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Using smoked plexiglas - Hey RandyT!

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mattudland:
Okay, here is what I have and I hope you can tell what I tried to do...

1st picture:  Monitor without any bezel, glass, notta.  Just inside the cab.


2nd Picture:  Monitor with a black piece of posterboard cut to fit the edge and act as a soft bezel that will follow the curve of the monitor


3rd Picture:  Monitor with black posterboard, as well as the wooden frame that I drill into place with the cabinet.


4th Picture:  Monitor with black posterboard, wooden bezel/frame, and another piece of black posterboard cut to fit the wooden frame.  It has the street fighter decal on it...


5th Picture:  Monitor with black posterboard, wooden frame, black frame number 2, and smoke plexi-glass in place.


That piece of wood they all rest on at the angle, is then covered up by my control panel when it is screwed in place.  Thus, you cannot remove any of the monitor pieces without the CP being taken off.

The smoke-plexi is 1/8th inch, and it does wonders.  It is plenty strong too especially with the wooden brace back there.

If you need any other pics or explanations, let me know!

- Matt

Ted_Striker:
my cabinet is refurbished.  It had smoked plexi and glass.  both 1/8th thick.  Somebody asked how to support 1/8th plexi... put glass behind it.  My cabinet looks alot like the autocad drawings earlier in the thread.  Just lay it in...   And yes with a happs bezel and my computer monitor case painted black I see nothing inside the cabinet but image... looks nice.  I don't think the pictures above do it justice (although the pictures are quite helpful).  I think smoked plexi works perfect.

rampy:
Well,

A few people asked about using car/limo tint... being lazy/cheap I grabbed a roll of insta-cling dark tint.

It's basically static cling tint.

Here *was* my thought process.  I currently have glass (1/8" thick)

... and of course when I was in high school ( geez about 10 years ago) I had an aborted attempt at tinting my car windows...  and felt the problem was the cramped space/poor leverage, curves, and trying to line up multiple sheets  (rear window)

... so... a rectangle that was smaller than one sheet width laid out on my kitchen table should be no problem... right? er.... read on...

I coulda used regular application tint, but thought the insta-cling static cling stuff would be easier to manuever.  I also noted that the static cling stuff was a thicker/bigger mil...

Well... long story moderatley long...  I'm glad I measured the glass while it was out ( 22 11/16"  X   23  3/4" for my future reference) so that I can look for  smoke plexi at HD/lowes. =P

It looks "ok" in the spots that don't have bubbles... (I got ticked after my 3rd application of film and said good enough for now)... but not as good as smoke plexi would have...

*Shrug*  just thought I would share my misadventure...

note: if you were reasonably skilled in real tint application it might not be that bad an idea to try it, otherwise just go for the smoke plexi...

rampy

Carsten Carlos:
I wanna go with smoked glass, too (1/4") - but wonder if I should use real glass or just plexi?

Wouldn't it be better to clean and less sensitive to scratches, maybe even clearer to view as plexi?
I noticed most of the cabs (all?) used plexi, but I guess this was more to avoid getting broken if anyone has lost to often in the game. :)

Last but not least, anyone tried brownish instead of grayish tint?

eightbit:

--- Quote from: Carsten Carlos on February 18, 2003, 04:05:23 am ---Wouldn't it be better to clean and less sensitive to scratches, maybe even clearer to view as plexi?

--- End quote ---
Glass won't scartch like plexi will. Its tough to put scratches in glass. Plexi is easy to scratch. Glass would also be clearer to view. Plexi is harder to break because it is flexible and its cheaper.

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