Hi All,

If you can not purchase the plastics for your pin, eith used or reproduction, how do you go about making or reproducing those that are broken?

Any ideas?

Drew

You can start here: http://www4.pair.com/gribnif/pinball/plastic/

Google is your friend, trust him.  

Buy a small sheet of Lexan from Home Deopt, costs $10.  You can cut it with a router, scroll saw, bandsaw or just a plain ol' jigsaw which is what I use.  You can cut out the lexan pretty close to the necessary shape, then I use a bench grinder to shape it further.  There are much more refined methods however, including Dremel attachments.  When you've got you plastic the right shape, take your artwork and use clear packing tape to affix the artwork to the plastic, from underneath of course.

Get your artwork/graphics laserprinted on basic glossy white stock.  This will allow the right amount of light to pass through it.

I've been having pretty good results with this method, and I get a little better at it each time ( if I do say so myself ).

Quoted from mrniceguy

Buy a small sheet of Lexan from Home Deopt, costs $10.  You can cut it with a router, scroll saw, bandsaw or just a plain ol' jigsaw which is what I use.  You can cut out the lexan pretty close to the necessary shape, then I use a bench grinder to shape it further.  There are much more refined methods however, including Dremel attachments.  When you've got you plastic the right shape, take your artwork and use clear packing tape to affix the artwork to the plastic, from underneath of course.

Get your artwork/graphics laserprinted on basic glossy white stock.  This will allow the right amount of light to pass through it.

I've been having pretty good results with this method, and I get a little better at it each time ( if I do say so myself ).

I agree with one exception, I use mylar instead of the packing tape, I think after a period of time the glue on the packing tape may dry up and the artwork will come off. Just a thought... maybe I'm just too overkill...