Re: cabinet blueprints?

BTW, the dimensions on that archived DIY site are not right.
48 inches is too short for a full-size playfield and a conventional
head. Early Ballys are 22 inches wide. The front is 15 3/4 high
and the back is 19 1/4 high. Later games have a steeper playfield
glass pitch, so they are taller in the back. Heads are typically
an inch or two under 30 inches tall, and the depth varies greatly.

-Mark
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Hunty wrote:
On Jul 1, 11:55 am, Hunty <luvcr...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
before I go to the trouble of making my own, does anyone have simple
blueprints / instructions for building a WPC / modern Stern -sized
pinball cabinet? There are lots of plans online for building arcade
cabinets for MAME machines, but I haven't seen any for pinball
cabinets. I've searched the group, and the best I can find is a dead
link to a site called Pin-It-Yourself.

I know there's that guy who builds repro cabinets, but those are a lot
higher quality than I need, and shipping would also be expensive; I
just want to get a bunch of plywood from Home Depot and put together
my own. And before anyone asks, no, there aren't any supercheap
trashed machines to be had locally, especially not ones with deep
enough cabinets.

This is for a custom pin, but from eyeballing it looks to me like
modern Sterns and Williams Sys11 and later (except P2K, widebodies,
and Safecracker) use the same dimensions, and those dimensions are
what I'm after.

via the magic of the way back machine, and vaguely useful but not
quite as useful as I'd like:

http://web.archive.org/web/20020606165906/www.weaverofwebs.com/Pinball/Pin-it-Yourself/Cabinet.htm
.

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