Tired of my ramps flaps turning rusty. Would like to convert to stainless on Demo Man. I know Pinbits makes a few and I’ve used them in ToM and STTNG but they don’t make them for Demo Man. They also don’t answer emails because I’ve emailed them 4 times asking this same question. So I ask you guys. where can I buy stainless ramp flap material to cut my own?

Ok cool. My cheapo digital micrometer says about 0.010”

I’ve used the pinrestore stuff and it’s ok but I’ve actually had pieces arrive already with spots of rust. I don’t want the pinball picking up that rust and becoming a rolling piece of sandpaper. I’ve already made the entrance flap out of stainless with a spare flap I had from another restore. I cut this with scissors and the holes with drill. I prepunched the drill spot so the bit wouldn’t walk. Then I polished it to give it a mirror shine.

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Here it is installed on the entrance ramp.

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Arbor press from harbor freight. Rivet dies from pin restore. Rivets from pintestore. Drilling a straight hole in the press is critical. Luckily I have my $50 Craigslist drill press.

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shim stock unfortunately bends. we need spring steel for flaps.

This might be the stuff. It has similar properties as the ones I already have.

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McMaster part number

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Here it is on a ramp for Demolition Man.

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How does that punch work? Do you like it?

So the stainless spring steel I reference above is 0.010”. Just wondering what the max thickness this will cleanly go through. I use the harbor freight kit that comes with an arbor and polishing wheels with the green rouge. I use the shears available on pinrestore. They work great. I went with 10 mils because that’s what I mic’ed out stock to be

Thanks yeah I did a little digging. 16 g steel is approx. 0.060”. I measured the original DM flaps at 0.010” so even though it’s not “mild” steel it’s much thinner than the max. I ordered the roper Whitney version since i’ll likely make a bunch of flaps.

I mic’ed out the original at 10 mil. The stock I bought from McMaster Carr is 10 mil so then I polish which removes a tiny bit more. So these are technically thinner than what was original on my game. I assume mine were stock but I have no way of knowing.

Game played great before and plays great now.

Just received my hole puncher. Did a couple test punches. Outer holes were drilling(scrap piece due to error). Inner holes punched. I like this tool a lot. Wish I had one when I started my DM resto since this game has som many flaps.

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I don’t know if there’s a big difference between the two since I haven’t seen the other version.