HOW TO MAKE A PINBALL MACHINE: Pop Bumpers!

HOW TO MAKE A PINBALL MACHINE: Popbumpers

Just when you thought I wasn't going to add any - it's time to install a popbumper or two in our homebrew pinball machine! We'll talk about the different uses of popbumpers and then see where they make sense to use in our Led Zeppelin pinball machine.

Table of Contents:

0:00 Intro
1:14 History of the pop bumper
5:22 Bumper boredom
6:29 Modern pop bumper layouts
9:05 Bumper locations for LZ homebrew
13:13 Template for drilling holes
14:11 Grinding the ring
15:12 Installing
17:15 Wrap up

Links to Resources mentioned in the video:

Public Files on my Google Drive:
https://drive.google.com/drive/folder...

Pop Bumper Holes Template
https://pinballmakers.com/wiki/index....

Step-by-step Tutorial for getting the lower third of your pinball playfield powered, connected and flipping!: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1E...
Led Zeppelin Pinball Project BoM (Bill of Materials): https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/...

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If you haven't already, I challenge you to start building your own pinball machine, cuz why not!?!