, interesting not boring. Hard to do with this type of content. Lol.
I have worked at a glass tempering plant.We started the ovens 2 hours before production, keeping the oven at 200 degrees (400 degrees F) in the weekend. The glass could not be cut after the process. We had printing en bending glass for years.
I love this. I love computers and I love electronics and the "nexus" for everything in this industry is in shenzhen and the "tech" youtube channels just don't do enough of this stuff. Thanks Guys!
Great video, that same "air hockey" table also vacuums the glass to the table during the cutting process to ensure stability (no movement) while the blade is cutting :)
Everyone is saying thanks, so let me be that guy. NO THANKS for doing this amazing video, highly educational and it's nice to know where one gets their outer case for their PC. Keep up the amazing work! Gained a Patreon; this is content worth paying for!
