How to make coin return buttons useful!

[@Leroys_Stuff]

Good morning everyone. This is the nicest virtual pinball table on the interwebs

[@wayofthewrench]

Good morning dude! I don't know about that but I am trying to make it real purdy....

[@weekendinteriors8971]

I did the very same thing but with a slightly different execution. When I'm all done with my cab here shortly I plan on making a full walk-through. Well done and thank you for another great guide video the community can reference back to!

[@wayofthewrench]

Yeah lots of ways to skin a cat. There's a 3d printed bracket for this too but I figured most people don't have one. What did you end up using? Thanks for the watch!

[@Yayeet3000]

@@wayofthewrench Oh snap, do you have the link for the STL file for the print?

[@dmoehling]

The idea of the “toggle button” is genius!!!! And folks should seriously consider implementing this in a lot of facets of their cabinets. Especially with SFF or DOF installations. Same premis holds true. You can easily add external cabinet buttons to your cab that will let you disable / enable all sorts of cabinet features using this same method. I like using round led switches for this. Can give you a great “control panel” for easily Turing things on an off. Great video yet again!!!!!

[@wayofthewrench]

Right? I'm using 2 normal front cab buttons as hold in for a shifted buttons and this turns my 9 buttons into 27! Lots of control for all kinds of things! Thanks for the watch!

[@alexandros231]

Thanks for another GREAT video... i start building Vpin eleven years ago and i'm working on my fifth one right now, but when i start watching your videos a whole new dimension of making things showup. I'm not into woodworking and i love the way you work with tools. You are the reason i want to build a high end Vpin. Thanks again for everything looking forward for your next video. P.S. I hope i meet you one day and get a closer look of that project.

[@wayofthewrench]

Thanks! Fifth vpin build? That's awesome! Glad I could inspire you to make an even better one next. Where in the world are you? Thanks for the watch!

[@alexandros231]

@@wayofthewrench Markham, Toronto

[@wayofthewrench]

Close and yet sooo far. Cheers from the West coast!

[@danw3735]

It's like I'm watching my own build :) I did the same thing with the coin door buttons :D

[@wayofthewrench]

Yeah with a lack of buttons on the front to keep it looking legit, you gotta come up with some solutions. Thanks for the watch!

[@GeorgMenhard]

Wonderful! You helped, inspired and motivated me so much. Thanks a lot.

[@wayofthewrench]

Awesome, glad I could help you out and that you enjoyed my teaching style! Cheers! Thanks for the watch!

[@Mr_Turnbull]

Thanks for this excelent video. I've experienced that it is smart to use two seperate coin in buttons, since one button (smaller coin) often gives you only a half or even 1/3 credit (so button pushing becomes a full time job) while the other one triggers 1 to 3 credits. Depending on the table and it's ROM settings.

[@wayofthewrench]

Not a bad idea. I could see that you would just always push the bigger credit button instead though no? I just figured I'd make them the same and add the shifted function for more buttons. With Pinvol and Xpadder, I have 27 buttons now....lol Thanks for the watch!

[@Mr_Turnbull]

​@@wayofthewrench some tables just support only one button (the smaller), but yes, if they support both, i always use the bigger one.

[@wayofthewrench]

Makes sense.

[@kingforaday8725]

Good info!!! Wish I had a shop like yours to work in! I have all the necessary equipment but only my double car garage with a lotta other crap in it to work out of!

[@wayofthewrench]

Thanks dude! Yeah I'm a lucky dude to have this nice shop. I hope to one day have an even bigger cooler shop.....if my channel ever takes off. I have ridiculously small garage that's too full to work in too....I get it. Thanks for the watch!

[@chriskyser3641]

I'd pay money to take classes from you to learn how to build an arcade haha Love the way you explain things and how you don't 'gatekeeper' this hobby :) You gave me the courage to buy my first cabinet to retrofit and start my home arcade. Thanks so much!

[@wayofthewrench]

I'd love to run workshops in the future once the channel takes off and I get a new shop.......maybe you can help me do that! If you deem me worthy, I'd really appreciate it if you could share out my channel on your social media so I can help more people. That's awesome you got motivated to start an arcade build, I'd love to see it when you're done! My plan is to add to my arcade cabinet by building the current virtual pinball cabinet and then building a shooter cab plus a driving sim....plus some more....lol/ Thanks for the watch!

[@LucaAmadeus]

great video, as always! Just implemented this in my build today

[@wayofthewrench]

Thanks Luca! Thanks for supporting the channel dude! Cool! This will be handy when you install Pinvol. Video's up this Thursday!

[@scottzimmer8336]

Thanks for another great video. Very creative use of an otherwise wasted button. Looking forward to PinVol tutorial so I can get some consistency with the sound levels. Also appreciate you sharing a bit about Future Pinball as I have not even touched that so far.

