The rules for playing Skee-Ball are simple. The player has six balls. There are seven holes on the playing field. The player rolls the ball across the field, the ball bounces on the springboard and enters one of the holes. Then the ball rolls along the tracks to the beginning of the playing field. Each hole has its own ball. The bottom 10 points, each subsequent +10, the upper corner 100. Thus, you can earn maximum 600, minimum 60 points.
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To make the game, the Master used the following
Tools and materials:
-Laminated chipboard;
-Planks;
-Plywood;
-Acrylic;
-Rubber mat;
-Tin;
-Balls;
-Roulette;
-Gon;
-Protractor;
-Marker;
-A circular saw;
-Fasteners;
-Drill;
-Circular Saw;
- Joiner's glue;
-Metal corner;
-USHM;
-Shellac;
-Engraver;
-Knife;
-Rule;
-Punch;
-Stapler;
- Paint tape;
-Red paint;
Step One: Project
The game was made according to the drawings presented below. The dimensions in the figure are indicated in inches, but if desired, it is not difficult to translate them into the usual metric measurement system.
Step Two: Frame
The frame is made of rail. First, the master made a frame for the playing field. Having made one side, I used it as a template for the second side.
Assembles a game frame. To connect, drills a series of holes for the dowels. Fixes with glue.
Assembles a horizontal frame. On the extreme levels makes a groove for the balls.
Joins two frames together.
For strength, the master reinforces the frame with a metal corner.
Step Three: Cover
After assembly, it covers the frame with several layers of shellac. Sand between sand layers.
Step Four: Track
Now you need to make the main track and return. The basis of MDF tracks. For the main track, the master glues, and then nails a flat rail into a solid one. Covers it with several layers of varnish.
For the return track, fixes the corner rail dividing the track into six parts.
Secures the tracks to the frame.
Then sets the acrylic sheet. Figures on acrylic engrave.
Step Five: the box of the playing field
Makes a box of the playing field. Box master made of plywood.The lower part of the box is curved, this will allow you to direct the balls directly to the return path.
Step Six: Rubber Rings
From a rubber mat cuts strips. Folds stripes into rings, fixes the edges with a stapler.
Step seven: the playing field
The playing field is made of MDF lined with rail and coated with varnish. Holes are cut out on the playing field. Rubber rings are installed in the holes.
The master fixes the rings with homemade aluminum brackets.
Step Eight: Ball Distribution System
Now we need to make sure that the ball, falling into the hole, slides along its path. To do this, the master cuts stripes from old road signs. Bends and fastens strips in the necessary order.
In places where the ball hits, it fixes pieces from the mat (so that the balls would not bounce).
Step Nine: Springboard
makes and fixes a springboard.
Step Ten: Shields
The shields were made by the master from an old acrylic basketball backboard. Cuts the desired shape.
Since the entire surface of the acrylic was scratched, the master polishes it with a polishing agent for car headlights.
Installs a visor. It fixes to the box with glue E600, and with each other using special glue for acrylic.
Step Eleven: Coloring
Before installing the acrylic shield, the master painted the box of the playing field in red.
On the track, paint draws arrows.
Everything is ready, now you can start playing.
