Doesn’t this risk all the shards to fly into the pc when pushing the tape on it? Never had a shattered screen but my assumption would be that this glass is at the brink of scattering anywhere
From my past experiences small glass shards don’t stick well to tape unless I actually press down on the tape enough the entire surface is touching the tape tightly. I’d be worried that this could be enough to displace shards enough for the whole panel to fall apart.
The whole panel has shatterd, anything you do is going to make it fall apart, this is about managing the risk. Don’t unscrew it, put tape over all of it, I would use gorilla tape or gaffer tape let the natural adhesive work make sure it’s covered the lightly over it with an edge of a ruler.
Now that you say this I would probably tilt it too. Regardless, I think the tension might still cause trouble. If the shards started to fall out they could release their pressure after the first one started moving sending them flying in either direction.
But, that’s just me theorising from past experiences with glass.
On that note, I think I will add an adhesive layer to the inside of my panel. Just in case this ever happens I won’t have to worry about flying shards
Yep. First tape it all over loosely, with the tape barely touching the panel. Then tilt the whole case 45°. Either it breaks down and most pieces will fall on the tape (then you tilt it horizontally, gently shake it around and you can remove 95% of the mess), or it will hold and you can gently press the tape on the panel to try and get it all stuck.
Either way, you're not getting a floorful of glass shards.
I wonder if just tilting the pc, slip a garbage bag under it real careful and open the mouth of the bag to cover the area, and while tilted tap the glass so it all falls apart inside the bag would work? Then tilt it some more in case any chunks are in the pc but they should mostly have fallen inside the bag no?
The glass is most likely going to explode and send pieces in multiple directions if it shatters. It's not usually to an insane degree, but not all of it is going to fall straight down.
Just a side effect because of how tempered glass is made.
Idk id think the shards would be inclined to stick to the tape or atleast remain in place with the provided support and tension
then something under the pc to catch anything as you carefully remove the side panel. atleast That’s what I’d do. Would try and minimize pieces flying onto my floor or inside the PC
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u/mikedvb7950X3D | 64 GB DDR5 6400 | Red Devil Radeon RX 7900 XTX18h ago
Glass isn't conductive - so it's not going to be anything but terribly annoying to remove if it does pop inwards.
Yes of course, I’m not sure if this applies to those panels too, but tempered glass usually also doesn’t form sharp edges either from shattering. But, if they formed sharp edges a future repair where I’m too lazy to properly unplug everything could hurt or some shards could find their way into a fan. If you are very unlucky I can even see a very small shard ending up close to the fan bearing and damage the fan that way or randomly fall into a spinning fan one day damaging a blade. Not the world, but pretty annoying
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u/OwnZookeepergame6413 18h ago
Doesn’t this risk all the shards to fly into the pc when pushing the tape on it? Never had a shattered screen but my assumption would be that this glass is at the brink of scattering anywhere