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Aussie Pinball Forums => Member Services => Sales and Services => Infinity Amusements => Topic started by: soundasleep on October 26, 2013, 06:15:51 PM
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I'm sure many of you have been looking at my posts sideways, wondering why a guy who is building a business around virtual pinball machines is doing hanging out on a site dedicated to the real thing.
A video pin, in my opinion, is a homage to a mechanical pin. Not a replacement. But the whole point is to make the look and feel of the cabinet to be as authentic as possible.
With that aim we are currently designing WPC95 and Widebody cabinets and backboxes that will soon be available to purchase in flat pack form. We will offer all flat packs in either FormPly (for those who don't want to paint, or will be using vinyls) or Marine Ply for those wanting only the best quality. As well as being the perfect start for a video pin project, these cabinets can be used for restoration projects or even original custom pins.
We also plan to offer a full range of cabinet trim. Almost everything you need is already on our store (with a trim bundle coming soon) and I am proud to announce the first of our new, Australian Made pinball cabinet trim components:
*** Williams / Bally style stainless steel cabinet rails ***
$59 for a pair (including industrial double sided tape)
Flat shipping: $30 Australia wide
http://infinityamusements.com/product/inf-ssr/
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For our Melbourne customers, we are now offering replacement glass panels:
* "Classic" playfield glass - 533mm x 1092mm - $70
* "Infinity" playfield glass - 563mm x 1092mm - $80
* "Widebody" playfield glass - 603mm x 1092mm - $89
* Replacement Translite panel - 680mm x 480mm - $25
All glass panels are 5mm tempered, stamped, safety glass.
Delivery is flat rate of $30 to anywhere in Metro Melbourne.
Please contact us for Regional Victoria or Interstate deliveries.
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good on you to sell the whole package - one stop shop.
Some photos with your products would be good as well
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I take a lot of photos as I go through all the different toys and parts :)
Some get used as the product shots on the website (I try and have a few pictures per product when suitable) while most end up on our Instagram feed and/or Facebook page.
What sort of photos would you like to see?
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Any plans on getting "Invisiglass" made at a reasonable price .
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Any plans on getting "Invisiglass" made at a reasonable price .
It's honestly not something I'd looked into as yet - we've been flat out getting the CAD work finished for the flat pack cabinets and backboxes. I'll make some enquiries next week and see if anybody can produce something similar to this locally...
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Any plans on getting "Invisiglass" made at a reasonable price .
+1 would like a local source to buy some from too
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The technique Jersey Jack uses is proprietary and how they do it is, of course, a well kept secret.
I will speak to our glaziers and get their advice on the situation. I believe the basic idea is to produce the playfield glass using a similar technique to how eye glasses are made - but I honestly don't know.
Even if we can find somebody to give us a similar product, and there is enough interest, I still can't see the price being any less. I've been told the stuff works, but triple the price to let you play with the lights on?
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Stock Update:
Looking at building your own video pin? Our complete Button Kit is now available for $129
http://infinityamusements.com/product/inf-btk/
Building a pinball cabinet? You might be interested in our Complete Trim Kit, starting at $495
http://infinityamusements.com/product/inf-trmkit/
And we're in the final stages of preparing our flat pack kits. We are getting corner brackets and speaker panel channels fabricated brand new so our backboxes will be a near perfect reproductions of a 90's era WMS/WPC backbox.
All flat packs are CNC cut and made from only A Grade Exterior Birch plywood. No particle board, no MDF, no CD grade plywood.
Kits come unfinished - ready to prime and paint.
Pinball Cabinet Flatpacks starting from $379.
Complete BackBox Kit (including all fittings and speaker panel) $199
Buy both and get $50 (so a complete cab kit from $528)
http://infinityamusements.com/product-category/flat-pack-kits/
If there is enough interested from the forums we can do a bulk run and get those prices down a bit further. But that's JUST for you guys ;)
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All flat packs are CNC cut and made from only A Grade Exterior Birch plywood. No particle board, no MDF, no CD grade plywood.
