How Tempered Glass is Made | Everyone Uses the Same Factory
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- This tempered glass factory tour shows how PC case glass side panels are made -- most case manufacturers even use the same exact factory!
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We visited this tempered glass factory in Dongguan, China with Cooler Master, but the factory also makes glass side panels for Lian Li (the O11 Dynamic), ASUS, and Thermaltake. Cooler Master's MP530P was being made on the same day we visited, and the factory also makes the Master Maker glass paneling. Tempered glass panels for PC hardware became an overnight business, causing this furniture glass factory to expand into PC tempered glass manufacturing rapidly.
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the water is mainly used for lubricating during the grind.
What smashing content.
Would like to see the GPU binning process 😎 please. Keep up good work GN team. Thanks.
@Eyecat15 You're officially gay
nice title 👍
Man this channel is officially epic and educational. It's like a pc "how it's made" episode.
Thanks for the likes 😄
It would be neat to see lots more videos like this. And maybe some coasters for the glasses and mugs.
I was thinking the sama thing. This video made understand why tempered glass cases are more expensive.
All it needs is some sweet "How It's Made" music
@@LAppelDuVideo you can hear it in your head... I can hear it in my head... NOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!
And bad puns.
I wonder how many times people will comment this and get high likes for it.
I worked at a lamp manufacturer in the '80s. We had our own glass production facility in a separate building and I can tell you exactly how bent panels are made. They run the glass through a kiln with a positive and negative buck, the negative on the bottom and the positive on top. Then the kiln is heated and gravity pulls the positive buck into the negative buck and the glass is formed between the halves. Then the temperature in the kiln is slowly lowered to prevent thermal shock and breakage. After the glass has cooled to room temp (or close enough it won't shatter) it's removed from the kiln. In the case of tempered glass, the tempering would then be done after the panel is bent. Doing it first would result in the glass reverting to un-tempered glass just like heating tempered steel will remove the tempering.
Hell yea thanks for the info
I am glad to see that every grinder & cutter is using water to bind the highly lung-irritant dust.
Yes, Silicosis is a concern for workers if that is not the case.
it's probably more expensive to buy the workers face masks, instead use water and expose them to small amounts
The "4 soldering irons perpetually covered in smoldering plastic" station though. I hope the operator wears a respirator!
Make sure you let OSHA know...
Slave labour is cheap and plentiful. If one person doesn't want to do it, they'll just bring someone in who will.
Nobody's even wearing safety glasses, or "safety" shoes. At least form what I saw.
I used to work in the Autoglass industry so I’d like to correct a point you made at 9:20-ish. Windshields are not made from this type of safety glass, and saying it in the way that you have may cause some confusion as what happens when a rock hits your windshield. The most common configuration on cars today is your windshield is made with a laminated glass, meaning two layers of glass with a polyvinyl plastic in between, this type of glass doesn’t shatter, it will crack. Also, because it’s two layers of glass, it won’t fall in on you. The rest of the glass on the car are typically tempered glass, and are typically referred to as door glass, back glass, or vent glass, whichever one is set to be replaced in the case of the industry I was in. I would suggest instead saying “Sidelite” as it’s a good catch-all term that references strictly the tempered pieces, but also excludes the recent trend in laminated door glass.
Thanks and noted on "sidelite" as a catch-all. Was not familiar with that term before now, but it will be helpful!
Weeeird. I think of "sidelite" and I imagine doors.
That's probably just because I sell doors.
Mort Mort Mort totally true, sidelite isn’t an overly popular term in ag, but it’s the only thing I’ve seen that covers all the tempered glass w/o just calling it tempered.
@@mortmortmort8908 How much does your average sliding glass door cost?
@@Malus1531 cheap vinyl ones can be had for 375, 800 bucks if you want there to be blinds in between the glass. Special order ones can range anywhere from 1200-3000 USD.
Thanks for doing this whole trip and the manufacturer's allowing you to show off this stuff. I know it may not be the most popular thing, but it's awesome to see the processes and behin the scenes of where the parts come from! Great job guys 👍🏻
Dropping a steel ball in sandales. My safety departement would go crazy
noticed the dude with the crane with very heavy glass? tiny shoes etc. crushed feet if he ever gets anything over them
And the woman cutting the protective film with a raw utility knife blade.
I didn't notice as I was looking at her arse. Maybe I shouldn"t work in health and saftey.
@@LiLBitsDK you cant use steel tip shoes. if it drop on your finger you may get it broken, but if you drop it on steeltip shoe it may clamp your fingers off :D
@@MarioDarnadi what are your fingers doing down there anyways?
This tour is one of my favorites so far. Fascinating!
Just FYI the windscreen is laminated glass , you aint breaking that with a tool like that . Side windows yes , not windscreen.
Thanks for the correction.
Which means there's just a sheet of plastic sandwiched between two pieces of tempered glass.
