Tempered glass...
Well, way back in the late 60's (when I was a teenager) I was working
on my old FIAT 125 and had pulled the rear window out. I left it
sitting across the seat cushions for a month or so. One night, while
working in the basement, I heard a "whump!". The glass had shattered
just sitting there. It was only supported by the ends and I guess
that was too much stress over a period of time.
Other glass has failed us while being pulled from the game (once in
25 years) and that is all. I put carpet/towel on the floor when I am
at a customers house and the floor is cement or similar hardness.
John :-#)#
At 9:51 AM -0700 3/18/06, Jess Askey wrote:
>I have had two glass stories in my past...
>
>first one when I was about 13... I was working on my 1963 Williams
>San Francisco pinball machine. I had the glass off and safely tipped
>up against the wall about 3 feet from the game. the playfield was
>raised and propped. At the time, I thought it was extremely nice to
>have the front tray on a pinball machine (under where the lockdown
>bar sits), I always put my various screws and parts there as it was
>a handy storage area and very accessible. I also found that it held
>my little weller pencil soldering iron nicely and since it was
>metal, didn't matter if the iron laid down a bit onto to tray. Well,
>while working on some sort of under playfield relay issue, I needed
>to get under the playfield a bit further so I propped myself by
>grabbing the cabinet edges to get in further. My right had went down
>on the soldering iron sitting in the tray... as soon as I felt the
>heat I instantly jerked away and flung my arm around and behind me
>where my hand slammed into the glass sitting up against the wall.
>The glass didn't break amazingly as I hit it *extremely* hard, but
>what did happen is that the impact bounced the glass off the wall
>and I slowly watched it fall forward, hitting the pinball machine
>front/leg and explode into many many pieces. :-)
>
>The other one is similar to other stories with the glass sitting on
>a concrete floor. However, I successfully picked it up and as it was
>about 6 inches off the floor, the glass seemed to twist in my hands
>slightly right before it shattered. The twisting action was the
>really strange part.
>
>Either way, seems that if you protect those edges, tempered glass is
>pretty damn strong. I don't even look at the edges any more as I
>think it seems to piss off the glass. :-)
>
>jess
>
>
>al@alsarcade.com wrote:
>>I've had two run-ins with glass. The first one I was putting a
>>piece of glass from a Tempest behind my games that were lined up in
>>the garage. There was a concrete ridge made by the cinder blocks
>>that lined the garage and I was setting it on there. Suddenly I'm
>>not holding it anymore and I pulled out all 6 games to find glass
>>behind them.
>>
>>The other time was intentional, a friend of mine from the local pin
>>club said, come over and we'll break some glass. So I took the
>>video camera over and he smashed it with hammers and banged it on
>>the concrete. Looks really cool when it explodes. I put the clip
>>in my Pins & Vids video and people still comment on it
>>(http://www.pinsandvids.com).
>>
>>Also in that video you can see Tim Arnold pulling the glass out of
>>a pingame and resting it on his foot before putting it on the
>>floor. This is suppose to reduce the impact level and the chance
>>that it will explode.
>>
>>-Al-
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