I have a couple pin's that the glass is scratched in a few areas. I was going to replace them with tempered but the glass shop said plate glass was half the cost has anyone ever done this. What do you guys think.
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maybe just a sliced finger haha
Might need to ask specifically NOT to put the little screened glass information on it saying it's tempered and all that. (kinda like the lettering you see on car safety glass windows)
This has been debated here before. My question to all that say the would never use plate glass is : are you going to throw out every mirror, drinking glass, china cabinet,picture frame or window in your house. I'm not saying you shouldn't use tempered glass in your pinball machine. I just think calling somebody an idot for using plate glass is a little harsh considering you probably have all the items mentioned in your home. I've seen kids bang on curio/ china cabinets and windows and bang drinking glasses on a table alot more than i've ever seen them bang on a pinball machine. I'm sure some will respond with some bull about a pinball flying around a hundred miles an hour hitting the glass, but I've never seen a pinball glass break from that. By the way are pinball backglasses tempered? What about monitor bezels on Arcade games is everyone of them tempered?ALWAYS tempered. There's a reason why EVERY pin has tempered glass. (As noted above.) If the glass shop guy recommended plate glass specifically for a pin, please tell him I said he's an idiot.
This has been debated here before. My question to all that say the would never use plate glass is : are you going to throw out every mirror, drinking glass, china cabinet,picture frame or window in your house. I'm not saying you shouldn't use tempered glass in your pinball machine. I just think calling somebody an idot for using plate glass is a little harsh considering you probably have all the items mentioned in your home. I've seen kids bang on curio/ china cabinets and windows and bang drinking glasses on a table alot more than i've ever seen them bang on a pinball machine. I'm sure some will respond with some bull about a pinball flying around a hundred miles an hour hitting the glass, but I've never seen a pinball glass break from that. By the way are pinball backglasses tempered? What about monitor bezels on Arcade games is everyone of them tempered?
Glennon
This has been debated here before. My question to all that say the would never use plate glass is : are you going to throw out every mirror, drinking glass, china cabinet,picture frame or window in your house. I'm not saying you shouldn't use tempered glass in your pinball machine. I just think calling somebody an idot for using plate glass is a little harsh considering you probably have all the items mentioned in your home. I've seen kids bang on curio/ china cabinets and windows and bang drinking glasses on a table alot more than i've ever seen them bang on a pinball machine. I'm sure some will respond with some bull about a pinball flying around a hundred miles an hour hitting the glass, but I've never seen a pinball glass break from that. By the way are pinball backglasses tempered? What about monitor bezels on Arcade games is everyone of them tempered?
Glennon
+1
I will always use tempered, but one thing I have never liked about tempered is the fact that it breaks into a thousand small pieces, higher probability of getting a piece in your eye if conditions are just right., would rather have a sliced open finger or hand Vs. having a piece of tempered rolling around under my eyelid, a cut will heal your eye site will not.
I'm sure some will respond with some bull about a pinball flying around a hundred miles an hour hitting the glass, but I've never seen a pinball glass break from that.
Sorry to hear about your daughter. This is my exact point. Why the OP called somebody an idiot for recomending plate glass for a pinball machine when they probably have 100 other items in their house made of plate glass or standard glass. If this is really about safety then why not throw out all standard glass items in the house or convert them to tempered glass?Ok, this will be my last post on the topic, because I really do not feel like answering a lot of questions about yesterday as I'm still really freaked out. But I spent a good part of last night in the emergency room after my daughter fell into a plate glass window. (It's a 100 year old house, we rent, and the landlord has opted not to replace the windows.) She'll be fine, we got lucky that it wasn't a lot worse.
So, please, use tempered.
Oh, and you'd be surprised how many tiny little flaky pieces there are with broken plate glass as well.