Tag: pinball

  • More Team One vectors

    More Team One vectors

    Added the plastic posts, drop targets, and wood rails (just barely shown), and made the inserts the correct colors.

  • Putting in pinball work

    Putting in pinball work

    Tomorrow I’ll go through Funhouse and that’ll mean I’ve got 8 machines nicely dialed in.

  • Millennium Falcon mod (final)

    Millennium Falcon mod (final)

    Wanted to post the final version with properly sculpted lens (I sanded down the excess), including the vertical striations etched in with a dremel. It’s tied to some controlled lighting right now but after playing a premium on location that was lit the whole time I think I’ll end up moving it to a persistent…

  • PinVault (Indianapolis)

    PinVault (Indianapolis)

    Thanks to some real lucky connections, we were able to get into the PinVault for a couple of hours on Tuesday. What a great space and collection! Thanks to Matt, Ben, and Jon, for making it possible. Special mention to some games i hadn’t played before and thoroughly enjoyed: They also had the best working…

  • Baby steps (M.F. mod)

    Baby steps (M.F. mod)

    Cut the makrolon for the “lens” with some newly acquired snips. Turns out metal snips are perfect for rough cutting materials in the plexi family. Random reading on Pinside often yields tips like these. I’ve still got to figure out the bracket solution. I ordered a cutting blade for my dremel (misplaced all my attachments!)…

  • Star Wars (pro) comes home

    Star Wars (pro) comes home

    Friday night after I put the kids to bed I drove over to Brixie’s to pick up this lovely machine (Rob has replaced it with an LE or Premium). What a crazy, beautiful, fun game this is. The more I play it, the more impressed I am. The use of the theatrical score is perfect,…

  • Shiny pops

    Shiny pops

    Cleaned all the pop bumper parts, which were really really grimy. Thank goodness for my little ultrasonic cleaner. I need to find a replacement for the paper tubes that shade the lamps behind the drop targets. I don’t have all of mine. I tried looking online but I haven’t had luck. I’m going to look…

  • Centerpoint Brewery, Indianapolis

    Centerpoint Brewery, Indianapolis

    Top notch beers, and immaculately maintained pins. This place is a treasure. I only had an hour so I played about half on Indiana Jones, half on Star Trek (managed to nab the 4th high score), and Spider-Man (which I suck at). I could have played here for hours.

  • Taxi bell woes

    Taxi bell woes

    Got a new clapper and coil for the bell so I could hook it up. Unfortunately now as soon as the power is on the bell rings. Bad transistor? I don’t have it in me tonight to troubleshoot. I did manage to fix a couple other annoying issues on Taxi. The Dracula catapult now sends…