Has anyone experimented building a non-electric pinball machine? Seems, in my mind, like it could be super fun if the flippers were powerful enough. You could still do ramps, bells and all sorts of gadgets. Any photos?
Has anyone experimented building a non-electric pinball machine? Seems, in my mind, like it could be super fun if the flippers were powerful enough. You could still do ramps, bells and all sorts of gadgets. Any photos?
Quoted from WeLoveScott:Has anyone experimented building a non-electric pinball machine? Seems, in my mind, like it could be super fun if the flippers were powerful enough. You could still do ramps, bells and all sorts of gadgets. Any photos?
You mean like a bagatelle?
Quoted from WeLoveScott:Has anyone experimented building a non-electric pinball machine? Seems, in my mind, like it could be super fun if the flippers were powerful enough. You could still do ramps, bells and all sorts of gadgets. Any photos?
How are you going to make anything that is supposed to move the ball powerful enough to do jack without electricity or some overly complicated mechanism. Go take the glass off a game, put your finger in front of a flipper and fire it off.
Does it have to be homebrew? A lot of pure mechanical pinball machines (we're talking pre-war stuff from the 30s) had some incredibly creative mechanical engineering to do all sorts of tricks.
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