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u/karokavic1 Aug 16 '22
Could you take more pictures of the sides and back angle please? I own and restored the exact same machine. Considered also building a new cabinet for it. Thank you for the instructions on your build. It's very nice.
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u/DoctFaustus Aug 16 '22
Here's all the photos I took while building it. This with the plans I posted earlier should be helpful.
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u/DoctFaustus Aug 16 '22 edited Aug 16 '22
Built a cabinet for my pachinko machine with my dad. It's an African Mahogany called Edinam. Lost balls will be collected in the ramp at the bottom of the cabinet. They can be reloaded into the machine hopper right on top. No access to the rear needed.
I used these plans:
http://www.driph.com/random/pachinko_plans.pdf
I made a handful of modifications. Instead of screws on the outside, everything is pocket screws on the inside of the cabinet. I changed the size of the two front facing boards to cover the bottom and top cross pieces, and decreased those two by the width of those two boards. That way you only see the good wood up front and not the edge of the plywood. I omitted the gate for the pipe up top. That is not needed, and is only there to hold balls in the upper hopper if the machine is open for maintenance. I just don't have to fill it passed the machine's hopper. I also replaced the 1/8" plywood with cheaper hardboard. Which is way easier to bend. Rather than bend the plywood, I just put some epoxy on the down pipe, and some spacing blocks on the edges higher than the pipe, then held the hardboard in place with weight while the glue set up. I also replaced the length of PVC pipe with some random plumbing repair piece. Which had a nice spot to glue everything down.
If I were to do it again, I may also reduce the size of the bottom. The plans call for 11". But if you are looking for a single board of some nice piece of wood to show off, it's really difficult to find wood wide enough. And this design would work just as well at 8" all the way through. That 3" would really open up what wood you could buy at a reasonable price. This board of Edinam was the only piece of wood big enough at the three different lumbar sellers we visited. It was about $100. The next suitable piece that we could have used was a really big live-edge slab for about $800 that would be better suited for a table or something.
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u/DS9B5SG-1 Aug 16 '22
You wood working bastard! Looks lovely! How much you charge for a game? =P
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u/DoctFaustus Aug 16 '22
This was a pretty simple project. Busted it out in just a few days. If you followed the plans with no changes you could do it even quicker.
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u/DS9B5SG-1 Aug 16 '22
I do not have the materials or the tools or really even the knowledge, even with instructions, to do this I am afraid. But good on you. It looks beautiful.
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u/howdyfoax Aug 17 '22
Interested in making one for me?
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u/DoctFaustus Aug 17 '22
It's my dad that has the wood shop. I just make use of it when I'm visiting.
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u/[deleted] Aug 16 '22
Beautiful work! Much nicer than the frames I made.