Froggystyle

I keep hearing people talk about using a spark plug, but can't for the life of me figure out why or how... When I was growing up, I heard that the littlest chip of the insulation would break a window... so of course the next time through a junkyard we tested out the theory. Not accurate. What does break them is a center-punch like is used for machining. Every time in fact.

What is the trick with the spark plug, and who the hell figured that one out?

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riverbound

Its the ceramic off the spark plug that people USED to use. now the tool of choice is the punch like you stated.

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Ask 460, big lue and his relatives ..................... um nevermind




I have done it in my backyard when I was young. You have to throw it hard though

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Rexone

You take a wrist rocket slingshot and fire the spark plug into the window. It works pretty well.

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and you know this how........

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Big Kahunaa

it will do the trick on non saftey glass

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396_WAYS_TO_SPIT

Damn mike, why you gotta be all lound and schit

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Kilrtoy

Same concept, use a little more strenght next time

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Rexone

I've heard that impacting a window with old used Nikes works ok too.

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riverbound

Ummm...no comment

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Froggystyle

Why wouldn't a ball bearing work the same way? Or a rock? Why the spark plug insulator?

I imagined it would work, but I am just curious as to why, or if anyone even knows.

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LMFAO

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Just give the guy a boot to the chest and make sure he is standing by the window

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riverbound

something to do with the insulator absorbing the noise. I dont really know the technical aspects, but I know it works.

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I agree, it really does work. Hey wes, just try in on your neighbor's new ride Then report back to hotboat

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How do you know it works??

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Big Kahunaa

i don't know why it works but every car that is on it's way to the junk yard doesn't have any windows in it when it gets there

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Froggystyle

Clearly you have never been to "Ray's Auto Salvage" in cosmopolitan downtown Sonoma. AKA "The place Wes basically bought every part for every car he built as a kid growing up"

I was a junkyard dog. I loved that place. I knew where everything was, and though about the "inventory" before starting on projects. You definitely tried to keep it at Ray's, because if you had to go down to Napa to "Pick-your-part" you were screwed price-wise.

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Kachina26

I heard this and tried it on a customer's window. Thank God I missed. Once my co worker told me he wasn't kidding, I tried it on a totalled vehicle out back. I crushed a spark plug in a vice and took a small piece, no bigger than the size of a smilie and tossed it ever so gently toward a side door window of the totalled vehicle. Let me tell you, that window dropped like right focking now! And it was ever so quiet. I don't konw why, but that's what happened.


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Froggystyle

See, this is what I have heard, and tried probably four or five different times with different pieces of glass that "needed" shattering. I have never seen it work, but only heard about it.

I am starting to think it is like the urban legend about the oxygen bottle that had the top knocked off and went through two cement walls, a big rig and totalled three cars in the parking lot before it came to a stop. Nobody ever actually saw it happen, but everyone knows someone who swore they saw it...

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Jordy

Yeah, I heard that too. Think they tried it on Mythbusters and found that the fungus and jam in the used kicks just melted the glass away with no noise.

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Kachina26

I did it, more than once. It was a side window, which is different than a front windshield. It was rolled up instead of down (don't know if that mattered). Really, I just tossed it kinda like a dart tossed at the bullseye. Try it on a window that you don't want to break, I promise it will work then

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Moneypitt

I have seen a story on escaping from a submerged car where the doors and windows are jammed due to loss of battery power. The tool of choice was a spring loaded centerpunch. Just put it against the window and press. The spring action shatters the window allowing the occupants to escape in the event of fire or water submersion. Stands to reason it would work just as well from the outside. The "safety experts" recomended carrying one in the console/glovebox, so a common theif would/could explain away the tool in a traffic stop/shakedown............MP

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Flying Sterling

Ok my neighbors address is uhhhhhh one number less than mine. Try his car. Ok try all his cars.