It will shatter it though, easily
@@StrongOneX Laminated glass isn't tempered, there's no need because it's laminated. Modern windshield glass is not tempered.
@@StrongOneX You wouldn't want the windshield tempered. If a stone or other object hit a tempered glass, the whole piece would break and block your vision.
This was infinitely more interesting than anything you could produce about the GTX 1660Ti.
I'm loving all this factory touring!
What blows my mind are the industrial/mechanical genius engineers that design and make the CNC machines that make the products.
Why? It's just the same as designing a product.
Japan and German isually made the machinese
Steve, can you show us how babies are made next?
i don't think there's a patreon teir high enough
@@andiCNH Hey man, everyone has a price
DEMONETIZED
baby factory ? :D
They are all made at the same factory.
5-10% defect rate is insane, no wonder that they are so expensive!
I mean, a full on replacement glass door, hinges, magnets and all for my 500D SE is only $30 USD...all things considered that seems pretty cheap tbh.
@@soulshot96 thats kinda expensive, but if you have enough to afford a case like that, then i suppose that would be considered cheap.
$134 for CM Trooper SE 5000 ....that glass sheet with black trim in video looks like it...
It is but unlike most product, defects here can go right back into a furnace for recasting.
No stupid. The reason why it's expensive is because of Apple pricing.
3:25 that dude was hella nervous that you were touching his glass
Today on How Its Made
Just got one of those open air tempered glass thermaltake cases. Had no idea so much went into these panels; I appreciate it.
That factory looks pretty nice. I love all these tour videos!! 😁👍
Steve has made How It's Made: Tech Edition
These tours have been phenomenally well done, Steve.
This series is great, I usually consume all of my tech content solo but my partner is enjoying these too!
@@John-ik2eg Yeah she's a medical scientist so although computers aren't her thing, how things are made is really interesting. Especially because it's also crazy to see the similarities between some of the manufacturing equipment and some of the automated medical analysers and sorters.
Glad to see you're enjoying it too mate :-)
I work in an automotive glass company named Vitro. I find it funny that their safety standards are way not the same as ours, but it is China so yea. I'm also amazed by how much they can do with the tech they have. Also to get the bends they would have more than likely press at the end of the furnace, but even then it would be hard to do. Just to let you know the glass in a windshield is not tempered, but heat treated and then laminated together. The side windows of a car are mostly tempered but can be laminated as well.
Press immediately after furnace would be my guess too, or possibly vacuum forming, however there are steps that are needed to ensure the glass doesn't fracture from shock cooling when the press makes contact.
Processes for mitigating this are likely the trade secret kept from clients that was mentioned in the early part of the video.
The curved panels have a known high failure rate, likely due to warping stressors when cooling.
@@bengrogan9710 That or they might have some safety violation they don't want to show you.
@@maggiejetson7904 The factories are in China - H&S regs as the west know them don't exist
If operating in the West such trade secrets still need proper H & S compliance, inspectors just sign an NDA that is void if they find such violations as you allude to
This was one of, if not the best factory tour I've seen from GN. Great job!
I think this has been my favorite factory tour so far. All have been great. I kept looking over at my Phanteks case with its tempered glass side panel in awe.
Thank you very much for these videos. This really differentiates you from the other tech channels. Keep up the good work and I'll try to keep that like button pressed
Steve, I learn more useful information from your channel than all of the other channels combined. It's vids like this that really make a difference! Been building since 2004 ..Keep up the excellent work
So glad you have a playlist for all of this. Some of my friends don't watch much tech youtuber stuff but they found these videos very interesting.
I really loved looking over at my o11 Dynamic and seeing exactly where the glass for it came from! So super cool. Really glad you did this factory!
Welp, I know where my panels for my Cullinan come from!
Steve, many thanks for the educational videos lately, the tours and also the time spent with Vince...simply nice change of pace from the usual tech videos. Keep up the good work sir.
These are so awesome! Thank you for going above and beyond and taking us on a behind the scenes trip into the heart of these facilities. It's great to see how all these items are made and I really enjoy them. Thank you Steve and the team for such an entertaining ride. Keep it up!!
This is unrelated but please make more ASK GN! It’s been a while and it’s one of my favorite series that you make.
Gotta be one of the most unique series on a tech channel. I love this type of stuff. Great editing job, interesting not boring. Hard to do with this type of content. Lol.
Thanks guys, loving the how it's made content.. keep up the good works!
Absolutely fascinating! Love this video, also - I have the CM MB530P mentioned in the video!
I really love these factory tours. It's always interesting to see how things are made!
That was the most interesting and concise factory tour I've ever seen, who knew so much work was involved in something as simple as a sheet of glass.
Thank you Steve. This is the kind of insight into the manufacturing process that I really like to see. Keep it up.
Wow, loved this one. Outstanding content!
that's a surprisingly clean factory for china.
i only saw 2-3 dangerous operations in there.
