Re: Curse of Clay Cowgill - Chronical of Carnage

Look at the bright side: Now you know which piece of glass is better.
-Robb
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tim Tewalt" <tim@srccomputers.com>
To: <vectorlist@vectorlist.org>
Sent: Friday, March 17, 2006 11:36 AM
Subject: VECTOR: Curse of Clay Cowgill - Chronical of Carnage

> The summer of 1994 I remember stripping two water logged Space Duels in
> an alley behind an op's warehouse. Jump forward to March of 2006 where
> someone on vectorlist needs a Space Duel glass. Of course, I lay out
> the two *best* pieces of glass on a table for comparison. I went to
> shimmy between the Tempest and the table you see in the picture,
> accidentally bump one glass into the edge of the other and...
>
> http://tewalt.com/claycurse/ClayCurse%20004.jpg
> http://tewalt.com/claycurse/ClayCurse%20005.jpg
> http://tewalt.com/claycurse/ClayCurse%20006.jpg
> http://tewalt.com/claycurse/ClayCurse%20007.jpg
> http://tewalt.com/claycurse/ClayCurse%20008.jpg
> http://tewalt.com/claycurse/ClayCurse%20009.jpg
> http://tewalt.com/claycurse/ClayCurse%20010.jpg
>
> ..."BLAM" as Clay writes below, is quite an apt description of the
> sound. In my case however, the glass exploded everywhere.
>
> Oh well, at least I finally have something to post to the vectorlist.
>
> Tim
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-vectorlist@vectorlist.org
> [mailto:owner-vectorlist@vectorlist.org] On Behalf Of Clay Cowgill
> Sent: Wednesday, March 15, 2006 10:13 PM
> To: vectorlist@vectorlist.org
> Subject: VECTOR: Space Duel monitor glass? Anyone?
>
>
> *sigh*
>
> My Space Duel at Ground Kontrol had a spontaneous "safety glass
> activation" a couple nights ago. :-(
>
> (We had rearranged games a week ago and I think Space Duel's cabinet was
> a little 'torqued' with sitting on a uneven section of floor... All of
> the sudden a couple nights ago there was a "blam!"... Nobody was in the
> arcade at the moment, but it was tracked down to Space Duel's monitor
> glass. Totally spider-webbed. We lucked out that it didn't collapse
> though! We managed to get packing tape applied all over the front face,
> open the control panel, and actually lift it out of the cabinet pretty
> much all in one piece. Made cleanup a lot easier!)
>
> We're going to replace it with some smoked plexiglass for the arcade for
> now, but I'd like to buy an original glass if anyone has a spare or a
> junked cabinet you want to part out.
>
> Toss me an email with your price... info@multigame.com
>
> Thanks!
> -Clay
>
>
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