I really have to laugh at this. I got to the show at 4pm. I walked up to the window, bought a ticket, and then walked right into the show. At 6 or so, we went over to the farmers market to eat, and there were very few people there. No wait times to get food at any of the stands we went to. Yes there was a good crowd there, and the line to play Wonka was a bit long. I was a little bummed the one Monster bash had the scoop set to drain SDTM with a super tight tilt, but I'm definitely not going to make a thread on Pinside about it. This OP spent 14 hours driving because he was too impatient to wait in a line? I'm kind of glad you did go home.

Someone started a 4 player on the Bad Cats with the giant center post... I felt obligated to try and play it out, but man... It took forever. I wound up handing it off to my GF to finish.

I don't trust anything electronic from Harbor Freight any more. Free is too expensive for that multimeter. I just got burned by one of their power strips...my sump pump was plugged into one, and it shat the bed one night...leaving some water in my basement. Luckily, I caught it early.

There absolutely was no gutter guard being sold at the show. Come on man...at least base your rants on facts. I think some people just go to these things looking for ways to be disappointed. You must be a pile of fun at parties.

I find this even more humorous because at my day job I am directly involved with the large scale manufacturing of no less than a half dozen varieties of...drumroll....gutter guard. But not the same products you see at your local fair or farm show.

But we do a lot more importing than exporting these days

They must have some kind of contract at the York Fairgrounds, because i've been to many non-pinball, non-home improvement related events there, and you often see the bath fitter and gutter helmet vultures in your way between the front door and the exhibit hall.

But who doesn't love needing two different size sockets or wrenches to put a single set of legs on. Then there is the clown that used vise grips...

If you missed out on getting enough glass at the show, contact your local glass supply house in town. As a joe blow off the street, I get it for $34 a piece. You have to wait a week or so for it to come in, since it has to be custom cut then tempered. Just tell them you want it 21" x 43" x 3/16" thick with no edge treatment.

Forgot that part! She usually asks if I want any markings or coatings, which I say "no" to.

We have two local places that are competing with each other. They both send the work out to a place in Maryland. When I called them, their prices were less than a dollar different from one another. If you are in my area, I use these folks:

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One way to make vendors and attendees happy:

Break the rooms up differently. Make the main show area into something like quadrants, with a single row of machines around the outside of each quadrant (facing in), and put vendors in the middle of each of these quadrants. You have more room for attendees, and vendors are right in the middle of all the foot traffic. Move the tournament into the back room. The used part vendor area could be set up more efficiently if they didn't have their large vehicles/trailers in there. If you want to sell out of the back of a box truck, do that outside.

Here is a rough sketch of what I am talking about. Not to scale, as I do not have the building dimensions and obstructions list (Poles, etc).

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