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Leftstudio 
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 Topic: Making the ball pickerPosted: 04/29/2023 at 3:55am |
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I want to make my own ball picker so I don’t have to use my hands. Does anyone know how to make the ball picker for multiball?Any tips? Start with a badminton racquet? Any fun ideas? Thanks!
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mts388
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Posted: 04/29/2023 at 6:50am |
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I bought a plastic tube with the diameter a little bigger around than the ball. Cut one end at an angle and glue a thin velcro strip inside the of the cut end. The ball will pass through the velcro strip and up into the tube. It only picks up one ball at a time, but does it quickly.
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Posted: 04/29/2023 at 1:30pm |
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This seems like the perfect time to link to this review.
Edited by ThePongProfessor - 04/29/2023 at 1:32pm |
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Posted: 04/29/2023 at 4:12pm |
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My Ping Pong Buddy is the absolute best solution, nothing comes even close, I forgot mine at a place where I coached and I could never get it back. The thing is that all items to make it but one can be found cheaply but I do not know what kind of plastic that semi rigid net is made of and to me it's the genius "secret ingredient".
Reproducing Newgy's Pong Pal with 2" PVC tube is quick. For the balls under the table, we pull them 1st and we are never bending enough to matter. 60"x2" cardboard mailing tube does the trick stappling 2 thick elastic bands at one end. Buying a large poster gets us one free  .A search for "ping pong ball picker" or "Pingpong Ball Retriever" on Aliexpress gives funny results: For 1 MPPB we can buy 8 of those but keep in mind that MPPB shipping is free and that number 8 goes down to 2 when taking shipping into account. |
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Posted: 04/30/2023 at 8:13pm |
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Dust pan with handle + a broom works pretty well
I practice with a shoebox full of balls, sweep the balls on the floor into a corner and then into the dustpan, it's pretty fast |
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MPPB
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Posted: 05/11/2023 at 10:02pm |
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Thank very much for your kind words for MyPingPongBuddy. I just want to let our readers know that me and my wife Jean are both avid lovers of our favorite game of table tennis and we make this popular ball picker by hand at home since 2010.
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Posted: 05/12/2023 at 9:48pm |
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It's all about what we are searching and the keywords that we use.
"plastic mesh netting" will give good results. https://www.amazon.com/s?k=plastic+mesh+netting
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Posted: 05/12/2023 at 9:55pm |
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Posted: 05/13/2023 at 12:30am |
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htpps://joe.bulatao/videos/1204963800114084?idorvanity=210865936170705
Edited by MPPB - 05/13/2023 at 12:35am |
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Posted: 05/13/2023 at 8:30am |
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Hi Joe, here the right link:
It is very good!!!
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Posted: 05/13/2023 at 8:42am |
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Thank you for fixing the link stiltt. I can't figure out what was wrong with the link and I wanted to delete it but I can't figure out how to do that either! So this is my hacked version of the Newgy pongpal. I hope I wont get in trouble for infringing on their invention. Honestly, I am not interested on making any more.
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