I'm interested, but I have a couple of questions.

1) What size rivets do you use to install the angle brackets to the stainless steel strips? Are you using the small head rivets like factory or are you using a larger head/larger shank rivet?

2) Are the guide strips elevated up and away from the play field surface or are they riding hard against the play field?

Thank you.

I will be in for one set.

I'm not at home to look at my Seawitch but I think you have what is needed.

I don't know how others feel about this but you should consider producing the one-way ball gate, too. All it is is a 1" piece of aluminum angle and approximately 6" of .010" of stainless steel riveted to the angle to make a one way flap door.

Length 15 cm = 5.90 inches.

You would need to make the gate one inch to two inches longer.

Why? Because when you hit a ball going into the orbit from the left side and as it flies around it slams into the gate and makes the gate flex which throws off how the ball is supposed to travel. The gate flexes and drops down and sort of springs back and pushes the ball away from the right upper flipper. This makes it hard to get a double orbit shot.

A gate that is two inches longer allows for some tension to be preloaded into the gate and helps to get a more solid shot. I took my Cliffy gate off within a couple of hours of installing it and made one from polycarbonate that I was able to tension to a point where I get no flex.

Two inches might be a bit too long but any excess can be clipped of with some tin snips and the length can be fine tuned.

I understand about the finish now. I need #8 mirror finish. Please cancel my Seawitch ball guide order.

Ball trails in stainless are easily polished out.

I took one of the pieces I got in the mail and hit it with the buffing wheel. It did polish up nicely. The scratches polished up, too. This look may work for some of you. But if you want mirror finish you will need to sand with progressively finer grits of sandpaper---sort of like that 2nd video. Only you will have to do it all by hand because your parts are already roll formed and the rivets are installed. You will not do any machine sanding on that. It is all hand power, baby.

Plus, for the largest piece, the ball inlet guide at top of the play field, for safety's sake you need to make a wooden jig to screw it onto, otherwise you risk having the buffing wheel grab it, bend it, twist it, and throw it across the room and possibly make injury to you.

Can they be mirror polished? Sure. And I will have to do that. But I figure 4-5 hours of my time for each set. Figure $20.00 an hour, I would have paid a bit more for mirrored units.

The construction quality is simply fantastic ! The way the rivets are set on the backside very clean looking. If you have no problem with grained surface you will do fine.