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Aussie Pinball Forums => General Discussion => Introduce Yourself => Topic started by: Hashman on November 26, 2011, 01:16:46 AM
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Well thats what my wife says since after 10 years of buying my first pin ive finally got right into it OCD style :P
I have three pins now and I can see the list growing as I sell of more of my arcade machines to get more pins. I have...
Data East Last Action Hero. Bought it for a princely sum of $600 ten years ago. Its had faults for that 10 years but 3-4 months ago I decided I wanted it 100%. So far ive done all the basics but also managed to fix the notorious magnet processor board thanks to endless google searching and some soldering. The difference the three magnets under the playfield make is just awesome. Seeing 6 balls shooting of in weird directions freaks out everyone who see's it. Only thing I have left to do is a flipper rebuild as they are pretty weak.
Sega Goldeneye. Bought this a few weeks ago. Needed some love which ive now given it. Heaps of globes out, broken satellite and non working magnet flipper ball save. Have now fixed all these issues and it plays awesome. Ball save is freaky and i love the satellite multiball. This pin is soooooo fast compared to LAH. Shame the right flipper has now decided to go a bit lame and decide every now and then to go limp.
Gottleib Freddy A Nightmare On Elm St. In near mint condition looks wise. Flippers very weak, pretty loose freddy jaw, broken flipper glove of course (now replaced with new one from marcos) but otherwise in really nice condition. Sometimes all the kickers seem to go a little weak and I notice a constant "click" noise from the transformer? while its in attract mode. Dont know if this is normal as ive never owned a gottleib before.
So basically I have three awesome looking pinballs all with flipper issues at the moment hahah. Have bought rebuild kits for all of them and hopefeully will build up the courage to change them all over this weekend. Ive never done a flipper rebuild before.
Anyway no doubt youll see me posting many stupid noob questions really soon :)
dave
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welcome to the forum.
there are alot of top blokes (members) in melbourne who can fix pinball machines and help u out if need be. plenty of help on here.
also, an interesting photo for your member avatar ! ^^^ and your member name reminds me of when i was a naughty teenager.lol () welcome to Aussie Pinball. ^^^
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also, an interesting photo for your member avatar ! ^^^ and your member name reminds me of when i was a naughty teenager.lol () welcome to Aussie Pinball. ^^^
Haha its the first pic i found, its from a Puscifer clip and yeah the names been with me since I was a naughty teenager but its sort of stuck haha. Heres a pic of my "Danger Shed" as I call it. :P
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Thanks for the intro and welcome to the forum. %)%
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Welcome aboard.
It is very satisfying working out faults and fixing them yourself, and the guys on here are a very handy resource if you get stuck.
Nice shed! Plenty of room for some more pins there!!
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Welcome to Aussie pinball.
And that's one sweet games room you have
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Welcome aboard . Great looking games room ^^^ . What's the next pin gonna be ?
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thanks guys! fuuny you should mention that. ive just been offered a Demolition Man. I think im going to take it :)
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%)% great setup *%*
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$.$ Dave and %)% to AP !
Cool games room you have there ^^^
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Howdy Dave, welcome to AP, great looking games room. Thanks for the intro, your pin infection appears to be spreading in the usual way.
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thanks guys! fuuny you should mention that. ive just been offered a Demolition Man. I think im going to take it :)
Hello and welcome...nice looking danger shed there mate...well done.
Demo man will look good in there...good game.
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Well it looks like im going to have to re arrange the danger shed yet again as I just won this on ebay! #*#
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Welcome to AP, congrats on the checkpoint purchase ^^^
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Hmmm. Starting to think the seller might be spewing it went so cheap and thinking of re-negging! Two days since I won it and he wont contact me! I hope he is just away fromn his email or something?? ^.^
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also, an interesting photo for your member avatar ! ^^^ and your member name reminds me of when i was a naughty teenager.lol () welcome to Aussie Pinball. ^^^
Haha its the first pic i found, its from a Puscifer clip and yeah the names been with me since I was a naughty teenager but its sort of stuck haha. Heres a pic of my "Danger Shed" as I call it. :P
is that maynard is it lol ahaha
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is that maynard is it lol ahaha
haha yep! have you seen him in the new "conditions of my parole" clip. so frickin funny.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7E-_J5WWkoc (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7E-_J5WWkoc)
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Addressing the title of this thread, in other forums I frequent they call it GAS (gear acquisition syndrome) I have suffered this malady in astronomy gear, saxophones and hifi, so far only 2 pinball machines though
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hi hashman
so did you end up getting the D E Checkpoint pin ??
