Why is it every case these days seems to come with a tempered glass side panel?

[DavidKalinowski]

44 minutes ago, ausham said:

safety glass is more then just tempered glass, its two sheets of tempered glass glued together. like a windshield

Tempered glass is also referred to as “toughened” or “fully tempered” glass. It is heat-treated safety glass with a minimum surface compression of 10,000 psi or a minimum edge compression of 9,700 psi. ... When broken, tempered glass shatters into small, relatively harmless pieces. (https://bendheim.com/faq/what-is-tempered-glass/)

 

https://glassdoctor.com/expert-tips/all-about-glass-repair/laminated-vs-tempered-glass

 

Its looking to me what most people call safety glass is laminated glass. both laminated and tempered are a type of safety glass. In that safety glass is glass that is safer when dealing with breakage/failure when compared to traditional glass panels. As such, we are both correct.

[ausham]

42 minutes ago, DavidKalinowski said:

Tempered glass is also referred to as “toughened” or “fully tempered” glass. It is heat-treated safety glass with a minimum surface compression of 10,000 psi or a minimum edge compression of 9,700 psi. ... When broken, tempered glass shatters into small, relatively harmless pieces. (https://bendheim.com/faq/what-is-tempered-glass/)

 

https://glassdoctor.com/expert-tips/all-about-glass-repair/laminated-vs-tempered-glass

 

Its looking to me what most people call safety glass is laminated glass. both laminated and tempered are a type of safety glass. In that safety glass is glass that is safer when dealing with breakage/failure when compared to traditional glass panels. As such, we are both correct.

Here is the USA tempered laminated glass is safety glass.

[DavidKalinowski]

1 hour ago, ausham said:

safety glass is more then just tempered glass, its two sheets of tempered glass glued together. like a windshield

 

2 hours ago, DavidKalinowski said:

safety glass is a form of tempered glass. tempered glass is used in many demanding areas. table tops, automotive, large windows, aquariums My 55 gallon has a tempered glass bottom. When tempered glass breaks it actually breaks into small relatively NOT sharp pieces, non-tempered glass is what will shatter into jagged daggers.

 

3 hours ago, DavidKalinowski said:

safety glass is tempered glass. Unless you mean glass with a film applied to create a slightly stronger surface.

 

18 minutes ago, ausham said:

Here is the USA laminated and tempered is safety glass.

I literally said two times that safety glass was(a type of) tempered glass..

[Mark Kaine]

1 hour ago, ausham said:

Here is the USA tempered laminated glass is safety glass.

Here in Germany safety glass is glass that doesn't have sharp edges when splittered, which I always assumed these 'tempered' glass panels are. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[Bombastinator]

7 hours ago, DavidKalinowski said:

Tempered glass is also referred to as “toughened” or “fully tempered” glass. It is heat-treated safety glass with a minimum surface compression of 10,000 psi or a minimum edge compression of 9,700 psi. ... When broken, tempered glass shatters into small, relatively harmless pieces. (https://bendheim.com/faq/what-is-tempered-glass/)

 

https://glassdoctor.com/expert-tips/all-about-glass-repair/laminated-vs-tempered-glass

 

Its looking to me what most people call safety glass is laminated glass. both laminated and tempered are a type of safety glass. In that safety glass is glass that is safer when dealing with breakage/failure when compared to traditional glass panels. As such, we are both correct.

Terminology issue.  Safety glass is a technical term.

Tempered glass is different than safety glass.  Safety glass has a goo layer between two sheets of glass.  Tempered glass is as you describe.  There is such a thing as tempered safety glass which is what is used in car windshields.  There is also straight safety glass.  Tempered glass is often used for safety stuff because it’s a lot cheaper than safety glass.  There’s a downside to tempered glass.  It always eventually explodes.  It stores up damage until just one little tap will make the whole thing just disintegrate.  It often takes a while.  Sometimes a very long while, depending on how much handling it gets.  But it always eventually goes. 

[Mark Kaine]

Safety glass doesn't necessarily consist of several 'sheets'. There are different methods. 

What they all have in common is that they're considered 'safe'

 

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Toughened glass is processed by controlled thermal or chemical treatments to increase its strength compared with normal glass.^[4] Tempering, by design, creates balanced internal stresses which causes the glass sheet, when broken, to crumble into small granular chunks of similar size and shape instead of splintering into random, jagged shards. The granular chunks are less likely to cause injury.

As a result of its safety and strength, tempered glass is used in a variety of demanding applications, including passenger vehicle windows, shower doors, architectural glass doors and tables, refrigerator trays, as a component of bulletproof glass, for diving masks, and various types of plates and cookware. In the United States, since 1977 Federal law has required safety glass located within doors and tub and shower enclosures

Tempered, ehhh! I mean so this is a whole lot of nothing, as I suspected. 

 

 

 

[Bombastinator]

3 minutes ago, Mark Kaine said:

Safety glass doesn't necessarily consist of several 'sheets'. There are different methods. 

What they all have in common is that they're considered 'safe'

 

Tempered, ehhh! I mean so this is a whole lot of nothing, as I suspected. 

 

 

 

As I said, a definition of terms issue.

[PlayStation 2]

Because fragile glass funi and cool or something like that. 

Personally was never into that or even plastic side panels. Just gimme something that works and won't shatter because I looked at it funny.

[handymanshandle]

11 hours ago, Jurrunio said:

acrylic is still popular on cheaper cases, otherwise there are always cases without transparent sides.

 

it's just the trend today

it's sadly been a trend for the like last year and a half

[LogicalDrm]

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[TVwazhere]

22 hours ago, HelpfulTechWizard said:

The mesh c has a non glas side version.

Only the Define C came with a solid side panel, acrylic window and Tempered glass side panel options. The Meshify C only has solid Side panel and Tempered glass options (with two different tint levels) but  no acrylic. 

https://www.fractal-design.com/products/cases/define/define-c/black/

(The window option was discontinued; it no longer appears on their website but there are still references to it)

https://www.fractal-design.com/products/cases/define/define-c-tempered-glass/black/

 

https://www.fractal-design.com/products/cases/meshify/meshify-c/black/

https://www.fractal-design.com/products/cases/meshify/meshify-c-dark-tempered-glass/black-tgd/ (original launch tint)

https://www.fractal-design.com/products/cases/meshify/meshify-c-tempered-glass/black/ (Updated tint)

[Ankerson]

On 10/19/2020 at 11:16 AM, WillOfTheLand said:

It's not that I have a hate on for clear side panels, but the last case I ordered came with a dent in it and a hole in the box from shipping, I fear to think of what happens to some of these cases with glass side panels.

It's been probably 15 years (give or take) since I first saw a case with a clear side panel (it was a spiderman case with a web cutout on the side panel) and what I'm pretty sure was plexiglass, whatever happened to using something more durable than, well, glass?

 

I don't have any tempered glass cases, in any of my 3 PCs.

 

Won't buy one either.

 

All 3 are clear windowed.