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| unclet:
Looks great. Nice work. I was wondering whether you have trouble with the balls hitting the marquee when then roll up from the curved rolling surface and become airbourne? Also, when you fabricate the netting cage, I am assuming the netting will be below the marquee so will there be enough room fo the ball to arc enough to make it into the 50 holes without hitting the netting on top? |
| Ixliam:
I've only had it hit the marquee one time, and that was when I chunked it too fast. The netting will solve that problem, and there is still plenty of room for it to hit the 50. Brad |
| walls83:
Your going to paint the cork? I dont think I would do that. Dont the skee ball machines have felt pulled over the ramp? Maybe not but I thought that they had like pool table felt pulled over the cork. |
| Ixliam:
No, it is really dense cork. You can order the cork covering from skeeball, but it will set you back $150. Long as the paint is waterbased it will do fine. Brad |
| Ixliam:
After looking at several pics I decided to go with black for the color of the ramp, scoreboard covering, and back guard. The scoring rings will be white. In the pics below, the cork doesn't look as bad as it shows up here, the flash seems to show all the flaws. It will still need another coat of touchup paint however. The stainless steel end covers are from an original skeeball machine, and they fit perfectly over my endpieces. Only modification I did was to drill two screw holes in the "Tokens Only" one so that it would not open on its own. I didn't feel like purchasing a new lock/key and contructing a locking mech for something that won't be taking coins in the first place. This is the ball counter lit with LED's controlled by my counting circuit. Brad |
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