My GB Pro must be slightly off being square (not a level issue) the glass literally takes me both hands like Spiderman applying tons of down force to be able to remove the glass. Once I get it slid down a bit its okay, but literally it's so tight it's scary. I was an auto glass installer for years so I'm familiar with the strength of tempered and it still had me uneasy at first.

Yeah not a good feeling.

His beliefs or someone else's. He and trunchbull are so busy taking up everyone else's issues as their own cause. Maybe they should stay in the transgender section where they can protect the vulnerables

You're ASSuming she did not choose to play that particular game just to check HIM out. Women have hormones and eyes as well as men..

The day boob-oogling became not okay on Pinside was the day Pinside died.

Agree or not, Pez has always been the same since I've been here. If a post can be seen by him as disrespectful he's going to show up and post aboot it, that's just Pez.

If boobies weren't meant to be ogled they would not be put into push up bras and left pretty much uncovered for all to see.

Women are like works of art. Look at them and enjoy their beauty with respect and awe.

You MUST have tempered glass on location games, unless you want to get sued when the glass breaks and someone gets hurt.

I have an old woodrail with non-tempered glass.

This might be a stupid question, but what's a good way to dispose of it? It can be bashed apart, but then its like a collection of small scalpels.

Much like old carpet, bathtubs, & work buckets full of cement; THe dumpster by my work in the middle of the night works well.

Me too. My 1956 4 Bagger has a piece of plate glass in it. It's been a ticking time bomb for 61 years.

Some glass shops will accept it for recycling.

I've found widebodies to have the higher number of subpar sheet glass
By the way: all this talk/language about objectifying and sexism is over. We're entering the Trump era

Another risk of plate glass is slicing your hand when you remove it from the game. Those edges can be sharp!

Here is a picture from 2012. Luckily I did not feel it when it happened, but the plate glass from a WMS Magic Clock did the deed.

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Marcus

I don't think I have any plate glass right now for comparison, but here's some tempered glass.

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Whaaaaa. Ya wiener

Sheesh ForceFlow, I know where to go when everyone else is sold out of tempered glass if I need some. I think I'm going to start upgrading to Invisiglass on my games.

Strong? I would say so.

Here's another old vid I pulled out.
One of my favourite vids...

That's an amazing demonstration.

Heh, I picked up a whole stack at a show one year for a good price.

Most glass shops can get sheets of tempered glass no problem...you may have to shop around for the best price, though.

Glad to see that my ignored user list is doing its job. Why am I not surprised that the offensive comments made are of an apparently chauvinistic nature. Oh that's right. It's cause almost all of my ignore list is full of guys who have gone out of their way to be offensive regarding women.

Keep it classy Pinside.
And Ignored User, I have some non tempered glass for you if you want it....

I still can't believe you want $10,000.00 for this. Oops, wrong thread.... Getting harder and harder to tell these days.

So how about not leaning on glass because get this- it could break? Must've missed that day in kindergarten!

Not pinball related but plate glass related. In Germany, most rooms in the modern houses have doors and it seems the ones to common rooms tend to have decorative glass in the middle. Well, we came back from a tour in Iraq and a young SGT was killed when his hand went thru the glass in the kitchen door. Cut his wrist and bled out in minutes. Nasty stuff.

None of mine do. you can ask when you get them made not to have the stamp. I dont like the way it looks.

The mark that identifies a piece of glass that is built into the glass by the factory doing the tempering is called a "bug".

Homepin has chosen not to put a bug in our glass but rather we are screen printing the corner with the full details of the glass as required by law in many countries (including the USA).

One way of telling it is tempered (if you are lucky) is look for the small cork spacers that are often used by the company that does the actual tempering. This will probably be a different place from the one that actually cuts the glass to size. They use the cork squares at the place we use to stack many sheets at a time so they can go into the oven.

I'm sure there are many other ways to temper glass but this is the way the place we use does it.

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Really? Seems a little transparent to me

Well if he is a SJW and not a skillful troll thats how everything goes when those guys show up, wether its facebook, pinside, youtube or any other parts of society.

Professional NO FUN ALLOWED police, those people.

ANYWAY, i never lean on glass i dont know if its temperated or not, i dont want to cut my arms up or fill a game up with glass cubes

Dumb question, but how is glass tempered exactly? What is the process?

Edit: Turns out I know how to use google.

"Toughened glass can be made from annealed glass via a thermal tempering process. The glass is placed onto a roller table, taking it through a furnace that heats it well above its transition temperature of 564 °C (1,047 °F) to around 620 °C (1,148 °F)."

This is 10x funnier because of its perfect positioning -- it looks like Ron Burgundy is gazing right up at the red "post was moderated" line.

Only on Pinside can a thread about fuckin SHEETS OF GLASS turn into a debate over sexism, tits, and morals and ethics.

But I guess that's why I keep coming back here haha

....So I was talking to Milltown when this happened...No excessive force or disrespect to the machine at all, just leaning on lock bar really and bullshitting ..then crack. Totally surprised, actually took a couple of seconds to realize what happened.

Very happy no one got hurt, also very happy that I found out it had regular glass as it located at end of a row of pins and the whole length of the glass is exposed and easily accessible by people walking by. It never occurred to me that someone would be as foolish as to replace with standard glass.

I have several grand kids that play and fear things could have been a lot worse. I'm going to check all my machines that don't have a stamp or etching to make sure they're all tempered.

I think I should say.. Thanks Milltown!

not all tempered will have a logo, you can order it without one. So just because it doesn't have one, that doesn't mean it isn't. Just have to look for more evidence .

The other thing is I have had the ball shoot up and strike the glass quite hard before, with plate, it could shatter that way as well.

The glass will sometimes just inexplicably shatter. This happened to Pinside moderator Marcus not too long ago (maybe three months ago). I've heard of it happening to others as well. Just a temparture change can sometimes trigger it.