Mandeville, LA
For those of you with Rush 2049, any idea how heavy they are?
And are there ways to lighten them?
My game room is upstairs.
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Quoted from RobertWinter:I have two Cruis'n Exoticas in an upstairs gameroom along with a *bunch* of pins and other games and it's fine.
As for getting them upstairs, the most recent one went up in 4 pieces - monitor (glass CRT = HEAVY!), control panel which included the steering wheel feedback motor (also heavy), the main cabinet and the seat section.
Do you know what type of floor joists you have? Mine's a bonus room above the garage, dunno if they build up that floor like a normal 2nd floor.
I have two pins up there but pins are only 250 each.
Quoted from RobertWinter:I don't remember the joist specifics but ours is a bonus room above a 3-car garage. House was built in 2002. I remember checking the load capacity of that room when we first moved in and I am WELL under the limit with everything up there (7 pins, 2 drivers, 2 slots, MAME cabinet, JVL and Megatouch games).
I believe most second story floors are rated for a minimum of 40 lbs/sq. ft. So a 250lb pinball which is spread over 12.5 sq.ft. (5' x 2.5')would only load about 20 lbs/sq.ft. Also, having the games near the walls and not in the center of the room also increases the load bearing capacity. Even though a floor is rated at 40 lbs/sq.ft., a 200 lb man is not going to fall through the floor even though he's standing in an area of less than 1 sq.ft. It spreads the load across the entire square footage.
So take the length and width of your room, multiply those together and then by 40. That should give you a general idea of the capacity for the room. So a 10x20 room would give you about 8,000 lb capacity (10x20x40)! If a pinball is roughly 250 lbs, that would be 32 pins!
Yea the pins aren't that bad but the driver could be 650lbs plus someone sitting on it is approaching 1000lbs which is like 65 lbs/sqft. But if it spreads like you said I guess it's ok?
Mine's 21x12 with no support beams in the garage. Planning on 3 pins, 1 driver, shuffleboard (650lbs), air hockey, mame machine, plus misc benches etc. Prolly total to 3k lbs. Then add people...
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