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Flake:

Not sure this matters for many but if you are considering adding light guns to your cabinet I have read the smoked glass does not allow for them to interface with the monitor - I think I read this somewhere anyway.

The glass I am using now is clear - and scratched to hell (it was the old glass from the cabinet I converted).  I am considering switching to smoked glass myself but I do have a question.  The computer I use has one of those blue fan lights that is actually pretty bright.  If I remove the bezel and insert the smoked glass then I assume this blue light will ruin the effect and you will be able to see around the monitor through the glass?  Does anyone have a similar situation?  I could leave the bezel in (its a crappy homemade foamboard bezel) but I was never able to cut the bezel well enough so that there are small gaps between the outside edges of the bezel and inner cabinet wall.  So I'm thinking even if I leave it in there will be light showing through the glass on those sides.  Ehh..maybe its not even that big of deal.  Mainly I'm just curious is someone has one of those stupid blue fan lights and what effect it has around the monitor.

Visitor Q:

Well I am 100% sure I want to play light gun games, will smoked glass effect this?

Blanka:

@Flake,
Just remove the light or use a black marker on it to cover it in black  ::)

Visitor Q:

Can anyone verify the light gun issue please?

Thanks.

shmokes:


--- Quote from: mrjah on October 02, 2008, 01:40:48 pm ---
I'm staying away from glass of any kind due to the arrival of our little daughter. 


--- End quote ---

What are your windows made of?  Wine bottles?  Glasses/goblets?  Beer bottles?  Protective front-layer in picture frames?  The front of any CRT televisions in the house?  Light bulbs?  And any number of baking dishes, measuring cups, salad bowls, mixing bowls, mason jars, etc.?  What about the jars your jam and mustard come in?  Maybe peanut butter too if you get the good stuff.

You can only be so careful.  Not putting glass on your cabinet is probably not making an appreciable difference in your little girl's exposure to glass.  Plus, what about plastic.  That stuff leaches harmful chemicals into her food.  My wife and I actually used glass baby bottles for just that reason.  We figured . . . it's over the top to worry about it, but glass bottles are super cool so lets go ahead and worry about it.

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