Next paycheck I am going to see if there are some DVD's of rocky and bullwinkle cartoons on ebay. Yes I still use DVD's. I still use LP records. Hell I have a Tube HI FI. No transistors or computer chips except for my cd player that still has a tube powered digital/analogue converter.
Anyway separate rant. hopefully they did a bunch of seasons. I have heard rocky's voice for months while working on this.

FANTASTIC! My memory is that it was like a variety show, with a bunch of different story lines and characters. Its one of the few cartoons I havent watched with adult eyes now. They are so different than when you were a kid, in the morning watching them. I Look forward to it!

This NOS DR who was quite a bit of work for a nos, but now that they are 30-40 years old the NOS pfs are almost a resto job. Every nos that comes in now, I check the bottom and top edges for the laminate separating, and glue and clamp if necessary. I painted all of the inserts, and the arrow at the top l and the far bottom center hot dog insert had to be pulled and releveled, and then decaled.
The mini pf had to be cut out before I started because cutting it out after the clear would have left some crappy edges on both pfs.
The mini got hung up in the paint area, and I havent painted in a month, so its going to be a month on that, but this main pf is ready for installation.
It is not easy clearing a black pf like this. when you have 8 coats, you have 8 chances to screw up and burry a dustie or an issue, everything shows because the clear is a magnifier. Since its so perfectly flat and clear any imperfection looks like garbage

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Absolutely take your time. have fun with it (thats taking your sweet time). Its going to look and play amazing.

If anyone buys a new/nos pf before 9 am tuesday morning, I will throw in a heavy duty ship crate, and an install kit.

Most are listed at pinballplayfieldskruzman.com

Not listed are DE playboy 1500
tommy 1000
Batman 66 900
rocky and bullwinkel 1700
sharkys shootout clearcoated 1500
space shuttle cpr 950
seawitch 950
TNA 750
space station nos (needs a little work) 750 as is.
Prices subject to change when listed on web site.

Trying to get pf stock organized.
also found a CRP TAF silver from the original screen run. cant find one flaw except a couple little dusties in the clear coat $ 1100

So far 2 of the last 4 pfs I have finished, needed to be cleaned, sanded and reshot, then block sanded and polished again. It puts everything else behind including the pf I am working on.
This Iron Maiden needed to be redone, because I didnt like the final coat a nd you cant see a really small issue until you get to the end of the polishing. If I shipped them just sprayed you would never notice the flaw, but once its block sanded and polished you can notice the smallest flaw.
NOW this pf is perfect. I love it, and the customer was very cool about the extra time it took.

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I want to thank the best sister in the world for lending me the money for this. Kristine Hood, you do rock!!!
My back hurts too bad to lift it to get the back legs on, which is making me crazy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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In the last 18 months, stargazer, 9 ball, and quicksilver are without a doubt the most popular jobs. It works for me because I love all 3 of those titles and I have never owned one of them. I bought my first pin in 1982-83, and I though I owned almost all of the classic sterns. Nope. I have said it before, but I would love to play this game when it is done, mostly to play with the ball speed, due to stern using big coils, and zero friction resistance on the pf.
In fact this one goes home with a quicksilver I completed about 7 weeks ago.

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Will the owner of the stargazer and quick silver send me an email with your ship info and phone number please.

As you will notice the living room has a full wall of anderson window walls, from floor to ceiling, to bring the outside green and river, and all of the wildlife in with you. Its a truly beautiful view.

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Thanks, the acdc is temp, while my sis goes thru the crap she is going thru. I tell everyone I will baby sit or store your games... no charge.
The godzillia is almost overwhelming. except for the mechanzilla, and dropping the building, I dont know what I am doing. Its surreal when I think about how much money is sitting there. If the past is a forcast of the future, I will prob sell it after I get it paid off in a couple years, and get something like a restored black hole, or something really hard to play, but half the price at least.

