as you know, glasses are amorphous solids, that is they lack a regular crystal structure. heating glass allows a microscopic amount of the molecules to flow like a liquid, which is just enough for it to infiltrate the cup and allow a tighter vacuum seal.
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
Stuff is less flexible when it's cold usually. Probably the cold windshield cools off the suction cup itself until it's too brittle to form a good seal?
Apparently this is a common question though, when I tried to Google to see if what I said made sense I got "suction cup cold windshield" as a suggested search pretty quickly.
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
inb4 @Section42L tells me that Syaoran was always cute
Stuff is less flexible when it's cold usually. Probably the cold windshield cools off the suction cup itself until it's too brittle to form a good seal?
Apparently this is a common question though, when I tried to Google to see if what I said made sense I got "suction cup cold windshield" as a suggested search pretty quickly.
This is exactly why suction cups don't work in cold weather. They really on the flexibility of the cup to form the seal, and when they lose that you just have a piece of rubber that doesn't do anything.
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
See, I would kind of expect that if I'd been keeping the suction cup in the cold, but I brought it out from the warm house and put it in the car and evidently...just getting it in contact with the cold windshield cooled it enough to make it inflexible.
Yep, it doesn't take much. Suction cups are pretty thin and soft to be sufficiently flexible to seal, and don't require much cold to remove that flexibility. I mean, think about how cold your hands feel when you touch cold glass even briefly.
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Apparently this is a common question though, when I tried to Google to see if what I said made sense I got "suction cup cold windshield" as a suggested search pretty quickly.