I just saw that my bong has a crack in it!

[RainyDayWomen1235]

I just got this the other day and it's a really nice piece... I didn't notice it after taking it out of the freezer yesterday (didn't leave it in there for too long) but today I saw this huge crack. It still works but it leaks... just a bit

Jay

RainyDayWomen1235 Reviewed by RainyDayWomen1235 on 06-19-2006. I just saw that my bong has a crack in it! I just got this the other day and it's a really nice piece... I didn't notice it after taking it out of the freezer yesterday (didn't leave it in there for too long) but today I saw this huge crack. It still works but it leaks... just a bit :( Jay Rating: 5

[420purplehaze420]

that to bad, be careful as hell with it, soon as they get a crack in em it just takes the slightest knock to shatter the thing

[RainyDayWomen1235]

yah I'm trying my best to be careful...

I'll I'll just get a plastic one.

[smokingwithfloyd]

hhmm ive heard that if ur bong is real cold and u go to hit it the heat from hitting it is so hot that it cause the bottom to crack....possible?

[slipknotpsycho]

hhmm ive heard that if ur bong is real cold and u go to hit it the heat from hitting it is so hot that it cause the bottom to crack....possible?

i really don't see how, i could understand the bowl/stem cracking under those circumstances, but there's a rubber grommet between the bowl/stem and the bong, and rubber doesn't transfer heat too well, not well enough to transfer heat high enough to crack a bong like this, and the smoke isn't that hot, if it were, we wouldn't be able to inhale it without causing some serious harm to our innards.

[ThatTokenWhiteGuy]

If it's soft glass then extreme hot and cold can crack it. My buddy bought a bong from our local head shop and they warned him not to put it in the dish washer or put ice in it or it could crack because it's soft glass, it's not treated glass like other bongs. Maybe it's soft glass and putting it in the freezer caused a crack.

[RainyDayWomen1235]

It seems pretty hard to me

[slipknotpsycho]

It seems pretty hard to me

lol i think you got the wrong idea about 'soft glass' it'll still feel just as hard as other glass, but it's far more fragile.

â??Hard-glassâ?� is an acronym for borosilicate glass like Pyrex or Kimax. â??Soft-glassâ?� is an acronym for soda-lime glass or a higher expansion type glass, (88-92 COE). Lab glass is generally made from â??hard-glassâ?�, (borosilicate), bottles are generally made from â??soft-glassâ?� or soda- lime glass.

Borosilicate glass has not only good temperature resistance but thermal shock resistance as well. Borosilicate temperatures at atmospheric pressure are up to 500°C for the strain point. The softening point is over 800° C. Maximum thermal shock resistance is 160°C. Borosilicate can easily handle most lab temperatures and can easily handle 400-450° C for short term service, typically 200° C for normal service. The thermal shock means that a rapid change from cold to very hot or the reverse will cause fractures. Soft-glass or soda-lime bottles have an upper temperature limit of 400-450° C but have very little thermal shock resistance and can break easily when taken from heat to cold temperatures very quickly. In fact they can fracture if taken from sterilization to room temperature too quickly.

^^^taken from^^^
http://www.aceglass.com/faq.php#hardglass

[RainyDayWomen1235]

lol.. thanks for the education - it's actually very interesting. But I was just kidding...

[3rdEyeVision]

use epoxy