Life Saving Rescue Hammer - Glass Breaker/Seat Belt Cutter

by Enterpol

This is a small telescoping, magnetically mounted safety hammer for the Fiber Force competition. This is to be printed with the Carbon filled Nylon because it gets too bloody hot in my car in Texas with the windows up for most filaments(145 F +) , and Nylon has superior bonding between layers, ensuring a solid print. Other filaments can't handle the shock of swinging a hammer at the glass! The contest calls to showcase the high temp, and high strength of the carbon filled nylon. The car environment is one that speciffically requires something like the Fiber Force filled nylon because (1) it has to be able to withstand daily heating in a hot car, (2) not break down or biodegrade in UV light from the sun, and (3) be strong and have good layer bonding properties to withstand the swings of the hammer. These rescue hammers are a good idea, but in practice are often lacking. Most people I know store these in thier glove compartment or center console. There's a couple problems with this. The problem with storing it in your glove compartment is you often can't reach it when your seatbelt is locked up from an accident, and you're held rigidly against the seat. The glass breaker is mostly meant to be used if you go off the road into water. Well, in most of those cases, the car rolls and you're upside down, due to the air in the tires. So, if you have the glass breaker stored in your easy to reach center console, as soon as you open it, everything is going to fall onto the cieling (you're upside down) and you're going to have to look for it in the murky water. If your seat belt is locked as well, it's an even worse situation. If you can't reach your life saving device, it's going to do you no good at all. The ones with a mount are sometime too complicate to release in an injured/confused state, are large and obtrusive, weigh too much so that over time they fall off due to the adhesive breaking down or are dislodged in the force of an accident For this reason I wanted it to mee