That's How I Roll! (Skeeball build)

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Octo:
Looks great, but with your return/pushbutton system, won't a ball in the 100 holes also trigger the switch for the 50 hole? Will you just rig the 100 buttons to score as 50 so it adds up to 100? ???

Xiaou2:

Actually, I have doubt that those pushbuttons will work well. The outside button
bezel may cause the ball to deflect past the center of the button. (like a ramp)

You Might be able to drill the holes so that the bezel is flush with the surface...
and or to sand the bezels down a bit.

Also, you would want to remove the button springs too. And even then.. Im not so
sure there will be enough pressure to push the button down with a fast moving
ball.

Unclet, did you use pushbutton leafs? Or use official Skeeball type switches?
(3" long trip-wire type. Round wire - not a flat bar. Trip wire probably 1mm diameter)

Purple - The fake wood didnt look too bad on the backboard.. but it does not look
good when combined with the ramp, because its grain is going in a different
direction. Looks very bad that way. Probably wont look that bad if you redo the
ramp to match the top section.

unclet:
My skeeball machine uses the metal arm switches. The skeeball rolls into the metal arm of the switch thus causing it to activate the switch.

In my Skeeball machine the "100" hole has a switch which registers 50 points and the "50, 40,30,20,10" holes have one switch each which register 10 points (see pic attached). When a ball goes into the 100 hole then first registers 50 points then rolls down the center and trips the 50,40,30,20,10 hole switches as well on the way down to total another 50 points. Just another example ..... if the ball goes into the 30 point hole then it rolls down the center and trips the 30,20,10 switches thus totalling 30 points.

I personally believe the wooden skeeballs a quite heavy enough to roll over a pushbutton top, especially in my system where the skeeball falls down the center of the machine and trips multiple switches rather fast.

thatpurplestuff:
The pushbuttons actually work surprisingly well. I thought that I may have to recess them a bit, but they work great as is. The balls are definitely heavy enough to trigger the buttons as they pass over, and the size of the balls actually allows them to almost push the button down completely before it even hits the bezel. I struggled for a while to figure out a way to get that upper left 100 hole to make it to the right hand side without passing the 50 hole, but in the end I figured I'd just make both 100 holes score 50 and then pass the actual 50 to make 100. Actual Skeeball machines utilize this method of compound scoring, and if I don't like it I can always go back and change it later.

Xiaou2- Unfortunately the vinyl flooring doesn't come with the grain going the other direction, so to get the material for the entire ramp I would have had to buy waaay more than I needed. I would have preferred to have the grain running along the ramp, but with my budget it wasn't really feasible. I tried the scoring area with the grain going in the same direction, but I ended up using it the way I did because I felt it just looked better.

I'm sure that there are some things I am going to want to change once this thing is all painted and put together, so pretty much every element of this machine can be replaced. Anyway, thanks for the input / interest in my build everyone! I'm off to cut out the marquee area and mount the monitor.

thatpurplestuff:
Got the marquee scoring area cut and the lcd screen mounted in it. I had to do some really out of the box routing to get the screen to fit... namely taking the bearing off of a 1/4" slot cutting bit to get a little bit of extra cut depth. I'm rethinking having the speakers in the front and considering putting them facing down next to the light bulbs. This would give me extra space for art up front, but I'm still unsure about what I want to do. Didn't get anything else done, and I didn't take enough pictures.

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