On 2/22/2004 4:23 PM, Nick Ruchalski wrote:

> As I was flushing a sanitized carboy down in my basement in prep for a
> rack it slipped a bit. The concrete floor's eyes widened, but I
> latched on tightly and finished the draining. It got me to thinking
> what would happen if I dropped it.
>
> Do they shatter into a million pieces, split into a few sections, or
> just bounce?

Depends on how hard you hit 'em. I just broke two of them when the
pallet dolly that I was transporting them on slammed into an immovable
object. Two of them slammed into each other and they split into a few
sections. In the interest of full disclosure, the carboys were
probably 40+ years old.

Steve