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quarterback:
In my effort to make my cocktail cab as cost-effective as possible, I'm looking for glass clip options.

It's just difficult for me to rationalize $4+/- for a little bent piece of metal, especially since you have to buy eight of them.   Dropping $40 for these things just seems a little... crazy.  Particularly when I have a gaping coin-door-hole in my cab that I haven't filled because the coin door is $60-$80.   Heck, if I won't spend $70 on a coin door (which actually has lights, moving parts and plays an active role in game playing) then how can I drop $40 on a set of tiny metal angles?

I've searched and searched, and the cheapest I've been able to find them is for ~$30 shipped for eight of them.  I'm close to biting the bullet, but I thought I'd ask if anybody had any other ideas.

Also, I'm wondering if I really need eight of these.  It seems like I could totally get away with only six (two on each side and one on each player's end), and maybe even only four.   At least that would bring my cost down a little bit in the event I can't find a 70-cent HomeDepot replacement option.

Any suggestions?

markrvp:
You can get away with fewer, but you will hate yourself later.  Don't go to lunch 4 times this month and buy the clips.

whammoed:
You could use some aluminum channel with the proper inside dimension.  Just cut it down int 8 small pieces and drill 8 holes and paint.

Wait, that sounds like work... :P

RayB:
If you use clips at the corners, you only need 4

quarterback:

--- Quote from: markrvp on January 16, 2006, 01:11:36 pm ---You can get away with fewer, but you will hate yourself later.  Don't go to lunch 4 times this month and buy the clips.
--- End quote ---

In the past 12-months I've gone out to lunch twice, and both times were required for my job.   That, combined with this post, should give you a good idea of where my mind/wallet is.  Maybe I should change my name to "The Frugal Arcader" :)

So you really think 6-clips wouldn't hack it?  Or would just just look funny?


--- Quote from: whammoed on January 16, 2006, 01:13:01 pm ---You could use some aluminum channel with the proper inside dimension.  Just cut it down int 8 small pieces and drill 8 holes and paint.
--- End quote ---

I was thinking that but, my guess is, that it'd look sloppy.  I doubt I could easily do the 'edges' to where they didn't look like i had done it myself.   

I was also thinking about some kind of corner-braces/protectors.  The kind of thing that people sometimes use on the bottom corners of their cabs when they get all beat up.   I'm not sure about their wraparound abilities (cuz I don't think that they do wrap-around) but maybe I can find something like that.

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