We used to have an Eight Ball machine that belonged to a friend of the family. We were just giving it a warm safe home. My children and I have looked around to purchase the machine again and that quickly turned into building a custom machine. So before we go full out on everything custom we came up with the idea to buy the parts and build our own version of the Bally Eight Ball machine. We know the game, the rule set, and we can customize it along the way.