You've likely heard of the common and useful reagent, diazomethane $\ce{CH2N2}$, which methylates carboxylates to their esters without acidic conditions, forms carbenoids and therefore cyclopropanes and other structures. You have almost certainly been advised about that reaction as such compounds give even careful experimentalists pause about the quality of glassware used and the cost-benefit of using it.
New glass of the highest density and engineering is requisite. Even finely scratched, apparently new glass, regardless of temperature tolerance, shock and so on will not only ruin your diazomethane reaction but also potentially rob you of your sight, hearing, several digits, and appendages and can end your life in an instant. A trace of water or even causing a dilute solution to freeze and form crystals can trigger detonation. Consider spilling it..!
Small imperfections in the wrong sort of glass surface may not be visible but can cause detonation [1]. In a closed vessel, violent explosive discharge in all directions have caused many to pay with their lives for the cavalier attitude I hear echoed in the QA about warnings of equipment quality and handling, especially glassware. There are safer variants but a "home" (your term) chemist won't have access to that.
How much does it matter? Does your life matter? Ever run an ozonolysis reaction? Isolating an intermediate molozonide prematurely can cause similar destruction to the careless whether using low or high thickness but inferior quartz or glass or even steel.
A sealed glass tube with a hard cap are unusually thick due to the temperature extremes they were designed to tolerate in dewars and heating vessels. But these extreme uses can have extreme outcomes.
K. Barry Sharpless, Nobel laureate was making his rounds around an MIT lab in 1970, sans eye cover. When a student of his pulled a sealed-tube reaction out of liquid nitrogen to display it, the rapid warming of the contents in ambient air did not leave any time for Prof. Sharpless to evade the barrage of miniscule glass shards that expanded outward from the rapidly warming solution at tremendous force, enough to shatter. He (Sharpless) did not lose his life (he would've otherwise missed his share of the recent Nobel prize for his work in catalytic asymmetric induction. The prize isn't awarded posthumously). Instead, he lost an eye.[2]
Use these chemicals with "home-ware" and cheap glass, in your trailer (I kid you, sort of), with no hood, no blast shield, coat, thick gloves and expect a short life for you and anyone unfortunate enough to be near you.
1) Handbook of Reagents for Organic Synthesis – Reagents, Auxiliaries and Catalysts for C-C Bond Formation, edited by Robert M. Coates and Scott E. Denmark, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1999, ISBN 0-471-97924-4
2) How dangerous is chemistry? Nature 441, 560-561(1 June 2006) doi:10.1038/441560a