The Pinball Diaries (what did you do today?)
- Thread starter brewmanager
- Start date
Grauwulf
Member
Haven't updated in a little bit, late last week I went back to a client's place to finish up repairs on his Eight Ball Champ and Swords of Fury, got SoF all sorted out, fixed almost everything on EBC, but still having issues with the speech. Back to the drawing board on that one.
Yesterday I went back to complete repairs on an F14, replaced a corroded switch matrix connector and replaced a few bulbs, fully working again. Repaired a locked on coil on a Bally Future Spa and took a quick look at a Midway Slugger pitch and bat and a Stern Pinball.
Yesterday I went back to complete repairs on an F14, replaced a corroded switch matrix connector and replaced a few bulbs, fully working again. Repaired a locked on coil on a Bally Future Spa and took a quick look at a Midway Slugger pitch and bat and a Stern Pinball.
meegis
Well-Known Member
Bigbossfan
Active Member
FInally got around to setting up XMen game. Had a good enough game to now have GC score. Fixed Whirlwind (flipper dirty), blown fuse in WOZ (that game never runs), cleaned some things. Off rest of week and hope to get Champion Pub cleaned up and set up. Need to make room for new Iron Man game, I see pictures of them manufacturing those.
Went to fireworks in a small town called Packenham, they had a 8 ball deluxe in the arena, but it was not plugged in, looked like it had new rubbers, playfield looked pretty rough ...
mitch_a
Active Member
mitch_a said:
Ah so you are the one that picked up the $3500 Sopranos. Good find! Someone on Pinside posted a side by side comparison of the Sopranos and LOTR and they are nearly identical playfields. Looks like fun, enjoy
meegis
Well-Known Member
quarter grabber said:Ah so you are the one that picked up the $3500 Sopranos. Good find! Someone on Pinside posted a side by side comparison of the Sopranos and LOTR and they are nearly identical playfields. Looks like fun, enjoy
This is a legit mint Sopranos, I played it at Mitch's last night. One of the nicest cabinets I've ever seen.
It's amazing how fast a pin will sell when priced correctly! Who would've known? (http://www.pinballrevolution.com/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=120&start=1250#p22496)
maken said:quarter grabber said:Ah so you are the one that picked up the $3500 Sopranos. Good find! Someone on Pinside posted a side by side comparison of the Sopranos and LOTR and they are nearly identical playfields. Looks like fun, enjoy
This is a legit mint Sopranos, I played it at Mitch's last night. One of the nicest cabinets I've ever seen.
It's amazing how fast a pin will sell when priced correctly! Who would've known? (http://www.pinballrevolution.com/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=120&start=1250#p22496)
Ha, you called that one. You must be able to see the future
meegis
Well-Known Member
Funny enough, I top scored it when I played at his house.mwong168 said:
Though, I did a full software update on it last night, so nothing remains and is now set on 3-ball and factory difficulty.
My scores are representative of that, :cry:
Bigbossfan
Active Member
Well, I've been wanting to add something to my McKee topper on my LOTR LE for a while now. Bought the Gollum and Smeagol posable figures a while ago, and finally got around to finishing this off today.
Drilled out the eyes (f**cked up one of Smeagols eyes, doh!), glued in some nano lights, attached to speaker wire and ran through the cab hooking into GI (for now, might try flasher). Heres the end result. I decided to give Gollum red eyes (evil), and Smeagol white eyes (Good).
Drilled out the eyes (f**cked up one of Smeagols eyes, doh!), glued in some nano lights, attached to speaker wire and ran through the cab hooking into GI (for now, might try flasher). Heres the end result. I decided to give Gollum red eyes (evil), and Smeagol white eyes (Good).
Attachments
mitch_a
Active Member
Picked up a HUO stern 2007 spiderman including original goody bag. Owner never even removed the glass from it since brand new. Crazy odds two HUO sterns in a week both from non collectors who had only the one game and didnt even know how to lift the play field or put games on free play. Both used coins to get credits.
Congrats on both your pick ups and you've been on quite the buying spree lately mitch! I wouldn't be too surprised and I have come across a few non pinheads like that who don't know a clue about their game except for playing it. The seller I bought my very first pin from didn't even know you could fold the head down. It took him about 6-7 hours to move it into his apartment with legs on and head up :FP:
Last night I crossed over the border for the first time to buy a game. The game got shipped from Colorado to a kinek terminal in Buffalo (thanks for the suggestion from here), that's where I picked it up from. My friend and I made it to the place just before it closed yesterday but we called them en route so they had my game sitting waiting for me. The game is a really beautiful huo The Simpsons Pinball Party...Woohoo! Unfortunately one of the legs was damaged during shipping... Doh! Thankfully no damage to the cabinet or anything other than that one leg...Woohoo! I'll write the shipping company to see if they will reimburse for the leg since I did pay en extra $40 for insurance on it. In the end I'm not sure it's worth too much messing around over the cost of a new leg. It still sits the same height it just looks like garbage so I put it at the back until I can get a replacement.
