(Topic ID: 190992)
Rotterdam
Largo, FL
Quoted from tryton1000:Thanks for the Friday Awesomeness!
BOOM!! 
Quoted from Manimal:Back to the house and the first thing I have to do is to check the Crazy Mansion build! Awesome work as always guys!
Hahaha that is supercool dude,thanks...we look forward to making a coil assembly for the dual action flap.
I think i am gonna use a flipper assembly...full power to kick the slam flap up and hold power to keep the flap in place.
I wanted to use 2 coils directly on the flap but coils actually don't move up that high..
We will be needing a mech to do so.
I'm still amazed at how you guys just go to town and build parts without hardly measuring or planning... Oh we don't have rods? Just cut up that grill mesh. Everything I design has to be modeled in solidworks and pre-assembled virtually, and tolerances checked 4 times, and parts ordered from mcmaster that are the exact size I need.
Warrington
Quoted from toyotaboy:I'm still amazed at how you guys just go to town and build parts without hardly measuring or planning... Oh we don't have rods? Just cut up that grill mesh. Everything I design has to be modeled in solidworks and pre-assembled virtually, and tolerances checked 4 times, and parts ordered from mcmaster that are the exact size I need.
Thanks
I guess we have solidworks in our heads,we create in our mind and our eyes start looking/scavenging for materials and shapes we need to build it.
So many roads lead to the solution.
I also save a lot of weird things,last time cutting a pizza,i broke my slicer...i am confident it will end up in the crazy mansion...great shapes!
Quoted from J85M:Just did my Saturday morning catch up, looking good guys, next few weeks are looking to be awesome now you have big parts of the game done and pulling bits together, keep up the good work!
Yeah oncoming weeks are superfun!
I will be ordering a P-ROC board set including the coil and lamp boards soon so we can test coils and the mansion.
I sold the Hurricane and World cup soccer pins...i just could not rip the boards out of them for the crazy mansion..
It feels wrong to part out a working bally or williams.
They are getting harder to come by nowerdays..
Bally/Williams is sacred to me.
Despicable me pinball madness is a wcs at heart but that machine was in a dark dark place and beyond repair..
High milage..
Quoted from SunKing:Great build - coming along very nicely!! I love the idea of the sewers. I'm just curious - why go through the trouble of wrapping the saucer, instead of just spray painting it black?
Yeah it could have gone that direction too indeed,spray it.
We had wrap laying around,it was actually a test that turned out to be a cool end result.
The glossy black looks real nice.
Ok, I have a stupid question - what exactly is a slam ramp? I assumed the ramp is there to allow the ball to jump into the pipes and if you miss you "slam" into the back of the cab, but then you mentioned you needed to use a powerful Flipper coil an I got lost again lol. So cool seeing all the weekly progress and its a highlight of my week, but I also learn so much from this thread
Quoted from etlandfill:Ok, I have a stupid question - what exactly is a slam ramp? I assumed the ramp is there to allow the ball to jump into the pipes and if you miss you "slam" into the back of the cab, but then you mentioned you needed to use a powerful Flipper coil an I got lost again lol. So cool seeing all the weekly progress and its a highlight of my week, but I also learn so much from this thread
Hey there,no,it's a good question..a slam ramp is simply a ramp that makes a ball go airborne...that is all.
The powerful coil i talked about,is going to make the slam ramp go up,it needs to be brute force and it is mounted underneath the playfield.
So on a slam ramp you slam the ball airborne...at least that is what i mean with it.
I might be wrong too
The cool thing is the dual function of this flap,when the rear comes up,you have the slam ramp,when the mansion comes up,it hinges the other way...that idea is going to make this machine a winner.
The mansion is gonna be epic...we are gonna add radical lights,smoke nozzles and sound effects to the mansion to maximize the amount of crazy...BOOM!! 
Meantime in England my Full Throttle is being picked up..
The seller tricked out the FT with the big lcd in the backbox.
As we speak it is being loaded,the courier is the kind of courier that travels around and practically lives in his van,collecting as much work as he can on his roadtrip.
It might take another week,because he does little jobs inbetween...but hey? It is coming!
I heard the Dialed in LE and Houdini i ordered will be here very soon,the container they sit in is almost here from the usa.
So gigantic upgrade in the gameroom!
Together with Starwars there will be 4 new machines! (Ok,FT is secondhand..)
I sold a lot of pins over the last months and the new ones are a long waiting game...but i am done with buying back pins i used to own..
Every time i think to myself; yup...that is why i sold it...
So this time around all fresh gear!
Quoted from pinballrockstar:Meantime in England my Full Throttle is being picked up..
The seller tricked out the FT with the big lcd in the backbox.
As we speak it is being loaded,the courier is the kind of courier that travels around and practically lives in his van,collecting as much work as he can on his roadtrip.
It might take another week,because he does little jobs inbetween...but hey? It is coming!
I heard the Dialed in LE and Houdini i ordered will be here very soon,the container they sit in is almost here from the usa.
So gigantic upgrade in the gameroom!
Together with Starwars there will be 4 new machines! (Ok,FT is secondhand..)
I sold a lot of pins over the last months and the new ones are a long waiting game...but i am done with buying back pins i used to own..
Every time i think to myself; yup...that is why i sold it...
So this time around all fresh gear!
Congrats!! Dialed in is Awesome, you will love it man!!
Didnt know Houdini was shipping yet? Pretty awesome if they are!
Quoted from Join_The_Cirqus:Congrats!! Dialed in is Awesome, you will love it man!!
Didnt know Houdini was shipping yet? Pretty awesome if they are!
Yeah played Dialed In at the pinball museum and we liked it a lot.
Hard to hear the machine in an environment like that,but the shots were awesome!
I ordered the 2 machines at ministry of pinball ( they have the booth in the pinball museum ) and he was pretty convinced both machines were almost here?
I am not following American Pinball at all so you could be right.
Finally bought a lab power supply,i was so done not being able to test mechs and coils because i have nothing that makes 50 volts DC..
This lab supply does 0 - 120 volts so we can test leds,coils,motors etc.
Another plus is...you can test what voltage a certain mech runs best on.
Should be arriving oncoming week.
We have no PROC board set yet for the crazy mansion so this way we can give stuff juice.
Check if things we build are strong enough..we always sort of guess how big a coil we need and mostly we are lucky and it works,but it is maybe time to stop pushing our luck
Nowra
Somewhere in the build it would be nice to pay homage to the Minions build. Maybe a chained up minion in an electric chair in the asylum. The next should have something from all before it. A bit like B/W cows only more tangible. Just a thought.
Quoted from pinballrockstar:Finally bought a lab power supply,i was so done not being able to test mechs and coils because i have nothing that makes 50 volts DC..
This lab supply does 0 - 120 volts so we can test leds,coils,motors etc.
Another plus is...you can test what voltage a certain mech runs best on.
Should be arriving oncoming week.
We have no PROC board set yet for the crazy mansion so this way we can give stuff juice.
Check if things we build are strong enough..we always sort of guess how big a coil we need and mostly we are lucky and it works,but it is maybe time to stop pushing our luck
I hope you checked the amperage rating. Alot of those cheap lab supplies are rated under 5 amps.
Quoted from pinballrockstar:So on a slam ramp you slam the ball airborne...at least that is what i mean with it.
I might be wrong too
Just an FYI, the term slam ramp comes from No Good Gophers I believe. It is called that, because the ramp piece actually slams down into the the playfield to turn into a ramp for shooting up the top playfield.
Awesome build, just stumbled across it, will be following in the future!
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