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Y'all are making this WAY to difficult. Ream/file/drill the housing so a sleeve fits and sand down the inside of the sleeve with a dowel or drill bit with sand paper wrapped around it.

Completely agree Lloyd.....it's a thread you can't let go because..... part is disbelief, part is good natured fun, and no hate whatsoever. A refreshing change from what goes around here most times....

I prefer the glow in the dark shooter sleeves.

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Have no fear, o-din is here.

Since you only wanted the end ball to match, take the shaft part to a wire wheel and remove the paint only on it.

Then you will have the painted ball you desire, and the function you require.

Then I hope you did the outside spring too or it's gonna look funky.

that would be more functional than what this shooter rod assembly ever will be.

Even if you get this to work. It will work for MAYBE 100 plunges. Then you know what happens? The powdercoat starts to scrape off. WHat happens when it scrapes off? IT becomes a powder paste. WHat does that lead to? A jammed up shooter housing. Now your nice slippery slide action you had, with steel against plastic. Is now a paint/powdercoat powder shitmess, all jammed up inside your housing. So it's going to be nice looking useless catshit.

Powdercoated housings are a common mod, as are custom rod HANDLES only ( all of mine glow)....complete trurh....you really need to get that off the rod, leave it on the handle, and powder the barrel spring.

You'll still get the effect you're looking for, and game will play fine. You only see about 1.5" anyway (except when briefly plunging), and the barrel spring w handle gives the look you are after.

Risk vs reward way to great here.....take this route and enjoy your game.....fun post, however....thanks

You need to powder coat all the rubber rings too!
Hey, seriously though, is the ball on the end of the shooter rod metal? I guess it must be if it is powder coated. I have just not seen a shooter rod with a metal ball, only plastic...

NM, answered my own Q. I guess these metal ones are just way above my pay grade! Yikes!

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Exactly! This is why powder coating a shooter rod shaft makes no sense, shiny steel on a shooter sleeve is the only way this concept works over time. And the fact that you literally only see about an inch of it under the spring barrel makes this idea comical.

I mean, I understand you think it's awesome and all, but I'm sure the guy who did this thought it was awesome too.

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This thread turned into a "I don't like it so it must be stupid" fest

It physically doesn't work, so it's a bit more nuanced than that.

Give the guy some time.

Not to mention to protect the shooter rod surface.

it will not work, it can't work and it's just going to bind up soon after even if he does manage to get it working for awhile. even if it does work for a bit, it's going to work like crap the entire time, because powdercoat provides at least 78% more resistance, than smooth steel.

Well, the good news is, on TOM the plunger really doesn't have to do much. Only 78 % force is needed compared to other games to get the ball into play.

i say put it on with the powder coat and leave it all gold. that way you can't play it, and in 20 years it will be in excellent shape.....

that is true. If it was TOTAN that would be even more of a shitfest

Let him find that out for himself, it's his pin, he can do what he wants with it.

Do you have access to a Bridgeport machine?

It could work, without binding. It is just going to be a pain to get the fit correct and find a sleeve that will fit. I am following this thread because I want to see the outcome from a hardware standpoint. For now, just remember. Opinions are like buttholes.

i think this shooter rod would fit in a butthole without modification

But would it fit if you powder coated both the rod and the butthole?

I have NO issue with this...

I repainted my entire Crescendo playfield with UV-reactive highlights and clearcoated it.
I came up with a new mod for Tron when I was on my 2nd one.
I put googley-eyes on my STTNG that had full purple armor, and it sold at TPF.
I'm going to fully convert my WPT into a Voltron custom pin.

Where you've run into problems is that you brought the issue here looking for advice, then chose to completely IGNORE that advice and not even consider the fact that you might be the one in the wrong. This isn't the "mod removers club" thread... I don't think anyone at all gives a hoot that you were trying to do something unique..most of us like that. But the way you went about it without considering the consequence, and then the willful ignorance and stubbornness.....meh. It went from just simply being absurd and funny to bordering on wondering if this entire thing was, and continues to be, a finely engineered troll post.

Probably, even if you don't smear novus 2 all over it first.

Pinside created this powdercoated monster. And now, like the vicious Sloth Bear, it wants to eat it's young.

Time to give it a rest. Pinside is so funny...it's generally frowned upon to violate the "be nice" rule, but every now and then there is one these near-unanimous monkey piles where it's considered "ok" to abuse somebody and everybody gets in on it and lets out all of their pent up aggression.

The guy knows we all think he's doing something pretty stupid and he doesn't care. At this point we've all gotten our licks in and another 2 pages of us telling him an idiot isn't gonna change anything.

So I say Semper Fi - it's time to help this Marine find his way back to base and powdercoat the shit out of the enemy base!

I'm pretty sure that Pinside had nothing do with with the way he responded after asking for advice. And it's hilarious how nobody EVER says something like that when *I'm* the one getting trashed, and the dogpile is about 5x larger than this.

Violating the 'be nice' rule is frowned upon? Since when. This place has been a shark tank for a long time from what I can see. If you have any opinion outside the majority, you're going to get torn a new one on a semi-frequent basis....but I was used to that from the boards I used prior to this one so....whatever. Guess I have a thick skin...I've definitely been accused of the same thing I'm saying he's doing..being a stubborn mofo, so..

F'n A! Where's the pics? Unite!

Cmon GreenMarine shows these guys it can be done..I believe in you!!

PM incoming. No need to derail thread here.

I don't think the OP is ignoring advice. His question was do you need a shooter sleeve. The answer was yes. He is now trying to see if he can make this work in some way with the shooter sleeve. What he is ignoring is all the people who called him stupid and said that this will never work. It may be the case that this will never work, but he has already powder coated the rod, so he might as well try at this point. It's not like he was asking IF he should powder coat the rod. He already did. Having done it, why not try it? The worst that will happen is that it won't work, in which case he has a back-up clean rod and housing ready to install. I'm not sure why there is so much hostility to the OP in this thread. It's his game. Let him powder coat what he wants.

Lol you took the abuse pretty well, I enjoy the humor - good luck with your quest to sleeve your shooter! I do agree that you lost a lot of the slickness of the bare metal but as pointed out.. on TOM it doesn't matter much. Interested to see your final solution. Could wrap thin teflon around shooting housing hole?

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But on a serious note, have you considered taking all of the coils apart and powder coating the copper wire? It would look sharp as Hell.

I agree with what others have said, drill the shooter housing oversized and 3d print a nylon or delrin bushing with an ID and OD to fit. It's not like shooter housings are rare, expensive parts to replace.

For those reading this as a learning experience.

Also. Never ever powdercoat a drop target bank assembly. it will be useless and unable to work. Just in case anyone was wondering. nip it in the butt now, before someone attempts it.

"Nip it in the butt"? lol

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That was my suspicion from the get-go. And with the thread slowing down, the OP has resorted to name calling to get the ball rolling again. And it's working, he got me to respond.

So, you guys think the OP purposefully powder coated a shooter rod for the sole purpose of starting a troll thread on pinside? Please have a little more faith in humanity.

He put up with quite a few members calling him names.

Nah, but I'd believe that someone didn't specify to their PC place how to do it exactly, and then found it amusing and might have tried to get a rise out of the situation.

And yeah....I really don't know why anyone would have faith in humanity. We are about the dumbest creatures on the planet. #nosarcasmtag

the OP has been a great sport about this, IMO. even if he doesn't get it to fit, at least he has a sense of humility. which unfortunately for him, you can't powder coat

But if you could...

IT'D BE FREAKIN GOLD AS S__T, DAWG!