cool, Skateball Club

I had one and sold off a while ago but still have a unpopulated playfield as well as a populated playfield with full harness and want to get some boards and get it running in the near future in skeleton form.

I will be attempting a flipper upgrade

great game Tommy, miss having one, still on the lookout and still have a populated playfield as well

here are the complete rules thanks to the help from multiple people (from another thread I had)

Skateball_Rules_(resized).jpg

your right Tommy that is not looking like an accurate reproduction - colours and shading

does anyone have a medium to hi-res photo of the back of the backglass?

the flipper is a C609

http://www.pbresource.com/flippers.html

or

https://www.bigdaddy-enterprises.com/forsale/flippers.html

skateball 2 looks nice

I have a populated skateball playfield if you need any pics just let me know if no one can share what you need - playfield is under the house - will did out later

photos sent to your email Tommy

I have one in my populated playfield that I will make a 3d model and dimension up if that helps

modeled up and just have to work out the dimensioning

gate1 (resized).png

here is the sketch - sorry I work in millimetres and this is fairly close without making one

- 1.4mm dia wire
- I drew the centre line of the wire form and then 1.5mm radius at each turn and then added the radius throughout the shape - hence some of the slightly off dimensions

hope it helps

and also available here for printing off a template
https://www.shapeways.com/product/NZZ3W6VA5/skateball-shooter-lane-gate-wire

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yes they print metal, via 0.1mm layers of metal dust then the join with applying a special glue then once finished they carefully remove the part and dip into a special liquid metal solution that goes to the areas of the glue and replaces the glue with metal.

Note about this metal part is it can be printed in metal but not ideal as not sure how it will go and typically you can bend the wireform to spring into the holes of the bracket. Since 3d printed metal is not spring metal the bracket would need to be bent so not ideal. It was meant to be printed in plastic so you have a 3d model to bend spring wire to the same shape as a tricky shape to bend to via a drawing.

also if you become a member of Shapeways (no cost or commitment) you can go to this model and download the 3d STL model for free via a "Download Product" tab and then 3D print your own to then bend to.

merely just trying to help

nice game and love the use of the plastics for the coin door

gearing up to do a Skateball build - have Alltek boards, playfield wiring etc but still alot to find and do but was going through the manual as don't have a game to work from and just trying to refresh myself on the dip switches - 32 in total.

I decided to put all the switch options on a spreadsheet to better visualise these.
- The ones in red are double ups with slightly different descriptions I believe
- except the Switch 30 and switch 32 red - I think the Red 32 is a typo in the manual on page 4 at the bottom - is this correct as top of page 6 mentionsballs in play for switch 32

I could not find reference to the following switches
- 6
- 21
- 22
- 29

Can someone explain the on / off results for these 4 switches please as well as correct me on any of the above other switches in the spreadsheet

thanks for your help

Bally_1980_Skateball_Manual.pdf

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Thanks for clarifying that.

Wow, if you have access to the code that would be amazing and very much appreciated - when time allows. Thanks

I measured up the gate wire for the shooter lane side and modelled it.

If you have an account and log in or create an account you can download the file for free - once logged in a download button appears.

You could download and 3d print to then replicate the gate wire bends in the piano wire.

https://www.shapeways.com/product/NZZ3W6VA5/skateball-shooter-lane-gate-wire