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Tinted Glass to cover the monitor?
rchadd:
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i am about to build a cocktail cab and currently thinking what glass to get. so would welcome some advice...
is there a difference between smoked and tinted glass?
did the midway cabs have tinted glass just covering the monitor, or was the whole table top glass tinted?
should i get tinted glass for the whole table top, or just enough to cover the monitor and then clear for the table top? Does the tinting affect the appearance of any underlay graphics?
what color is best? greyed or bronzed (assume this is same as brown)?
i don't really like the very dark tinted tops that many others have used. I hope that a lightly tinted glass will be ok to give good monitor display?
RayB:
I'm not 100% sure what the Midway cocktails were like, but my GUESS based on memory and photos, is that they were clear glass, with a smoked plexi underneath. The reason I assume this is that these cabs usually have very clearly visible artwork either as an underlay or screened on the back of the glass.
Now Atari cocktail do exactly what I described above. It's clear glass with artwork screened on the back, but where the monitor is there's a small square sheet of dark plexi.
MikeAlex:
Do not use brown. I used it and it distorts the colours :-[. Switching to grey tinted plexiglass as fast as I can.