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Homepins Spinal Tap!

By Dantesmark

2 years ago


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#494 2 years ago
Quoted from PinMonk:

But it's just like...why? There's a decades old, industry-wide, interchangeable standard, widely available. Why make leg bolts with threading specific to your machine only? It defies logic. I mean AP went with hex cap tops on their Houdini bolts for the steampunk aesthetic, but at least the threading was still standard.

Thre is also another decades old industry standard....EM score reels, yet you aren't suggesting they should stick around. And yes, some manufacturers have displays specific their machine now, so parts aren't interchangeable there. I think we can all agree progress is good with displays....so why not leg bolts and as mentioned, the 100s of other metric parts that are the international standard of measurement!

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#1124 1 year ago
Quoted from shaneo:

Whatever happened to Mike's balls?
Maybe he had a few left over used them in these games, giving the flippers a hard time to make ramp shots.
Tony refused to have them in the Shed. Mumbled something about them magnetizing every thing in the joint!

https://pinballhaus.com/shop/balls/carbon-steel-pinballs/polished-carbon-homepin-pinballs/?v=6cc98ba2045f

#1129 1 year ago
Quoted from pinballaddicted:

Balls are not good quality steel and have been polished a lot. It makes the outer shell really hard. When you start flinging them around a pinball machine they pit and you have steel flakes everywhere.

Is that from recent experience or from years ago? I spoke to an operator who is using these ones in the link and is pretty happy with them. Haven't tried them myself as I have a huge barrel of ball baron ones.

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