OHHH that looks so nice!!! I just got a proto WCS in here.
I bought a populated WCS pf like 14 years ago, and restored the pf and sold it later. It was like my 3rd resto. I hadnt learned how to fix worn ball holes. Hadnt figured out the best material and process. After the job was done and it was getting installed, it popped off like a capped tooth. I had used bondo. Live and learn.
I held on to those parts just until a guy bought all of my parts last year or possibly 2 years ago n(all for one price). I figured that goal assembly and motor would be valuable, but no one ever needed it.
I have never played soccer in my life but I really like this game as well as the art, and of course those soccer shorts!!! Classy and still a shout out to the pervs!!

I think its been at least 6 or 7 years since I have seen a catacomb game come up for sale/. Anything with backbox animation is a collectable, but its a great game also!! I have always been in to the classic sterns and sys 80's.

Anyway I finished another job today. I am very happy with it. I have 4 other pf's that are ready to start block sanding, but I examined them and I dont like the final coat on 2 of them. One is the simpsons, which is the sister game to this (same owner). So I am going to sand down the final coat on the 2 I dont like and recoat them hopefully this week and prey I get a better coat. the other is space invaders. Sorry a little more time, but in for a penny in for a pound. You have waited this long, let me get it perfect.

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When you see a catacomb in person with good lights and a new pf, its just beautiful. I really like that it is heavyin these really cool shades of green, which makes the use of just a splash of another color like blue, red or white stant right out!!
My buddy todd carter had a beauty, and I dont know if he kept it or sold it over the years. I would tell him the same thing I tell dayhuff/chris/tommy, and big paul and the rest of my friends: I got plenty of room over here for free pinball storage. Free climate controlled storage... That's a deal!

I saw this in the classifieds. this pf has nothing to do with me. Not my work, not my pf. I actually dont know what a hard top is?

https://pinside.com/pinball/market/classifieds/ad/148660

It used to piss me off. it doesnt make me happy, but it happens all of the time, and I dont want to go back to being a hard ass. So i just ask nice to pull my name off. I hate to give it free advertising, but maybe if the buyer searches, he will see this post? maybe.

anyone wanna explain a hard top to me? some kind of overlay?

Lots of white led's and its a really beautiful game. I want one!
(though I say that about most of the planks that go thru here)

You guys are too kind.

I want to mention that Mike who owns GAP pinball in chicago is looking for a cpr bally rolling stones. I mentioned to him several times I have a nos, but he is looking for cpr, and they are sold out at cpr right now. If you dont know how to get a hold of him, I can help

I just unboxed this, and its so beautiful, I have to post a pic. It is nos and was cleared by me 4-5 years ago. Its for sale. I havent priced it yet, but I will entertain offers if I can sell it fast. I love this title, but I will never own or afford this game.
I have 2 more to open that I got from chad. (mentioned a page or 2 back)

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I am trying to think of the rarest NOS pfs I have owned (not what has gone thru here) while I eat lunch.
I had several gottlieb sys 80 pfs from harry williams collection rocky/cubs/amazing spiderman/Qbert
The proto TZ and WCS. I have owned 2 proto's of STTNG
2 taf golds
The speakeasy made of resin, I have is pretty rare.
DE playboy
Hit the deck
DE guns and roses (still have)
DE royal rumble
classic stern viper
pharoah
Strange science and black water100
Charlies angels EM version

These are not the most expensive, but they are the pfs I have never seen before. I have never seen or owned a NOS superman.

That Devils dare is beautiful. IF you ever sell, please let me know. I think when I am dead, people will say 'He sure loved sys 80"

Here are some pics of the resin speakeasy. I am sold on this idea. I have owned it for 10 years, its bounced around the compound with no protection, and its still looks waxed, and NO WARP. I have seen kiss pfs that were made of this stuff. I think it was smart of bally to experiment with this idea. Wood is a volatile commodity, with quality that moves unpredictably.
I have never owned one of these installed in a game, but I dont know if the statement about parts falling off is true. Its sounds like one of those statements like "If you piss on the wheel of a ford it wont start".
But I have never owned one.
I would like to see how they wear. Its a matter of how well the ink is bonded to the board I guess

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The pics make the inserts look sunk, as well as it looks like wood grain. It has marks that are from the belt sander, which look like the wood grain. The pf is as smooth as a brand new stern.

Its actually surprising that I have never owned a game that had one. I have never owned kiss because it sucks to play, and lets face it kiss music is so bad. No band used sex innuendo till blue in the face like kiss. I was born in 68 so I lived thru it, but even in 6th grade those lyrics were a bummer. I saw them for the animalize tour at cobo, and I think it was one of the few tours that had no make up or pyros or anything. I remember that several days after the show, I could see KISS when I closed my eyes. I think it was burned in to the back of my eyes. It was a horrible show, and to make it worse, my 5.0 was stolen from the parking structure during the show.

