How to Build a Pinball Machine

Re:How to Build a Pinball Machine by sparkzilla on Sunday January 04, 2015 @04:13PM (#8835866)

That seems like a lot of work. I suggest starting with pinball restoration. I bought and restored a Creature From the Black Lagoon [1] which took about six weeks work. There's a very active restoration community and lots of parts suppliers, and just getting inside a real machine will give you lots of experience if you want to make your own.

[1]http://www.ipdb.org/machine.cgi?id=588

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Re:How to Build a Pinball Machine by ghuntley on Sunday January 04, 2015 @06:43PM (#8836384)

Pinball restoration is a hoot, just make sure you get someone to show you the ropes. Start with a flipper rebuild - don't attempt to do a play-field swap without someone who has done it before. There is a very active international hobby community over at [1] Pinside who will be eager to show to the ropes. There's plenty of mod options available, such as [2] replacement of all globes with LEDs, [3] replacement of the plasma DMD to full color LCD DMD's, [4] to playfield swaps to brand new reproduction playfields.

[1] https://pinside.com

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w2-2dlTH_wg

[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_7E_DgtkJY

[4] http://de.myalbum.com/Album=W3DHWYNS || https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/fs-new-star-trek-the...

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