Troy's Pinball - Arcade Sequel Build

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Re: Troy's Pinball - Arcade Sequel Build

Post by Muniosi » Sun Aug 05, 2012 5:15 pm

DUDE that's amazing. Can't wait to see it finished!

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Re: Troy's Pinball - Arcade Sequel Build

Post by ARTbyTROY » Sat Aug 11, 2012 6:21 pm

The cables inside the pinball machine are out of control, a good part of the mess is from power cables. I ordered three one footers to cut down on some of it, now the 16" monitor, Antec PSU and the power brick for the LED lighting all have short power cables.

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I attached two strips of 3M screw strong tape to the backs of the speakers, this stuff is great and it really helps move fabrication along.

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Here is a shot of the back box with everything installed, I still need to make a back painted acrylic cover piece for the front of the back box.

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Every pinball machine has a lockdown bar to hold the playfield glass down, below is what I came up with for the lockdown bar on my machine. I measured, cut and drilled a piece of acrylic including a button hole, I also cut to length a piece of black plastic lockdown channel and aluminum angle and then bolt everything together.

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Assembled and installed for a test fit and it looks pretty snazzy, now it just needs some black vinyl paint.

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I plan to attach the acrylic lockdown using auto panel fasteners, my reasoning is if I ever need to remove the playfield glass I can simply open the access door in the bottom of the machine and pop up the lockdown panel with no tools required.

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Here is the finished lockdown panel painted and installed, the square blue button is wired for pausing the game, the camera flash/angle makes the square button look kind of washed out when it is actually the exact same color as the other two blue buttons.

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Re: Troy's Pinball - Arcade Sequel Build

Post by ARTbyTROY » Sun Aug 12, 2012 8:18 pm

Time to make the back glass, below is a sheet of clear acrylic that I copied measurements onto and then double stick taped some aluminum angle onto it in preparation for scoring and snapping.

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Here it is test fit, it was too tight so I had to sand down the edges a little to make it fit right.

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I removed the paper backing and set it in place, using a black Sharpie I marked the corners of both screens with a dot and measured/marked an X through the centers the centers of both speakers.

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I put the back glass front side down on the table and using clear contact paper, a ruler and a razor blade cut masks for both monitors, wide masking tape was placed on the backside of the speaker cut-outs in prep for some 2 1/2" hole saw action.

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The back glass was then back painted with Plasti Kote vinyl paint and test fit again, I have a couple more things to do to the back glass before it can be final installed, but it's not far now.

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Re: Troy's Pinball - Arcade Sequel Build

Post by danielPH » Tue Aug 14, 2012 2:35 am

Awesome, I've always wanted to build a pinball machine.

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Re: Troy's Pinball - Arcade Sequel Build

Post by ARTbyTROY » Sat Aug 18, 2012 4:09 pm

danielPH wrote:Awesome, I've always wanted to build a pinball machine.
Me too, I never knew I could or I would have done it sooner... you should build one, it's fun.

Below is a side edge view of the back glass panel, it is a friggin' dust magnet and the worst part is that no matter how much I dust it off it keeps coming back... I have been down this road before though and know exactly how to handle it.

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Time to cut out for the LCD screen faces, in the next picture I taped thin lines to the exact edges of each screen in preparation for cutting.

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I used my Dremel and a ripsaw blade to make the cut outs for both screens, then the edges were sanded and it was sprayed with black vinyl paint on both sides. I cut the top edge of the back glass panel a hair short by mistake, so I used a length of black automotive door edge trim to fix it.

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My back glass is now more of a trim panel, but I don't mind because it will make cleaning the LCD monitor screens a lot easier, and with the acrylic removed the monitors won't have as much reflective glare.

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