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"works good" - but wrong price for a Gottlieb even in today's market. ;-)

People who know me know that that would be this odd ball's "dream" collection come true. Well except for Rescue 911 which I would sell JUST to break up the set on purpose. ;-)

(Sorry all for the long post, it's in the wrong thread and my last off topic post on this subject.) Yes I would still take those (those are the machines I most often ended up with as I am a "fixer" more than a "player" or "collector"). But my integrity has a lot to do with it. I would do...

There's no harm in asking for assurances, but I just can't get behind the mentality that two wrongs make a right. That's what eBay is for.

Decent people never used to think like this before. Desperate or greedy, but it's putting that before integrity. If I offer something for a price, then that was the price I was happy to receive. If you make a contract with someone to purchase at a set price, then you should honour it so long...

This is pretty much how I have made all my pinball, slot, arcade purchases. Sight unseen, firm offer. If you know what you are doing, then you will know ahead of time what the correct price vs the risk of what can be wrong is. I almost never sold a pin at much, if any profit either - and work...

PPS icanswim70: If the machine's motor wouldn't run, it was likely stuck at the part of the sequence where it is expecting a switch to be mated somewhere but isn't, and then when you fiddled with the relays you moved the sequence further along by putting one of the relays out of the position...

P.S. Menace: I still have that Puck Bowler (with its thousands of switches) waiting in storage to be troubleshooted and put back into service. How many years has it been? Must be AT LEAST 8-10!?

When it comes to troubleshooting EMs, you need to take it somewhat systematically (I'm no expert on specific "tricks" to identify problems but I have troubleshooted enough of them to understand the basics). It helps to understand how to trace a circuit using an Ohm meter (you clip one end at...

Don't you mean it's more of addicts assisting other addicts? But yeah, if you can get me Gottlieb Rock or Rock Encore for a decent price, I'll PM you. :rolleyes:

Alouette is one to be very careful. He tells you what you want to hear, but the outcomes are not always the same story. Not to mention that they are crooks: http://www.canada.com/montrealgazette/story.html?id=1401406a-8470-4dc7-81c4-b2d5a87bba40

It may well become a For Sale thread, but not for a bit. As usual I am going to be delayed getting to restore this machine.

To the "great deliverer;" (P.S. I hope you are doing well, it's been a while since I've been out your way!) I never said that I wouldn't sweeten the pot depending on the title. And maybe even consider an outright purchase for a price that appeals to my 52 year old economic sensibilities. But...

P.S. Feel free to have a conversation in my thread. I figured someone from my past was going to call out my "eclectic" pinball tastes. ;-) Sometimes the bumps get the trading moving along. lol!

I'm thinking about fixing up a good condition Black Knight (all original, ok backglass with minimal flake, ok playfield with typical wear spots (Magna saves, etc.) - will illustrate in photos once I start restoring machine) - what I would call an average or better condition player's machine) and...

Very nice job, I am inspired! (My Shadow has been sitting upright for too many years waiting for a restoration. Sigh)

I agree with the PowerFist, you want the type whose strap doesn't have ratchets for ease of use and longevity. AND it's on sale right now at Princess Auto $75

It seems like most of the Kijiji ads are "way out there" for this group or if remotely reasonable they disappear within the hour. Even reasonably priced US machines are now hiked in cost by the dollar disparity (compounded by highway robbery, er, I mean tax). There may not be much left to...

An off route '63 Gottlieb Swing Along. Was a 14th birthday present from my uncle, a Coin-Op Distributor in Vancouver (they were probably going to junk it which they were starting to do back then). I cut my teeth cleaning, tuning, setting leaf switches on that. Ended up selling it to make some...

Why Mylar? Depending on what you want to do with it, search up Avery Vinyl products discussed on the site here and on MAACA as an easily obtained and easy to work with alternative.