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Arcade Collecting => Miscellaneous Arcade Talk => Topic started by: AlexC on January 04, 2006, 10:02:45 pm

Title: My first pinball machine, need help..
Post by: AlexC on January 04, 2006, 10:02:45 pm

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

Title: Re: My first pinball machine, need help..
Post by: AlexC on January 04, 2006, 10:03:30 pm

one more pic  :D

Title: Re: My first pinball machine, need help..
Post by: arcadefever on January 04, 2006, 10:22:33 pm

 :o great condition !!! really nice.
 :-\ cant help you with pinball , i will get one one day for sure  :angel:

Title: Re: My first pinball machine, need help..
Post by: Witchboard on January 04, 2006, 11:05:14 pm

This (http://www.marvin3m.com/fix.htm) place seems to have some good pinball info.

Title: Re: My first pinball machine, need help..
Post by: Ken Layton on January 04, 2006, 11:53:54 pm

Get your parts and rubber kits from Marco Specialties.

Title: Re: My first pinball machine, need help..
Post by: Pipercub on January 05, 2006, 12:32:50 am

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.

Title: Re: My first pinball machine, need help..
Post by: Buddabing on January 05, 2006, 12:50:54 am

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

Title: Re: My first pinball machine, need help..
Post by: menace on January 05, 2006, 06:52:57 am

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?)

Title: Re: My first pinball machine, need help..
Post by: ChadTower on January 05, 2006, 08:54:33 am

Quote from: Ken Layton on January 04, 2006, 11:53:54 pm

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.

Title: Re: My first pinball machine, need help..
Post by: ChadTower on January 05, 2006, 08:56:03 am

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.

Title: Re: My first pinball machine, need help..
Post by: AlexC on January 05, 2006, 09:34:13 am

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.

Title: Re: My first pinball machine, need help..
Post by: ChadTower on January 05, 2006, 09:34:57 am

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

Title: Re: My first pinball machine, need help..
Post by: AlexC on January 05, 2006, 09:43:46 am

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.
 
 

Title: Re: My first pinball machine, need help..
Post by: ChadTower on January 05, 2006, 09:48:41 am

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.