black hole play field glass dimensions?

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Well I brought my black hole home from eagletg's today in the crappy weather in the northeast. Trip went good. Hauling the
Black hole up a ramp into my house did not. I slipped on ice and dropped the machine on my knee. Besides a bruised knee, the machine didn't get
Any dings but the play field glass exploded from the shock I guess.

So I need some new glass. Any have precise dimensions? Thickness? Best to buy locally or somewhere on the net? Any guess on what it will cost?
 
If memory serves me correct it should be 23-3/4" x 48" x 3/16". Check your local glass shops. I just got some Bally/Williams widebody glass for $30 / sheet and regular for $25 / sheet, both with no logos.
 
Half Life, where in VA are you? My BH glass is really scratched up and I'd love to get a new sheet at that price.
 
I've been trying to find pin glass in Dallas for months. These idiot glass shops around here want 60-80$ for a sheet of tempered glass....hell no. :|
 
I hear ya on the insane glass prices. The first time I need a piece of glas for my Eight Ball restoration I got burnt by a local shop. $65 for the glass AND the logo. They would not sell me one without the logo.

Found my current glass shop in Portsmouth, VA. Good folks to deal with and darn good prices to boot!
 
I've been trying to find pin glass in Dallas for months. These idiot glass shops around here want 60-80$ for a sheet of tempered glass....hell no. :|

Even in podunk missouri, the local glass shop here got me a widebody sheet of tempered for only $35.
 
Even in podunk missouri, the local glass shop here got me a widebody sheet of tempered for only $35.

Yes, well, here in "the big city", Dallas idiots will pay out the wazoo for just about anything apparently, and if it's custom work OMG, ITS SO HARD MAN U DON'T EVEN NO.... so it costs even more.

Every business here expects that people make University Park money (Hoity-toity land of Mecedes and 1 mil+ houses..) and the reality is that most of Dallas is one big lower/middle-class ghetto. I blame the people that live here...90% of the population is so busy trying to show off their 'thang' to make it look like they have money, the businesses buy into it then wonder why their place goes under three months after they open.
 
Just got a quote from a local shop..

$131.15

Evidently glass is somehow made of gold in NJ. Would be cheaper to
buy it on the web AND have it shipped to me.
 
Just got a quote from a local shop..

$131.15

Evidently glass is somehow made of gold in NJ. Would be cheaper to
buy it on the web AND have it shipped to me.

Found another shop out near my work.. $55 a sheet. Guess who is getting
my business.
 
All OEM pinball glass is tempered. I'm sure there are threads here and on RGP about tempered vs untempered, so I won't bore you with that.

I couldn't find anyone locally that would/could do the edges like my OEM glass was (kind of a smooth, slight rounding). If you can, I'd be curious what the glass industry lingo term for that is, so I can ask for it properly in the future.
 
All OEM pinball glass is tempered. I'm sure there are threads here and on RGP about tempered vs untempered, so I won't bore you with that.

I couldn't find anyone locally that would/could do the edges like my OEM glass was (kind of a smooth, slight rounding). If you can, I'd be curious what the glass industry lingo term for that is, so I can ask for it properly in the future.

Basically they polish the edge to make it smooth. The person I just bought it
from said that since the edges arent exposed I wouldnt need it to be polished. Saving a bunch of money. She said tempered glass does not have a
razor sharp edge by default.
 
Basically they polish the edge to make it smooth. The person I just bought it
from said that since the edges arent exposed I wouldnt need it to be polished. Saving a bunch of money. She said tempered glass does not have a
razor sharp edge by default.

even though they aren't exposed during play, every time you have to take the glass off to access the pf you're going to wish the edges were smoothed, i'd bet...
 
With regard to the logo, typically a logo must be placed on sheet glass (of any type) describing what it is. Some glass shops will allow the "no logo" request, others won't. One example is attached below.

With regard to the edges, all sheet glass will have the edges ground/sanded to remove any sharp edge that could potentially slice. This is typically referred to as finished. However, window glass is the exception as the edges are not ground so they fit evenly in their frames. "Polished" edges take this process many steps further by using finer and finer abrasives making the edge look like, pardon the pun, a glass-like finish. Playfield glass is finished but not polished.
 

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