Fake coin door

[GregD]

Wondering if anyone has ever made a fake coin door out of MDF or something like that.  I was thinking of giving it a shot using the Novagem coin drop replacement buttons.  Can't find any threads about it.  Thanks

[HaRuMaN]

Whatever you do, don't get that godawful decal.

 

[CheffoJeffo]

Whatever you do, don't get that godawful decal.

 

I was going to post a link to the decal in question!

But, at the same time, a used coin door is cheaper/easier than trying to fake one ...

[BadMouth]

I threw together something like that for "The Ping of Pong" build where I built a cab out of a ping pong table found in the neighbors trash and spare parts I had laying around.  (cause that's the kind of stuff I do when normal people are watching tv)

The coin button is an 8-liner button with a homemade insert printed out on an injket printer.
The coin return is a square 8-liner button with the lense painted black and glued in backwards.
The plate they're mounted in is just a scrap piece of abs textured plastic I had.
It probably would have looked better had I just used a piece of metal or thin wood for the plate.

[Louis Tully]

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[Vigo]

I remember Crashwg CNC'ed some mini coin doors out of MDF for a project by Jigenjuke:

http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=106894.msg1197500#msg1197500

[lilshawn]

Whatever you do, don't get that godawful decal.

 

I thought this thread would have been FOR that decal. Whew! that was a close one. 

[GregD]

No decal.   I am thinking a half inch pice of mdf routed out to give it some depth with novagems and some sort of fake coin returns.   Painted with that hammered metal spray paint. 

[Unstupid]

For what it would cost to do something like that you could buy a real door...  Mikesarcade has a full 2 slot door with mech and everything for $65.  I think Happs even sells fake metal doors for like $25...

[BadMouth]

Twisted Quarter does the small stripped down doors for $37
(no coin mechs, returns are riveted closed)
http://www.twistedquarter.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=171_173&products_id=245

[matsadona]

For what it would cost to do something like that you could buy a real door...

Isn't this forum about building things just because you can? 

[JayB]

Put a kids toilet seat on instead 

[Mysterioii]

For what it would cost to do something like that you could buy a real door...  Mikesarcade has a full 2 slot door with mech and everything for $65.

Not seeing it on their site?  I see mechs but not full doors.... out of stock maybe...

[Unstupid]

For what it would cost to do something like that you could buy a real door...  Mikesarcade has a full 2 slot door with mech and everything for $65.

Not seeing it on their site?  I see mechs but not full doors.... out of stock maybe...

Sorry... It was from twistedquarter.com and it was $69.99.  But they have others cheaper... 

[Le Chuck]

If you're working 1:1 scale you could use 1/8th inch project board and route the raised outline of say an Atari over under then round all edges and glue that down to a template.  The coin drops and returns could be carved very easily in the same manner.  If you're working smaller then there are a lot of options, Bender uses styrene and I favor aluminum for mines.