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Show and Tell: Your DIY Homemade Tools

By mof

10 years ago

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Post #2 Block shooter lane to raise the playfield without removing your balls. Posted by mof (10 years ago)

Post #3 Light bulb remover. Posted by mof (10 years ago)

Post #8 Gritgetter holds a rag with Novus to remove ball trails in hard to reach places. Posted by tracelifter (10 years ago)

Post #16 Link to homemade CNC router. Posted by vid1900 (10 years ago)

Post #20 Lock picks and tension wrench. Posted by Fanatic (10 years ago)

Post #21 Roll pin remover. Posted by KenH (10 years ago)

Post #24 Raised playfield stabilizer. Posted by mof (10 years ago)

Post #26 Link to pinball dolly using an ATV/motorcycle lift as a starting point. Posted by JeffZee (10 years ago)

Post #28 Soldering platform. Posted by OuttaSpace (10 years ago)

Post #31 Inexpensive pinball dolly. Two wheels, a handle, and some scrap 2x4. Posted by SchertzPinball (10 years ago)

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#601 3 years ago

Cmartin1235

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Kansas City, KS

6y 57,550 731 8 8

Ball Shooter Rod Assembly Hole Locator:

Problem: My home brew is non-standard in so many ways I could not use a template to be sure and get my shooter rod located in the exact center of my shooter lane.

Solution: I 3D printed 1 1/16 inch "half pinballs" to wrap around and offset a dowel which I could lay down in the grove of the shooter lane. Once this checked out, I put a tip on the dowel and dipped it in paint. With the dowel centered by the offsets I slid the dowel against the inside of the cabinet transferring a dot of paint to the wood. After drilling a pilot hole from the inside of the cabinet, the rest was easy.

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#602 3 years ago

Cmartin1235

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Kansas City, KS

6y 57,550 731 8 8

Need a small hole but your drill won’t fit next to all the mechs? Sharpen a welding (filler) rod. Work great even though there are no spirals and pushes right through 1/2” Playfield plywood.

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#713 2 years ago

Cmartin1235

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6y 57,550 731 8 8

I’ve been bending 1/8” steel rod, making wireforms for a homebrew, and in the process, wearing out my thumbs. Some bends are particularly difficult to make such as a bend in the Z direction when there is a radius already established in the X,Y plane. Another problem is that when using my thumbs, getting a bend to land in the spot where I want is tricky. Today I came up with these plastic jaws that slide on to my channel locks. They work surprising well bending the rod precisely and with a 60% infill the jaws are durable. This jaw can bend the rod either up or down depending on the insertion point. In the background you can see a different configuration jaw which bends a different shape. I also have a third configuration with a tighter radius.

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#721 2 years ago

Cmartin1235

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Kansas City, KS

6y 57,550 731 8 8

cottonm4 Regarding the channel lock jaws, I drafted them in Fusion360 to match the width of my channel locks. It took a bit of trial and error to get the thicknesses correct so they would not crack and the jaws would line up roughly parallel with 1/8" gap in between. I printed them with PTEG at 60% density. They hold up fairly well but I expect to have to print extras as they wear out. I do my larger bends by hand and use the "thumb saver jaws" to make the smaller bends when tuning the shape.

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#759 2 years ago

Cmartin1235

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Kansas City, KS

6y 57,550 731 8 8

3D printed cyclone sawdust separator: works like a charm!

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