Canton, MI
Nice work Clay! Really who does this? Not me...
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I love how no room or appliance in Clay's house is safe from being used to repair pinball machines. I don't know that I will ever try this, but its good to know how to do it in case the need arises.
Very nice...and yes, obnoxious is accurate for HMM. 
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I've watched many vacuum forming videos, but something about seeing the process of glopping on bondo to the existing ramp and seeing it sanded down to make a positive mold (then forming off of it and finessing corners), then installed makes it so much more enjoyable to watch. I also like that he put metal ramp protectors on it right away so it won't crack again. Wonder if other owners of heavy metal meltdown are going to start contacting Clay now for replacement ramps 
Superb tutorial, but where is Clays wife when he was in the kitchen. Mine makes me use the grill outside, I am never allowed in the kitchen unsupervised, However she does help. 
Quoted from SteveinTexas:Superb tutorial, but were is Clays wife when he was in the kitchen.
She's going to kick his ass when she sees this video.
I love his videos.
So serious but with a bit of humour.
"Meltdown!" "Meltdown!" At the time of the plastic lowering down onto the form was genius.
Well done! (No pun intended)
Whatever happened to Starship Fantasy and the continuance of Pinball Inc.s ramp business? Did the just buy the current stock and give up on making anything else? It has been a long time waiting for WCS 94 ramps which were supposed to be "next".
This video makes me want to just make my own... or wait for someone else to do the same and sell a few extras.
Awesome! I have a checkpoint ramp I want to do this to... curious about that bondo process. How do you get the original ramp out, does it not stick much?
Quoted from Sheprd:Whatever happened to Starship Fantasy and the continuance of Pinball Inc.s ramp business? Did the just buy the current stock and give up on making anything else? It has been a long time waiting for WCS 94 ramps which were supposed to be "next".
This video makes me want to just make my own... or wait for someone else to do the same and sell a few extras.
Just ordered a new taxi arrival ramp from them yesterday. Don't know if they're making ramps for not, but they sell them.
Quoted from toyotaboy:Wonder if other owners of Heavy Metal Meltdown are going to start contacting Clay now for replacement ramps
Quite possible.
Quoted from Whysnow:I will take and extra please once you get it perfected!
Quoted from Whysnow:Can I get one?
Quoted from Whysnow:Can you pull me one please?
Quoted from Whysnow:How much to just pull me an uncut blank? I can take care of the cut out and clean up.
Quoted from lyzanxia:Is pinballninja site down for everyone?
Great instructional video!! Absolutely appreciate all the work Clay does for the pinball community.
Thank-you
thanks for the nice comments!
wife was actually OK with the affair. now if i coated the oven with plastic, i'm sure that story would have been different. but that didn't happen. this is why when people ask me for this ramp, i basically not really interested. because the risk is there, and the last thing i need to do is risk my relationship with her making a part for someone else! i'm crazy, but not stupid. (or is it the other way around??)
Quoted from cfh:and the last thing i need to do is risk my relationship with her making a part for someone else! i'm crazy, but not stupid. (or is it the other way around??)
I think she must be the crazy one
to be married to you. 
My wife would kick my ass if I were doing this in our oven. I'm still shocked she let me wash a wiring harness in the dish washer.
I love vac forming stuff. I have seen a lot of that done for Stormtrooper armor. It's an art, for sure. I watched a guy make 50 sets of armor in his wife's kitchen over about an hour once. Cool stuff.
No, Clay, you're not stupid. Not at all. You are, however, f 'in wacked in the head. Probably from sniffing catalyzed clear, cyanoacrylate glue, butyrate dope, and whatever else you've used to restore pinball machines/playfields. Not to mention the acid you took with Norm when making your original pinball repair videos on VHS tape.
Glad you're still around!
Greg
Clay is unbelievable. Years ago the guy took the time and effort to give the rest of us a clue on how to maintain these bloody machines and he's still blowing minds today... Pinball Nobel prize to that guy! Clay, thank you!
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