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Another Brisbane Pin-Freak!
« on: April 15, 2009, 10:15:28 PM »
Hi folks!
Like many of you I loved to bash out a few credits on the pinball or arcade machine down at the fish and chip shop back in the 70s-80s when I was a kid. I used to collect glass bottles with refund valued at 5c a bottle then go and blow the earnings in one fell swoop.
I have been tinkering with various arcade machines over the years.....one thing led to another and I ended up the proud owner of a 1974 Williams Skylab. Now the bug has bitten hard and surely another machine will soon follow (then another and another until marital discord finally puts an end to the excess!).
I am here hoping to get some sound advice to keep my machine running and to perhaps sniff out another to join it in my "Great Temple of Amusements" located in my back room with my arcade machines and enough obsolete console stuff to choke an elephant!
It is going to be great to be able to talk about this kind of stuff without being looked at with a mixture of bemusement and even fear!
I hope to feel amongst brethren here......I am not insane!!

My other interests include vintage motorcycles and amateur rocketry. Any one else here into this stuff too??
I am searching for SPACE Themed Electro-Mechanicals.

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Re: Another Brisbane Pin-Freak!
« Reply #1 on: April 15, 2009, 10:17:55 PM »
Hi & welcome!

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Re: Another Brisbane Pin-Freak!
« Reply #2 on: April 15, 2009, 10:19:41 PM »
Hi &  %)%....

Cheers Peach  %$%
Life is short...smile while you still have teeth  ;-)

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Re: Another Brisbane Pin-Freak!
« Reply #3 on: April 15, 2009, 10:23:33 PM »
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Re: Another Brisbane Pin-Freak!
« Reply #4 on: April 15, 2009, 10:24:47 PM »
Hi and welcome good luck with the hunt. And vintage bikes are cool but Rocketry Please explain?  You will have to do a post in the Gamesroom section from the sound of things Enjoy the site

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Re: Another Brisbane Pin-Freak!
« Reply #5 on: April 15, 2009, 10:34:23 PM »
Owner of Skylab -rockets -rocketry -any relation ?
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Re: Another Brisbane Pin-Freak!
« Reply #6 on: April 15, 2009, 10:36:56 PM »
I worked out that it was to do with rockets i meant what does he do?  Build plastic models working models etc lol

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Re: Another Brisbane Pin-Freak!
« Reply #7 on: April 15, 2009, 10:38:11 PM »
Oh yeah, I've even got rockets on my PJs
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Re: Another Brisbane Pin-Freak!
« Reply #8 on: April 15, 2009, 10:39:23 PM »
I build real rockets with the noise and the flame and stuff. Good wholesome fun. I will post up something in the games room to illustrate..
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Re: Another Brisbane Pin-Freak!
« Reply #9 on: April 15, 2009, 10:42:36 PM »
G'day and welcome. An interesting set of hobbies there!

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Re: Another Brisbane Pin-Freak!
« Reply #10 on: April 15, 2009, 10:48:02 PM »
OHHH REAL ROCKETS WITH NOISE AND FLAMES  !*!sound like something i could get into @@* $#$

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Re: Another Brisbane Pin-Freak!
« Reply #11 on: April 15, 2009, 11:11:09 PM »

 $.$ and  %)% , Astroboy !

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Re: Another Brisbane Pin-Freak!
« Reply #12 on: April 15, 2009, 11:13:24 PM »
OHHH REAL ROCKETS WITH NOISE AND FLAMES  !*!sound like something i could get into @@* $#$

Google MMRG (Melbourne Metro Rocketry Group) or find them at www.ausrocketry.com\forum
They are a great bunch of guys who fly regularly.
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Re: Another Brisbane Pin-Freak!
« Reply #13 on: April 15, 2009, 11:21:32 PM »
What era of pinball are you after? Space/Rocket themed pins have been around since the 1950s.

Lots of cool games from the 1950/60/70 era with that theme

Does your Skylab work as it should?

Just a word of warning though - you get another pin and they will breed like rabbits  *%*

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Re: Another Brisbane Pin-Freak!
« Reply #14 on: April 15, 2009, 11:28:13 PM »
If rocketry means being the designated member of your street that has to light up the Thunder Kings on New Years Eve when everyone else is too scared or too drunk, then yes I share your hobby  :lol :lol :lol

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