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Which glass tint is best?
MonitorGuru:
Yes... definitely make sure you get the size right BEFORE tempering. You can't trim tempered glass... it shatters into a million pieces if you try!
Yes, the primary reason they used tinted bezels originally was to hide the light gray picture tube since they didn't tint the glass in the tube like they do nowdays on TV sets, plus it dramatically helped hide burn in until it got too severe.
Yes, the midway cocktails used a tinted piece just above the sloping black surround, and just under the clear top. It was sized a hair bigger than the clear "cut out" (where there was no paint on the underlay) so you never saw any of the tube or mounting or reflection of the control panel lights/etc shooting through the top of the cocktail table.
(Plus in the even older days... this helped hide the "Fake" color tubes.. like space invaders with a plastic multi-banded multi-colored bezel to make the B+W tube look like it was full color)
patrickl:
--- Quote from: Sylentwulf on August 03, 2004, 06:55:41 pm ---Check oscar's site for the difference between smoked and non-smoked glass. Looks like a very noticeable difference to me.
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I had some trouble finding the page so here is the link about smoked plexi on the Oscar Controls site Looks like it really brings out the colors.
BTW a cocktail glass top is not gonna cost "around $20". That's for an upright. Cocktail glass is much more expensive since it needs to have rounded and have polished edges. Makes sense that it has to be tempered after it was cut and rounded so this won't be an easy item to make. Oscar paid $92 for the glass in his cocktail example.
Blakey:
FWIW, I also have a cocktail, and I used a piece of glass ~900x620mm, 50mm radius corners, polished edge, 6mm grey. AU$100, but 3 other prices at ~AU$150, and some at 280/300.
The tinting is great, it hides the monitor when it's not on and makes the games with a black background look fantastic.
PS, metric is awesome.
MonitorGuru:
My local glass shop quoted $44 or $47 for a 1/4" clear, tempered, radius corners, frosted round over sanded edges. There was a seller on ebay who sold new ones for $75 shipped for a while, and now another that sells them for $75+$25 shipping. So you got to assume actual cost in bulk is around $30 for them.
Anything under $50 for cocktail is good.
jdjuggler:
I wonder about the percentage of tint... If you go to a glass place and ask to tinted plexi, do they give you a choice of tint levels or just whatever they have?
JD
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