Hi guys,
This is my small collection of pinballs.
As a teenager I was never allowed to go to the pinnys, I had never played a pinball till earlier this year.
I started with an absolutely mint Dr Dude from Mark C, fully shopped and as I was not after a particular pinball, all I went with was the best quality and best condition I could afford at the time. The cabinet was unmarked, the playfield was factory mylared and I was quite spolit for a firsat pinball.
After playing the heck out of it for a couple of weeks, I was quite frustrated with it, if you have ever played a Dr Dude, the flippers seem to be too far apart, not a biggineers pinball for sure. That was August the 1st this year.
As Mark C has stated many a time, you cannot stop at one pinball.
By Sepetember the 18th, I was unloading my second pinball. The Getaway High Speed II purchased from a local operator.
The playfield was excellent, the known faults were the missing DMD, missing a pop up bumper coil, the bottom flipper did not function, the supercharger did not spin the pinball quick enough and the cabinet was split in the front.
This was to be my first project, and along the way I have learnt many things. I purchased it mainly on the condition of the playfield, the Fliptronics II was my first repair (faulty transistor) and I sorted through most of the other issues execpt for the supercharger.
I had to come to Melbourne from Bendigo for a work meeting, and I dropped off the Getaway to Mark C to have a look at it for me.
Just as well, it took Mark and the boys over 6 hours to get the problem sorted, great guys, looked after me heaps with this!
I have the decal set sitting in the corner for the Getaway from Illinois Pinball, and will rebuild the cabinet soon.
I was hit pretty hard by this pinball addiction by now, and come November the 26th I am Silverball's warehouse picking up my Indy 500.
The machine was not as I or Silverball expected, but the price was better than all right and with a some TLC will come up nicely.
So far I have gone through what I call the operator "ghetto" repairs (twist and tape) and replaced the three mismatched flipper coils with genuine ones and am waiting for parts to rebuild the illuminated drop targets.
The great thing is that I have three pinballs that all play well now, and enjoy just banging away in the shed.
Thanks heaps to Mark C and Silverball for hooking me up.
The following is a link to most of the pics.
http://www.cardomain.com/ride/758664/2
