Introducing McMean’s EM Pinball Repair Service

90% of the enjoyment of this hobby for me is the repair… I really have next to no interest in owning and selling EMs. So I’m starting a service. Hopefully this will give me the best of all worlds – I get to fix EMs, play them, and I don’t have to buy them and sell them.

$100 plus parts, flat rate for either a "This-aint-working-at-all" or a "It-turns-on-and-mostly-plays-but-a-couple-features-don’t-work" pin. I used to have 2 prices, but after doing a few jobs at both price points, I've found that I'm putting the exact same amount of time into both types of fixes, so 2 price points wasn't an accurate reflection of my time or the service you're getting.

What do you get for your money? Well, a working, clean, pin. I clean and adjust every switch in the machine, clean all steppers, score reels, seal your BG (unless it's winter time, I can't do it indoors), and strip the PF and scrub it. I remove the switch bank entirely and put it on sawhorses so I can clean and adjust properly. If scans are available, I can reproduce plastics, $15 per. I don’t do art touchups. Even a service on a mostly working machine will take me 3 or 4 hours.

SB will be my free delivery/pickup spot. Otherwise, you can bring it to me in Ptbo, or pay me to get it, 50 cents a km.

What kind of parts money are we talking? Could be $25, could be $225. Depends on what it needs. You’ll likely need a rubber kit, ball(s), flipper rebuilds, and lamps. If it’s a totally busted machine, I’ll be buying schematics as well. After that, I’ll clear it with you before we proceed.

What kind of turnaround can you expect? I’m looking at a One-Starburst-Auction-Turnaround. So far, after a few jobs, I've been averaging 3-4 weeks.

The only thing I won’t take are pins that are missing parts. I don’t want to hold on to your pin for a year waiting for ebay to yield a rare missing stepper. Sorry, don’t have the space.

$75 deposit, we’ll settle up the rest when the job is done.
PM me if interested.
Daniel

My Resume so far: (all from various states of Dead to Sort-of-Dead)
Abra Ca Dabra
Buccaneer
Captain Fantastic x 2
Crossword
Drop A Card
Fairway
Flip Flop!
Freedom
Hang Glider
High Hand
Jungle Princess
Pioneer
Raw Hide
Royal Flush
Sky Jump
Snow Queen
Solar City (x2)
Sound Stage
Sure Shot
Surf Champ

(Bally, Gottlieb, Stern, Williams, Chicago Coin)

Nice work, Daniel. Good luck with your new endeavor.

Corey

How many pins can you take back with you from SB?

Daniel has supplied me with some clean and fully working  refurbished EM 's .
Can not say enough about how fair and easy  he is to deal with!!!


Good Luck on the new venture

I can cart 3 pins at a time.
Daniel

Quoted from OTTOgd

How many pins can you take back with you from SB?

Best of luck
I am thinking of the ame endevour, but for SS only! Seeing that theres nobody around here to repair. I can also do house calls.
More later, off to GAmercamp thingy...

Good luck! Advertise outside of Maaca too, at this rate you compete with other pro service repair!

Something myself I think I prefer more to fix a machine than  playing them. Restoring is an other part I want to explore, maybe not like some wizard here but just make an ugly pin nicer

Very good price rate,sounds fair and reasonable.
I wish you the best of luck!

GEEEEEEEEZZZZZZZZeeee !!!!!!! I wish you were in Quebec city ...  

pssst.  he also did great work on my em Sound stage.  oh my god.  i finally remeber that bloody machines name....

Advertise off MAACA, you will be surprised how much interest you will get.

When are you fixing games built in the last 20 years?