Urban myth buster thread!

[JohnnyJones]

I'll go first with the de icing myth. Has anyone ever cracked their icy windscreen by chucking hot water on it? Thought not.

[headcase]

Sounds like a job for Mythbusters!

[singlecoil]

Anybody blown up their microwave or suffered some other unpleasantness by putting some metal in it?

[SC7]

JohnnyJones said:

I'll go first with the de icing myth. Has anyone ever cracked their icy windscreen by chucking hot water on it? Thought not.

The current Autoglass advert fks me right off. It's just lies!

[hman]

No but I have seen people slip over on the ice created from the water which ends up the sub zero floor.

Preparation is the key with a 5 quid windscreen cover....

[sherbert90]

singlecoil said:

Anybody blown up their microwave or suffered some other unpleasantness by putting some metal in it?

Not blown up, but my ex once put a takeaway container in the microwave once. Cracked the glass in the door.

Stupid cow.

[PainTrain]

singlecoil said:

Anybody blown up their microwave or suffered some other unpleasantness by putting some metal in it?

We put a takeaway container with a fork in the microwave at a friends house, it was like a mini thunderstorm, very impressive!

[T0nup]

Actually, yeah.

The winscreen didn't shatter, but did crack almost in half... Thankfully it was the next door neighbours, and oh how I laughed. Was a long time back, so maybe windscreens have improved since then.

And the microwave was a silly drunken experiment... Lots of alarming crackling sounds, and then nothing... It died. It didn't explode exactly, but it the microwave never worked again, so it didn't do it much good.

Edited by T0nup on Saturday 4th February 22:35

[anonymous-user]

Mum and dad had some plates with gold edging, first time they put one in the microwave was a laugh.

[Mr-B]

singlecoil said:

Anybody blown up their microwave or suffered some other unpleasantness by putting some metal in it?

I left some ali foil on an item once and I think a metal teaspoon and yes it does spark but I stopped it immediately so no major damage done. It did leave an indelible mark inside though.

[Thankyou4calling]

Gavin from autoglass says all chips become cracks. But he is a fibber because they don't.

[Zad]

I don't care, I have a car with a heated windscreen and heated washer nozzles. Its 21 years old too!

YouTube is full of videos about metal things in microwave ovens.

[Xtriple129]

I used to dry my sons socks (after I'd washed them before the return to his Mother)in the microwave and a few weeks into the experiment it went up in smoke!

At least his socks were dry!

[STURBO]

Water does not always spin the same way down a plughole. It does not change behavior in the southern hemisphere.

[R300will]

STURBO said:

Water does not always spin the same way down a plughole. It does not change behavior in the southern hemisphere.

The direction of water spinning down the plughole depends more on the shape of the bowl rather than the magnetic field of the earth. However i think it does go the other way in the southern hemisphere.

[Brother D]

JohnnyJones said:

I'll go first with the de icing myth. Has anyone ever cracked their icy windscreen by chucking hot water on it? Thought not.

Erm, yes I did (with dad's Volvo....) while he was in it (it did just crack).
Excessive temperature differentials in a brittal/crystaline material? - not sure how this is an urban myth?

Also shattered a glass when I put it on a hot plate. (To see if the glass would shatter).

[R300will]

Brother D said:

JohnnyJones said:

I'll go first with the de icing myth. Has anyone ever cracked their icy windscreen by chucking hot water on it? Thought not.

Erm, yes I did (with dad's Volvo....) while he was in it (it did just crack).
Excessive temperature differentials in a brittal/crystaline material? - not sure how this is an urban myth?

Also shattered a glass when I put it on a hot plate. (To see if the glass would shatter).

Yeah. Right.

[CommanderJameson]

Start car, scrape for all of 2 mins, get in car, drive off.

[surveyor]

I think the general rule is luke warm not too bad. Boiling water out of kettle not good.

ALso discovered downside to warm water technique a couple of weeks ago. It ain't readily available with suitable container in the station car park.

[wattsie_2004]

singlecoil said:

Anybody blown up their microwave or suffered some other unpleasantness by putting some metal in it?

We put a CD in a microwave once (to see what would happen) There was a fantastic miniture thunderstorm across the surface of the disc (and when it came out, the silver surface looked like crazy paving.) It also smelled like burning electronic.

It was not my own microwave I hasten to add. Nor was it damaged as a result.