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Arcade Cabinet Glass - Tint or No Tint?
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More Cowbell:
I've used the plexi with after market tinting and it does the job but it doesn't look very good. Tinted glass has been the hardest thing for me to come by in this hobby. I did some calling around to glass shops in my area (Chicago suburbs) and found that a roughly 2'x2' piece of tinted glass runs about $40. I got lucky recently at the Milwaukee auction and won a huge pile (something like 60 pieces) of tinted glass and plexi for $15. Some of it was usable and some of it wasn't. I've been able to use 4 pieces so far in projects which would have been $160 had I bought through the glass place. I expect I'll be able to use another 7-8 pieces. You never know where that next deal will be.
NoOne=NBA=:
--- Quote from: Jimbo on October 08, 2007, 12:04:33 pm ---I'd kick myself if I went too dark...
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I've never seen tinted glass/plexi that was too dark for use on an arcade cabinet.
Ask for the darkest stuff they have, and you should be fine.
That is assuming that their darkest is dark enough.
I've been to some places that didn't carry the dark tint, just medium and light.
Anybody else seen any glass that was too dark?
TOK:
--- Quote from: Wienerdog on October 08, 2007, 01:53:52 pm ---How does tinted glass look on an LCD? I can understand turning the brightness up on a CRT, but that's proably not good for and LCD. I've always liked the idea of tinted glass because then you can't see the side bars when you run a vertical game on a horizontal screen. However, now that I'm using an LCD, I'm thinking it would be crazy to use tinted glass.
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Tinted plexi w/19" LCD.
knave:
If glass is hard to find in the correct tint would it be worth it to use clear glass with Tinted Plexi under it? I'm just thinking this would keep your plexi from getting all scratched over time.