Woodridge, IL
My son and I got on this topic. Just wondering if anyone has ever taken the time to estimate how many parts (or things....screws and all) are in one of these new high-end pinball machines such as WoZ.
Thoughts?
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Leeds
P3 has 4000+ total parts / 500+ unique parts.
- Gerry
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Quoted from zacaj:Define 'part'. Is a flipper mech one part? 46?
I am not asking unique parts. I am talking how many parts are in a pinball machine? This would include repeats. For example a car has four tires. Each tire is counted once even though it is identical.
My point is there are a lot of them and we were curious how many there might be.
Flipper Mech would have a lot of parts by my definition of the question.
How about the EOS on the flipper mech? This might usually count as one part BUT we make our own switches.
So that means we have:
one tension plate
two switch leaves
two silver contacts
two bolts
two spring washers
two flat washers
two nuts
two plastic insulating post spacers
three insulating spacers
one mounting bracket
one compression plate (metal)
So we have 20 parts in each of these switches before we assemble the flipper mech.
I can say that there is a LOT more in a pinball machine than I though initially and I'm not game to count them all.
There is more wire than in a Ford Ta..............wait, someone else said that LOLOLOL
I have to start a new thread. When it said "IN" I was hoping for the used parts you find in a coin box. I was going to say "I hope not many in a new one".
Now a game 15 years or more I'd say about 25 - 30 parts IN a machine. Mostly burnt out light bulbs (Ecko), a few rubbers. Maybe a switch in the newer or leaf switch stack older.
Funny, my initial reaction to the question from my son was 10,000. The more I thought about it, I really thought it might be more. Then we started talking about the circuit boards. We both agreed that if it is soldered together, it counts as one 
It really is amazing these things even work when you are all done. In reality it is one of the more complex machines out there.
Fun stuff!
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