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| bfauska:
I would say that for a bezel, if the majority of surface is scratched (even minor) that you would be better off replacing it, it's easy to replace (just a rectangle w/o holes) and it would take lots and lots of time to do a piece that size w/o any streaks or buffing marks. Back on the glass idea, I agree w/ FrizzleFried, as long as the underlying surface is smooth you would be transferring the force directly to the support and the glass would be safe. If you had a nice sized grain of something strong between your cp and the glass then you could have a point load that would fracture the glass, but that would definitely be avoidable. As far as the price for the glass, I don't have any glass shop experience, but I know that my waterjet source has made some fairly complex parts for me for very little money. The fact that he doesn't actually have to do any of the layout (I send him CAD drawings) means that he is practically charging for machine time only. I will admit that the $60 may only cover the cutting and the material charge would be on top of that, but even then, for a cp that won't scratch w/o LOTS of effort, it's probably worth it. |
| rolls rolex:
--- Quote from: polaris on March 04, 2007, 01:57:16 pm --- --- Quote from: Level42 on March 04, 2007, 12:55:22 pm ---So would it be possible to polish an entire plexi bezel ? The one I just got for my Galaxian from the US is plexi (because it was too risky to get a glass one) but it's pretty full of minor scratches. --- End quote --- when i was originally told about brasso , the pieces of plexi we were talking about cleaning were about 6ft by 2ft and covered in little scratches , i was told brasso would bring it up like new , but obviously proceed with caution , monkeyman seems convinced ,see above. --- End quote --- People also use Brasso to clean up their scratched ipod, plexi front and iron back. You can google it, the most awful beaten up ipods turn to new. As for glass, i got a glass desk and it does scratch even though i'm not a maniac ;D you can't polish glass so easily. |
| fjl:
--- Quote from: FrizzleFried on March 04, 2007, 01:48:23 pm ---My cocktail table has 3/16" glass on it...originally tempered...but when I ordered from the glass shop here he told me that was overkill...and that the original manufacturer did it because it would be taking a huge amount of abuse on location. I installed the 3/16" glass on the table...(non tempered)...and I have had absolutely ZERO issue. I put beer glasses on it, bang it around a bit...bottom line is you would have to TRY to break it in order to do so...no on is going to accidently break this glass. Glass is very strong when there is support under it...a would imagine it would take a very good amount of effort to break a 1/4" sheet sitting on a metal or wood control panel. --- End quote --- Well, I was talking about a glass overlay. You now, like a plexiglass overlay over the control panel with drilled holes and such to fit the joystick and buttons through. I would figure that a plexiglass overlay would retain most of its strenght being made mostly of plastic and plastic can bend, but glass cannot bend and loses most of its strenght when it has holes drilled into it. |
| shorthair:
I heard of using Brasso for smoothing the scratches on CDs...so that's the first thing I thought of seeing the title of this thread. |
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