Unique and fun pachinko question!

[strssed]

Just got a enter the matrix pachinko and WOW is it heavy...afraid to attach to my wall for fear of tearing my drywall down...
Question: what are the heaviest pachinko machines and how do you display them?
Enter Matrix is about 90 lbs and will be in a footed table mount...yours?

[Drunkenclam]

My heaviest is 43kg which is super sea story. This sits on a floor mounted cabinet. No way I was going to risk it on the wall.

[JACKSJE4]

Even at 90 lbs, if you used two french cleats (one at top and one at bottom) and anchored them directly into the studs with 2.5 inch bolts, then you should be able to hang your Matrix Pachinko on the wall without any safety issues. The french cleats are strong enough to support that amount of weight. I hang my Pachinko machines with them and never worry.

[Drunkenclam]

True, but mine are in a converted garden shed

[emmadog]

As long as you mount into the studs you should be ok. As for your question, my machines are in my basement mounted to the wall. They're each secured to 2 brackets at the bottom of each machine that are screwed into concrete-filled cinder block. A third bracket is attached to the top of the machine and is also secured to the cinder block. I also have an "earthquake" wire which is attached to each machine in 2 spots that is then screwed into a 6X6 at the top of the wall. Overkill maybe but I consider my machines to be just about irreplaceable due to their age and type.

[nickbuol]

I just mounted my cabinet and Lumina frame (with Julie cel) to my wall in my newly finished basement. Long story, but a french cleat wasn't going to work for me. It was in the original cabinet design, but the Julie cel was too deep so I bolted directly to some studs with some nice thick 3" bolts with washers. At my old house, I used 6 bolts total. Four along the top under the ball holding "tray" of the cabinet, and two down into the "ball return" area. All into studs (16" on center).

At this house, the original place that the pachinko was going to go was scrapped after construction was done (worked great on paper, but in the end was too cramped) and I needed to mount onto an exterior wall that had 24" on center studs. No way that it was going to work since that was too wide of spacing and of course it didn't line up exactly where I wanted to anyway. The cabinet basically was going to mount with the right side attached to the exterior wall BEHIND the pachinko, and then the left side was attached to a 90 degree wall with the bolts going through the SIDE of the cabinet. I hated to drill into the nice oak cabinet I made, but I didn't see any alternatives. I ended up using 5 bolts instead of 6. Three through the back of the cabinet, and two through the side (couldn't bring myself to put another hole in it). It is VERY solid and as long as someone doesn't try to do pull-ups on the thing, it will hold just fine.

[DrDark]

With 5, 3" bolts, I bet you COULD do pull-ups on that cabinet.