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| LTC:
I love your design. The table side almost looks like a flipper if it was a bit narrower towards the front and rounded off some. I know functionality really limits the shape you can go with. As far as your concern with the angle, my personal thought is 6 degrees will be fine. I played with angles when building mine and the playfield is at about 4 degrees. This will be a fun project to watch take shape. :cheers: |
| leapinlew:
Very cool! Couple questions - Instead of mounting it to the wall, is there any way you could put back legs on to make it free standing and require less beefy hinges? Any concern about the screen or glass being vulnerable to kicks or accidents when flipped away for storage? Lastly, is there anything cool you can do with it when it's flipped for storage that makes it useful still? Like, make it a giant digital picture frame, or display a clock, be a jukebox, or maybe a weather\traffic station? |
| fablog:
Interesting project as always! Like Lepinlew I'm worried about any damage. All will be black when not used so I don't see the benefit to let it open like that. Folded backward could be better and you could add a dart game at the back. Envoyé de mon LEX722 en utilisant Tapatalk |
| nexusmtz:
Will be interesting to see how something bolted to the wall will affect nudge in the long run. Something has to give. |
| markc74:
--- Quote from: LTC on January 10, 2021, 08:27:18 pm --- I love your design. The table side almost looks like a flipper if it was a bit narrower towards the front and rounded off some. I know functionality really limits the shape you can go with. As far as your concern with the angle, my personal thought is 6 degrees will be fine. I played with angles when building mine and the playfield is at about 4 degrees. --- End quote --- Thanks for that! That's cool to know - the shallower the angle then the lower I can place the backbox. And yes - the playfield part is supposed to look like a flipper. It's more obvious when looked at side on. It's definitely one of the more difficult pieces to build though as when lifting the playfield part I want it to rotate on an axis. --- Quote from: leapinlew on January 10, 2021, 09:03:47 pm ---Very cool! Couple questions - Instead of mounting it to the wall, is there any way you could put back legs on to make it free standing and require less beefy hinges? Any concern about the screen or glass being vulnerable to kicks or accidents when flipped away for storage? Lastly, is there anything cool you can do with it when it's flipped for storage that makes it useful still? Like, make it a giant digital picture frame, or display a clock, be a jukebox, or maybe a weather\traffic station? --- End quote --- I did think about the back legs thing - and may end up using something if it looks like it's not rock solid. It is something I'm bearing in mind along with the playfield glass strength. I was going to use tempered(?) glass which should be able to handle the occasional bump. I am trying to avoid using perspex as it scratches way to easily - but may end up going that way. A jukebox sounds like a cool idea though - I hadn't thought of that! --- Quote from: fablog on January 10, 2021, 09:53:19 pm ---Interesting project as always! Like Lepinlew I'm worried about any damage. All will be black when not used so I don't see the benefit to let it open like that. Folded backward could be better and you could add a dart game at the back. --- End quote --- Folded backwards was my original plan, but I couldn't find a nice way to design it without it looking like a huge ungainly box. And I'm not allowed the have a dartboard in the house anymore after a prior 'incident' ;D --- Quote from: nexusmtz on January 11, 2021, 12:35:35 am ---Will be interesting to see how something bolted to the wall will affect nudge in the long run. Something has to give. --- End quote --- Nudge is an interesting one. I do like the idea of a nudge and I think there might be enough 'give' at the front to support it. I may end up adding buttons to control nudge instead but I'll try it out once the initial basic build is done. |
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