GOOD LUCK MY FRIEND!!!

I had an obsession with that game.. finally found a pretty nice one after going thru 2-3 fixer uppers and my ramp is not 100%.. but not brutally hacked.. that ramp is a BITCH to find in anything less than 3 pieces with some sort of wacky tape job on the left!!

I actually bought a busted up game just for extra parts for my game... but yeah the ramp on that one was trashed and much worse than mine

be patient - and IF you really like the game.. maybe find a person selling a nice one (yes you will have to pay $2K or so or more for a nice one with nice ramp and not worn out) and then sell your game off.

This is one of THE most undervalued games out there by "book" or "comp" value.

I like it so much that I have a constant search for anything for HMM on ebay and snagged an extra populated playfield for the extra parts and made a coffee table out of the playfield!

I have numerous pix of the 4-5 HMM's I have had (finally settled on the one I have as my keeper) but the one is of the playfield before coffee table status and the other is just one of the ramp wacky tape jobs !

will shoot out here a few more of other ramps I have seen and had and the coffee table 80% finalized (yet to paint the lower legs and such (they gotta be black and yellow and orange and silver - NOT wood color as it is now!)

HEAVY....... METAL........ MELTDOWN

rock on!

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I think my plastic is all beat to hell (as is my fiberglass reinforced ramp) but I'll check when I get to my studio tonight. If it's decent I'll throw it on the scanner bed.

Pinsider Freeplay did the high speed clear ramp and he might be able to help you on the ramp vac form project . I have one of his ramps and it fit well.

Well, not only is my "Level 1" plastic broken, it's not even the right one compared to the pics. Someone custom made mine. Sorry about that...

I'd be willing to go in on a new ramp if one were to suddenly become available.

Art.

I admire your creative tenacity and I hope you get your ramp reproduced. Please keep the pics coming so I (and many others) can watch the process. Good luck and keep jammin' with your HEAVY....... METAL........ MELTDOWN

YOU GO MAN!!! YOU GO!!

hair metal died with Nirvana.... CFH keeps the dream alive!!!!

I swear this pin is so undervalued! I spent SO long looking for 1 and went thru 3-4 games before "settling" on the one I have

Hey CFH if you want to add some "metal" guitar mods to your playfield I can send you pix of what I did, just to spruce things up... The little guitar hero figures have accessory pack guitars... well... you can guess what I did. GAME BEGS FOR LED lighting too!

That boom box topper needs some sort of lighting/effects/or something MOD wise... don't know what,,,, and I am not "good enough" to rig it up.. but that big ole dummy box up there with a red light in it that glows brigher as you lock balls is not much of a build up to multi-ball...

AND OH YEAH on that topic (multi-ball) - is it just my game or my angle but when the 5 balls release and drop down toward the flippers do they just about drain right down the pipe.. I found that I have to time the release and give the game a good nudge and side kick to scatter them a bit (of course tilt plumb bob is not even hooked up, HA)

open trivia question:

is this game the first one that came "pre-modded" from Bally? that is.. the pinblades-innercab side mirror blades? HUMMMMMMM... I know another 6803 game , Bally's Blackwater 100 had the beautiful side art (giving that game so much depth it is awesome)

I heard a funny story from Dayhuff once. He had a stack of ten unknown NOS ramps that he was carting around to shows and selling for like $20 or something. Someone picked up the last one and paid him for it and was like "I've been looking for a nice HMM forever!". He must've smacked his forehead.

I had luck getting a nice plastic set as well as a nice ramp off of RPG five or so years ago. I fixed the game up and sold it quickly because I didnt wanna be around when that ramp broke again. Too bad I sold it for $600...

*smacks forehead*

Really really fun theme!

Anxious to see how this works out. Good luck.

awesome!

I will take and extra please once you get it perfected!

Awesome stuff! So glad someone's doing this, would love to pick this title up some day.

looks pretty good for a first attempt!

Nice work Clay!

That looks really tight ! Great job.

Hope you make a video to put on ninja! Would be real cool to see a tutorial on how to make this

Great job, there is a lot to be learned from this thread.

Can I get one?

Happy to make another donation to the museum to fund it?

Tell me how much.

That's turning out really nice. What material are you using?

Very impressive. I am too curious on what material is used

Can you pull me one please? No need to cut it to size if too much time for that. Seems like all the efforts to make the mold should pull a few more sheets through it.

Would be greatly appreciated!

Just tell me a price.

Very cool Clay. Has to be worth it since it's not available. Just curious were you get the petg from?

"What you talkin bout Wilson"....of course it was worth it, you made a ramp when there were none available. You can make some money now, the hard part is done. You will be THE guy to go to for a HM ramp, you all ready have people lined up to buy it. Go for it, you'll make a lot of people VERY happy.

How much to just pull me an uncut blank? I can take care of the cut out and clean up.

Looks great.

I have had good luck making patterns out of gauging plaster if you are looking for an alternative to auto body filler (Bondo). I just mix it up and pour it into the ramp, it will set in under an hour and can be easily sanded very smooth and also more can be added to the surface to touch up any air pockets. I just put clear shipping tape over the ends of the ramp to seal the ramp up so the plaster would not run out.

The problem is that it is not as tough as Bondo would be be. You can put some window screen into the plaster before it hardens to act like remesh does in concrete. The most important is to make sure the backside that you putting onto your vacuum forming table is flat so the plaster pattern is well supported across the entire backside and won't crack.

Good work. The 2nd run looks awesome, becasue the 1st was a total shit show

Great job! These are the type of threads that make Pinside great. I thoroughly enjoyed reading through this information. Thank you.

Nice write up, Clay.

Nice work Clay!

Love that Bally SBA sign over the door.

Yeah, if ya don't know how to work with that stuff it can be a pain. Try messin with Tiger Hair sometime.

At least it's blue and not dildo pink.

Leave it to you vid.

Thanks for the video! That was very informative.