Posts Tagged ‘restoration’

The Bride of pinbot (BOP) is a unique machine in all of pinball.  This is the second in the Pinbot series, and arguably the best one of the group.  Only 8100 units were ever created. This is the only pinball machine that shares the same circuitry as the legendary Williams Funhouse, and if you haven’t […]

We were given a little bit of a challenge – restore a completely non-working Kiss pinball machine and keep it under market value.  Well, why not! This machine was brought to us literally in pieces.   Since this is a Kiss pinball machine, everyone seems to have a place in their hearts for it. Restoration […]

Not many people have heard of this game, probably due to it’s low production numbers.  However, most people have seen and played it’s older siblings:  Bally Eight Ball and Bally Eight Ball Deluxe (1981).   The Eight Ball Deluxe is considered one of the best designed pins of the era and also has a universally […]

You would think it would be easy to keep up to date with monthly news.  I don’t know where the Summer has gone. We’ve been busy with a lot of custom orders and will have some restoration articles coming very soon on the following machines: Prototype F-14 pinball Full restoration of a very very bad […]

Among the pinball collectors and enthusiasts, the Demolition Man machine is considered a “B” title and thus does not get that much attention.  Often, that also means it stays on route longer collecting money where the “A” titles are consumed, restored and put away forever.  This is yet another case of – the collectors got […]

  Ok, so what’s so special about Comet you say?  Well ok, it’s considered by most as an average pin from the 80’s.  Sure, I’ll concede that.  However, it WAS just an average pin from the 80’s.  Something changed my mind about this machine that was worth writing about. I see a lot of pinball […]

Another classic Gottlieb “wedgehead” pinball from their arguably most sought after period. True to Gottlieb’s single player design, the Skyjump is packed full of great features.  The great think about a single player  Gottlieb machine is that it still uses the same number of relays and logic circuits as the multi-player pinball machines.  This allowed […]

The “wedge head” pinball machines are part of a unique series produced by Gottlieb in the late 1960’s to mid 1970’s.  They are called this because of their unusual shaped back boxes.  As well, these machines are just a little bit smaller than machines produced by their competitors Bally and Williams in the same era. […]

February must be pinball time.  Well, I’m thinking it’s pinball restoration and repair month anyway. In the queue: Firepower (the classic solid state game from Williams) Star Wars (very fun game, maybe my favorite DE after playing it a little) Aladdin’s Castle (nice EM) Playball (old old EM, very cool game) The Shadow (oh boy, love […]

WWF Royal Rumble (Data East 1994 Widebody) Pinball This machine worked for the most part, but was in need of a full tear down.  Found a couple things wrong, bad lighting circuit and a couple of melted coils from failed circuitry.  We also put in new drop targets. This machine also suffered badly from lamp […]