Wellesley, ON
I'm picking up a sst soon and would like to put lollipop rails on it. Problem is that it has 2 flipper buttons on the right. Does anyone make custom rails for something like this?
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Quoted from Mitch:If I drill a new one it will chip off the black powder coating and without the proper machine to make the hole it will be very hard if not impossible to line up the new hole with the flipper button hole
It seems like if you tape over the section of the rail being drilled and use a fine-enough blade it won't chip it. That won't fix the problem of the metal on the inside of the circular cut area being bare, but a paint-pen would probably make that look fine.
This can't be that difficult. If the main flipper button holes are in the correct location, put the rail on the game, scribe the location of the extra button hole from inside the cabinet, remove the rail, center punch the middle of the scribed circle, protect the outside face with tape, cut out with a hole saw, file the sharp edges smooth. The button is bigger than the hole and will hide any imperfections. Of coarse if you've never used a hole saw, this is probably not the project for you, without some practice on scrap steel. The main thing is to run the hole saw slow. A drill press and cutting oil helps. This also assumes that there is enough steel in the lollipop for the location of the extra button.
Quoted from Starwriter:This can't be that difficult. If the main flipper button holes are in the correct location, put the rail on the game, scribe the location of the extra button hole from inside the cabinet, remove the rail, center punch the middle of the scribed circle, protect the outside face with tape, cut out with a hole saw, file the sharp edges smooth. The button is bigger than the hole and will hide any imperfections. Of coarse if you've never used a hole saw, this is probably not the project for you, without some practice on scrap steel. The main thing is to run the hole saw slow. A drill press and cutting oil helps. This also assumes that there is enough steel in the lollipop for the location of the extra button.
Hmmm I may have to try this. I have a drill press and a hole saw
We cut lollipop rails from our SST when we had it. Just used a hole cutting bit. Didnt chip any of the powdercoat, takes some time but looks great once done.
Odon, IN
You might want to make a wooden template that matches the locations of the buttons and insure its perfectly aligned on your game first. Then use that as your guide to drill the new hole rather than trying to line it up manually. This might give you better results unless your confident that you can get the button's location exactly right.
Quoted from ngoett:We cut lollipop rails from our SST when we had it. Just used a hole cutting bit. Didnt chip any of the powdercoat, takes some time but looks great once done.
Which rails did you buy? The pinball life ones say stern 1999 and newer. Do they fit sst?
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