Skeeball parts?

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Hi,
I have an old SmartBall Skeeball game I got working. It does not have any 100 point rings, so I want to add them. Does anyone know where I can get these rings from?? I contacted Skeeball, and they want to sell me the set for $199.00 I just looking for the rings. 200 seems too high. Also, if anyone knows where I could buy the cork, I would like to replace that as well. I seen some on ebay for like $250, But again, seems too much for what it is. Any suggestions or help would be great. Thanks.

Tim
 
I'm afraid that you'll probably have to buy the parts from Skeeball. These are commercial use machines and I doubt there are any other vendors who'd make reproduction or cheaper parts.

I think you'll have to bite the bullet and buy the parts at Skeeball's prices.

Don't know if you could make the parts yourself though.
 
There's been a couple guys "build their own" over on the BYOAC forum. I don't recall now what all they used, but it may be worth searching there for suggestions.

My only concern would be knowing whether or not your CPU would support counting those holes.
 
Yah Ken, I was afraid of that. I guess skeeball is not as common as far as parts and stuff as arcade games are.(If that made any sense!LOL) Kevin, I did check out that BYOAC quite a while ago, maybe I'll have to revisit it again. I guess I could make my own, but it would look like caca. As far as the scoring....It uses micro-switches with a wire on it. I pushed two down at a time and it scored correctly,so I would have to run circuits off of the two correct values and attach it to the 100 point switch. Thanks for the replies,you and your website here is DA BEST!!!
 
Skeeball has rediculous prices because they can. Not many vendors carry specific parts like those for Skeeballs. A switch or something you could definitely find elsewhere, but not something like pockets and whatnot.

As far as the scoring....It uses micro-switches with a wire on it. I pushed two down at a time and it scored correctly,so I would have to run circuits off of the two correct values and attach it to the 100 point switch.

So when you say "two down at a time", do you mean the 100 hole and the 10 hole?

A typical Skeeball "adds" each hole as it passes down through the trough. So each of the regular pockets is actually 10 points.
If you hit the 50 point pocket it actually runs down through the trough and adds 10+10+10+10+10 = 50 points.
So a hundred point pocket needs to be like 90...then when it finishes running down through the trough you get 90+10 = 100. (100 hole plus 10 hole)
See what I mean?

Just something to think about anyways.
(or maybe you have it straight already)
 
LOL! DUH...You are right. I may have done two and like 90 came up, or something like that.
 
Yeah, I couldn't remember off the top of my head how the trough layout was on a regular Skeeball, whether the 100 point holes actually hit all the 10 point holes or just the one.
So it could actually be something like the 100 hole (50 points) plus all the rest of the switches at 10 points each. (50+10+10+10+10+10=100)
 
Careful. Does the machine actually say "Skee Ball" on it somewhere? Nearly every redemption manufacturer has their own knockoff, these knockoffs are far more common than the real thing, and they all do things differently (e.g. Bay-Tek "Fireball" has big, custom-made infrared optos behind each hole and the ball falls through the opto onto a felt pad). The officiall Skee-Ball part may not even fit your machine -- considering it's an inert part, I would be all for making your own. Just buy some thick rubber and bend it.
 
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you know if you sand down the cork it's like brand new. We did that at one of the places I worked and it was amazing the difference. If you use 80 grid. The rings can be found I know a couple guys that had some extra i can look into if you want just let me know.
 
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