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My Homebrew Cactus Canyon!

By Ed_in_Texas

7 years ago

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#1 7 years ago

Ed_in_Texas

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After finishing my homebrew Medieval Madness in 2014 (and some more bad influencing by my good friend Wally), I decided to try building a Cactus Canyon. After about a year of sourcing parts and months of working on it (off and on), it's finished. As Wally would say "There's one more CC." I'm very pleased with how it came out. It's really beautiful and plays great. For those not familiar with my (and a few others) homebrew MM or AFM, basically I converted an NBAFB into a CC using all the compatible parts, and buying NOS or reproduction CC parts. I was fortunate to have access to an original CC (pictured on the left... Thanks Gary) to use as a go-by. Here are a few pics of my finished CC. I made a NBAFB to CC Part 1 video after I finished the cabinet and was waiting on my playfield to arrive. I'll get around to making a Part 2 video sooner or later (or make one start to finish video), but in the meantime, here are a few finished pics. Homebrew CC is on the right.
-Ed

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#2 7 years ago

DRJ

jamieflowers

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Sweet!

#3 7 years ago

AJW

Snowman

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Awesome!!!!

#4 7 years ago

BAK

dsuperbee

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10y 82,550 5,564 6

Damn that's amazing. Guessing some of that was really hard to find!

#5 7 years ago

DEF

DefaultGen

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Really cool seeing stuff like this done. This must have been a lot harder than MM. Even has the collectors edition plate

#6 7 years ago

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Shoot_Again

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11y 83,400 8,439 1

Looks great. You should make up a homebrew plaque for it.

#7 7 years ago

LTS

lancestorm

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11y 65,550 1,225 2

So, how much money in parts is this? Not going to factor labor in this at all.

#8 7 years ago

TPD

teekee

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Damn you're building these much faster than PPS! Congrats!

#9 7 years ago

YZF

yzfguy

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Lmao....awesome job! I am so jealous.

#10 7 years ago

HEY

indypinhead

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absolutely stunning.

Good job!

#11 7 years ago

Ed_in_Texas

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Quoted from lancestorm:
So, how much money in parts is this? Not going to factor labor in this at all.

Honestly, I stopped keeping receipts after I hit about $8k just so the wife didn't see lol. If I were to guess, I'd say I'm about $9.5k-$10k in it. It really depends on what you're ok with on your project. For me, I bought a lot of new stuff that I could have used off the NBAFB, but just wanted new (coin door, legs, side rails, DMD, etc.). Count in the hundreds of hours of labor and I would have been better off just buying a nice original. It was never about trying to build it for less, but just the satisfaction of doing it.

#12 7 years ago

Ed_in_Texas

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Quoted from dsuperbee:
Damn that's amazing. Guessing some of that was really hard to find!

At the time I started collecting parts, with the exception of a playfield (pretty important), and a few other things like the mine entrance, a few lamp boards, and some metal ball guides, everything was available. Rick and PPS has done a great job for the hobby in getting things reproduced. PSPA has (had) a treasure trove of NOS parts. Some things had to be fabricated. I did locate a whitewood playfield I was planning on using if printed reproductions were not made. Luckily they were.

#13 7 years ago

BIL

mrbillishere

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Bravo. This is a great hobby.

#14 7 years ago

Ed_in_Texas

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Here is a pic of the underside before building/installing the wiring harness. 2nd pic is near the end of the wiring harness install.

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#15 7 years ago

MAJ

mjenison

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10y 63,050 269 7 9

Congrats on getting this finished!

Yes, that Wally is a bad influence. Now let's see if we can get him to start on that Kingpin remake we've been talking about

#16 7 years ago

WRM

Classic_Stern

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Dallas, TX

10y 51,300 1,597 42

Ed, That is frickin' awesome. The mayor is proud

#17 7 years ago

POP

Nevus

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Pretty damn awesome!

#18 7 years ago

TIM

MT45

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Wow! AMAZING job. Speechless...

#19 7 years ago

BJS

DrStarkweather

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11y 56,800 2,002 4 26

Cool! Next you should make a NBA Fastbreak from scratch!

#20 7 years ago

KIM

Pin_-_K

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Lakeside, TX

10y 62,850 636 31

Ed,

Looks freaking AWESOME !!

Glad to hear you're finally done Wiring her up.

Can't wait to play it !!

Kim

#21 7 years ago

DTY

libtech

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11y 82,650 1,952 42

Thats awsome, that wiring loom would be fun lol! Nice work!

#22 7 years ago

JCD

dmbjunky

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I had thoughts of doing this but after hearing the cost, I'll probably just wait for one to come up for sale. Great Job!

#23 7 years ago

GWC

thepinballworks

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WOW! That is fantastic. Very nice work.

#24 7 years ago

FJB

jasonp

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9y 88,550 1,246 7

Does this pin qualify for the precious HUO status??..Nice Job

#25 7 years ago

Ed_in_Texas

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Quick and dirty game play video:

#26 7 years ago

JSG

Jared

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Rockwall, TX

10y 97,650 3,813 8 12

Absolutely incredible. Great work!!!

