glass breakage?

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anyone ever break a playfield glass with an airball? my williams lucky
ace can launch some wicked ones, and i fear the glass breaking. never
saw it happen, but can it?

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It could but it would be rare. Tempered glass is weak at the edges or
if it gets scratched. Plate glass would even be rare getting broken.

 

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In about 43 years of being around games, I've never seen or heard of it.
LTG

"mike hooker" <mhooker@optonline.net> wrote in message
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> anyone ever break a playfield glass with an airball? my williams lucky
> ace can launch some wicked ones, and i fear the glass breaking. never
> saw it happen, but can it?
>
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This Old Pinball TOP#6 shows a skit on how tough plate glass versus
tempered glass is. Using a hammer, we distroy both kinds of glass.
Tempered is very durable, hard to break even with a hammer! Plate
breaks like a 16 year old's virginity, easily.

i have never seen an air ball break tempered glass. I have seen
it break plate glass though.

frog wrote:
> someone posted a set of movies of 'fun' with playfield glass. Tapping it
> with a hammer, dropping it on edge, throwing pinballs at it. It all was
> suprisingly tough. Search google for it.
>
> in short, real low probability of it happening.
> "Lloyd Olson" <ltg@ssbilliards.com> wrote in message
> news:m6adndmJqMyD47neRVnytw@skypoint.com...
> > In about 43 years of being around games, I've never seen or heard of it.
> > LTG
> >
> > "mike hooker" <mhooker@optonline.net> wrote in message
> > news:6nZUe.13$zw2.578@news.uswest.net...
> > > anyone ever break a playfield glass with an airball? my williams lucky
> > > ace can launch some wicked ones, and i fear the glass breaking. never
> > > saw it happen, but can it?
> > >
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someone posted a set of movies of 'fun' with playfield glass. Tapping it
with a hammer, dropping it on edge, throwing pinballs at it. It all was
suprisingly tough. Search google for it.

in short, real low probability of it happening.
"Lloyd Olson" <ltg@ssbilliards.com> wrote in message
news:m6adndmJqMyD47neRVnytw@skypoint.com...
> In about 43 years of being around games, I've never seen or heard of it.
> LTG
>
> "mike hooker" <mhooker@optonline.net> wrote in message
> news:6nZUe.13$zw2.578@news.uswest.net...
> > anyone ever break a playfield glass with an airball? my williams lucky
> > ace can launch some wicked ones, and i fear the glass breaking. never
> > saw it happen, but can it?
> >
> > --
> > Sent via Gamer Newsgroups
> > http://www.gamernewsgroups.com
>
>

 

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It should still be up, if not let me know. Suprisingly tough is right.
Unless temperature contrast is involved.

John!

frog wrote:
> someone posted a set of movies of 'fun' with playfield glass. Tapping it
> with a hammer, dropping it on edge, throwing pinballs at it. It all was
> suprisingly tough. Search google for it.
>
> in short, real low probability of it happening.
> "Lloyd Olson" <ltg@ssbilliards.com> wrote in message
> news:m6adndmJqMyD47neRVnytw@skypoint.com...
>
>>In about 43 years of being around games, I've never seen or heard of it.
>>LTG
>>
>>"mike hooker" <mhooker@optonline.net> wrote in message
>>news:6nZUe.13$zw2.578@news.uswest.net...
>>
>>>anyone ever break a playfield glass with an airball? my williams lucky
>>>ace can launch some wicked ones, and i fear the glass breaking. never
>>>saw it happen, but can it?
>>>
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>>
>>
>
>

 

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The glass did break surprisingly easy when dropping pinballs on it from
about 3 feet. Probably more force than the ball would ever see in game play.

Overall, the smaller the surface area contacting the glass the easier it
broke.

The flat side of a ball peen hammer hitting flush had almost no effect on
the glass.

Turn it over to the round side of the hammer head and the glass broke quite
easily.


Otto

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"GA Pinhead" <georgiapinball@SPAMTHISyahoo.com> wrote in message
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> It should still be up, if not let me know. Suprisingly tough is right.
> Unless temperature contrast is involved.

 

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On 11 Sep 2005 12:51:19 -0700, cfh@provide.net wrote:

>This Old Pinball TOP#6 shows a skit on how tough plate glass versus
>tempered glass is. Using a hammer, we distroy both kinds of glass.
>Tempered is very durable, hard to break even with a hammer! Plate
>breaks like a 16 year old's virginity, easily.
>
>i have never seen an air ball break tempered glass. I have seen
>it break plate glass though.

Wasn't pinball glass, but I had some tempered glass doors from an
entertainment center that I was dumping. I threw it down in to a
dumpster where it landed about 6 feet below me, didn't break. I
proceeded to throw a 25 lb weight from a weightlifiting set on top of
it (from 6 ft above it). It still didn't break. Durable is an
understatement.