Gottlieb MIBS restore

[Strangeways]

Hey Mitch - I'd love to see a thread documenting one of your restores. If not more !!

 

[Creech]

Ditto! 

[Mr Pinbologist]

No worries, will do! I just need to go thru my pics and see what i've got for which machines. I took heaps of pics for all of my restores but some might be unuseable, because they were taken before i had my digital camera

[Strangeways]

No worries, will do! I just need to go thru my pics and see what i've got for which machines. I took heaps of pics for all of my restores but some might be unuseable, because they were taken before i had my digital camera

I know the feeling. Took me a while, but I ended up sorting through all of the pictures and "cataloging" them. I found some pictures I didn't know I had and it was a fun trip down memory lane... I look forward to one of your documented restores 

[jyebow]

Hey Mitch,
Great restore. How'd you touch up that backglass ? it looks great compared to the before pic.
Well done. Another GTB em saved.

[Mr Pinbologist]

I used water based acrylic paints.. same techniques as documented in Clay's pinball repair guides. Luckily most of the damage was in unlit (opaque) areas so it wasnt too bad to do. The touchups arent perfect by any means.. but anything is better than how it looked before.. .

[illawarra_steelers]

Mitch,

OMG - that is 2 restorations that have totally blown me away within 24 hours! MIBS - what a fantastic looking pin - and the job you did on the restoration, full credit to you. These types of posts are very inspiration and I'm busting to get home to work on my Picnic from 1958 tonight!

Did you know you can buy repro backglass animation balls from PBR?

http://www.pbresource.com/news/bal-catr.jpg and http://www.pbresource.com/news/bal-catw.jpg

They also were making blue and purple, I have 3 of each colour in mine, looks soooo cool - 3 red, 3 blue, 3 purple and 3 white. They are only US$2 each and make the backglass come alive.

Highly recommended!

[Mr Pinbologist]

Thanks Tony, glad you like!!! Not bad for a game i picked up for $20 hey?

[jyebow]

Only $20 !! Mitch ..you're killing me.
Man I'm doing all the Garage sales tomorrow

[Mr Pinbologist]

Only $20 !! Mitch ..you're killing me.
Man I'm doing all the Garage sales tomorrow

That was at a time when they were considered worthless though... when even SS games could be had for $50. I can remember hearing stories of pins being taken to the rubbish tip!! Twice i was told this by different people, about them having seen pins at the tip, and both times i was too late to save them... they'd been crushed under the bulldozer before i got there
BUT.. they ARE out there... in garages broken down and crap all over them, with owners who have no idea what they're worth. just a matter of stumbling across them

[Strangeways]

Yep - Seen that in the late 80s.. Dad was an ex op and we had 2 - 3 truckloads of system ones backed out straight to the tip. NO ONE wanted them - not even for free back in those days.. The only reason I scored the Solar Ride was because he "lost" it right up the back of the storage building. I also found the Meteor I restored... In 100 pieces..

Sad but it was a "sign of the times"...

[ktm450]

Yep - Seen that in the late 80s.. Dad was an ex op and we had 2 - 3 truckloads of system ones backed out straight to the tip. NO ONE wanted them - not even for free back in those days.. The only reason I scored the Solar Ride was because he "lost" it right up the back of the storage building. I also found the Meteor I restored... In 100 pieces..

Sad but it was a "sign of the times"...

Very dissapointing 

[illawarra_steelers]

Yep - Seen that in the late 80s.. Dad was an ex op and we had 2 - 3 truckloads of system ones backed out straight to the tip. NO ONE wanted them - not even for free back in those days.. The only reason I scored the Solar Ride was because he "lost" it right up the back of the storage building. I also found the Meteor I restored... In 100 pieces..

Sad but it was a "sign of the times"...

Yes they were the times. I remember around 1980 when truckload after truckload from the distributers in Sydney took all their remaining EMs to the dump. There would of been at least FIVE HUNDRED that I knew of that got dumped around that time 

[ajlaird]

The only good thing about this is that it makes the ones left more valuable - no, wait a second, that is a bad thing.

[Strangeways]

The only good thing about this is that it makes the ones left more valuable - no, wait a second, that is a bad thing.

What we should be grateful for are the guys that kept there machines post Operation. Then we need to thanks the guys that are actively looking for these machines - because most of them are overseas.

The industry is run by hobbyists like US... It is our duty to buy the machines, restore, maintain and fill our gamesrooms with more !

Here's a story for you (sign of the times) - I went to a private secondary school, and every year we had a School Carnival. Dad would fill the truck up a couple of time with EMs. At the end of the night - they were raffled off, or donated to the school for fund raisers. Yep - they were given away at every opportunity.. He did the same for local sports clubs..

Every now and again I see a game that I recognize as Dad's from the "old days"... I once saw a "Seven Up" at a dealer's about 8 years ago. I knew it was Dad's as it had his hand writing on the score card. The number "7" had a line through it - typical of his handwriting (European)...

Don't get me started on the Bally Bingos (50's Machines)....