Saw this on R.G.P.  Hmmm, I think I need this, Very Very cool!!

"Well, I sort of mentioned this before, and people wanted to know how
it turned out, so...here it is:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eK-_wBAMiVQ Part 1. This shows a
game being put on the lift, and the lift going down. It takes about 30
seconds for the game to reach the basement (9 feet drop).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6ekiLykpDQ This shows the
elevator from the basement. Game comes down. Ooooooo....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5m1vn1_1hs Part 3. This is a short
clip of the game coming up. Fascinating."

I'm not able to see the clip....

but I find this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2c3q9K4cHzY

I think you meant :

Sorry, I fixed the links, Try again!

Dave

Very often when you copy and paste links, it adds a space on the end and includes it in the link, thus making it broken, Always try putting your cursor near or at the end of a link and seeing if there is a space at the end that can be deleted.

Dave

Regarding this elevator...
    To have one like this one, this guy really need to have space and $$, should cost a lot of money, IMHO it's the price of 1 pin, so I would better like to have another pin instead of this elevator.

BUT, if you don't have any other access to the basement ( or any other place where you want to put pinballs ), this is a wonderfull idea...!

Eric

Kinda neat..  But it seems pretty unsafe to me..  Unless the elevator is full up, you have a big gaping hole in the floor..  As someone on RGP mentioned, it's most likely a building code violation..

Mike

Quoted from MrMikeman

Kinda neat..  But it seems pretty unsafe to me..  

If you fall into your own hole... I believe it's called natural selection.

Cheap to build. Most expensive portion is the winch and it doesn't require a very powerful one.

I wonder if my wife would be concerned about the hole in the ceramic floor in the laundry room?.... Nah, I won't even bother asking her.

The unsafe part to me is what could happen to a pin if the winch broke. I would like to see a brake mechanism incorporated as well.

Quoted from necro_nemesis

I wonder if my wife would be concerned about the hole in the ceramic floor in the laundry room?.... Nah, I won't even bother asking her.

The unsafe part to me is what could happen to a pin if the winch broke. I would like to see a brake mechanism incorporated as well.

Here's an solution that not only meets building and (pin) safety codes but will make the wife happy.

http://www.daytonaelevator.com/Pneumatic%20Vacuum%20Elevator%20Main%20Page.htm

There is a TOPL member who has set up something like this.  Its a winch that raises and lowers the games between floors.  There is no bottom, the game is just attached with various straps and needs a bit of guidance going up and down.  I am sure he has done many without any problems.  A few of my current games were hoisted out of his basement that way with no problems.

A very interesting project that saves your back (and your stairs).

Probably not for your average collector.  But I don't think "Pins Only" falls in that category.  

Quoted from MrMikeman

Kinda neat..  But it seems pretty unsafe to me..  Unless the elevator is full up, you have a big gaping hole in the floor..  As someone on RGP mentioned, it's most likely a building code violation..

Mike

THANK GOD!!! I thought I was the only one that noticed the door right in front of a huge hole in the floor!!! No safety gate... no auto-lock on the floor... and what I believe is no bracing for the floor, nor any structural reinforcement for the upstairs floor. There should be a bulkhead in front of the elevator in the basement due to him most certainly cutting one floorbeam to make way for the elevator... I have a design for an elevator, but at least it blocks the hole with a top plate once the elevator is lowered...

Quoted from takochef

Here's an solution that not only meets building and (pin) safety codes but will make the wife happy.

http://www.daytonaelevator.com/Pneumatic%20Vacuum%20Elevator%20Main%20Page.htm

The part I love the most: Please contact us for a price request...

I'd have to have a pretty nasty set of stairs that can't be relocated or rebuilt before I'd waste the space necessary for that contraption.  I can think of so many things wrong with that setup - many mentioned already.

Having said that, an elevator/dumbwaiter setup in a closet or something would make easy work loading pins up and down...

Quoted from necro_nemesis

If you fall into your own hole... I believe it's called natural selection.

Thank you for that, made my day!  

Quoted from Sparky

The part I love the most: Please contact us for a price request...

i called a few months ago.. the price is decent...  When you have no alternatives (ie to make it possible for an old person loosing mobility where climbing 25-50 stairs a day in the house is becoming torture), 30K is not unreasonable.
and the reason why i say "no alternatives".. if you notice in the photos, they specifically show homes with  round staircases.. the reason is round stair cases are impossible to retrofit with motorized chair assists (and those cost 15K), so this pneumatic vacum system isn't  bad.

of course, the cheaper solution would be convincing said old person to move to a romanian or nigerian old folks home but that is proving to be problematic

When looking for my first house I too thought about an elevator system in case my basement layout made it near impossible to bring pins down.  In my mind I decided I would like a pneumatic lift from the floor.  Similar to a car lift at the auto body shop. The base would be level with the basement floor and would rise to the main floor where there would be a manual trap door contraption.  With obvious safeguards to prevent people falling through a giant hole in my floor.    I have no idea what the cost of something like that would be.

In the end I settled on a basement with direct access from the garage and save myself a whole bunch of $$$ and headache.

For this guys lift, as unsafe as it looks and probably is.  Its still a cool contraption.