As a manufacturing engineer it was good to see a relay good factory tour. They didn't dumb it down.
Awesome to see the manufacturing! Thanks for sharing this kind of stuff!
Yet again wonderful insight into how something is made. Great job GN.
Another great factor tour! Thanks so much for these!
I want to respectfully correct a few things. It is a carbide cutting wheel that doesn't actually cut, it merely scores the glass which is sufficient to snap the glass along the score line with ease. The wheel is perhaps 5-10mm in diameter depending on the type of head in the machine. A properly aligned wheel can score a total length upwards of 10km or more. I know this because I used to work a glass cutting table at a window factory. It is NOT a safe job to do without proper ppe....
Fun fact - If a pane of freshly scored glass is left on the table for too long, say for example over break, the sheet of glass is likely going to break in random places and be scrapped due to the 'healing' nature of the score line. It becomes nearly impossible to snap the glass along the score line after too long
The factory tour videos are really cool and informational, thanks for doing them!
You smashed it! Another great coverage
These tour videos are amazing. Thank you.
Great tour, ended up watching the whole thing with interest.
This is a great video! It's really awesome to see such detailed info on the manufacturing of a specialized component for computer cases.
I like these factory tours videos, keep them coming!
Fascinating tour with great narration. Thank you!
This is more like it! Great video, very detailed, a real nuts and bolts look at how these things are made!
Thanks GN, Very Cool!
These tours are terrific and I hope you get the support to make more.
Best tour video yet, Keep them coming!
3:15
Imagine someone selling his case not knowing the tampered glass panel is blessed by tech jesus.
On the oven part there is a second piece to the oven, the quench. The quench is what actually seals the temper into the glass by adding cold pressured air onto the glass immediately after it exits the oven. I worked in a glass tempering plant for 5 years very similar to this one.
Guys, your content has become so good, I can't stay a non-patron any longer.
Amazing video.. Thanks GN team!
This channel has jumped to a new level of epicness. holy f00k.
I love these new videos you're doing. It's really cool information!
Thank you for the amazing field trip :)
10:14 Man there's no way I'd try dropping a steel ball onto my panels lol
you can hammer on it, it wouldnt even scratch..
@@Xenoray1 Sure, but I'm still going to pass on trying it myself 😅
So teh fact that many clients use the same glass supplier is not surprising, as glass is one of those "recipe and technique" products where one companies style and recipe could be completly differant from another and they are gennerally mostly trade secrets. Its why you ahve corning gorillia glass on nearly all smart mobile devices now days.
Wow thank you for the tour!!!!
That was surprisingly interesting. Great stuff.
These tours are so interesting. Before I clicked on this i assumed it would be kinda boring, but you really pack in great information about process and economics.
I have a glass factory next to my work place here in Mass. I've never been inside of it. But this must be an idea of what goes on. Very cool video Steve. Thank You.
This series is absolutely fantastic
thank you!! really great details
Thank you Steve for showing these to us ;)
I like these factory tours. Earned you guys a Sub :D
Despite the handling of the glass in the factory, I'm still gonna treat my glass side panel like it's made out of... well glass.
Awesome video guys!
Killing it with these How Its Made videos!!!
I hate taking shit for granted, love watching these videos, thanks GN!
Everyone is saying thanks, so let me be that guy. NO THANKS for doing this amazing video, highly educational and it's nice to know where one gets their outer case for their PC. Keep up the amazing work! Gained a Patreon; this is content worth paying for!
Great episode!
This brought back memories when I was a silkscreen operator in a factory that produces side windows for cars. I also worked behind that airtable where you break off small pieces of glass from the precut piece. :)
I love this. I love computers and I love electronics and the "nexus" for everything in this industry is in shenzhen and the "tech" youtube channels just don't do enough of this stuff. Thanks Guys!
Wow, just wow.
You guys worked your asses off on your trip,
and afterward editing, etc.
Dang!
Love these videos showing us how our components are made.
These are your best videos. Thanks you for this.
mind blown, love it!
I’m happy that I was able to contribute the 1000th like. Thanks for the assist guys.
This was a really interesting and educational video. Thanks!
awesome information man! :D
Awesome AWESOME video!!!
Always wondered how tempered glass was cut. I use a waterjet at work and I was always told that the waterjet could "cut any material on Earth except tempered glass because it shatters."
Love this content.
i really enjoy this factory tour series
Very cool. Thank for the video.
cool.. i like these factory videos you been doing lately really interesting..
This video had made me sub to this channel.. Keep up the good work..
This was educational and interesting, keep it up tech Jesus.
I got a View 71 case after seeing your unbiased review of it. It's nice to see where its glass comes from!
That snapping stuff blew my mind. Like magic.
Wow that's a lot of work, was thinking it was going to be fairly easy and automated. Great video!
That is really cool to see! i want one of those curved glass panels!
Makes one appreciate the cost of products using tempered glass. All your factory tour vids are useful .