I learned by doing on pinball machines. I knew if I wanted to have games I'd have to learn to fix them, for 2 reasons...

1) You can't easily look up 'Pinball Repair Guy' in the Yellow Pages.
2) If you could, my paycheck to paycheck budget wouldn't allow it.

Lots of studying and research online and posting questions to forums has taught me a lot. And doing my 1st PF swap taught me a ton too. If you ever wanted to know one of your games inside out, upside down and backwards, take the whole damn thing apart and put it back together so that it actually works again (a feat that my wife teased would NEVER happen)!

My job doesn't have anything to do with pinball at all, but the skills I've learned being a repair technician for a printing company transfer well into my hobby and have given me the confidence to dive in there and not be afraid to take stuff apart. If I can repair and keep running multiple $1,000,000 printers at work and they pay me for it, surely I can get a $1,000 pinball machine working, right?

-Steve Ridge

_{Post edited by VDrums2112: OK, so I can fix stuff but can't type worth a shit!}