I have never owned speakeasy only because I was never in the right place and time. I have always liked it for sure. I like all of the gambling pins it seems.

I will ask dayhuff, I think he has owned more than one of these pfs. What you say sounds logical. If they mass used them, hopefully they would put out a repair kit to use when stripping out a hole.

Way back in the day, I remember a conversation about the german kiss pfs being the resin. We all know the german kiss pf story correct?

Germany came up with a law back in the peak of kiss' career that the music was so bad, their music was not allowed in the country.

Ok I was kidding.
Bally had to change the kiss logo to use soft SS so that it did not remind those folks of their behavior during the 1932-45.
I actually had a NOS german pf. thats pretty rare also. Back when I first started collecting pfs, kiss pfs were everywhere. You could buy them on ebay for like 250 nos. All of the kiss fans that didnt play pinball had to have one, as well as a BG. Now they have all finally dried up.

I just made it a rule in the last 2 years that the t nuts on the obverse have to be removed when I clear a pf. Its half ass and junky to have them all covered in clear, plus it may clog the threads (even though I did it for years before this).
So I removed them on this congo, which is not always easy.
This congo got a twist warp that I couldnt get any result at all from reversing, and using weight and pressure to get it to bend back straight. I even screwed blocks to the floor so they wont move away from the wall and leaned a shipping crate against the bend. Nothing.
So its one of those days. We are getting a big snow storm, so I cant sand or open the doors at all, so I am limited to what I can do, while I wait for the spray room to get warm.

I got a piece of oak, and rip sawed it, to get more length and make some rails for this pf. I installed 6 t nuts, went to the hardware store and got some screws long enough, and was successful in straightening this out. This is the worst example I have dealt with. The bend is in the top 1/3 of the pf. I expect to leave the blocks attached thru the process and till I am done. I will suggest to the owner to leave them as is, until ready to install.
its always something.

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My mistake black walnut not oak.

I just thought of this today when a guy asked if I give a receipt. Since now I shoot pics of every job that gets done, this is source for proof that your pf was indeed done by me. I think its called prominence? (Documentation of where its been) I know its going to be in a position I didnt want to be found in, like on the toilet, but I am going to die some day. I told the girl at the gas station where I get smokes and a DC every day at noon that if I dont show up for a week, send a cop and a cadaver dog. Sometimes when I am out on the back acre's chopping firewood, I will realize I dont have my phone with me. If you just touch your thigh lightly with a chain saw, accidently, I would think you get about 15-20 secs to turnict, assuming I didnt cut off one of my hands. I have been figuring it may happen some day.
I have noticed that the combo of living alone so long and being single so long, that any convo eventually leads to my death.

Provenance.
I remember the first time I heard that word. I bought a painting from a woman, and she gave me a folder with the painting that had, basically her and its resume. Come to find out the painting had been in several shows, and it was in the arts and leisure section of a newspaper.
Of course the info is somewhere in one of the closets, and if I die, the painting goes to good will. Until a couple years later on antique roadshow someone brags that they got it for 10 bucks...
Maybe I will find the folder and tape it on the back of the painting. I will put it on a very long to do list.

Very cool! Did it play well? Fast? Did people complain because its not like an uncleared pf? I was a volunteer score keeper at the tourneys at expo for several years. Those guys get PISSED when they loose.
I know what it is like to get my ass handed to me. Luckily I am not competitive at all.

I would like to get in a group where we meet at different host's house. Even though I could care less about the score, I need the socialization. I dont think we have any groups around my area. I know one well has a tournament which I guess would be better than nothing.

I realize the prizes are a lot of money, but I never drove home from chicago after keeping score, thinking "Those guys had a lot of fun"
The guys who win, are the ones that win every tournament, and the guys who came close are pissed. The game set up complaints were one thing, but the screaming and jumping up and down. Its worse that when Its my turn at the pool table to try to take the table and the guy I am playing is swinging around his stick like a martial arts sward or tom cruise or some jerk off shit like that. Oh I hate loosing to those guys! I also noticed that some guys where really rough on the games. Those games are owned by someone who DONATED it to be used.
My experience was often ugly.
But I am the type that is constantly studying human behavior. So most prob dont see or notice it.

I am not saying every one acts like this, but if you have never seen it before, its a bit uncomfortable.

Do they have tournaments where the pros are in their own group, and there is a group for regular schmuks? They must, but I bet the pros purse is bigger than the regular.

The smart guys get their kids in to it. There is a kid in mich, well he isnt a kid any more. His dad was an amazing player, and the son became really good. especially when he was in the year or 2 before the cut off age. (I think it was 13). This kid won machines, and lots o money because the competition was really slim. I havent talked to him since covid, but last time I saw him he was driving a vette and was becoming a straight up hustler. I love it.