Best way to cut glass??

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Phisherman wrote in news: [e-mail]:

That's the way I did it as a kid working in the old time hardware store. The glass cutters sat in a tin can with kero.

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Bert Byfield wrote in news:Xns9A7DBF5074A64bbyfield34caravelaxy@66.250.146.128:

Google cut & paste. Nice job :-)

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Old glass can be a lot harder to cut.

BTW, that building I talked about a few months ago that was being torn down had 4 mirrors 6 or 8 foot wide by 10 foot high each. To buy new would be 500 dollars a piece, 2000 total, I was told. Despite that, we offerred them free to a glass guy and he didn't want them. Too hard to use them without breaking them, or too hard to cut them for the next location without breaking them. They are 40 years old.

So we left them, and I suppose the new owner who is tearing the building down will too.

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BTW, the movie scene where the cat burglar scores a circle on the outside of the glass and then taps it and the circle breaks out and then he can stick his hand in. NOT TRUE. I'm told that you can't cut glass from only one side. You have to tap on the side opposite the scoring, or have a fulcrum on the other side to press against.