I have tried, every time i chip the glass off a piece of the stone breaks too
I have tried, every time i chip the glass off a piece of the stone breaks too
I can imagine how it went:
1.) Hand slipping from the stone, momentarily lifting the forcefull grip of brighty the mighty
2.) Stone falling, accelerating at a staggering rate
3.) At the peak of acceleration the impact seems inevitable
4.) Brighty thinking: "come on gravity, you used to be cool" trying to prevent the worst
5.) Shaptons masterpiece shattering into pieces
6.) Brighty shaking one single angry fist thinking "damn you, Isaac Newton for inventing the gravity!"
I´m very sorry to hear your stone got hurt, though :gl:
When the new Shapton 1k arrives, simply close this chapter and shuffle on down to the rubber mat store.
Case closed............
Mate, sorry to hear that! :(
I did the same ages back and dropped my 8k in the sink while I was lapping it... The Shaptons are awesome stones buy they don't like to be dropped.
All you can really do if it's totally nadgered is bin it and get a new one. Annoying but unfortunately that's about all you can do if it's not salvageable.
Sorry mate, my sympathies
Another reason they may have chosen tempered is because tempered glass is heat treated and is stronger. The tempered glass will withstand more jolts than annealed glass and thus is better suited for people like us who move them around a lot, setting them down hard and also applying pressure to it even if it's for wood working tools.
When I first started working in the glass industry (many years ago and eventually left it) I got a chance to see just how strong tempered is. I had a door glass from a Chevy (it was sandblasted from a sand storm) and used a center punch in the middle 5x and it never broke. Yet when I took a coat hanger and swatted the edge like I was using a fly swatter it shattered. FYI for all of you, the edge of tempered glass is the weak spot. Now, when I tried the same method on annealed the first pop from the punch busted the glass yet the coat hanger on the edge merely chipped it and started runs.
Given the expense of the Shapton 1k I would have just tossed it and got a new one however, it never hurts to try what you did and this now stands as an example of what could happen. Just be thankful this Shapton you broke wasn't the 30k.