HOW TO MAKE A PINBALL MACHINE: Metal Ball Guides

HOW TO MAKE A PINBALL MACHINE: Metal Ball Guides
Time to replace all of our cardboard ramps and ball guides with actual metal ball guides! This is a big step forward and is a ton of fun to shoot once we have some shots all set up. We'll be doing some 3D printing for anchors to hold the ball guides in place and also trying out some different tools for cutting and bending and shaping the metal.

Table of Contents:

0:00 Sourcing Metal - Kingdon Sheet Metal
1:45 From Cardboard to Metal Guides
6:21 Cutting the metal
8:01 Bending the metal
12:53 Mounting the ball guides
18:05 Play testing!!

Links to Resources mentioned in the video:

Public Files on my Google Drive:
https://drive.google.com/drive/folder...

Pinball Cabinet Fusion 360 file created by and shared with permission by John Marsh
-- Spike 2 Pinball Cabinet: https://a360.co/2RatbVw

Step-by-step Tutorial for getting the lower third of your pinball playfield powered, connected and flipping!: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1E...
Led Zeppelin Pinball Project BoM (Bill of Materials): https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/...

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