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Title: The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy Custom Pinball
Post by: ARK on October 10, 2014, 02:04:59 am
A brief video showing work so far... many more posts available of build ( if interested )

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQtRyCNQrLo (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQtRyCNQrLo)
Title: Re: The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy Custom Pinball
Post by: blashyrk on October 11, 2014, 03:49:46 am
Awesome :) yes please post pictures of your build
Title: Re: The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy Custom Pinball
Post by: pbj on October 11, 2014, 09:50:03 am
Nobody here is interested
Title: Re: The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy Custom Pinball
Post by: spoot on October 11, 2014, 09:54:44 am
Neat, what method did you use to form your ramps?  I'm in the process of building two pins myself and was looking at vacuum forming them.
Title: Re: The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy Custom Pinball
Post by: yotsuya on October 11, 2014, 02:38:19 pm
I'd love to see the playfield, but that LCD backbox implementation hurts my head.  :dizzy:
Title: Re: The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy Custom Pinball
Post by: ARK on October 11, 2014, 10:18:11 pm
Quote from: spoot on October 11, 2014, 09:54:44 am
Neat, what method did you use to form your ramps?  I'm in the process of building two pins myself and was looking at vacuum forming them.
heated and bent 10 mm acrylic with a 2mm undeside
These ramps are not supported...they makeup the structural support for several pieces of hardware

Lcd scoring and Status
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hec59GI2zpY (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hec59GI2zpY)

Lcd playfield
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrvJwBMhOd4 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrvJwBMhOd4)

Lcd Backdrop
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ogRx-9FggRk (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ogRx-9FggRk)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zgVBztPPgf0 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zgVBztPPgf0)

Lcd backbox
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GIqcS9h0g-c (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GIqcS9h0g-c)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjIJoGXSM_A (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjIJoGXSM_A)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0VG5HFrqVE (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0VG5HFrqVE)