Kits come unfinished - ready to prime and paint.
Pinball Cabinet Flatpacks starting from $379.
Complete BackBox Kit (including all fittings and speaker panel) $199
Buy both and get $50 (so a complete cab kit from $528)
No particle board, no MDF, no CD grade plywood ^^^ ^^^ ^^^
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Great concept, but VERY expensive for what it is.
just sayin'...
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The trim kit looks like something I would be interested in the future. A one stop shop for a cabinet referb.
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Hard to tell by the pictures but is the Bally cabinet designed to suit virtual or could use it for pin cabinet replacement.. If not you should make it a option.
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The pictures I've got up there now are renders from the CAD software. I've got an MDF build here to work out the last of the bugs and place the knockdown fittings before we start producing the final cabs.
They will indeed make suitable replacements for an actual Williams/Bally pinnie. All that's missing is the internal blocks for the playfield arm. Only the Infinity cabinet includes the hole for a joystick, the standard and Widebody coin door panels are designed from a "Hurricane" with an Extra Ball button added as well as space for both Launch Ball button and a plunger. It's easy enough to move around a few button holes if you know exactly what you are after.
Marty Machine: Expensive compared to whom? In comparison, ArcadeWorX sells their pinball flatpack for $480 and that's not a replica - it's designed for video pins, is made from MDF, and T-slots for playfield molding is $30 extra. The material alone (A Grade Birch vs MDF) is almost 5 times the price. IMHO I've underpriced if anything ;)
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Hmmm fair enuff, but i used to churn out 'A' birch cabs with blank 'A/A' playfields for around $100 and sell for $150, and that was 2-3 yrs ago, prices for wood and fitting didnt jump that much.
Sack your supplier i reckon ;-)
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Hmmm fair enuff, but i used to churn out 'A' birch cabs with blank 'A/A' playfields for around $100 and sell for $150, and that was 2-3 yrs ago, prices for wood and fitting didnt jump that much.
If you don't mind me asking, what were you paying for wood sheets? I've shopped around a fair bit, and at current pricing there is more than $150 worth of material - and that's before you even switch on the CNC machine!
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Good news: Our final sample is due on Tuesday so assuming we got all the bugs this time orders for reproduction WMS style cabinets and back boxes should be open by Wednesday.
Bad news: To make a perfect reproduction required custom manufacturing the backbox brackets and speaker panel channel since neither of these parts are available new anymore.
This has pushed up the cost a bit so I need to rework the pricing. It's looking like at this stage the currently listed pricing has no real margin so that will be the forum deal, and the RRP will need to be a bit higher to make it worth my time.
The only real change is due to the cost of laser CNCing acrylic, the backbox kit will not include the acrylic speaker panel sheet as standard (optional extra).
Full details in a few more days!
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good to hear the good news and with the bad news I can't imagine they would be that expensive to affect your end price.. Try getting some quotes from laser cutters that specialise in electrical components as there laser machinery is slightly different in that it laser cuts and bends on one machine and there laser cutting nearly always is cheaper than a laser cutting service that just cuts. The electrical laser cutters have impressive machinery and are constantly chasing the works.
As a guide when I got the mirror blades and lane protectors made
- a laser cutter that just cut was 2-4 times more than a electrical laser cutter
- the cost for bending was $0.50 to $1 per bracket
same with the acrylic, you should be able to go to a sign writer with a laser and pump these out for $10 or less a panel if you opted for a 1200 x 2400mm sheet cut in one go.
hope it helps
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Thanks for going to the trouble of supplying these items. Great to have a local doing the job.
Any chance of repo Data East Cab? Like Star Wars?
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Thanks for the tips! The corner brackets and speaker panel rails are due this week and I'm waiting to hear back on a few quotes on acrylic cutting before I can finalize the price.
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Dendoc: Our video pin cabs are based on the WMS design so that's why we will be offering those first. Early next year I'll look at reproducing other styles based on demand.
I need to do a Gottlieb System 3 headbox next as I have a headless Class of 1812 sitting here :)