So I mentioned that I am trying a new thing, which is to throw in one at a time, used pf's in to my work load. Restore them and put them on the market. For 2 reasons: to cover pfs that are not reproduced and you cant get NOs, and of course the other it to keep my painting and restoration skills current. I realized that you loose that ability when you dont use it for 6 years.
So I finished the Indy 500 that sold

I still have the Rocky and Bullwinkle which is complete

and the sharkys shootout needs 2 more coats, and block/polish and its done.

I just got the next pf. I paid way too much for it, (400 plus ship)but its a game that often has a lot of wear, and I dont see that often. Last Action Hero. My buddy chris has one, and they are one of those games that the license does nothing for me, (like all marvel, hobbit, and pirates of the Caribbean) but the game is sweet!

I also use colors on my template. I make a sticker out of like 5 pieces of tape and I write out the legend. I make notes of which sides are lined up, and where I stand when I drilled the holes, because that will make a slight difference to stand in the same place when drilling the pf.
Also I like to start out with a small drill bit, and work up for the big holes. plus plexi soesnt like to be drilled with wide bits.
I like these Bosch drill bits. I found that I am best off buying bits made in america or germany. a cheap set will be smoked in one job. They break, and dull super fast, if not all ready. The clear dulls them fast.
So use that dremmil on slow speed. I just ordered some more coarse burr bitts for the install kit, and I am going to include a couple of them as well as the regular 120 grit.

If you need new bits, or any other parts of the kit, just get a hold of me and I will hook you up.

I would appreciate if people who use the kit would let me know which bits they preferred, and if it would be good to have that bit be more coarse. I only use the slow speed on my dremmil in this app.

I found another use for the install kit. I had to remove some inserts on a nos high speed and a nos whirlwind. Both titles are notorious for lifted inserts. So I had to pull 5 between the 2 pfs, and on both pf's they were all the long triangles (thing high speed). Anyway after U removed them I use one of the barrel bits from the kit on the insert hole. I put it on top of the lip the insert rests on, used a coarse bit and that removed the glue. when I use an exacto for this job, I often cut and chip the pf edges around the hole, and thats no good.

Since both of those pfs are over 35 years, I also have a procedure to epoxy the inserts from behind to lock them down for the next 30 years.

So with your template taped to your pf like that, I suggest using the dremmil before predrilling, and you wont be able to dremmil with the template on, so I would dimple everything with a small bit, then remove the template and dremmil off the clear to the size you will need them drill. It will look much cleaner to dremmil the clear away before drilling in to it.

Many people dont like installing my clear because when you do more thickness than a production clear, you can have chips or just not really clean holes. Unless you use the dremil and install kit to remove a small spot of clear, then drill.
so it adds time, and pros dont like that, but its one or the other. if you want a surface that is going to stay like glass, it has to be thick enough.

I mostly use the pointed cone bit and then after, i use the flat head barrel to make the hole bigger.

I strongly suggest micro fiber towels on my clear coat.

"you're a towel!"

Will do on the CP pf. There are a lot of nos floating out there. I think the went out of biz while making that title, because there were a lot of extra pfs sold at expo a couple years later. ( a large pallet for 20 bucks each).

I got a bunch of nos pfs that havent hit the website yet
gottlieb 007 NOS
gottlieb pink panther NOS
gottlieb incredible HULK NOS

Bally Medusa CPR gold repro
Stern Tron NOS
JJP Guns n Roses NOS le

WMS DEMO MAN nos cleared by me

I havent priced them yet or taken pics. Send me an email if interested in any before I have tommy put them up on the website (pinballplayfieldskruzman.com)

I know someone has been waiting patiently for this pf to be done. Its as good as it gets. I cant imagine how smooth the play will be on the plank! wowza!
This is one of the few remaining NOS pfs. it wont be long at all before there are no more. This is going to be a game that I doubt will ever be on the for sale market.
enjoy!

