Once and for all - HOW TO RETAIN GLASS?

[darthbane2k]

Guys,

I seriously need some advice as what to use to retain the glass that goes over the monitor in my cab. A bezel behind the glass will hide everything but the screen.

Please put your methods here with pictures preferably!
I saw some glass clips in my local hardware store but was wondering whether these would look intrusive as in all of the pics I have seen of other people's wonderfully custom-built cabs, I have never seen any visable clips in the screen area.

[Minwah]

There are some pics of mine here:

http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php/topic,18812.0.html

...but my cab is unusually shaped, so the hinged-top-glass-retainer idea won't work for all cabs.

[darthbane2k]

Am i seeing this incorrectly or is the glass in your cab kept in place by gravity and the routed-grooves. Is this secure?

[RetroACTIVE]

No clips... just gravity for me... basically sits on the bezel and rests on the cross-member.

works fine.

(sorry about the crappy diagram).

[M3talhead]

You could do what Midway did in their cabs and just rest it in a groove near the CP, while holding it in place at the top with a piece of painted angle-aluminum.

[darthbane2k]

No clips... just gravity for me... basically sits on the bezel and rests on the cross-member.

works fine.

(sorry about the crappy diagram).

do any of the members remain visable. Like I said before,

[darthbane2k]

Has anyone tried/can anyone reccomend using a Glazing Strip? - say if it was painted Black...

[RetroACTIVE]

do any of the members remain visable. Like I said before,  I was thinking about glass clips but was worried that them being visible would spoil the look of the cab.

nothing visible... the glass resting on the cross member is below the grade of the control panel that sits up against it.  The glass is tucked (inserted) between the bezel and the speaker panel at the top.

I basically modeled mine after the SlikStik 27" cab design.  I used the video review of the SlikStik cabinet that K. Steele did to get  the idea of how it was done.

I added another crappy picture to show how the bottom is hidden by the control panel.

hope this helps.

[Minwah]

Am i seeing this incorrectly or is the glass in your cab kept in place by gravity and the routed-grooves. Is this secure?

Yes on all counts.  The glass sits in the routed groove above the speaker panel, and is held in place by the routed groove in the hinged top panel.  The top panel 'barrel locks' into position so it is very secure.

[tivogre]

I did mine slightly differently:



The glass "sits" on a plywood lip, and is held back against the bezel / frame at the bottom by my removable admin panel:



At the top, it is held in place by the removable speaker panel:



The result is no visible fastners.

[gork]

I and two of my friends built cabinets and we retain our glass precicely the same way RetroACTIVE shows. It works flawlessly; however the glass MUST extend up above behind the panel under the marquee so that it cannot tilt forward (and slide down the front.

The drawback to this configuration is that your measurements and monitor mounting have to be absolutely exact; however you could brade the glass on either side using a piece of wooden trim or someting instead and achieve a similar mounting setup.