Sorry I was out of town, Doug, it would've been nice to meet you in person ( plus some of the other guys! ).

Next time....

Dan

I wish I would have forwarded you guys my phone number.  I didn't realise you were picking up, I thought you were just dropping jvegas machines.  I would have gladly lent a hand...

We'll meet one day Dan for sure.  Hopefully with some time to play...

Thanks Mark - we could have used a hand.   We were about to canvas neighborhood kids or some moving company.   Same goes if you are in the Ottawa area picking something up.

Thanks for the heads up Monkeybag - because without being carefull - I could have got all the plugs reconnected without realizing I had some mis-match.   This might have led to a "TZ for sale, was working...."    

My 3 pins (TZ, FH, SureShot) are still @ Barry's house.   I'll slowly be getting them to my house - and then finally post some gameroom photos.   Condition wise the TZ and SureShot seem cosmetically very nice - so I'm very happy.   FH is in good condition, but the mylar is lifting a bit.   SureShot is very nice - great backglass - fully working, very clean inside, no wear on playfield - except the wear on the kick-out holes as to be expected (and under the loose mylar bumper protectors     )   - Gotta sell Tommy / Rocky & Bullwinkle to make room...

Barry's IJ had the trough issue - but should be easy fix.   ST:TNG looks awesome - strong DMD too.    FGordon looked nice until in daylight you could see the playfield touchups.  

Never ran any tests on them - no time.  Definitely all had strong DMD's and no playfield wear.   All very quick inspections - so we may find a few surprises - but they were obviously owned by a collector that took his time finding nice example machines.

Hi,
this is Barry.
It was nice meeting you guys and Mark, we REALLY could have used you. although i think even with three of us we would have still had to take off the heads. All in all Doug and I faired well for a couple of desk jockeys.
anybody wanna buy an IJ?  

For those interested in IJ - Barry is selling it for $3500.   The pictures we were given are posted @ http://picasaweb.google.com/TuborgPinball

It will be fully working - currently has the trough-problem as shown on the TOP#7 video.

I haven't looked at IJ - or the other games closely - but my first impressions were that IJ was heavy - errrr - I mean nice - the DMD was strong - that was the only thing we did test.