Hi evryone, These pics were taken before I put the rails on the machine I made, but apart from that both games are fully playable. I'd like to call 'finish' on this project, but it's not quite there. I still have the instruction card and score card to do, as well as a coin chute for the front door. (I did the rails between taking these shots and now). ... If you chase this post back to the beginning, you'll see that the machine on the left has been made starting from a stripped playfield. ... everything else came after that. It's taken me about 18 months of fairly solid work, although there was a lot of waiting for parts at different stages. I'd like to thank everyone who helped me with parts, and in particular Nino and Daniel from this forum. You have both been very supportive and generous, even just giving me different parts along the way. This is greatly appreciated as the cost was like a 'leaky drip' for most of the time it took. Also John Selewski from the USA supplied me with many of the original Gottlieb parts for the head and the cabinet.
Later, I might detail what everything cost and how I rounded up the stuff to do this, but at the moment I'm happy just to play a game of pinball. Both machines have been fully restored, and now I'm going to sell one (the one I bought to copy from)... no one needs two of the same machine. Buyers with serious intent are welcome to arrange personal inspection. .... On other matters my wife and I have just come back from a month in the USA. We spent most of our time in Wyoming and Utah, and saw many places on the old Outlaw Trail. Hole In The Wall in central Wyoming was just fantastic, and folks there still talk about Butch (Cassidy) like he's about to walk through the door. We also went to Browns Park and Robbers Roost which are the other 2 main 'stations' along the Outlaw Trail. We had a terrific time, so finding motivation for pinball resto's is not easy right now. However, I do have an Ace High in need of some TLC so .... It's in the wrong cabinet so if anyone has a Gottlieb woodrail cabinet just collecting dust then I'm after one. The only bummer about travelling in Sept is I missed all the finals of the AFL, and now have to wait 6 months for a game. Anyway, have a great weekend. Cheers, Mark