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Chris:
It does look like a motivated person could replace some of the solenoids with more powerful ones if necessary. In fact, this looks like a great candidate for just generally hacking and modding.
ChadTower:
Those plastic mechs would limit how far you could go with more powerful solenoids... you'd probably have to replace the whole housing with a metal one. And then you'd have to worry about stronger bumpers shattering playfield parts. I'm sure it could all be done but you'd have to swap out quite a few things.
Chris:
--- Quote from: ChadTower on January 11, 2007, 12:56:25 pm ---
Those plastic mechs would limit how far you could go with more powerful solenoids... you'd probably have to replace the whole housing with a metal one. And then you'd have to worry about stronger bumpers shattering playfield parts. I'm sure it could all be done but you'd have to swap out quite a few things.
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Could be fun though... you could take an old cabinet, essentially rebuild it at full size with real parts and just keep the CPU and scoring unit. At $150 it would be cheap enough to try something with it...
When I found BYOAC, I was actually trying to build my own pinball machine from scratch... I still have old circuit schematics I sketched out for it years ago (I wasn't going to drive it with a PC). Once I discovered BYOAC, it was "Why spend 600-70 building a pin that only plays one game and will never be as good as a "real" machine, or put the same or less into an arcade cabinet that will play hundreds of games almost exactly as they were in the arcade?" MAME won.
ChadTower:
--- Quote from: Chris on January 11, 2007, 01:14:28 pm ---Could be fun though... you could take an old cabinet, essentially rebuild it at full size with real parts and just keep the CPU and scoring unit. At $150 it would be cheap enough to try something with it...
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You can get a pretty good real project pin for $150 that needs about that same amount of work.
Chris:
--- Quote from: ChadTower on January 11, 2007, 01:39:34 pm ---
--- Quote from: Chris on January 11, 2007, 01:14:28 pm ---Could be fun though... you could take an old cabinet, essentially rebuild it at full size with real parts and just keep the CPU and scoring unit. At $150 it would be cheap enough to try something with it...
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You can get a pretty good real project pin for $150 that needs about that same amount of work.
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I've been keeping my eye out for one on the Mr. Pinball classifieds and craigslist; haven't seen one in east Georgia yet. If I do I'm all over it. :)
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