It was relisted??
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Addressing the title of this thread, in other forums I frequent they call it GAS (gear acquisition syndrome) I have suffered this malady in astronomy gear, saxophones and hifi, so far only 2 pinball machines though
haha so i suffer from GAS! sounds about right :)
hi hashman
so did you end up getting the D E Checkpoint pin ??
It was relisted??
no i didnt! the guy was a scammer and the machine was a disgrace! firstly when i get there he says "do you want to turn it on or just grab it?". i obviously tell him i want to check it all out and he begrudgingly let me. The playfield was a mess. the main ramp was held together by tape, the cab was ok but thats about it.
i turn on the machine... "two balls missing" message. he says "oh that never happens".. sure. So i then spend 15 mins fishing out the two stuck balls in the under playfield tunnel thingy. re start the game..bang they get stuck again even though "it never happens". i realise its just a manky switch and think ok i can fix that and for the price its not too bad. so i start testing the rest of the switches and running the ball by hand everywhere. all this time there are two screaming kids harrasing me and a wife doing the obvious small talk distraction thing who then tells one of the kids that i was there to take it away and fix it. :/
i then realised that all three pop bumpers didnt work. which i noticed he has now added on the relisted ad. cant imagine all the coils going on the bumpers and considering the shocking condition of the playfield and plastics that it wasnt worth the $920 i won it for. offered him $500 and he declined so i walked out.
when i got home i re looked at the pics and realised there is nothing else in the room in the pics. in real life the pin was surround by kids stuff and couches and made the assumption the pics on ebay are from a long time ago. nearly feel like msging the bidders on ebay to warm them.
i have a taxi coming from qld now from an apparent reputable dealer and am picking up my demo man from oscar in the next day or so. :)
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Sounds like you dodged a bullet on that one!
Taxi and Demo Man sound like a great start.
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Sounds like you dodged a bullet on that one!
Taxi and Demo Man sound like a great start.
Yeah, im getting Demo Man tonight and Should have Taxi on Friday. The only problem is I have no idea how im going to fit them in with the three other pins in my Danger Shed!
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Wow. I cant believe this was written up a year ago. Since being awol from the site I think Ive been through a stack different pins in the year while also learning how to fix pretty much any problem that has arisen. I went from having 15 or so arcade machines to 3 but have been on a pinball frenzy ever since so I felt a re-introduction might be in order.
Pins ive owned and moved on during this time have been.
Last Action Hero
Freddy Nightmare On Elm Street
Goldeneye
Demolition Man
Taxi
Striker Extreme
Pinball Magic
Airborne
Roadshow
Tales From The Crypt
Rollergames
Possibly another one or two that I've forgotten ::)
Over the last 3-4 months Ive finally gotten a line up that I havent felt like changing which is..
WCS 94
No Fear
Theatre of Magic
Revenge From Mars
The Shadow
and soon... Jurassic Park
Certainly no A titles except for TOM and RFM I guess but I find they are all varied enough and still having fun with them after having them longer than any other pin. Im currently shopping my TOM and having a ball doing so. The Shadow is my most recent and its STILL kicking my ass. Tough but fun game. Only thing that drives me nuts is the amount of ricochets from the left ramp stand ups.
The pins I probably most regret moving on so quickly are Airborne and Rollergames.
Biggest dissapointments would be Freddy and Tales From The Crypt. I always wanted a TFTC but just found it too hard to enjoy so out it went. The fact I could never hit the creature feature mode start hole didnt help.
Anyway theres my year. :)
Dave
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That's quite a year!!
Tell me your feelings re Striker Extreme and Pinball Magic - I'm a bit surprised they didn't stay in the line-up.
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That's quite a year!!
Tell me your feelings re Striker Extreme and Pinball Magic - I'm a bit surprised they didn't stay in the line-up.
Haha yeah it was. I guess I wanted to try as many machines as possible until I got the line up I was happy with. Striker Extreme I just found so so. Just didn't do it for me. I swapped it for a couple of arcade machines kept it for a few weeks then moved it on. Felt cheap and nasty.
Pinball Magic blew me away when I first played it. After having it a while I found the linear gameplay just annoyed me. That and the fact I wasnt very good at it. Seemed way to hard to hit that left ramp but that was most likely my lack of skill. Just wish the modes weren't linear. Airborne was linear but it seemed to fit the theme better.
Absolutely loving the JP though and glad to have a DE back in the lineup.
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Good luck mate haha