I had a lot of fun all weekend. Moving games is a lot of work, but it was worth it. There was a great selection of games, and I was delighted to find that I brought the only examples of most of what I brought (Creature, STTNG, Fish Tales, Fireball, El Dorado, Big Hit).
Thank you to everyone who helped to run the show, everyone who brought games, everyone who offered to help, and everyone who came. I recognize more faces and talk to more people every time I go to a show. So many people offered help, and that was hugely appreciated.
There was not as much buying and selling as I hoped, but that's no problem. In fact, it's pretty cool that there was a huge crowd of people who just came to play.
As for my tech/repair report:
Fireball had a relay lock on, burn up, and stink up the joint. (The latch to open the zipper flippers.) It was a repeat of the 2015 Ohio Show for me, but I had a spare that Mike Pacak gave me(thanks Mike!), so I got it back up and running after making some subtle switch/relay adjustments.
Creature had some reset issues that I blame on low line voltage (I measured ~111 volts), but it started working fine shortly thereafter. Creature also had some intermittent switches (move your car, PAID lanes), that I need to look at. Might be a problem on the CPU board. Sorry, folks.
Big Hit started intermittently failing to reset the score reels on Friday. Should be easy to figure out and fix, but in the meantime I discovered that if the game was tilted, it seemed to work fine. I kept walking by tilting the game when no one was playing.
At the end of the show, Fish Tales might have had a problem with the top kickout. I didn't have power to check it out, but perhaps a wire broke off of the coil.
Other than that, I had one stuck ball, and.... that was about it. On four DMD games, I don't think I ever had a credit dot that was more than just an infrequently hit switch. Whew!