Ok kids,
I'ts time for that age-old question: GLASS mirror balls or PLASTIC mirror balls? Which kind of balls do you prefer???
Have an option for a 20" plastic model for under $80. The glass version is over $230! The plastic ball is much lighter, which will be easier for us to hang in what is a pretty hard-to-access location. But I've heard that a glass ball will give better sparkle. Thoughts? Is that even a thing? Would the plastic ball not be just fine as long as I windex it really well???
@tdtastic Are you speaking of a plastic sphere covered with square pieces of real mirror neatly glued on and totally covering all of the plastic sphere
Vs. a metallic sphere covered with square pieces of real mirror neatly glued on and totally covering all of the metal sphere
OR a cheap 'n cheerful plastic sphere purportedly polished to shine like real pieces of real mirror
? (Boo! Yuck!!) Personally I've only experienced the spun metallic sphere manufactured by spinning and forming two half-spherical pieces on a rapidly rotating form in a metal
lathe and assembled into a hollow metallic sphere overlapping sightly at its equator by Ferse / Furse (Sp?) in the United Kingdom and imported to Canada in the early 1970's with its rotator pre- installed at the factory and totally enclosed within the real-mirrored sphere. To my knowledge, they've held up and performed beautifully since 1973 when two matching balls were imported into Hamilton, Ontario, Canada with one remaining with The Players' Guild of Hamilton Incorporated and the second with the LX department of our local 2100+ soft-seater IA
road house. Occasionally both balls have been cross-loaned into various productions in either space, typically for fund-raisers in the larger space.
Call me a
mirror ball snob but I suspect I'd sneer at any mirror balls attempting to use shiny plastic in lieu of neatly attached rows of tiny real glass mirrors. The pair of matching Furse (Sp?) balls are approximately 20 to 24 inches in diameter and cost in the area of $200.00 Canadian in 1973. We had the option of ordering internal rotators at 240 Volts, 50
Hertz OR 120 Volts, 60
Hertz at time of ordering and of course both the two I know of contain 120 VAC 60
Hertz motors.
Toodleoo!
Ron Hebbard