Crazy thing always wanted to build one when i was a kid, just didn't have the tools or know how. So built this for my kids when they could understand and play it! I always loved pinball machines!
Wow, only just seeing this video and your build is excellent. The time you must have put in to design and perfect all the game play must have taken quite a while. Very impressed! I have a large toy pinball that's mechanical with electronics just for scoring.
Scoring is all manually done at the bottom with pegs. There is a spot for high score as well as pegs for the largest of each fish species ie. largest pike, bass, salmon etc
The flippers are all done with springs and coat hangers . The coat hangers have a 90 degree bend with a small portion of it which insert into a small hole in the flippers. The rods are supported underneath by electrical wiring hangers. Springs are used to retract the motion
The Flying Porch excellent! I'm using rare earth magnets from old hard drives, and pachinko balls. after the seventh ball caught from the magnet. they release!
The magnets are flat disc shaped but very powerful bought at a local dollar store. There are two sizes. they are used to hold the targets up when they are hit (example see1:59 min mark) as well as some are recessed right into the tabletop and then when a metal ball rolls over it they are caught and cant be released until they are hit by a second ball.
Thanks for you reply. Very interesting idea ... I am building my "machine" but I confess that it is very difficult to add interesting objectives without electronics and microprocessors ... it is difficult to be an analogue man again in the digital age (lol). I was thinking of something like a marble machine but without electricity it's hard ... I'll keep thinking about it ...
Makes me think more machines would benefit from the variable touch of mechanical flippers. Very Cool !
May 2020 and still one of the best , very creative.
Thank you so much! I really appreciate the comment! And I still have it!!
After seeing your reply and having another look , it is the best Ive come across . Thanks for the inspiration.
Crazy thing always wanted to build one when i was a kid, just didn't have the tools or know how. So built this for my kids when they could understand and play it! I always loved pinball machines!
Wow, only just seeing this video and your build is excellent. The time you must have put in to design and perfect all the game play must have taken quite a while. Very impressed! I have a large toy pinball that's mechanical with electronics just for scoring.
Thank you very much. Always thought of building a manual game and finally got around to it years ago was a lot of fun!
The magnetic targets remind me my designs for the same sort of thing from several years back. Thanks for the reminder, now I'll get back to it!
*OF my designs*
think it could be adapted to a full size.. how do your bonuses work.
Well done and Very Cool!
Scoring is all manually done at the bottom with pegs. There is a spot for high score as well as pegs for the largest of each fish species ie. largest pike, bass, salmon etc
Fantastic !!! Just being in this kind of project, I'd like to know how you have made the flippers mechanics, to give me ideas :)
The flippers are all done with springs and coat hangers . The coat hangers have a 90 degree bend with a small portion of it which insert into a small hole in the flippers. The rods are supported underneath by electrical wiring hangers. Springs are used to retract the motion
Could you show how the buttons operate both upper and lower flippers at the same time?
Nice work!
Multiball! Now that's schnizz!
at about min 4:38 you can see how the multi ball ramp works to release a second ball
The Flying Porch excellent!
I'm using rare earth magnets from old hard drives, and pachinko balls. after the seventh ball caught from the magnet. they release!
How does that "high score" thing work?
Great job, fantastic!...I was very interested to know how magnets (and what type) work ... I'm looking for information but I have not found it.
The magnets are flat disc shaped but very powerful bought at a local dollar store. There are two sizes. they are used to hold the targets up when they are hit (example see1:59 min mark) as well as some are recessed right into the tabletop and then when a metal ball rolls over it they are caught and cant be released until they are hit by a second ball.
Thanks for you reply. Very interesting idea ... I am building my "machine" but I confess that it is very difficult to add interesting objectives without electronics and microprocessors ... it is difficult to be an analogue man again in the digital age (lol). I was thinking of something like a marble machine but without electricity it's hard ... I'll keep thinking about it ...
Can you please do a tutorial on how it was made?
WONDERFUL
can you please do a tutorial
I this k you should have more subs
I wish I had skills to build this for my boy :((
Thank you! not too difficult actually just a lot of time
nice
high score is the most pounds overall
Keewl