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1977 United "Thunderbird" Shuffle Bowler Restoration

By RyanClaytor

6 years ago


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    #6 6 years ago

    Love bowlers. I've been working on a United shuffle targette machine since I purchased it in 2014. It's the shuffle board / skeeball type game. I originally cleaned enough steppers to see if it would start. It did so I started the process of a repaint. I didn't want to but all the paint on one side was flaking away. Plus I had to build the coin box since it was missing. Not looking forward to cleaning all the reels. Props to you man for doing it as quickly as you have.

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    #9 6 years ago
    Quoted from RyanClaytor:

    Neat. Is that the one where the puck goes flying up into some skeeball rings at the end of the lane?

    In a....home environment? O_o
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    Sorry it took so long to get back to this. I didn't subscribe to the thread so it got kinda lost in the shuffle. Budda boom. But yeah it's the shuffle board/skeeball type game. It's actually pretty fun the little bit of testing I was doing. I got burned out after sanding the paint off and took like a year off from working on it maybe more. Came back to it, got part primered, and haven't had the time or right weather to finish primering the rest. My 1.5 year old takes up pretty much all my free time now.

    And yes the coin box / coin chute, mechanism, whatever it's called on here was missing. I've got the missing parts but need to build the box it goes in. Someone just cut the wiring so for now it's just a spare arcade pushbutton wired up and dangling from underneath.

    #11 6 years ago
    Quoted from Mopar:

    Which "Target Shuffle" do you have?

    Not to hijack but this one....

    The flyer and when I purchased it. $20 at auction. Currently torn apart for primer and paint. Been sitting that way for a year or two. It's sad I know. Dieing to finish it but stuff just keeps getting in the way.

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