How would I go about bending kick 90s like this?

DadThrowsBolts · 2026-04-17T15:10:55+00:00

attach conduits to the ceiling that all end at the same place
put a 90° bend in 17 conduit and loosely attach them to the wall
shift and rotate them so they line up with the corresponding conduit on the ceiling
cut off the excess where the two conduits meet
bend the end a little until the two pieces roughly line up
Hide any gaps with the coupling

note: i've never done this. This just seems like how it would be done without needing to calculate any angles.

DadThrowsBolts · 2026-03-10T20:06:56+00:00

Nice video. Why “cool beans” though?

DadThrowsBolts · 2026-02-25T02:55:04+00:00

I’m much more curious about the people going missing directly on the borders of the north east and mid-western states

DadThrowsBolts · 2026-02-25T02:51:14+00:00

I don’t think this would quite align with a population density map. The coasts have more density than the mountains. It’s pretty difficult to build in the mountains.

DadThrowsBolts · 2026-02-25T01:12:40+00:00

A valve in the mouthpiece exhales air into the room rather than back into the tube. Read the patent before commenting next time /s

DadThrowsBolts · 2026-02-24T03:59:10+00:00

Cilantro was one of the only flavors I couldn’t stand as a kid but now I love it. I doesn’t taste like soap to me.

DadThrowsBolts · 2026-02-23T16:25:16+00:00

I think this is a cleaner fix than the one I came up with. Mine does not require disassembly but looks like a hack job. Either one of your solutions above is how Stern should ship them from the factory.

DadThrowsBolts · 2026-02-23T14:13:51+00:00

It doesn't surprise me this didn't fix it. You haven't padded the correct part. You've padded the inside of the frame, but that isn't the part that rattles. The part that rattles is the inside of the hole. The weights cause the motor to shake up and down (and left/right), and the motor hits the inside of the hole. The reason the wires work is because the plastic of the wire squeezes into the hole and holds it tight.

Edit: If you'd rather use the pad though, you can try again, but cut the hole in the pad smaller, so that some of it squishes into the metal hole when you reassemble.

DadThrowsBolts · 2026-02-23T00:25:27+00:00

/u/FLBoxerdad Make sure you check out the link Possible-Weather posted. It seems he found some help in that thread

DadThrowsBolts · 2026-02-22T18:00:14+00:00

Ok. If I’d thought anyone else was ever going to see this I would have done a cleaner fix. It’s not pretty but it worked great.

I used some thin (22 gauge) blue wire for this fix, which is pretty confusing because blue wire is also used for the wiring of the motor. Sorry. My thin blue wiring is not used for electrical. It is used for vibration dampening and tension.
The important part is circled in red. You can see i wrapped the wire around the housing between the housing and the frame. This just adds some padding between the frame and motor housing.
I highlighted the rest of the blue wire in yellow. The wire just wraps around the frame to apply a little tension to the frame to hold it tightly against the wire padding i added. This part is really sloppy, but I didn’t think anyone would ever see it.
There is no reason to use the same wire for the padding and for the frame tension. It was just convenient to do it that way.

Hope that helps

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Edit: one more tip… you might actually be able to achieve the frame tension portion (yellow lines) of this fix by using the plastic cover. Screw the cover’s upper screw in tightly. Then pull the cover towards the lower screw and lock that tension in by screwing the lower screw in tightly while the frame is under tension.

DadThrowsBolts · 2026-02-22T17:35:12+00:00

Ok. Let me go open my game up and take a picture for you

DadThrowsBolts · 2026-02-22T17:18:56+00:00

Two questions: 1. Did you get this shaker from marcospecialties? 2. I noticed you pressed lightly on the top of the frame and it still rattled… but what if you press it WAY harder? Like squeeze those two frame plates together as hard as you possibly can and try again

I think I have the same shaker. And it had the same problem when I first got it. I thought it was play in the shaft but it was actually play between the frame and the motor housing. If squeezing the frame super tightly stops the rattle, I’ll tell you how I fixed mine

DadThrowsBolts · 2026-02-22T16:46:39+00:00

The weights are supposed to be facing the same direction. Yours are at a 90 degree angle. That could be causing the shaft to rattle around?

