My first pinball machine, need help..

[AlexC]

Finally bought a pinball machine. Everything works on it and I it was a good deal pricewise.
Are there any sites that have some sort of walk-thru on maintenance and how to "shop"
a machine? I know I'll need get a rubber kit and to clean (or wax?) the playfield but more info would be helpful.
I did a yahoo search but didn't come up with much...

Thanks all

[AlexC]

one more pic 

[arcadefever]

  great condition !!! really nice.
  cant help you with pinball , i will get one one day for sure 

[Witchboard]

This place seems to have some good pinball info.

[Ken Layton]

Get your parts and rubber kits from Marco Specialties.

[Pipercub]

A friend got that same game at the last auction. The graphics and play are great but the sound is killer. A great game to own. His threw an error message, something like coil stuck or the like. I think he dealt with it by replacing a EOS switch.

[Buddabing]

What Witchboard said, plus check out the rec.games.pinball newsgroup or just google for pinball maintenance.

[menace]

Everything you need to know about fixing, cleaning upgrading is right here:

http://www.marvin3m.com/fix.htm

might not cover your game specifically but it has oodles of good info!

For parts I use the pinball resource out of poghkipssi (sp?) new york--no minimum order and the prices are good.  He has a pretty good selection as well..  Only down side is he is a little old fashioned.

Good score on the pin (what was the price if its ok to ask?)

[ChadTower]

Get your parts and rubber kits from Marco Specialties.

I would recommend pinballlife.com instead for anything they actually carry... cheaper, faster, and they won't rape you on shipping.

Marco definitely has the biggest selection of stuff, though.

[ChadTower]

Shopping a machine of that age is a hard one... I shopped my first dot matrix machine over the summer (Twilight Zone) and man it took FOREVER. 

We'll get you through it, though.  First stuff, of course, is to fully playtest the thing, and then to run the diagnostics on it to see what may need repair.

[AlexC]

I paid $800 for it and it was locally so I didn't have to pay shipping.
Also, thanks for all the tips and the links.

[ChadTower]

$800 is a pretty good price.  Is it a good player?  I've never even seen one of those IRL.

[AlexC]

Yeah, pretty good gameplay, it has 4 different multiball sequences, I think.
On the right side it has 2 flippers, the main one and a smaller one right above it. Lots of lights and toys.
 
 

[ChadTower]

Cool.  I spend time with too many pinball snobs who stick with the same small pool of pins... I'd like to play a wider variety of games, that's for sure.