pinball cabinet plans?

[whynotpizza]

Hi all,

Anyone have plans/drawings for a pinball machine (from scratch)?

The idea is to power the unit with 2 large screen monitors (and VisualPinball/FuturePinball of course)

Need some help with the cabinet ideas/plans...so far, internet searches have come up with little.

Any pointers would be great.

  David

[ROM: Spaceknight]

Shouldn't be hard...basically it's two boxes.  Bottom one slopes.

[erictrumpet]

Just bumping this post. I'm interested also.

Eric.

[MarkMapo]

I recently rebuilt 2 pinball cabinets (1 Williams, 1 Gottlieb) - the person that I got them from left them outside for years and they were falling apart.  But there was enough there that I was able to construct entirely new cabinets.  In the process, I developed a lot of templates and guides.  I also wrote a lot of stuff down - I do have all of the information, but it's not in an easy and convenient internet format.

The only thing that I get suspicious about, is the patent/copyright.  I know all the manufacturers made their cabinets slightly different to avoid this.  Now if the document was "for reference only" and I made no guarantee about it's accuracy - maybe intended for pinball owners that wanted to replace specific parts.

I might be persuaded to post this info if there is enough demand - or if there is someone who's skilled at autocad and promises to take my notes and turn it into a true plan.

[Firebat138]

if you send me the plans, I would be willing to draft them up for everyone...

thanx

Camper

[Angry_Radish]

If anyone is near southern WI, I have a fire damaged LOTR cabinet that can be used to create templates, or for that matter, just sanded down and painted 

[Pinball Wizard]

How badly damaged? Are you looking to sell it (what is left)? Lemme know some more if you would.

[Angry_Radish]

Backbox and main cabinet, legs, glass (unless I manage to break it before I'm done transplanting parts  

I bought a NOS cabinet off a guy in IL and have been slowly cleaning and rebuilding the guts and transferring them to that.

http://forums.arcade-museum.com/showthread.php?t=104408

Not really looking to sell, I was actually planning on tossing it when I'm done so if someone wants to come get it then, I'd be fine with handing it over.

[thatitalian]

Please please please post... I could really do with a set of plans!

[Kurt]

Just have a look an some pinball manuals afew have dimensions, thats how i drew up my widebody cab.

[macattack]

here's some I put together for a VP build I am in the process of completing. The dimensions are std Williams widebody.

link to my VP cab here
http://www.hyperspin-fe.com/forum/showthread.php?t=8239

[pinballwizard79]

macattack you are awesome for that PDF dude 

[rchadd]

great plans!

i assume a standard body is just not so wide?

do you know the width of a standard body pinball?

[macattack]

great plans!

i assume a standard body is just not so wide?

do you know the width of a standard body pinball?

yes reduce the overall width to 22" external (20.5" internal) for a std pin cab.

[macattack]

i also updated the attached plans on this thread with the latest version.