this is a follow up question from my previous one. can i use a grinder, a finer one to cut tempered glass
if l can cut it but resulting with rough edges, l can make it smooth by
grinding it side by side. will it works?
No, no, no. Tempered glass will shatter into hundreds of
small pieces if cut and if you took a piece and tried to just grind on the
edge, it would do the same.
The only glass grinders I know are the ones used to grind the
edges smooth for stained glass work. They have water on the grinding wheel
all the time, & the wheel is vertical so you hold the glass horizontal
which is easy to do. If you don't use water, you get a somewhat chipped
edge & little chips of glass flying everywhere. I am not sure about this,
but I also think that if you grind dry & the glass chips, you might get
fractures resulting from the chips because glass is actually a liquid. When you cut it, you are breaking the surface tension on it, this is the principle that glass cutters work on. You know how if you get a crack in a windshield, it can travel across the glass? The same sort of thing can happen if you chip the edge of a piece of glass so you must grind very finely to avoid that happening. They do make sandpaper to smooth the edges of glass with. That might be better than a grinder not meant for glass.
You might be able to cut it with a diamond wheel on your
grinder, but I think you need to keep the cutting surface cool. The worst
that can happen is you have to sweep up a bunch of little pieces.
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