Somebody made a see through pinball machine. That’s clever. Check out the photoset.
Thanks for the link Señor Terk
Archive for the ‘Not Really Specific To A Machine’ Category
Rad.
Tuesday, September 25th, 2007I Need To Start A Pinball Gang
Monday, September 10th, 2007A friend of mine pointed me to this article about pinball in Portland.
Maybe A Ratchet Cable Hoist
Tuesday, January 9th, 2007
Hoist Plan Update
Saturday, January 6th, 2007I’ve been wanting to get Monster Bash up and running in my (relatively) new house so I decided to give The Plan a try.
I drilled a little hole in the joist above the main support beam so I could feed through a little steel cable from Home Depot (which claimed that it could support 841 pounds) and wrap it around the beam. Here is an expertly framed photograph of me drilling the hole, taken by my 2 1/2 year-old son:
With the rope-hoist hooked up to the cable I figured I’d give it an easy test, so I grabbed one of my summer tires from the garage and hooked it on (using another steel cable wrapped around the tire).
That was pretty straight forward. So I took out the tire and put Monster Bash in position.
Sadly, the pulleys in the hoist did not provide nearly enough mechanical advantage. Which is a nice way of saying that I wasn’t strong enough to lift it for squat. Perhaps I should seek the mechanical engineering expertise of my father (and read the Wikipedia pages I just linked to). Although an easier solution would be to just throw my brother’s back out again.
My wife officially declared the entire operation a joke. She used the words “Mickey Mouse” and “Three Stooges” several times.
Oh Yeah, I Forgot
Saturday, December 16th, 2006A while back (May 2006) I played around with Sketchup a bunch and modeled the outline of a full size machine. It’s in the 3D Warehouse right here.
A Plan
Monday, December 4th, 2006So every time I need to set up or take down a pinball machine, my brother throws his back out. Each time this happens he seems a little more reluctant to help me.
So here’s what I’m thinking: I found a rope hoist at Harbor Freight Tools. I’m not convinced that anything that costs $5 can support up to 500 Lbs., but that’s what they claim. I can hang this from one of the giant beams in my basement:
Then, I can move the machine under the hoist using my hand-truck, put the front legs on, tip the machine forward, put a moving belt on the back, hoist it up, put a file cabinet underneath it, attach the back legs, take out the file cabinet, lower it to the ground, and position it using the pinball lift.
Well, we’ll see.
This Is, After All, What Pinball Is All About
Saturday, November 25th, 2006
The Return Of The Diary
Sunday, October 1st, 2006Okay, it’s time to get this thing back up and running. The first step is gonna be entering all my old site entries as back-dated blog posts. Each post will be labeled according to what machine it is relevant to.
Yay!