Gotcha I was doing some tweaking on my LiS the other day because I didn't like the way the balls loaded to the spinning disc magnet for condition red multiball and was in the middle of a multiball and I noticed one of the balls vanished. I looked all over and couldn't find it so I finally gave up and put another ball in the game. Then a couple of days later I was playing (single ball) and the ball disappeared under the fighter on the right side. I pulled the glass and sure enough the other ball was stuck under there also so I pulled the glass and see the only plastic to prevent the balls from getting behind the round yellow targets is broken in two places. It's a very flimsy plastic there I suspect quite a few of these get broken. I decided I was going to make a protector for this plastic but didn't want to do it by hand, it has three funky cutouts and a hole for a VUK. I took it to work to use our cnc panel cutter
So the first thing I have to do is open up the avcam software and measure out the plastic with the measuring probe.

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After that I open it in easycad and clean it up and connect some lines I couldn't get well and I have a complete dfx file of my protector

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Then I open it in avcam again to cut it.

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And after a couple of minutes I have a cut protector

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I made the thin areas a little thicker to make this piece a little stronger ( I made it out of .090 polycarbonate)

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And a couple pics of it installed in the game.

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I think it turned out pretty good and it even gets a little glow from the yellow bulbs I put behind the targets It sure is nice to have some of this technology available to us today. Makes making alot of these parts way easier. Mike

I hear you I'm always thinking of ways to use new equipment to make my pin parts.