Exits in an emergency
I'm making this a new post, but referencing a a previous discussion on exiting in a fire. In our Class B we have 4 exits: driver's door, passenger door, cabin door, and rear van doors. We cannot un...
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Naio wrote:
I worry about this with power windows. Car/SUV doors are often heavy enough to be hard for most folks to open if the vehicle is on is side. And I don't have a lot of faith in those little hammer thingies.
My van has power windows, but I consider them a serious drawback. I plan to install a method for opening the rear doors from the inside, this summer. Manually. But manual windows... probably not.
No need for the "little hammer thingies"....:R
A $3. spring-loaded HF center punch will do just fine..:W
Press against a side (door) car or truck window.
When it "triggers" you will have a pile of glass "pebbles" where a window once was.
Any thief -or F/F- knows that.
But - *DON'T* test it on *your* car/truck window!.:E
(Unless you want to buy a replacement window)
If you have a friendly Salvage yard - or know when your local FD is doing extrication training.....go see a demo.
Bring along your center punch - maybe they'll let *you* be the magician!..:C
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