I would buy 4 units and 8 foam replacements.
Foam replacements are an immediate need. The units are something I will buy to support and love the 2 way spin option
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I would buy 4 units and 8 foam replacements.
Foam replacements are an immediate need. The units are something I will buy to support and love the 2 way spin option
Quoted from Isochronic_Frost:Apologies, didn’t mean to leave anyone hanging.
I guess I should be a responsible thread owner and give you folks an honest update:
As of yet, no tangible progress has been made. I’ve spoken with different shops and tradesmen in the business to try and find the best, most efficient method.
After factoring in costs, I’m pretty confident I won’t really make any money on these. Regardless I am still dedicated to producing these *hopefully* this year. Without me reproducing them I doubt anyone will EVER make them. In the interest of inevitable future maintenance existing Orbitor 1’s will undoubtably require, having these available should come in handy, comparable to the guy who reproduced the tube dancer for BBB.
On another peripheral note, I have started operating locally with a local arcade owner.
There is also even bigger news I’m not able to disclose just yet.
The purpose of my mentioning this is because while juggling these two business ventures this year I will be working out these spinning bumper replacements in the background.
This is not to discourage any of you who responded and are waiting. I want to be honest and open that this is a real project I’m working on, and progress will most likely be intermittent but I will do my best to keep you informed moving forward.
Thanks very much for the honest and open reply. I am VERY thankful that you are doing this.
If you need any help from the community then just ask. If you want to; then I am guessing we could put out the information you already have and ask the larger community for help. There are all sorts of smart minds and connections here.
If you know the material, size, specs, process it will take; then I bet there is a pinsider that has the ability to assist getting these made.
Quoted from Isochronic_Frost:Thank you! That thread reminded me to announce, Opto board is out will be duped soon! Orbitor replacement bumper assemblies are moving forward!
awesome news!!!
How much (even a general range) are you expecting this to be?
I would think that the red bumpers could be justified.
Seems like pretty good amount of interest. I would guess that at least 100 game owners would happily buy a pair and some (like me) would happily buy 2 sets.
Quoted from Isochronic_Frost:If we make 1000 and we had 100 owners interested in at least a set, that still leaves 800 of them extra.
If some people buy extras, at best maybe 300 are accounted for, so 700 extra.
How many Orbitors do we think still exist? Surely less than half of them. So the unfortunate bit is that no matter what, there will be a lot of extra bumpers laying around.
I misunderstood. I thought pbr need $1000 worth, not 1000 pieces.
I can see many people buying a pair of full set ups PLUS extra bumpers
I would buy four full sets and 10 bumpers
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