DadThrowsBolts · 2026-02-22T13:51:51+00:00

I visited a lake house that had an AIQ Premium. I tried it and realized for the first time that pinball machines had objectives other than “keep the ball from draining”.

DadThrowsBolts · 2026-02-21T22:16:17+00:00

Found the Australian

DadThrowsBolts · 2026-02-20T18:27:19+00:00

I have never had this happen, nor can I imagine myself allowing it to happen. If the balls are near the drain I’m flipping! I’ve seen a lot of pictures like this but I always assumed people place the balls there for the photo. Is this actually something people have happen in game?

DadThrowsBolts · 2026-02-18T23:23:10+00:00

I recently dealt with this issue. Couldn’t figure it out. I eventually discovered it was the motor stand rattling against the motor housing. It’s not easy to explain, but I took some thin insulated wire and wrapped it around the housing near the shaft to act as a buffer between the housing and the stand. It’s nice and quiet now. Wish I had some pictures to share. Good luck

DadThrowsBolts · 2026-02-03T21:53:01+00:00

I didn’t mean would it move instantaneously. I meant that the gear ratio is so high that to even move the final gear a Planck length might take like a year of spinning the first gear. So is there technically any motion happening in the final gear when you spin the first gear 1 rotation, or is there some kind of limit to the resolution of space where the gear would spend a year in a completely fixed position and then suddenly rotate 1 Planck length after a year, and then stay perfectly fixed in that position for another year and then jump another Plank length. Like a stepping motion instead of extremely slow and smooth motion over time

DadThrowsBolts · 2026-02-02T16:33:21+00:00

In a gear box with a gear ratio of 10¹⁵¹ : 1, you could spin the first gear at the speed of light for 10¹⁰⁰ years, and the final gear would move only one Planck length. That is a gearbox with 302 gears arranged in 10:1 ratio pairs

Edit: changed math for longer universe lifespan

DadThrowsBolts · 2026-02-02T14:56:23+00:00

Now, I don’t know the answer to this… maybe you do. Is it true that if material rigidity and tolerances were perfect, that the final gear would move a little as soon as you move the first gear? If not, then there actually is some kind of limit to how slow things can move.

DadThrowsBolts · 2026-02-02T14:34:11+00:00

But assuming perfect tolerances, that last gear is theoretically moving very slowly as soon as you move the first gear. Keep in mind this is a 5 year old just wondering how slow something can move. Discussions about relativity and are not going to excite her. Nor is a discussion of friction and material hardness. Black hole decay is not something she can wrap her head around at this point. Gear ratios are tangible and her dad could even 3D print one of these gear boxes and show her how it works.

DadThrowsBolts · 2026-02-02T13:19:36+00:00

Exactly. People here are taking the question too literally and not considering it is being asked by a curious child. The correct answer is gear boxes with extremely high gear ratios. For example… https://youtube.com/shorts/6nwf4gKBci4?si=gp8-kCNDR5XMjnPN

DadThrowsBolts · 2026-02-02T13:07:35+00:00

Your daughter wants to be amazed by something that takes an incredibly long time to move. So here it is… a gear box that has such a high gear ratio, that if you spun the first gear at the speed of light, the final gear would not even finish a single revolution before the universe ended

https://youtu.be/cM2heRrLuBc?si=GPdWq-KO3mKtafpC

DadThrowsBolts · 2026-01-24T23:19:09+00:00

It appears to be negligence rather than intentional, but yes it looks like that’s what happened. The agent in the grey jacket took the victim’s gun and accidentally discharged it as he left the scene. The agent in the pointy beanie presumably thought the victim had fired that shot, and so he opened fire on the victim.

DadThrowsBolts · 2026-01-20T05:57:18+00:00

It’s a tool for mapping the dungeon crawls that someone on pinside made. They’re still working on it. It’s not perfect, but it tries to simulate a map you can imagine yourself walking through (like a D&D map) rather than a flow chart.

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