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According to Wayne Neyens (in the Pinball Compendium 1930s to 1960s http://www.schifferbooks.com/the-pinball-compendium-1930s-1960s-1398.html )
the change was made in 1964 after his daughter was cut when playing on top of a machine and the glass broke.
You can bet before I get my Gigi operational again I'll make sure I have tempered glass in it.
Kudos to you for saying something Pezpunk. And kudos to zr11990 for the story. If no one objects how would you know it's objectionable? What's right and wrong is a conversation that should keep happening as long as people exist. One person's opinion is only a data point. If you regularly have people tell you change behavior x then you probably should figure out why.
One episode of the Coinbox Pinball podcast they mentioned seeing someone let their kid run across the glass on all the games in a row. I think Chris had the bartender go tell the lady that was not allowed. I don't remember which episode but it was a long time ago.
http://coinbox.libsyn.com/
Quoted from bbriese:Annealed or plate glass is extremely flat, one of the flattest surfaces you can get for the money. When this annealed glass goes through the tempering or toughening process, it is heated red-hot and then quenched quickly. As the red-hot glass passes through the tempering furnace it can sag between the conveyor rolls causing what is known as "roller wave", and during the rapid cooling process this roller wave becomes solid. This can be seen on most if not all tempered glass if you look at a reflected image at a very sharp angle and slightly move your viewing angle you will see the image slightly distort or not track smoothly. If you see this distortion then you have tempered glass. If the image does not distort then it is likely annealed. I'm in the glass biz, and this is how i can tell if an unlabeled piece of glass is tempered or not. NEVER assume that if the edges are sanded that it is tempered.
That should be marked as a key post.
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