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BlazzingFlippers:
Here is a pic with the Solar Gray tinted 1/8" thick glass from One Day Glass with brightness and contrast at 100 on Wells Gardner 9810:

Epyx:

--- Quote ---It was 26x18 1/2 i think. The only think I didn't like about it was when I asked for greylight 14 (as per your thread), they didn't know what that was and they gave me "light" tint, which isn't enough. I solved that problem by spray painting the back of the glass black around the TV. Turned out pretty well I think.

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Ah gotcha...ya I think I told them gray and it was an auto amount of blockage can't remember but it looks great.  Ya he couldn't relate to arcade etc until I said "you know the old ones like Pac Man" then he understood. Then I asked for samples of what the tint with Gray looks like and he provided it...then just gave him the measurements once I picked the one I wanted.  

Either way pass on the other one you used when you remember (PM me) Id like to give them a try for my next project.
Dafu:
I picked up a sample of what I think is Graylite 31, but my local shop just calls its Gray, and doesn't know if its the same thing or not. Here again is what the shop calls Dark Gray (confirmed Graylite 14), and Gray (probably Graylite 31).

I'm going with the lighter tint. Its not as good at hiding the monitor plastics, and whatever crappy bezel I'm going to construct, but the picture color is much better.

Epyx:
The lighter Gray is exactly the tint my cab has and I like it a lot, I don't think you will be disappointed.
kronic24601:
So I guess the moral is, there is no standard? Some like it clear, some like it with ranging tint? Aside from the fact that everyone likes glass better than acrylic.

I too am coming very close to finishing my cab and will need to by glass so this is a very useful thread for me. Thanks for chiming in everyone.

I like Dafu's approach of actually taking samples and comparing them. That might be the only way to get a preferred method for yourself.

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