Shattering News about Candy Glass!

Posted by Scott S. on Wednesday, 25 February 1998, at 5:04 p.m.

Making glass is much cheeper than buying it for a couple of hundred dollars. I've tried many different ways to make fake glass. A got a good idea from Dante Harding. Both of our recipies are almost the same. You need 1/2 cup of water, 1 3/4 cup of white sugar, 1 tbsp. light corn syrup, and of coarse a grease like crisco or pam. Boil the water and then stir the syrup and sugar. SPRINKLE A LITTLE SALT INTO THE MIXTURE, then let boil for seven to eight min. Put the mixture on a cookie sheet. Let cool for about an hour. Without the salt, the glass looks a little shiny on camera. Anybody with a better recipie?

osted by Cory R. "Click" Starr / CSE Special Engineering on Wednesday, 25 March
1998, at 11:21 a.m.

Paintball guns can shoot through glass, but it depends on the type of "bullet" you use. If you are just
using empty paintballs filled with vasoline, glitter, and felt, they will not damage a car windhsield.
Now they will go through 1/8" tempered glass, so don't shoot that unless you want it to shatter. If
you place a steel marble inside the paintball it will got through the windhsield if your gun is powerfull
enough.

Incidentally, if you DO want to shoot through plate glass, it looks best if you attach a thin film of
clear windown tint to the front of the glass. This will allow the glass to break ion the familiar star
pattern without completely falling apart. You will get a nice hole in the center and it looks really
great.

Keep in mind that there WILL be many small pieces of flying glass coming off the back of the
window, so don't stand behind it. The film is placed on the front of the window instead of behind so
that the glass breaks nicely. If you place the film behind the glass it won't break correctly, and if you
place film on both sides it will break even less. Of course if you are looking for this type of effect you
can try all of these ways.