Nothing like buying a brand new game to just take it apart. I like to make replacement ramps and wireforms to get plastics out of my games. I enjoy the process and I am always open to selling them as a mod if there is enough interest. I use stainless steel plates and stainless steel rods that are shaped and tig welded by hand. I see the potential to replace the huge plastic ramp assembly on Rush. I have created a different style of ramps for my machines. The bottom is stainless steel plate and the rest is stainless rods. Here are a few pictures of that style of ramp being developed on Star Wars and Mandalorian. For this first attempt on Rush I sketched out sheet music lines with notes. The drawing is what the look will be from over head. The 5 bar lines and notes will be part of the upper rails. Its just a sketch and the metal rails will be spaced and more uniform, but hopefully you can see what I see in my head. Feel free to follow another one of my artistic dementia projects and if it looks like a mod that interests you in the end pm me to be put on the possibly interested list.

You can see my other projects on Loganpinball.com.
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Made first cut on stainless plate. Trying rings, but I will see where this ends up.. i already like the steel ramp over plastic. D0A36C72-CF27-48E6-A4E9-F0C16EBDEEBB (resized).jpeg

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Thanks.

Stopping for tonight. No concept of time when I am welding. I just layed left wireform and ramp switch on to new ramp so you can see where I am headed.

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Almost done with the new ramp… nothing bolted down, I keep checking the forms for issues. This is the proto ramp. I will sell this mod very soon..

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90% done! Right wireform is almost done. I will need to fill a few orders of Mando and Star Wars prior to Rush. I also need to build 2 or 3 sets of these to get labor costs figured out. I charge $50 an hour plus materials. I will post a price when I get to that point and I have a list going. Your not locked on anything, I can get to you on the list and you can pass if you wish to do so. I also want to play test the hell out of this set first to make improvements as needed.
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Thanks! I appreciate that alot. I enjoy creating things with metal and doing artistic stuff in the process. Sometimes I go way too deep. I do not understand why Stern went plastic ramp on it. I decided to cut the top rings off the right wireform to be like the left side. It looks better. I was going to add to the top of the wireform like the ramp, but I think that would be too much. I am very biased, but plastic ramps look cheap. Some things are not screwed down or in place. I just wanted to see the look. I am busy tomorrow with other wireforms, but I will try to get back on this if I can.

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Version 2 in progress. I had a few hang ups to wireform rail on right. I am extending the ramp to solve that and this one I am making this one a all plate ramp.

I got a spot at Pintastic and will be there all day Friday only. If your going stop by and see the Rush. Not sure if I am bringing gnr with my snake mod or Mandalorian with all the ramp mods yet? Very sad when you look at gnr se owners and its only 58.

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Time stamping for myself: 3:42
Almost there. Alot of work to make it this way, but the ball travel and guide mimics plastics.

10:05
Completed ramp.
11:20
Installed optos, switches and mounts..
Ooofa!

I think I found a place to use my 20 year old Canadian change. Its been a long time since I have been to the mother land of Saint Jerome where I was born.
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I just finished the figure it out version today. I had to adjust the back plate by cutting out and replacing a curve section for that diverter arm wall clearance. I can and will do better on the next one now that I have it shaped to proper size.

Heres a video of both ramps and diverter in action. Very fast ramps!

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I agree. I just am not there yet..I have a plasma cutting table, but its a bear to program. So, I cut notches by hand. Then bent them under and welded below. It does improve it overall. Working on this one for Pintastic.

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Minor tweaks and its ready. I added top panels just for the look. I did have to cut out a notch for ramp retaining screw on right side. Play testing now.

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There needs to be a turn point blocking wall on curve to keep ball from jumping off the rail. I am going for a specific look on my machine with this set. The blocking plate alone covers about 1/3 of it, without it the ball jumps out at the turn on hot shots. And I dont like plastic walls on metal ramps visually.

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I might come back to this game again in the future, but there simply has not been enough interest to make a run of these. With Materials and labor it was looking to be $700 plus shipping. I have decided to trade it for a X-men pro as that is another machine that I want to make wireforms for. Thanks for following this mod. Rush is a good game, I just could not get into the music and that also got me wanting to move it along.

I will be trying to make another version of the new metal ramp soon. I also want to see if I can do anything with the dead end shot. I am leaving pinside as a business. I am just waiting on help to deactivate loganpinball currently. Too much negativity on my last 3 mods. I just dont need it in my head anymore. If you are interested in this ramp and wireform mod or the dead end attempt, please follow me on instagram @loganpinball. I post everything there good or bad.
Thanks for the support and following my designs since we started, my email is [email protected]. Please email me over there if you are interested.