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Recent content by ARTbyTROY
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Project: 'Troy's Pinball' - Arcade Sequel Build
Below is a side edge view of the back glass panel, it is a friggin' dust magnet and the worst part is that no matter how much I dust it off it keeps coming back... I have been down this road before though and know exactly how to handle it. Time to cut out for the LCD screen faces, in... -
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Project: 'Troy's Pinball' - Arcade Sequel Build
^ Thanks guys. Time to make the back glass, below is a sheet of clear acrylic that I copied measurements onto and then double stick taped some aluminum angle onto it in preparation for scoring and snapping. Here it is test fit, it was too tight so I had to sand down the edges a... -
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Project: 'Troy's Pinball' - Arcade Sequel Build
Thank you, I'm glad you like it. The cables inside the pinball machine are out of control, a good part of the mess is from power cables. I ordered three one footers to cut down on some of it, now the 16" monitor, Antec PSU and the power brick for the LED lighting all have short power cables... -
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Project: 'Troy's Pinball' - Arcade Sequel Build
I almost forgot to show that the Sapphire window is a mirror when the backlighting is off... I mounted the 16" monitor into the back box and laid down some 3M screw strong tape along the top and side edges to hold the 23" LCD in place. The back box is installed but the side LED lighting... -
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Project: 'Troy's Pinball' - Arcade Sequel Build
The black tubular thing below the blue square push button is an arcade push button wrench, it only cost a couple bucks and for getting buttons fit tight it's worth every penny. In the following picture I have all of my buttons and plunger wired to the Pinball Wizard/Mot-Ion controller, I... -
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Project: 'Troy's Pinball' - Arcade Sequel Build
The front blue LED button and LED jumbo push button are wired to power. I didn't like that when standing and looking at the machine the LED strips I installed on the table underside were visible, moving the strips back an inch did the trick. In a darkened room the blue glow under the... -
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Project: 'Troy's Pinball' - Arcade Sequel Build
^ Thanks guys. I bought a few more parts for the pinball machine, two 6" USB extension cables five blue and five black SPST NO buttons, a 1.5" square blue LED pushbutton, a twenty LED automotive dome light, a metal plunger back plate and four rubber feet. I rivet together a couple... -
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Project: 'Troy's Pinball' - Arcade Sequel Build
The back box is assembled, now to put the side panels onto the table starting with the back. I also bought a seven outlet surge protector for the inside of the cabinet to replace of the six outlet adapter type I had originally planned to use. Below shows where the surge protector will be... -
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Project: 'Troy's Pinball' - Arcade Sequel Build
Here is the entire thing completely disassembled, the panels were cleaned up and all the masked edges were tamped, so it's ready to spray. Below shows what the acrylic panels look like after the first coat of black vinyl color. Three cans later and the front side of each panel was... -
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Project: 'Troy's Pinball' - Arcade Sequel Build
The Performance-PCs sponsored Scythe Samurai-ZZ CPU cooler arrived and I waste no time installing it. Here is a shot of the CPU cooler in its new home inside the illusion... the mirrors work great, CPU coolers appear to go on as far as you can see. Another shot, this time looking... -
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Project: 'Troy's Pinball' - Arcade Sequel Build
I rewired to lengthen and then sleeved the wiring to the speakers to give them a more finished look, even though it will never really be seen. I removed the lower back panel and drilled three holes into it to accommodate the rocker switches that will control most of the lighting, while it... -
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Project: 'Troy's Pinball' - Arcade Sequel Build
Yes, the illusion works great, it looks like hardware going on forever in there. I removed the TV speakers from their plastic mounting assemblies and then devised a fairly simple way to mount them into the front of the pinball machine. Below shows the aluminum angle and pop rivet solution... -
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Project: 'Troy's Pinball' - Arcade Sequel Build
The foam board illusion section mock up worked well, now it's time to lay out measurements onto the two-way and first-surface mirrors and prep them for cutting. I scored and snapped the mirrors and then couldn't resist setting it up around the motherboard to see how cool it looked, and... -
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Project: 'Troy's Pinball' - Arcade Sequel Build
I cut a piece of MDF pressboard to fit the back side of the back box, then I measured out placement for two 120mm fans near the top of the panel. I used a dtremel to cut the holes and then cleaned up the edges with a dremel sanding bit, below shows a fan test fit and the fan controller that... -
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Project: 'Troy's Pinball' - Arcade Sequel Build
The motherboard tray was too large, so I measured things out and then used a Dremel to cut off the excess bit. Clamping down a piece of flat aluminum angle protects the surface and makes the cutting easier by allowing the cutting disk to butt against it, which keeps the edge cleaner and...