Can paintball break glass?
I have got the question of is paintball a dangerous activity to your house and facilities? This question comes from many people who have a thought that anything relating to guns could do harm to themselves or their homes. They don’t want to get any trouble from a stray paintballs that struck to their front door or windows. In this post, I will answer to this question from step to step.
Can paintballs break glass material subjects?
Yeah well with the shooting speed of paintball, it sure can break glass. However, base on the different types of glass, its thickness or the velocity of paintball, the impact could vary.
There are some types of glass which are antique, annealed, tempered, laminated, insulated and so on. The most strong one is tempered glass, which can hardly be broken when hit by paintballs. In detail, it is usually five times stronger than annealed glass. But this glass has a disadvantage when it breaks is that it will shatter into many pieces.
On the other hand, laminated glass is also stronger than annealed glass. In fact, they are two layers of annealed glass connected by a layer of resin (PVB plastic).
Can paintballs break windows?
The answer is yes, too. If you don’t want to see your windows broken by paintballs, find some made from tempered glass, which is more consistent than others. However, most common windows are made from annealed glass, which are more vulnerable. Luckily, windows are now double or triple glazed, which means the damage will be reduced significantly. The impact from the paintballs can be blocked when going through two or three layers of glass with gas between them. In fact, the first layer will be the only one to take the damage, but it is enough for you to replace the window with a new one. So sad!
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Can paintballs break car windows?
So how about car or other vehicles’ windows? I’m not so sure but the chance is quite small, unless your car windows have been compromised before. The car windows are regularly made from laminated and tempered glass, which are much more consistent than normal glass.
Your car side windows are surely made from tempered glass while the front and back windows are made from laminated one, specifically. This means your side windows is four or five time stronger than your front windshield. Remember the comparison between glasses above?
So all you need to worry is your front and back windows. But as I said before, with laminated glass, your windows could be damaged in the outer layer, not all the layers. In fact, there could only be a tiny crack, that’s all.
So, how about frozen paintballs?
This is so different. Frozen paintballs could damage glasses better than the normal one, for sure. But don’t worry, it’s hard to freeze paintballs by just putting it into the freezer.
In real circumstance, when you “want” to freeze your paintball, you will need liquid or dry nitrogen. Between these two, the liquid nitrogen will have better effect.
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So, good luck with the sport and do not break any windows intentionally.
