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How Important is Tempered (vs Regular) Glass Over Playfield?

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ChadTower:

Has anyone ever had a hard glass-whacking airball on an EM, Ken?

Charles4400:

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Xiaou2:
The OLDER Machines are SLOWER, and only had ONE LEVEL!

 Air-Balls  occur on fast moving  multi-level &  'ramped' games.

 A single airball will more than likely destroy plate glass, and the
result could be glass shards in your eyes.

 Also, plate glass will not take much pressure... and I would NEVER Trust
plate glass to a house that had children in it.

 They put their hand thru it,  and their wrists will be sliced open like
a hot knife through butter.

 Tempered glass can be hit with a hammer in the center of it.. and not shatter.
Its that tough.  Its only when you hit the very edge of the glass that it will
shatter... yet the pieces will be harmless. (not razor sharp like typical plate
glass)   

 Tempered glasses sides are protected by the pinball rails, so its a real
rarity that it would break.   It usually only breaks when people are removing it,
because they take it out at an uneven angle - hitting the edge too hard.
Or when they set the glass down on a corner or too hard - rather than set its edge
gently on a padded mat/foam..etc.

 Do not take the chance on Plate glass on non-EM pinball machines.  And even then,
it would be better to use tempered.  Children?  Then the answer is clearly tempered.

pinballwizard79:
Seriously.

You need to just chalk that $60.00 loss "to the game".

Put in tempered, no other option.

We are talking about far more than a "boo boo" here, we are talking sliced tendons & severed muscle tissue.

You know how sometimes getting hit in the balls hurts worse when its just a graze or tap?

Glass can break under the same logic........"I dont get it, all I did was just lean on the lock down bar while playing, a ball didn't even hit it".

There is a reason builders & contractors have to adhere to codes, there is a reason auto makes have safety guidelines & there is a reason pinballs have tempered glass.

& for the record, its mandatory every now & then to tap the glass when you get a SDTM

Charles4400:
Just for the record no kids in the house (kids get on everything and I would definately change it if there were kids around!)

Btw whats 'SDTM'?

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