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What color is 'smoked' glass?
rampy:
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--- Quote from: bionicbadger on June 03, 2003, 04:35:00 pm ---I cannot imagine 1/4" dark working that well, I would think it is too dark.
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It's one of those things you have to see to believe :)
There was a thread started by OSCAR a while back. Pictures and everything. I recommend that anyone curious about this should give it a look when they have time. He did a nice job documenting it.
RandyT
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I give you the thread in question!
bionicbadger:
--- Quote from: RandyT on June 03, 2003, 04:42:30 pm ---
--- Quote from: bionicbadger on June 03, 2003, 04:35:00 pm ---I cannot imagine 1/4" dark working that well, I would think it is too dark.
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It's one of those things you have to see to believe :)
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Yeah I saw that and its what convinced me to go with smoked plexi. But I would still think 1/4" dark would be too dark. OSCAR used 1/8" too.
RandyT:
--- Quote from: bionicbadger on June 03, 2003, 05:16:40 pm ---Yeah I saw that and its what convinced me to go with smoked plexi. But I would still think 1/4" dark would be too dark. OSCAR used 1/8" too.
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Err...I'm using 1/4" dark. You don't think I would suggest that someone use something that didn't work just because I didn't want to be the only one to have an opaque window, do you? :D
Also, I'm not sure that the 1/4" is all that much darker than the 1/8". If I could get my hands on some, I could put it through a transmission checker I have access to and compare the numbers.
But in any case, if it looks good and you're happy, that's all that matters :)
RandyT
Carsten Carlos:
--- Quote ---I cannot imagine 1/4" dark working that well, I would think it is too dark.
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I've 1/4" gray tempered glass in my cab - surely it is not to dark, I didn't even push the monitorbrightness up to enjoy it!
My bezelgraphics still show nice enough through - of course you might have to play a bit with the colors here to get it the way you like.
Only problem left is the reflections of the glass - I guess plexi doesn't reflect that much. When daylight comes through the window behind I can see myself in the glass - or is this an effect everyone has?
AlanS17:
It is all going to depend on the angle of the glass. Lower flatter angles will have less glare. The closer you get to vertical the more glare you're gonna have. My plexi has the same problem.