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TopJimmyCooks:
A counterpoint: No question tempered glass is safer than plate glass. However, you and your kids are surrounded by untempered glass pieces every day that are much more likely to be broken than your arcade cab glass. Hmm, lets see: All the drinking glassware in your kitchen - all the glass jars in your refrigerator, soda/beer bottles - all the windows in your house, unless they're 18" or less from the floor or a door. Any CRT screen. every light fixture, every mirror.
With all the deadly slicing force hanging around the house, having one more on the arcade cab is just not that big of a deal. If you use 3/16" or better thickness, and support the edges, it's just not that easy to break. An adult could punch it but I doubt a young child could do it without a tool.
CheffoJeffo:
Comparisons to mirrors, which are typically mounted against walls and CRT's, which are not made of plate glass at all and the exposed portions are bloody strong, are not all that useful.
As for glasses, bottles and jars -- who hasn't broken one ? And a flat piece of plate glass is much more likely to cause a bad cut than any of those.
I see it as similar to other arcade-related safety issues -- sure the odds may seem small, but thinking that way is when that big cap bites you or you get the zap from the anode.
If you are going to go to the trouble and expense of building an arcade cabinet, the added expense of tempered glass, plexi or lexan is negligible.
mcseforsale:
I went with 3/16" solar gray plexi from Tap. I could NOT find anyone local who would cut/temper anything remotely as small an order as one 23" x 23" piece of glass.
Agree about the static. My arcade is currently residing in my garage/workshop as I work on another cab for someone else and it collects dust a bit. But, I use a large microfiber monitor cloth (it's like a large version of those sunglasses cleaners) and it takes the dust away. Also, a swiffer would work pretty well.
As for safety, I have 3 kids and eventually, this machine will be going into my basement which will have a pool table. An errant break playing 9-ball could easily shoot a queue ball into the monitor area and result in a nasty break if I was using glass. And, knowing my kids, the thing would sit there broken with the glass shards all over the place for weeks until it was noticed by someone and cleaned up. :banghead: :hissy: :laugh2:
Plus, they throw stuff.
AJ
Dawgz Rule:
--- Quote ---A counterpoint: No question tempered glass is safer than plate glass. However, you and your kids are surrounded by untempered glass pieces every day that are much more likely to be broken than your arcade cab glass. Hmm, lets see: All the drinking glassware in your kitchen - all the glass jars in your refrigerator, soda/beer bottles - all the windows in your house, unless they're 18" or less from the floor or a door. Any CRT screen. every light fixture, every mirror.
With all the deadly slicing force hanging around the house, having one more on the arcade cab is just not that big of a deal. If you use 3/16" or better thickness, and support the edges, it's just not that easy to break. An adult could punch it but I doubt a young child could do it without a tool.
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Exactly. There are so many glass or other items throughout the house that present much greater risk than the arcade glass. The pool table is a good point though. Ever shatter a piece of corel dinnerware?
mcseforsale:
What's funny is that my wife's aunt was a tupperware distributor for 20 years (made a fortune in the 80s) and I don't think we drink or eat from "normal" dinnerware ever. When I go to a friends house and have a glass of something, I think "wow...I'm gonna break this".
Plus 14 years of sippy cups and plastic plates have taken their toll on me. Needless to say, we have several sets of fine china in the basement kitchenette collecting dust.
hahahaha.
AJ
--- Quote from: Dawgz Rule on November 05, 2012, 08:15:05 pm ---
--- Quote ---A counterpoint: No question tempered glass is safer than plate glass. However, you and your kids are surrounded by untempered glass pieces every day that are much more likely to be broken than your arcade cab glass. Hmm, lets see: All the drinking glassware in your kitchen - all the glass jars in your refrigerator, soda/beer bottles - all the windows in your house, unless they're 18" or less from the floor or a door. Any CRT screen. every light fixture, every mirror.
With all the deadly slicing force hanging around the house, having one more on the arcade cab is just not that big of a deal. If you use 3/16" or better thickness, and support the edges, it's just not that easy to break. An adult could punch it but I doubt a young child could do it without a tool.
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Exactly. There are so many glass or other items throughout the house that present much greater risk than the arcade glass. The pool table is a good point though. Ever shatter a piece of corel dinnerware?
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