<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jun 5, 2017 at 2:35 PM, ethan--- via FSPA <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:fspa@fspazone.org" target="_blank">fspa@fspazone.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><br>... I've been thinking I'd love to build a pinball using the large transparent LCD trick but the serviceability would suck with that under the playfield glass!) <br>
</blockquote></div><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Take a look at late '60s Bally EMs. As IPDB explains in the entry for Rocket III, "Early Production games [had] the familiar sliding glass, while later in production the
glass was changed to lift upwards from the front in a metal frame." I recall that the glass was firmly mounted in a frame including the side and front metal rails. The entire frame pivoted up, like the hood of a car. No glass edges were exposed to nicks. No beverages could seep inside.<br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">You could mount your LCD and playfield glass in a similar frame.<br><br>--<br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Joel<br><br></div></div>