![]() ![]() Then I used a white undercoat across the whole body. I went with an easy black and white paint job. First I sanded the body down using a hand sander, also blunting all the corners. In anycase, painting was next and this is where the kids helped. With hindsight, all the holes for buttons should have been done after painting and installing the lock down bar assembly. I visited a number of websites, and I ended up taking the average and also putting them in a place where I felt most comfortable. These will also serve to allow wires to pass from one side to the other and will also support contactors at strategic points under the playfield.įiguring out exactly where to put the flipper holes was not that easy and there is no exact standard. Putting it all together was actually very straight forward and the easiest part. After building I added two supporting bars across the middle. ![]() Hence, I needed to route out about half a centimeter (minimum) from each side to the playfield TV would fit in and rest on a ledge. The plan for the routing took a lot of measuring double checking and figuring out angles, as this I did not want to screw up as it’s a big and complicated piece to cut again. Routing took a long time, was very noisy (obviously I used ear protection) and created a serious amount of saw dust in the garage. ![]() The internal width of the box was a little (1cm) narrower than the TV. I should have paused to figure out exactly how the pinball parts which I purchased would fit it and ended up having to make adjustments to compensate for some small mistakes. As I was not building a widebody machine, the TV was 40 inch rather than 46 inch which meant my machine was about 10cm shorter than a full size pinball machine. The angles and lengths did take a bit of high school trigonometry to figure out.įor the wood, I ordered MDF- which is very strong, heavy and rigid.Īfter that, I cut some holes. Lengthwise, my machine was a little longer than the playfield TV plus the width of the backbox. Given that I had ordered some real Williams’ pinball parts, I was limited to a width as defined by the pinball (standard) lockdown bar which was about 56cm. I discovered that there is not really any exact standard size for a pinball machine, so I used a mixture of existing designs I downloaded from various websites, combined with the typical angles that are used for the machines. ![]()
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