A Ball Stop that will work for most cabinet designs

[moses619]

For my arcade, I wanted to add a ball stop to each machine that would allow me to open the door without the balls falling all over the place. I decided to make this guide to share my design with the rest of the pachitalk family. I present to you, the MO-Chinko Ball Stop.

http://www.4shared.com/file/3586868/...mostop-v1.html

A big thanks goes to Rob for his great cabinet plans! (I made 6 in all.)

If you have any questions or feedback, feel free to contact me.

[logicprobe]

All I get is a blank Word document there. 1 page, 0 characters.

[chmer01]

When I clicked download all I got was a blank screen.

[luckydog]

It locked up my system, I almost pulled the plug

[moses619]

I don't know what's up with this file service, but I zipped it and hopefully that will fix the problems. I even had a few people test it before I posted the link.

Let's try this again:
http://www.4shared.com/file/3587660/...ostop-v10.html

Seems to be working for me now. I think the problem was that it would automatically open in the browser instead of using MS Word. If anyone has any more problems, please let me know and I'll find another service to post it on.

[luckydog]

I get unable to display grafics after about 5 mins and 4 different screens coming up.

No biggie for me

[moses619]

I also added it to this link:

http://www.bigupload.com/d=18B8EA83

Hopefully one of these hosting services will work. If not, I'll buy some web space in the morning.

[azlew]

The file is over 18 megs? Anyway can you post a few pictures here? This sounds very interesting. Thanks again!!

[Sid]

Due to the size 18 megs taken the liberty of compressing the images in the file


here you guys go!!

[ATTACH] [/ATTACH]

[azlew]

Aww thanks Sid!

Now to get Microsoft Word onto my new computer to read that .doc file....

[Chris]

Thanks Moses for taking the time to write it all down, with pics too - very useful. I managed to download it all.

Thanks again !

[Sid]

ok here is an html version
htmlversion.zip

[moses619]

Thanks a bunch Sid! I think all the nyquil I've been drinking to get rid of this cold has taken it's toll on my brain. I just hope you guys find the guide useful!

[azlew]

ok here is an html version
htmlversion.zip

That works great !

Thanks Sid !!

[luckydog]

Thanks for the fix Sid

[Bilko44]

Neat!
Thanks for sharing your project with us!

Dennis

[logicprobe]

VERY nice contribution, Moses.

Looks great, and very useful. Thanks for sharing!!!

And thanks, Sid... for helping to get it to the community.

[chmer01]

This look cool! When I build my cabinets I will definitely be using this modification.

Eric

[Youngjedi]

Awesome idea. I use 1500 balls in my cabinet and when I need to open the door, i have to dump the machine....that actually takes a while. I think I might modify my hopper the same way after I finish all the other projects I am working on...2 Mame cocktail tables for my friends and three antique mills slot I am restoring, and CLEANING the WORKROOM! I think George Carlin was right, I got too much Stuff! :fisheye:

[moses619]

Actually Jedi, I took a good look at your cabinet design as I was making this ball stop design. I wasn't sure how you went about opening your cabinet, (I assumed you plugged the top and pulled the entire hopper out.) But I wanted the ball stop to be a compliment to your cabinet as well the others and I thought you could implement it to yours with little or no modification at all. I'm glad you like it and if you have any questions as you're making it, feel free to ask.

The hardest part of making the stop is using a router to make the track. It's a tight space to make the cut straight without room for a router guide. Besides that, the rest isn't very hard to do and you're free to make some mistakes. (Like cutting a little deeper than needed for the straight bracket or making the overall length too long) None of these things will make it so you need to start from scratch and waste materials. Besides the time it takes for the glue to dry, it should only take a few hours to implement this stop. I think I did 4 in one day and finished them up the next morning (after the glue dried), but that also included paint.