After seeing a groovy playfield workbench being used on a couple of youtube videos, i decided I could do with one of those and was expecting it to be about £50, until I found out it was actually going to cost me £210 and that didn't include the legs, which are an extra £130 , then theres postage on top of all that.
So i was going to weld one up, I could have built one in a day at a push I reckon and it would have been a lot stronger than the one for sale, however then by chance I spotted this at ALDI, and it was only £30, I could see it had potential, but wasn't 100% certain it would do, so i bought some beer instead and had a good think about it, next day I thought about it again and decided to buy one, by which time they had reduced them to £20.
and its brilliant, there isn't any playfield that we've tried that doesn't fit perfectly into rollers at each end, that lock into place if you adjust them so they are just tight, and its actually held there firmly, so you can do whatever work you want on either the top or underside of the playfield.
You don't have the luxury of pivots at each end for rolling it over, however taking the playfield out and flipping it over manually takes about 10 seconds and isn't any major effort.
There are 3 different ways you can grip the playfield at each end, so you have to decide which is the most appropriate for the playfield you are working on, so long as its locked in tight on at least 1 end its not going anywhere.
To top it all, the legs fold up by pressing 4 buttons, its lightweight, very strong, easy to carry and put in the boot of the car, and it even doubles up as a workbench for your cross cut mitre saw when you neeed that, 10 seconds to attach your saw with two fold down lock levers. ( the 2 blue bars under the table are for the cross cut saw, remove easily and can be left attached to the saw for easy fitting, removing them gives you a few extra inches for playfields with taller mechanisms )
Everyone should get one, its a no brainer unless you have more money than you know what to do with.
my apologies if you are actually responsible for manufacturing the £340 plus postage workbench, however i'm sure theres' plenty of people here that can't justify that sort of expense, so i present the cheap solution.
Bonus Quiz - Name the 6 pinball machines that can be seen and identified in the above 3 photos ???
not easy but not impossible either, you can see enough of them to recognize them.
So i was going to weld one up, I could have built one in a day at a push I reckon and it would have been a lot stronger than the one for sale, however then by chance I spotted this at ALDI, and it was only £30, I could see it had potential, but wasn't 100% certain it would do, so i bought some beer instead and had a good think about it, next day I thought about it again and decided to buy one, by which time they had reduced them to £20.
and its brilliant, there isn't any playfield that we've tried that doesn't fit perfectly into rollers at each end, that lock into place if you adjust them so they are just tight, and its actually held there firmly, so you can do whatever work you want on either the top or underside of the playfield.
You don't have the luxury of pivots at each end for rolling it over, however taking the playfield out and flipping it over manually takes about 10 seconds and isn't any major effort.
There are 3 different ways you can grip the playfield at each end, so you have to decide which is the most appropriate for the playfield you are working on, so long as its locked in tight on at least 1 end its not going anywhere.
To top it all, the legs fold up by pressing 4 buttons, its lightweight, very strong, easy to carry and put in the boot of the car, and it even doubles up as a workbench for your cross cut mitre saw when you neeed that, 10 seconds to attach your saw with two fold down lock levers. ( the 2 blue bars under the table are for the cross cut saw, remove easily and can be left attached to the saw for easy fitting, removing them gives you a few extra inches for playfields with taller mechanisms )
Everyone should get one, its a no brainer unless you have more money than you know what to do with.
my apologies if you are actually responsible for manufacturing the £340 plus postage workbench, however i'm sure theres' plenty of people here that can't justify that sort of expense, so i present the cheap solution.
Bonus Quiz - Name the 6 pinball machines that can be seen and identified in the above 3 photos ???
not easy but not impossible either, you can see enough of them to recognize them.
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the elephant in the room.