Old pinball machines are amazingly complex
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First, wear your dust mask. Who knows where these machines have been?

  • BearOfaTime@lemm.eeEnglish
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    7 months ago

    Part of the suction solution was to simply over-engineer things, which is why old anything mechanical is seriously robust.

    Looking at cars, an A-arm from a 1950’s vehicle can easily weigh 2x-5x more than in a similar new vehicle.

    • evranch@lemmy.caEnglish
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      7 months ago

      Good point. I run a lot of old equipment and compared to what new stuff could handle, I absolutely abuse it.

      My flatbed “1-ton” F350 used to be a grain truck. 1 ton of grain wouldn’t even fill half the box.

      I can put 4 round bales on the deck, well over 2 tons, and the overload spring pack isn’t even touching the mounts yet. It was overbuilt, all right.