#27 7 years ago

HAR

shovelhed

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Napa, CA

11y 83,550 2,383 3 20

Amazing! Thank you for sharing all your hard work with all of us. Monster Bash next?

#28 7 years ago

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frunch

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10y 113K 3,286 10

I'm floored! Excellent job!

Question, if I may: when you needed to have particular parts fabricated, did you make them yourself? If not, is there a person/place that does that kind of work? There's a simple sheet metal ball ramp for my Seawitch that I've been looking to replace, but they're NLA. I've read that cliffy has been contacted about making a repro, and he may eventually do it, but I'm sure he's a very busy guy... Anyways, just thought I'd ask since you must have run into some pretty interesting dilemmas along the way putting that thing together. Again, excellent job on the CC!

#29 7 years ago

aeneas

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10y 68,550 1,404

Impressive, congratulations !

Did you try to keep it all as original or did you change some things / make improvements ?

#30 7 years ago

BAS

BasD

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Friesland

10y 26,150 147 10

Stunning work!well done.
Always good to see that is was made because it could be made.

Greetings,

Bas

#31 7 years ago

ZZZ

MiamiRedSkin

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The amount of talent on this forum is unbelievable. What an awesome achievement.

#32 7 years ago

KJM

kmoore88

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Very impressive. Well done!

#33 7 years ago

JAW

jawjaw

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Humble, TX

8y 84,550 5,320 6

That is just too cool! I don't know how you can top that in the pinball world.

#34 7 years ago

Ed_in_Texas

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Quoted from frunch:
I'm floored! Excellent job!
Question, if I may: when you needed to have particular parts fabricated, did you make them yourself? If not, is there a person/place that does that kind of work? There's a simple sheet metal ball ramp for my Seawitch that I've been looking to replace, but they're NLA. I've read that cliffy has been contacted about making a repro, and he may eventually do it, but I'm sure he's a very busy guy... Anyways, just thought I'd ask since you must have run into some pretty interesting dilemmas along the way putting that thing together. Again, excellent job on the CC!

Some of the NLA parts, I fabricated myself (like the two outer plates on the mine gearbox assembly... which is the same on MB). Other items such as the horizontal arm in the bad guy assembly, I had reproduced. Most of the metal ball guides were measured and put into CAD files (Thanks Wally) and laser cut by a stainless steel company. I then bent them into shape myself. For the Mine entrance, I turned to Mantis Amusements who reproduced that part along with some other parts that he was already making.

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#35 7 years ago

Ed_in_Texas

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Quoted from aeneas:
Impressive, congratulations !
Did you try to keep it all as original or did you change some things / make improvements ?

I tried keeping everything as original as possible. There are some small difference. For example, on the apron, I used the NBAFB apron. After I stripped and repainted it, applied decals, drilled holes for the flashers, and added the guns, I realized I forgot to cut the shooter sight window (NBAFB and other WPC95 games that have a ball launch button do not have a shooter sight window). For now, I'm just leaving it as-is.

#36 7 years ago

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pinballwil

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Impressive, great job.

#37 7 years ago

DAD

fish1975tx

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Houston, TX

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Amazing projects between AFM, MM, and now CC!

#38 7 years ago

TLZ

timtim

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wow that's too cool

#39 7 years ago

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cavalier88z24

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I want to play

#40 7 years ago

Ed_in_Texas

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Midlothian, TX

12y 89,400 1,204 12 11

Completed playfield wiring harness. Just finished zip tying up. Not too shabby

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#41 7 years ago

DRM

Honch

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Very nice.

#42 7 years ago

WAZ

wallybgood

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Hey Ed
That came out looking really great! Well done.
Wally

#43 7 years ago

WEB

Magic_Mike

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Atlanta, GA

10y 56,550 2,985 20

Time to get CCC installed to make it complete.

#44 7 years ago

Ed_in_Texas

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Midlothian, TX

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My wife has mad photoshop skills and put this together for me
Instruction card is next.

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#45 7 years ago

POP

Nevus

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Okay, I'm literally green with envy. Great job Ed.

#46 7 years ago

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frunch

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OP
Quoted from Ed_in_Texas:
Some of the NLA parts, I fabricated myself (like the two outer plates on the mine gearbox assembly... which is the same on MB).....

Thanks for all the info and extra pics! And congrats again on an amazing job!

#47 7 years ago

CMK

kaneda

Blocked

9y 3,198

Ahhhhhhhmazing! You made one of the most amazing pins even better.

#48 7 years ago

MJD

PinballMikeD

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Jacksonville, FL

10y 78,150 3,015 2

Very impressive. Well done.

3 weeks later

#49 7 years ago

Ed_in_Texas

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12y 89,400 1,204 12 11

Quoted from Magic_Mike:
Time to get CCC installed to make it complete.

Boom!

#50 7 years ago

epthegeek

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Hey Ed, you need to recompile pypinproc with the color layering fix.

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