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Something is unique about this coin door. Can you spot it?

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quarterback:

--- Quote from: Knievel on September 05, 2005, 10:29:26 pm ---Nice Randy. Disappointed it's not plastic but it looks convincing and I would buy some.
There is/was a guy on eBay selling something similar, at $20 a shot if I remember correctly.

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I've definitely seen the full-coin-door-decals mentioned here on BYOAC.  I'll see if I can pull up the thread.


I can't find the coin-door-sticker thread, but I did find the link for the Happs fake coin doors (metal, but they don't actually do anything) for ~$30  http://www.happcontrols.com/pc/accessories/40071300.htm

And this thread that mentions some machines with stickers instead of coin doors:
http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=25512.msg210371#msg210371

But I think Knievel is right, there was somebody on eBay selling stickers that looked like coin doors.

RandyT:

--- Quote from: toolaa on September 05, 2005, 10:33:07 pm ---Food for thought.  I know a little about Vacuum Forming and have purchased molds and packing trays.  My guess is that a coin door mold from wood and epoxy would cost about $800 and a run of 5000 doors would be about $0.60 ea. in black.  However consider that the corners would never look as tight as the real thing.  Especially around the coin slots and lock.  They would have at least a 1/16" radius.

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Thanks for the info.

Please forward some info on the sources you have used, if you don't mind.  I am familiar with the corner radius problem, but that could probably be handled.  From what I keep hearing, one couldn't get 5000 parts off of wood/epoxy tooling.  Maybe I should stop listening to the guy at work who tends to exaggerate too much ;)  The software I used to model this was a real solid modeling package, so tooling could actually be built from it with some minor mods. 


--- Quote from: Knievel on September 05, 2005, 10:29:26 pm ---Nice Randy. Disappointed it's not plastic but it looks convincing and I would buy some.
There is/was a guy on eBay selling something similar, at $20 a shot if I remember correctly.

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If it really is possible to do them inexpensively, I might still look into the plastic.  Of course some items would still need to be made as small decals and then applied to the "doors". 

My view on it is if I can't sell a convincing fake one for less than $20, people should just use real ones ;)

RandyT


*edit* 

I just did some searching on the board and found a pic of the eBay item.   I think this one looks much better (What did you expect me to say?  ;)  )

Kremmit:
I remember the ebay one.  It looked lousy compared to yours.

Stingray:
I wouldn't wan tone, but I expect that lots of others might. Yours certainly looks a lot more convincing than the crappy one that's on the market now.

-S

Wade:
I think it looks much better than the other one seen before, but I wouldn't personally ever use one.  The only place this could be used is in scratch-built home machines, as any dedicated game will have a real door already.  Also, I seem to have no problem finding good used doors for nearly nothing.

Wade

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