Mike Dill
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pinball wizardToday I was finishing a small job at my father in-laws place and he showed me his pinball machine collection. Some very interesting stuff. We got to talking about them and I showed a little interest in some of the older style before everything was circuit boards. A couple of his machines where having a little trouble......next thing you know I've got my tools and meter out and I'm head first into them. LOL I fixed a couple of problems, mostly worn contacts or broken wires. We played a few games and it was fun on a rainy day. Next week there is a big auction because this huge arcade on Young St. in TO went under. He's gona maybe pick up a newer style machine but for the older style man I tell ya its true they don't build em like they used to... it would cost a million.
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lostsoul
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I Love them and he older Video games, I wish I could get one or two machines to have at the house here.
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big t
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my friends dad has a company that used to do lots of those and video games now mostly pool tables and atms...
i can fix or hook you up with some books mike... i got tons of spare electronic parts or he does like buttons...
there really cool how they operate before the digital circuits....
i have a nintendo arcade that holds 10 games.they look like ram chips.. i got like 5 more games.. its great
. i have all the parts except monitor and box to make a nintendo arcade bar top or table top unit because my friends father gave me all the parts when i bought the machine to make another.....
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Mike Dill
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I would like to get my hands on some spare parts.
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big t
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ebay is good too.. let me know alot of peices can be cleaned with contact cleaner too.. make a list and i can see what hes got.. i know he sold alot of stuff when he went to atms and pool tables but i seen some stuff kickin around..
how many machines does he have?? baseball?? that was a good old skool one
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Mike Dill
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The newest one is Getaway, he has 4 others. He is quite involved on Ebay and thats how he got all of his machines. The earliest is 1962.... It seems that there are only 2 makers of pinball machines and one has recently gone under. He is able to provide me with electrical schematics downloaded from the net, he's just not that strong with a multimeter. He was very excited when I jumped in there and fixed a problem with one of the solenoids for a flipper and hunted down some corroded contacts. I think he wants to buy a machine that doesn't work for spare parts.... a working one cost about 900 so it shouldn't be that much. If you would put me in contact with this guy I would appreciate it T. I'm gona try Nuteck in St. Catharines also.
It was fun listening to some of his stories as a kid playing pinball long before any other style of electronic game.
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big t
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yeah my buddys dad stopped when bally stopped making them...
theatre of magic was a good one.. also has sopranoes in his garage for a while... its great when ever hes one we always play it while its there..
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angry_trucker
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i wish they would bring back SNAKE on the cell phones lmfao
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