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Louisville, KY
I used to get Norelco-branded #44s all the time, maybe from Wico or one of the other old-school parts suppliers serving the operator market.
.................David Marston
Quoted from Sea_Wolf:I figured people that have been in the hobby for a long time would have seen them. I’ve only been collecting EMs for 3 years so a lot is new to me.
I think you have to go quite a way back for these? I don't ever remember them being available by the standard vendors. Although I think Wico was still around when I started but never ordered from them.
Quoted from AlexF:I think you have to go quite a way back for these? I don't ever remember them being available by the standard vendors. Although I think Wico was still around when I started but never ordered from them.
The only thing I remember Norelco for was that electric shaver that they advertised, especially the commercial with Santa Claus riding one of them through the snow.
Quoted from Sea_Wolf:The only thing I remember Norelco for was that electric shaver that they advertised, especially the commercial with Santa Claus riding one of them through the snow.
"Nöelco. Even our name says Merry Christmas!"
Quoted from Drain1:Ok then, I'll show you mine.
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Got all of them, but no Tung Sol.
Quoted from Drain1:Ok, I see yours, and raise you these. Includes old dust.
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Looks like you’re the leader in the dust category at this point.
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I've had those.
Quoted from EMsInKC:Of all the games I've bought, I've never found a box of lamps in any of them. I feel cheated.
That's really amazing. I very often find boxes of lamps in games I pick up. Still haven't come across that wad of Benjamins stuffed under the motor board though!
Quoted from jrpinball:I've had those.
That's really amazing. I very often find boxes of lamps in games I pick up. Still haven't come across that wad of Benjamins stuffed under the motor board though!
Haven't found any of those either. Random quarters and dimes, nickels, no wads of greenbacks. No drugs either, which I'm told some have found.
Usually odd screws, bolts and nuts, pieces of bakelite, occasionally old rusty pinballs, but that's it.
The most unusual find I've ever gotten was my first game. Bally Surfers, bought in 1971. A few years back, I took the glass frame apart to change the glass-it has the lift up frame Bally used for a time back then. I had never done that job before. When I got the lockdown bar section off, there was a wrapper for a Hershey's candy bar jammed in there. Not visible from either the top or the bottom, and I know I didn't put it there. I think the price on the wrapper said 35 cents.
Game was released in 1967, I got it in 1971, so obviously someone in between there had the munchies and did it. How it got jammed into that spot, I will never know.
Quoted from Sea_Wolf:This was an interesting find under the bottom board of my Wild Card when I got it home last November along with a rusty screwdriver.
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I've found tools inside games a couple of times. It's great when you find a nice, new flexstone.
Quoted from EMsInKC:Usually odd screws, bolts and nuts, pieces of bakelite,
Often, clues to what's ailing a game. Those screws and nuts came from somewhere!
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