Tempered glass

[rrasco]

That's hilarious Bill.

Shane, just throw a WP60 in there.

Even if the bottom isn't tempered, I wouldn't drill it.

[ramsey]

Hitting a tempered tank is NOT a good idea...

Some of you may recall that I worked in a LFS long before most of you were born (60s and 70s). In the early 70s, they first started making tempered tanks. We had a 55 set up in the front of the store (this was a huge store - over 1000 tanks of fish). Lenny, one of the owners kept a hammer under it. When a regular customer would come in, he'd say "hey, you want to see something cool?", and he'd show them the tank, and wack it with a hammer. Unfortunately, he didn't know that tempered glass takes only so much abuse... On Tuesday night (SW stock came in on Tuesday), our best customer came in. Obviously, Lenny wanted to show him the tank. Lenny hit the tank with a hammer, and it shattered in a million pieces, and 55 gallons of water gushed out, all over both of them. "Yeah, Lenny, that's COOL!".

Haha! If only they had camera phones and YouTube back then. Awesome story!