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dendawg:
You could always get a wooden ball or two from Michael's, Hobby Lobby, or some similar place, cut it in half and hollow the halves out enough to insert a pinball inside....that should give it enough weight for the rollers.
mytymaus007:
my balls weigh 2lbs each but i have big balls :laugh2:
CoryBee:

--- Quote from: mytymaus007 on August 13, 2012, 03:29:34 pm ---my balls weigh 2lbs each but i have big balls :laugh2:

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drventure:
I looked into this at one point (I juggle occasionally, and that though had popped in my head).

They're out there, and with a lathe, they aren't terribly hard to make.

You'd definitely want a hardwood. Something that's dense enough would likely wiegh close enough to acrylic to work ok.

One downside, they aren't transparent, or even translucent. I really wanted to backlight mine so that kinda ruined the idea.

OTOH, if you could fashion a translucent "ring" to replace the standard black ring, and light +that+ a wooden trackball could be fantastic.

paigeoliver:
The Capcom Bowling trackball has a similar look and would be a 1000 times less trouble.

Also, there is the distinct possibility that the rollers would wear down a wooden ball, instead of the ball wearing the rollers down like the plastic ones do.
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