Talk:Fiberglass

History
Can someone add some information about the first creation and first uses of Fiberglass? Thanks. 63.199.240.199 (talk) 02:30, 19 November 2012 (UTC)Sandy


 * I agree: I came here to point this out myself. The article alludes to Owens-Illinois as the "accidental" inventors, where in fact the idea for glass fibres came originally from the Austrian, Dr Felix Pollak, whose patent No.288,978 (UK) is dated 13th December 1928. Around the same time, Friedrich Rosengarth was inspired by a candy floss machine and also devised a method of creating glass fibres. Rosengarth sought financing from Fritz & Julius Hagar in 1928 to develop his ideas. The result, in 1931, was called the "Hagar process" - not after the inventor, but the investors. GlassyEye (talk) 21:32, 29 January 2019 (UTC)


 * Well there is some information about the earliest experiments in the article now, which is great, but I think more is needed about the early 1960s, or thereabouts, when the technology transitioned from laboratories into the public space, as it became fashionable for construction. See Matti Suuronen, or Niki de Saint Phalle for example. --BjKa (talk) 09:30, 17 October 2022 (UTC)

The 'Health hazards' section is irrelevant
The 'Health hazards' section should be completely removed or rewritten. It ignores disambiguation and the statement in the introduction that 'This article will adopt the convention that "fiberglass" refers to the complete fiber-reinforced composite material, rather than only to the glass fiber within it'. The 'Health hazards' section uses 'fiberglass' to refer to what Wikipedia calls 'glass wool', which has a separate article, and the information in this section is entirely about glass wool. The entire section has no obvious bearing on fibreglass, the composite material. Someone coming across this article will be under the wrong impression that fibreglass, the composite material, is an irritant, which is not what the sources indicate. Liam Ong (talk) 01:45, 1 December 2021 (UTC)


 * Agree. The article claims that fiberglass "sometimes" refers to what Wikipedia is calling "glass wool" (first time I have heard of that term, and I have done construction), however, in the US, "fiberglass" is also the common primary name for what Wikipedia is calling "glass wool". A byproduct of that, apparently, is someone was confused and added the section on health hazards with US "fiberglass" in mind rather than this composite material. The article title should be adjusted to make the distinction clearer as few people ever read hatnotes. — al-Shimoni  (talk) 09:18, 4 March 2024 (UTC)
 * I would say that only the last paragraph should be kept as it refers to the risks associated with composite resins. The rest should be moved to glass wool, though a lot of the information is already summarized there. It's also a bit weird for that article to be separate from Mineral wool. In my experience glass wool has always referred to the stuff used to pack solvent tubes or lines in gas chromatography. Recon  rabbit  14:39, 4 March 2024 (UTC)

Fiber glass and the environment
How does fiberglass decay? How easy is it to recycle? Can someone knowledgeable address these questions please? 201.187.16.131 (talk) 23:29, 8 May 2023 (UTC)

Uniflie 14' fiberglass V8 jet boat?
I have a 14 ft fiberglass uniflite (starfire jet) jet boat. Had 292 or 327 chev? Information would be appreciated asi can not locate any. Shuttle officer from ship to shore? Or possibly prototype? 67.22.10.22 (talk) 00:08, 13 June 2023 (UTC)
 * Perhaps you might like to get up off your chair and contact the manufacturer and ask them about your boat engine size, or your mechanic - this is an encyclopedia and not a marine customer service department. 182.239.146.18 (talk) 10:08, 27 August 2023 (UTC)