Nice Sparky!!! dang, I didn't have a backhoe around, or a truck like I planned to I had to do a full de-storation by hand. working parts if anyone wants them:
Checkpoint playfield, complete. (has some wear now though) Karate Champ PCB working Jamma Secret service working Ninja Gaiden PCB and manual Galaxian Glass Karate Champ bezel Data East playfield Glass (needs some glue, had golf club put through it) Midway Cabinet, new paint. power switch on top (in pic) works flawlessly
Coming up Monday -Junior Pac glass gravity testing, -Stargate Sledge Hammer resistance data aquisition -Crystal Castles "spell your Maaca Handle with the Jigsaw" art!
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Man I wish i had a video of a cab i got pissed off at at henries me a hammer and dual converted racing to royal rumble cab 5 minutes and it gone ask creg We should start a section called piss of mess stress relief 101 for fellow macaa members Also congrats Sparky your probably the only guy who can ever say i used a bull dozer on a playfield.
Life is like Pinball!! You never know where you will bounce or where your going but sometimes you have that one amazing shot But on the other hand you have those darn gutter ball where you just get frustrated.
Anybody wanna see what a 420E backhoe can do to a playfield?
Mom.... he's scarring me!!!!!
Honestly Sparky, when can I go play in your sandbox??? I always wanted to try out a backhoe...
I'll even supply an old playfiled!!!
Glad to see the Guinness got back in your blood...and especially in your brain!
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Current 'working' lineup: ( 2 ) Flipper Football, The Shadow
Gone but not forgotten: ( 22 ) City Slicker, Dirty Harry, CFTBL, Big Shot, Big Guns, Black Rose, Judge Dredd, Indianapolis 500, Big Game, BS: Dracula x 2, Beat the Clock, Fire!, F-14 Tomcat, Getaway, Breakshot, Cheetah, Meteor, El Dorado, Nitro Ground Shaker, Chexx Hockey, Slugfest
Looking for 1966 Bally Capersville, 1967 Bally The Wiggler, 1981 Stern Viper, 1986 Pinstar Gamatron, 1986 Williams Grand Lizard, 1991 Williams Bride of Pinbot, and a few others. Cash or some trades available. Could also repair a machine of yours +/-$ if needed, in exchange for one machine on my want list, non-working/unshopped welcome!
That's why I have to "get to it". It won't be $1,000 as it is. That's the working price. Sheesh, this from a guy that sells a Fire Power for $1,200 Just joshing ya...
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$1250. But then I'm not selling to the MAACA crowd, their hard nuts to crack. The average joe is willing to pay a lot more (in fact the machines, when you think about it, should be worth a lot more), but only if you stand by the thing. Of course I could never sell an older machien at that price and walk away. Any of the walk aways have been priced much lower or were as is projects anyways.
If your buddy newb never wanted anything, why would he pm sparky? .....that's what I mean by "guilting" perhaps even newb didn't realize the effect this had on sparky.
And you're right that behaviour, multiple emails to one person to solve a problem pretty much sums up ultra-newbie behaviour. Maybe it's just the way it all came out, but it all sounded pretty juvenile to me (and the rest, that's why we're still hammering away at this now ridiculous flamefest amongst virtual friends.)
I'm sort of a born again newb (considering that I got out of pins maybe 20 years ago and only got back in in the last 2), and I might cry in my soup that there are a few "issues' with pins I've acquired from the local crowd, but after a while you learn that's the way it is, start reading Clay's Guide and learn that pinball collectors are either 1) rich, or 2) learn to solder real fast. It's the ones who get into it with very minimal cash, expecting the world and not knowing how to solder their way out of a paper bag that get the most flack (even though they may be the nicest people otherwise). This hobby is not for the feint of heart (unless of course if you can afford to buy your way out of the paper bag).
I'm not meaning to step on anyone's toes, just making an observation about human nature.
It's the ones that solder with a soldering gun and non-flux core solder and like to use duck/duct tape that really burn my butt.
Honestly Sparky, when can I go play in your sandbox??? I always wanted to try out a backhoe...
I'll even supply an old playfiled!!!
If ANY of you are in the area where I work (Hewitt branch by the 13 in Saint-Laurent), I will make you try ANY machine you want that we have in our yard. For smashing crap though, it has to be after hours!
So I used a 420E backhoe... next, either a 15000 pound excavator (I can use the tracks or bucket) or an 18000-pound bulldozer. I leave all you members with the choice of machine, and choice of scrap playfield... Alien Poker, or Evel Knievel!
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Sheesh, this from a guy that sells a Fire Power for $1,200 
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