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Best resources for beginner pinball repair

By WestbrookEnt

3 years ago


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  • Latest reply 3 years ago by poppapin
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    #1 3 years ago

    Hey guys,

    I am opening an arcade in my home town and will be putting some pins in it. I am a decent arcade repair tech but know very little about pin repair. Are there any resources online maybe YouTube or through DVD to help me learn more about repairing pins?

    Any help is greatly appreciated.

    Stephen Westbrook

    #2 3 years ago

    www.pinwiki.com

    Just doing a "pinball repair" search on Youtube yields a lot of results. You can narrow it down some by using the game title, game era (Williams system 3 to 11 or even WPC for example).

    https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=pinball+repair

    Always can start a new Pinside repair thread on each game you are having issues with.

    Each Pinside club thread can give you more specific repairs sometimes.

    #3 3 years ago

    Can you list the pins you are thinking about putting into the arcade?

    #4 3 years ago

    Pinside you found. Excellent resource. Rec Games Pinball newsgroup, search the older posts, can be a big help. PinballManiac40 posted good sources.

    And the old section on Pinball News has a section http://www.pinballnews.com/learn/index.html filled with good articles on tools and how to do things.

    LTG : )

    #5 3 years ago

    I tried that and didn't go so well...The New games are expensive and for the most part done up in surface mount, so not really serviceable,, The older games were apparently deemed "offensive " with the art and had to be pulled off route, And the EMs didn't pay well, were high maintenance since the only people who played them played them long and hard, almost to the point if abuse. got there quarters worth I supose...Today Jenn still owes money on some of them, and has a dozen or so in her living room.

    #6 3 years ago

    Vids guides here on pinside are unsurpassed. IMO.

    I point everyone exactly here to read them.

    https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/vids-guides-collected

    #7 3 years ago

    pinrepair.com
    Clay is daMan!!

    #8 3 years ago

    Thank you guys very much. We don’t have a list yet. The only ones we have are Williams Flash and Super Mario. Basically what I’m looking for is a resource to help me in the field. I’m trying to learn basic diagnostic skills for a pin in the field.

    #9 3 years ago

    Here's a trick with Google that I've found helpful. Say you are having an issue with a game. For example, the flippers on your Addams Family aren't flipping. If you attempt to search for "Addams Family broken flippers" using the Pinside search function, it's hard to find relevant results. But if you search using the following formula in the Google search bar, you'll have much better luck:

    site:pinside.com Addams Family broken flippers

    That uses Google's powerful data parsing abilities and focuses it on a specific website. So you could also use that on any other website like:

    site:pinwiki.com flipper repair

    Happy hunting!

    #10 3 years ago
    Quoted from poppapin:

    pinrepair.com
    Clay is daMan!!

    Clay's guides are the best. He took down his System 11 and WPC guides, which are awesome. I believe there's still a way to get them by donating to him?

    #11 3 years ago
    Quoted from kevmad:

    Clay's guides are the best. He took down his System 11 and WPC guides, which are awesome. I believe there's still a way to get them by donating to him?

    Yeah, pinballninja.com

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