If I can get off work for Fri Nov 13, then I'll sign up to bring a pinball machine.
I brought a Gottlieb Sys 1 each of the past two years.
Would like to bring a Bally Twin Win e-m if things work out schedule-wise.
If not, I'll hope to arrive Sat morning and o-d on pinball all day Sat day & Sat nite.

Jodester,

The delivery wagon with your new GoT pinball machine in the back was spotted earlier today on its way heading down from Chicago to Houston. You might want to re-seat the connectors when you get it and see how many parts fall off down into the bottom of the cabinet during transport.

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Oh boy, this ought to liven up the greetings and discussion (read as ribbing).

I ran across these shirts somewhere online and thought about getting them for you TigerLaw. Ha!

See you Fri late morning or whenever.

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Thanks Maniac,

I'll send a PM to Mk1 w/ contact info.

Classic ss tournament play-offs underway now.

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Note that Mr Bally did not say "probably just a fuse."

Nice to meet you Mr Bally on Fri early afternoon when you were checking out my Twin Win.
Thanks for stopping by the Expo and showing support even if you could only stay for a few hrs.

We had "a lot" of fun Sat night.

Big thank you to Hou Arcade Pinball Expo organizers and to volunteers, both in tournament area and in free play area.
Much enjoyed the weekend playing pinball and hanging out with friends and meeting some new people.

Definitely no need to apologize. Heck I was happy to get some help to at least try to get her back playable.
We gave it an honest effort, checked with all possible people we could think of for a replacement flipper coil, looked through a couple boxes of coils but no match found, etc.

If one of the upper flippers had gone out, I would have just removed power going to the coil & disabled it, so at least people could continue to play it somewhat. But it was the lower right flipper that burned up.
Small price to play for bringing an old 1974 pinball machine for people to see and play.
Played fine Fri afternoon, Fri night, & all/most of Sat morning.

Sometime early Sat afternoon I went to check on it, and noticed one of the flippers wasn't working.
Then when I caught a wiff of the dreaded "burnt smell", and I knew that wasn't good.

Besides the decent artwork on the backglass, a couple other features on Bally Twin Win are:
*a spinning disc in upper playfield,
*a ball launch pushbutton, which launches the ball from between the flippers straight up to upper playfield
*score reels for points, and for laps - for each player (2-player game)