[@wayofthewrench]

Thanks dude! Yeah you're gonna love Pinvol. It makes adjusting everything so easy. Thanks for the watch!

[@mikeyfoofoo]

Love it! Maybe Terry Red will pop up and give us some details about the Future pinball buy in button.

[@wayofthewrench]

Thanks! Yeah I still need to dive in to some FP videos but if I wait long enough, they will all be pin event....lol.

[@yogevsho]

thanks for the video. i just glue small microswitch but this is professional

[@wayofthewrench]

Hey...if it works. You could also 3d print a bracket too. Thanks for the watch!

[@stingray4mesidewinderbandga]

Thanks for the video. I thought I was going to have to buy a token one. I needed one for a 2011 frogger machine & took one out of my 1969 chicago coin fast ball machine & even though it said quarter on the outer part and quarter on the mech it already took the tokens so all i had to do was switch the two post to the other side & it worked just fine.

[@wayofthewrench]

You're very welcome! Glad the video was useful. I also have another video where I restore an arcade coin door too. You might wanna watch that one too. Thanks for the watch and welcome to the channel!

[@rolfschubert1853]

Great video. Where did you get your door from?

[@wayofthewrench]

Thanks Rolf! The link should be in my parts video description but it's either Pinball Life or Virtuapin. Thanks for the watch!

[@OGbrewser]

i did something similar with two extra buttons I had laying around. I removed the covers of the lighted buttons to expose their micro switches and the push rod on the back of the fake coin buttons on my door is a perfect match up. So i glued the buttons onto the back of the coin slots and now use them as volume controllers.

[@wayofthewrench]

Nice! You set up Pinvol too?

[@Vidal2021]

I have the blank door, from virtualpin, and added micoswts, but I never considered using them with pinvol. I have my right flipper and mag buttons as pinvol table volume, but using these is a great ideal.

[@wayofthewrench]

Yeah Im using every button now to control everything in pinvol, video is coming soon.

[@WillieEaderbush]

I've been following this series since the beginning... do you happen to have a budget breakdown or at least a total you've spent so far? I know it has to be less expensive to build it yourself, but given the amount of labor and tools needed, it would be interesting to see the investment amount at this point in the build. I want to build one of these myself, but I also have a guy close by in Clearwater Florida that is selling them already built.

[@wayofthewrench]

Cool, glad you're enjoying the series! Roughly over the 2 years, I have spent $1500. Keep in mind this vpin is as good if not better than you can buy, it just takes more work. However, you will learn how everything works so when it breaks down or if ya wanna upgrade it later. Thanks for the watch!

[@WillieEaderbush]

@@wayofthewrench Thank you for the response! The total for the one I was looking to purchase was almost $8000 so yeah... it's definitely worth the price, time, and labor to build it myself! Thank you for the walk-thru series and the info!

[@wayofthewrench]

Plus building something you'll be proud of every time you play it....priceless!

[@GearheadDaily]

Thanks Emil. Just FYI, next time, put the pocket holes on the inside of the cabinet and you won't have to fill them to put graphics on :)

[@brodzowski]

He explains in the video where he teaches you to use the jig why that's not a good idea.

[@wayofthewrench]

You're very welcome! Yeah I did a test to see which way was stronger and the traditional way where you don't see the pocket holes was waaay weaker and had issues with the ends bulging. So other way it went and some plugging/sanding later. Thanks for the watch!

[@GearheadDaily]

@@wayofthewrench Did you glue the joint?

[@wayofthewrench]

Yes I did, plus glued in a glue batton on the inside. This cabinet is not coming apart anytime soon....lol

[@GearheadDaily]

@@wayofthewrench Oh, i ask because the pocket screws do little to nothing in terms of strength, that all comes from the glue. Cabinet maker here, so that's why i asked. Hence the pocket holes on the inside comment. :)

[@snextime]

Every game in the settings should have “free play”. I’m assuming your games will hold high scores for every game so I would assume it would also save game settings.

[@wayofthewrench]

Yeah they should. What I meant by free play is you can press in the coin credit button. Or you could flip a switch and have it so the only way to get a credit is use an actual coin. Thanks for the watch!

[@XtiansLiE]

Need a 3d print of this!!!

[@wayofthewrench]

I think there are a couple out there but not perfectly accurate, kinda knock offs ya know. If you find one, let me know. Thanks for the watch,Cheers!

[@XtiansLiE]

If you would mind....what is the dimensions of your coin door? You are using the williams wide cabinet ?

[@wayofthewrench]

I don't have the dimensions on me but there should be one online and you can get the hole for the coin door of off my pdf in the video description.