My Latest Homemade Ball Lifter is apparently a hit on Youtube

[rockston]

This design utilizes a more conventional approach with a 1/8" thick delrin sprocket. The nice
thing about the plastic sprocket is that it's super quiet. I borrowed the idea of a inline conductive track
to sense the balls made of brass. I think the video somehow is circulating as a short in some feed
and was surprised to see how many views it had overnight.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHI135iPIZ8

[rockston]

Here it is installed and running: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfDCoOwTXEY

[MrGneiss]

Very cool!!

[phlove]

when do you sell it ?

[rockston]

I would have to get a considerable amount of interest to actually go into production.

[Drunkenclam]

Sankyo are going back to this style lifter on a big scale.

https://www.sankyo-fever.co.jp/corpo...yu/futurenext/

[Ringtail]

Looking great bud, could be interested in a few of these if you do decide to make them

[davey400]

Nice work; never realized that lifting the balls was an issue.
Did visit Pachinko halls in Japan, and always assumed the balls are automatically lifted and that it would be a standard component within the machine.