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Plastic or glass
MTPPC:
--- Quote from: TGov on November 03, 2012, 07:34:06 pm ---I got a piece of smoked tempered glass made to size for $30. I don't understand people that are saying tempered is so expensive.
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Roger on this comment. Nothing beats real glass and its usually cheaper than plastic.
wcndave:
I went with plastic cos i could cut and fine tune myself.
No problems with sag, but it does scratch easily and the static is amazing.
Each day it is covered with a layer of dust. I have laminated hardboard around the screen, and the plastic is pressed against this. There is no gap at top/bottom/sides, so it's amazing that so much is finding its way behind the plastic between it and the laminate. It does not help that my cab lives in my workshop, however i have already taken out the plastic 3 times and cleaned. It just comes back. I have ordered some anti static cleaner, however for me this seems like a really good reason to choose glass.
mgb:
I went with smoke plastic for mine because I was having a hard time getting glass local and shipping was a bit much.
I plan on looking again into glass and swapping it at some point. The plastic really does scratch easily
Venomouse:
glass I used acrylic and will be replacing acrylic scratches easily when cleaning
DeLuSioNal29:
--- Quote from: Santoro on April 28, 2012, 09:20:10 am ---
--- Quote from: Dawgz Rule on April 28, 2012, 09:11:01 am ---Glass all the way. Don't bother with tempered.
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You don't have kids do you?
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The main reason I went with Plexi was because of my son. At the time of my build, he was crawling and beginning to walk, so always found things on the floor, as all kids do, to put in his mouth. Two things I envisioned in my head:
1) The untempered glass slicing him if it broke when he got older.
2) The tempered glass shattering and after cleaning it up the best I could, still having the possibility of him swallowing a bead of glass and having it cut him up inside.
Both were dangerous in my book if you had small children. So I opted for Plexi. Maybe when he gets older I will switch to glass, but probably not.
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