I would absolutely like to take you up on that offer...once I get caught up on current orders. Excalibur is definitely on my list of goals to get done at some point. If I plan everything right and things go as excpected, a ramp like this could be turned around in 1-2 weeks. That would mean a finished prototype to stick back in your machine. I will definitely be in contact once I have a bit of time opened up to take this on. Thanks!!

I'd like to chat more about what MRS switch you recommend. I am not against this, it just needs to be as bulletproof as the traditional mechanical switches.

See above discussion

That one is too big for my machine, unfortunately. Big ramps are also a big pain to ship for me...larger boxes are expensive to buy/ship to me, then take a lot of packing material to fill, and then cost a lot to ship to you. Spacewise, my little shop can't handle all that very well. So for now, I'll leave the biggest ramps to the big guys. Some day, if I build a decent size shop, i'll look into doing the big ramps. Right now, I play Tetris with my work stations, and pretty much just pull one out at a time while I am doing one part of the process.

Right now, I am finishing up the rest of the initial Road Show orders this week. The first batch of Road kings has shipped, and I would like to knock out the bulk of those left on the list this weekend. After that, a batch of Checkpoint ramps, experimental molds for Torpedo Alley mountains, then possibly the Excalibur ramp.

$25 per switch...I am not sure if everyone would be down with that, but I could probably make the ramps work both ways with a little forethought.

Weekend update:
If you are a USA and I have not contacted you about Road Kings ramps, please PM me. I am currently having trouble tracking down the USPS customs label pouches for international customers. The post office told me the manufacturer is having trouble getting the plastic they use to make them. I have a bunch on order, but they have not shipped yet.

I added a handful of Cue Ball Wizard trays to my Pinside store, so they are now back in stock.

I'll be running the left hand ramps for Road Show this week for the folks who only wanted that ramp.

I wound up ordering something off Amazon that looks to be the same thing as the official USPS pouch without the USPS legalese on it. That should work!
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07ZJCHZF3/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o00_s00

This looks great, thank you!

Thank you, I am looking forward to seeing all of these hitting machines in the next week or two!

I do not have that one on my radar, but I will keep it in mind if there is enough interest.

I have a local donor lined up, but I am currently just barely staying ahead of orders for ramps I already make...having two big new releases hit last month was a big undertaking. Once I get ahead a bit, Excalibur is going to get done right after the Torpedo Alley mountains.

Thank you!! 2 weeks is not too shabby at all considering what a mess things are here in the states.

Probably looking at sometime early fall on these.

Thank you!! I am glad they got there safely...I have had a lot of ramps travel out to the west coast in the last month or so.

Right now, I am going to pass on that one.

Thank you!! Your English sounds great from here!

September update:
We are currently in the middle of the small window of time in Pennsylvania where the weather is actually nice....so my ramp making time has been somewhat shortened. My day job is still working me as many OT hours as they can get...unprecedented times going on right now. I overdid it a bit in July having four new large ramps launch simultaneously...so a break was needed

As of right now, I am only shipping ramps I have in stock...there will be somewhat of a delay in making any more runs. I am partially finished with another batch of Road Show ramps, and just about everything else has at least some back stock. Playfield windows are OOS for the time being until I get my router upgraded and fixed.

I have a yet-to-be announced new ramp coming once the master arrives, so we can expect that in early October. I will also be spending some time on the Torpedo Alley molds in the next couple weeks. These molds are going to be very different than a usual ramp mold, so nothing is guaranteeing them to pan out at this point.

PM sent

I am going to have a couple Road Show sets left out of this batch, and that will probably be it for a couple months. PM me if you would like a set from this batch. Also ran a Gold Wings ramp in yellow for a customer....first ever request for that one!

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Torpedo Alley update:
Yesterday was one of those days I started to feel like I've bit off more than I can chew. When making my molds, the original parts did not want to release, and I completely destroyed 2 of the 3 mountains getting them out. I knew this could happen, and these are much more fragile than a usual ramp. Well, my worst nightmare came true. I figured my Torpedo Alley machine may have just donated its life to science.

So today, I finished off the molds and gave them a trial run. To my relief, they seemed to work pretty well. The detail seemed to reproduce pretty faithfully. After cutting them out, I decided to use some paint I had here to do a very basic paint job to see how they would look. The paint was thrown together a bit hastily, but the factory seemed to do the same...haha
I need to get the right paint for this plastic, but this should give you guys a decent idea on how well the molds turned out. I have to do some work to the ball openings yet, and spot all the mounting holes. I am also going to be offering new clear protective plastics to go with these, because yours are probably just as yellowed as my originals are.

At the end of the day, my original mountains gave their life to better the pinball world...so they should be proud of themselves for that at least.

I'll be taking names for these if anyone is wanting to purchase a set. PM me your email address and I'll add you to the que. I will determine the price shortly. These most likely will be sold as clear parts, to be painted by the purchaser.

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I love helping keep these games going! You heard it here first...the "Zip" ramp in the middle of the picture for Mousin' Around is coming next. Should be doing the test pull this weekend!

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Thanks, Gary!

I am looking at having clear back stickers made to reproduce the text on these. I just need to learn some illustrator skills. The fonts seem pretty standard, I just need to stretch the text boxes to fit the given size.

Making progress on the next Mousin' Around ramp. I have about a week of tuning in to do yet, but you get the idea.

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CNC router is back in business....time to run some new flat plastics and also catch up on some things I have been out of.

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