Semi Cyclic Mod

[Chrisdice]

Well before I bring my Uncle the BTTF pachinko for Christmas I wanted to see if I can make it a little more user friendly. I have read the different post in the past about cyclic and semi cyclic and decided that I would like to try a semi cyclic conversion. Well the hardest part was getting to the ball track. I took apart pretty much the whole game. Once the ball track was exposed I had to come up with a plan to re rout the balls as easy as possible. Unfourtunitly there was a switch and wires in the way. Once I came up with a plan I had to get the nerve to take a dremel to perfectly fine game. After the first cut it got easier, no going back now. Now what was I going to use to bridge the gap? What I came up with was cutting about an inch wide stripe off an old blockbuster rental card. It was flexable and tough enough to do the job. I hot glued it in placed and I was good to go. I was worried about the wires from that switch getting in the was so I made a small hole in the outside panel and ran the wires on the outside of the ball track. The result is all spent balls and deposited in the lower tray. sweet. Here are some pix.

Chris

[chmer01]

Nice job.

Eric C.

[hanabi]

Very Nice Job!!



Now if you had just sent it to me.......

You wouldn't have had to go to all that trouble.....

[arbycoffee]

Full Cyclic is the best route to go if you don't wish to handle any balls

[slothappy144]

Full Cyclic is the best route to go if you don't wish to handle any balls

Arby,
What is involved with the fully cyclic mod? what does the player do? how are the balls routed?

[arbycoffee]

all you need to play is 25 or 30 balls. As they leave the cell out the bottom pocket or any of the other payoff pockets the balls are rerouted to the top out tray in front.
You have all the same action as a parlor ready machine, but the 1,000s of ball in a fever rounds, there are no payouffs.

[slothappy144]

makes sense now. how do you stop the payouts?

[arbycoffee]

you don't, just don't fill the payout hopper at top.

[slothappy144]

HA Ha if you did it would payback for days, all of the fevers won since last reset.

[arbycoffee]

yes it would

[slothappy144]

Funny trick to pull or maybe thats why we see so many first posters thinking the machine is broken, if someone tested the machine out without refilling the hopper then shipped it, it would run through many hoppers of balls.