The ceramic edges of broken spark plugs are really good at breaking tempered glass, but tempered glass is on a certain sense the opposite of bullet proof glass.
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NaevaTheRat@vegantheoryclub.org 4 days ago
Find a spark plug, crumble, embed in shoe sole by stepping on it, jumpkick glass, become legend.
topherclay@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Death_Equity@lemmy.world 4 days ago
That helps with the glass, but bulletproof glass uses multiple polymer layers and tempered glass layers alternating.
So you would only get through the top glass layer and do nothing to the polymer layers or 2nd layer of glass.
stm@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 days ago
aren’t there any methods, like some big hammer to smack it after you break that layer. you have all the time in the world, i wonder if it pays out to travel there smack the glass and take 3mil$
Death_Equity@lemmy.world 4 days ago
The problem is that glass absorbs energy to break, polymer deforms to absorb energy. So you have something absorbing energy in two different ways that robs kinetic energy very well.
Even just a normal household double pane window with one thin layer of polymer on both panes will take a long time to bust through with a hammer if the outer polymer is bonded to the frame appropriately. If you put paper tightly between both panes top to bottom, you would be in for a task because the paper reenforces against the deflection the hammer imparts.
You aren’t allowed to use tools with the money case, but ignoring that, you could shoot it with a .50 cal AP round towards the top and almost certainly make it through and then you just hammer and crowbar down to get the cash by peeling away the glass.
The other way you could attack it is to just drive a car at the far side from the support and hopefully peel the glass away from the frame enough to get in.
Even taking a hammer to it would be a laborious task to make any meaningful progress in a reasonable amount of time. A pickaxe would be useful, a framing hammer face less so.
FiskFisk33@startrek.website 4 days ago
an angle grinder would be a much better choice than hammers
licheas@sh.itjust.works 4 days ago
Hammer drills are basically “small” jack hammers that can also operate as a drill. Put it in hammer mode and repeated chisel at it. it’ll take some time, but eventually the glass will be broken and you can then deal with the polymer layers by yanking.