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| whammoed:
--- Quote from: RandyT on August 27, 2004, 05:46:51 pm --- --- Quote from: patrickl on August 27, 2004, 05:33:04 pm ---Maybe putting the smoked layer under the clear layer is to make the bezel more visible. Only the monitor would then be covered by the smoked layer. --- End quote --- Maybe, but I have my doubts on that. The bezels are engineered to mate pretty close to the face of the CRT. I'm having a hard time envisioning how a bezel would mate with a piece of plexi between it and the CRT. --- End quote --- Hmmm, I thought he was most likely talking about the artwork underlay and referred to it as "bezel". I could be wrong...patrickl??? |
| patrickl:
--- Quote from: whammoed on August 27, 2004, 05:53:00 pm --- --- Quote from: RandyT on August 27, 2004, 05:46:51 pm --- --- Quote from: patrickl on August 27, 2004, 05:33:04 pm ---Maybe putting the smoked layer under the clear layer is to make the bezel more visible. Only the monitor would then be covered by the smoked layer. --- End quote --- Maybe, but I have my doubts on that. The bezels are engineered to mate pretty close to the face of the CRT. I'm having a hard time envisioning how a bezel would mate with a piece of plexi between it and the CRT. --- End quote --- Hmmm, I thought he was most likely talking about the artwork underlay and referred to it as "bezel". I could be wrong...patrickl??? --- End quote --- Ehm yeah. I meant the graphic bezel of course (forgot it was called underlay on cocktails). |
| RandyT:
--- Quote from: patrickl on August 27, 2004, 06:04:17 pm ---Ehm yeah. I meant the graphic bezel of course (forgot it was called underlay on cocktails). --- End quote --- Ahh, that's probably a good possibility. Anyone have any pictures of the construction of one of these units? I'd have to believe that they would put the two layers pretty much in direct contact with each other to avoid reflection problems. Of course, as I said earlier, low ambient lighting probably hid a good portion of these kinds of potential problems.. I don't think I would personally bother to do something like that on a stand-up unit though, as I don't feel there is compelling enough a reason to do so. For the sake of image clarity, usually fewer layers of material is better, unless they are optically bonded together. But if you really want to, go for it :) RandyT |
| aficionado2:
Anyone out there have the smoked plexi and use an Act Labs TV gun? I was wondering if it would have a negative effect on it. Thanks |
| Rocky:
I use smoked glass over my PC monitor and have no problem with the Act Labs PC light gun. Incidently, the Q*bert machine I use as my MAME machine originally had smoked glass over the monitor and clear glass over the smoked glass (It's an upright). |
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