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RandyT:

--- Quote from: zell on May 29, 2004, 02:54:57 pm ---Here's another q - Can you bend cork?

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Did a quick bit of research on the cork carpet.  It seems the stuff was way more popular about 50 or more years ago.  Used for flooring and similar to linoleum (not the PVC rolled flooring, but actual linoleum....you know, the stuff they made you carve patterns in for art class so you could "rubber stamp" pictures)

The material is finely ground cork that is heated.  The natural resin comes out of the cork and acts as a binder, which creates a tough, leather-like, homogeneous mass.  And from what I can gather, is rolled out to about 6mm thick.

It doesn't seem to be very easy to find, nor inexpensive.  So I've been looking for alternative materials.

RandyT

Wade:
You guys are crazy!  I have seen a pair of these relatively modern ones with big LED displays for $275 each I think.  It might have been $300.  I would probably buy one now but at the time I had just bought my house.

They might be thousands new, but I really don't think they typically cost that much.  I've even seen them on ebay (you know how high most things on ebay are) and they were only $750 or so.

Totally not worth building!  Unless of course, you have time and money to burn.  I'd rather burn a few hundred and save myself the hundreds of hours reinventing the wheel.  Not to mention, by the time you finished building one, you'd probably have spent a lot more than if you'd just bought one.  Seems like every project I get into costs me a lot more than I planned.

Wade

unclet:
I have a Skeeball machine which I bought and fixed up for a total of $600.   Sometimes the local arcade auctions have these machines for even cheaper.

Check out my SkeeBall machine at my website.....

http://unclet.arcadecontrols.com

GGKoul:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=13718&item=6141871082&rd=1

sasuke_kun12:
ebay shoppin! everyone loves it!

ok heres the low down for aussie users
forget it. no in in australia sells it on e-bay and don't even think about buyin it in american e-bay.

oh my god! $1000 bucks? (double for australia) $2000 (plus postage, money exchange) $2100+ shite! i guess i'll have to forget it? oh well i can always make it my next project! now to convince my parents......

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