(Topic ID: 76437)

Repository of teardown photos by game

By yonkiman

10 years ago



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  • Latest reply 9 years ago by mof
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    #1 10 years ago

    All of us who have torn down a game have had "oops" moments where we're not sure what goes where on the playfield because we forgot to take that photo. Or we realize that whoever worked on the pin before us did NOT put it back together the "right way"... but it's not clear exactly what the "right way" is.

    One of the many great things about Pinside is that you can almost always get an answer by asking...but it might be hours or even days before you get that answer. And if you have dozens of questions (because your machine is really messed up, or you're a newbie, or you're an experienced idiot, or...), you could start annoying the people who were originally happy to help...

    So wouldn't it be great to have a repository where, for each pin, you could see all the photos every pinsider took while shopping that pin? We all take 100s of photos. If we pooled them all together in one place, I think all of us would be able to find that one photo from that one angle that we forgot to to take, or a shot of how things are SUPPOSED to be assembled vs. how they were rigged on our machine.

    To make it easy to contribute, there don't need to be any captions or even meaningful file naming - just dump your folders into the pinside repository - desperate people will be happy to sort through 1000s of files to find the photos they need, and it will be great pin porn for others. (Perhaps, in the future, volunteer(s) for each game could generate some structure/organization but I wouldn't want that to be a gating item for getting the photos out there for everyone.)

    It could be a new subsection of the individual game summary pages that already exist.

    Thoughts?

    #2 10 years ago

    I would gladly upload photos of my pin. I think it is a very good idea and probably easily executed.

    #3 10 years ago

    You could easily send them this way - http://www.theteardown.com/gallery/. I want to say that I contacted the site owner and he was willing to accept any photos that I wanted to send along.

    The site help me out a ton when I lost the tear down pics of a TAF that I was restoring and hadn't touched for 6 months.

    #4 10 years ago

    Playing devils advocate for a minute, but in its current format, scrolling through teardown photos on Pinside would be brutal. there would definitely need to be a gallery format for it to be useful.

    Maybe a sticky with links to different types of helpful areas like teardown photos?

    There are quite a few of these sites out there currently, linking them may be the easiest.

    Here is my site I post for others to grab stuff from if they need it- (I have about 60 teardowns I haven't posted there yet)-
    http://northernpinball.com/free-stuffs

    Others I have used-

    John's- http://www.weirpinball.com/gallery/index.php/Teardown-pics
    Chris'- http://www.highendpins.com
    http://www.theteardown.com

    John wart had a great site for pics, but I think it got toasted a few years back.

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    #5 10 years ago
    Quoted from PinballJeff:

    You could easily send them this way - http://www.theteardown.com/gallery/. I want to say that I contacted the site owner and he was willing to accept any photos that I wanted to send along.
    The site help me out a ton when I lost the tear down pics of a TAF that I was restoring and hadn't touched for 6 months.

    +1 on theteardown.com

    Astonishingly, even after taking over 350 pictures of my MB swap, I still needed a different angle on a few things. Thankfully it was there in full hi-res. Woohoo on no errors and no "extra" hardware left over on my swap. LOL.

    1 year later
    #6 9 years ago

    I recently tried using "http://www.theteardown.com/" and the web site is having issues.
    Does anyone know how to contact the owner to get things resolved?
    -mof

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