# of balls question

[TNTahan]

My ball lifter is on the way! But I want to make sure I have enough balls for it. I have somewhere around 800 in my machine. Do I need to get more???

[luckydog]

yes at least another thousand

[Moparformances]

wouldn't it depend on what kind of machine it is?? a vintage would run forever on 800 with a lifer.. don't most lifters move 100 per min??

[outdoorenth]

So happy for you that you got your ball lifter!

[TNTahan]

Havent gotten it yet, Kiai just e-mailed me and said he recieved it and I sent over final payment so he is shipping it out tomrrow. But I want to try and be ready for when it gets here! I have a Captain Roberts machine so not a vintage one. Like I said I have like 800 balls but i dont want to get too many to the point that it wont fit in my machine ya know?

[compirate]

A few extra never hurts, they go all over!

One of the nice things about the more modern machines that stock the wins in memory is that if you get a bonus, just play it out and let the wins build up. The upper hopper in the back will empty. Then, as you play and the lifter starts to fill up, it will send them to the upper hopper, the machine will pay them out (probably 60 or more), then stop. This cycle will continue till either you catch up on wins or stop yourself. You can play without having to handle the balls at all for a long time!

[TilionMtl]

If you plan during a fever to collect the ball you win until you are done playing, and you put them back in the upper tray or replay them all, I suggest 2000 or 3000 atleast..

[new in town]

You can Never have Enough BALLS ! ! !

[hanabi]

You can Never have Enough BALLS ! ! !

My goodness there's a huge crack in that concrete floor!!

[new in town]

My goodness there's a huge crack in that concrete floor!!

The sphere's are there to keep the floor from raising up any more. The Bin in the lower right corner is there to keep the crack from growing.

[Sid]

i hate to n.i.t. pic,

but can anyone give a fair estimate as to the number of Pachinko balls in N.I.T's Pic?

[new in town]

I would say, CONTEST ! ! ! But I must admit that these are not my Sphere's. It's a Pic I saved from an older post. I Wish they were.

[Sid]

I know they arent yours

im just wondering if anyone could give a valid estimation based on some sort of knowledge they may have on the subject.

cough cough compirate cough..

[new in town]

I can be right by saying, "more then a hundred".

Spoiler

Am I winning?

[MrGneiss]

I do believe we've done the 'how many balls' thing with this pic in years past!!

[new in town]

O.K on that.

Then.

Spoiler

How much do they Weigh?

[TNTahan]

I know they arent yours

im just wondering if anyone could give a valid estimation based on some sort of knowledge they may have on the subject.

cough cough compirate cough..

There are 34 of those blue cases there and that one pinkish one, I think the pink one looks to be one of the ones that holds about 4k balls, and if you look at the depth of the blue containers, I would guess they have around 25,000 to 30,000 balls in them each. So a good guess would be that your looking at right around a 1,000,000 (one million) balls.

I win!

[wrkey]

I would have just counted the chinamen and multiplied by two!

[compirate]

That tray only holds between 2000 and 2500, the only 4000 trays I've seen are more squarish (a word?). Probably 10,000 in each blue, so 36,000 or so.

Just found the thread, auction was for 20,000,000, but they keep 600,000 on hand, so about 17,000 to 18,000 per tote.

By the way - Pachinko Ball search for YJA

[MrGneiss]

Squarish...

squar·ish (skwâr'ĭsh)

adj.

Somewhat or almost square.

squarishly squar'ish·ly adv.
squarishness squar'ish·ness n.