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Originally Posted by the_real_kaz
Just please tell me your joking. I've parked my truck in the middle of a homemade speedball feild and had no problems what so ever. Actually I'm so sure in this that I'll take out a 98 crank the velocity all the way out of the gun and go to town with a full hopper on my front wind shield at point blank range.
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True enough, windshields today are made with tempered, laminated glass. Tempered glass is able to resist about
20000 lb/in^2. You'd have to be shooting heavy rocks out of your marker at the same speed as a paintball in oder to break them.
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Mirrors aren't windows. And I also doubt the mirriors broke because of the paintballs but raither because someone broke them running for cover.
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I would think mirrors are made with the same type of annealed glass that windows are made of, but have a special micrometric coating of metal on the back. Most commercially available
windows and
mirrors have about the same thickness standards. My windows, like my bathroom mirror, are 0.6mm (1/4 inch) thick. But there's also manufacturing concerns like which type of glass the window is made out of and all that, perhaps mirrors are made with less resilient glass or something, i'd have to ask an engineer or something.