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So here is some amazing news. I have a customer that got spare pfs for all of his games, and had me clear them. He called and said he is interested is selling some, so they get used rather than just sit. Most are nos though some are repros. There are so many I would have to check if you are interested. we havent come up with prices, but that is coming soon. I have been super busy with pf work, but also getting the compound ready for winter, which meant cutting, splitting and stacking 25 face cords of wood, cutting up 6 trees that fell since late summer, and of course the leaves. anyway.. here are some, and I will post more soon. contact me if you have interest. REMEMBER, THESE PFS HAVE ALL BEEN CLEARED BY ME ALL READY between 2-4 years ago.
Simpsons pb party
Breakshot
T3
Fish tales
metallica prem
no good gophers
safecracker
kiss nos
IJ nos
TZ repro
I500
roadshow
champ pub
FH
TAF MB
MM
More coming soon if you are interested in one, say its the NGG, but only if nos, just write me and I will ask, and he will investigate the pf. Most are nos, but its been so long I dont remember. Come to think of it, I cleared for him for like 2 years before he started to consider a repro pf.
I wouldn't be involved if they were going to be priced insane, but this is no fire sale at all. We just want to see some of them installed. Stay tuned for more info.

i WILL SAY IT AGAIN. ALL HAVE BEEN CLEARED BY ME. I am sure I will still get that as the first question.

Of the pfs I mentioned, I checked on the IJ, safe cracker, road show, champ pub, I 500. all are NOS.
There is no mini pf for the IJ

I didnt realize you were so far ahead of the game, I still want to do 2 more coats on that mini, but I will keep it in the front.

I see some really high quality installation work. A while back i was looking at a thread that one of the premier restorers writes, and he was installing one of my pfs. No dremmil, no predrill, just crank'n those screws in with the cordless driver. It looked horrible, I mean embarrassing. Of course it was all my fault, and all of the followers were posting, "wow, I wont be using kruzman, he sucks, why is his work so bad, and so many people love it?" That was the last time I ventured outside this thread.

I have a favor to ask. I am having trouble finding some people I have questions for, that have pfs here. Please make sure the title of your pf is the first word in the subject. Remember I am 55, and I got 2 college degrees without using a computer. Graduated in 91 when some people were getting word process programs for their computers, and dot matrix printers.

I am working on a used BSD, will the owner get a hold of me again? also a quick silver.

I got more than 50 emails yesterday on the collection of WPC nos pf, plus my usual 30-40emails, so I am a bit scattered on keeping track of names. I really appreciate it. thank you

Here is some good news concerning the WPC pfs.
here is the email of the owner. The reason he is going thru me is he knew I wanted my stuff to go to good homes.. Please first mention you are one of my people. I would very much appreciate that.

[email protected]

His name is chad. I can say confidently that there is no chance of a rip off , scam or anything else.
Here is the letter he wrote this morning, when I said there is so much demand that I cant sell these without having them here to answer questions.

"I can send pictures as you need them. You’re welcome to share my email if your listing what’s available for me. My main objective was to make sure the playfields of high interest end up where you like them. Anything received that doesn’t meet a customer’s expectations will be refunded in full plus shipping. Listing them all might be fun to watch, I’ll handle shipping and whatever questions need my attention. "

So go ahead and get a hold of him.

Looks great tommy!!! How many stargazers have you done now?

So I Wonder:

I have always wanted to ask Paul Faris about this so if any of you know him, maybe you could ask.
At christmas 1979 the movie, Alien came out. I was 12. May parents were divorced and every other weekend it was party time at my dads. he loved the movies, and I dont think he ever noticed the rating system. Never once did he say, "maybe this is a little too rich for the kids" (my sister was 10)
So we went to every rated r movie that came out, plus he was one of the first owners of a vcr, so we has that too. I made it thru alien, in the packed theatre, but just barely. I have no idea how my sister did it.

Bally released space invaders about 2 months later in march of 1980. The game has Gieger or geigier inspired artwork, who did the art for the movie, but it is only on the inserts of the pf, that shows any reference to the video game space invaders. In fact its such an easy swap. They could have changed that game from alien to SI on 45 minutes. I have always wanted to know the story. maybe they couldnt get the license, and midway owned space invaders I think.

The pics are a cpr repro that I prepped for its last coat.
This week I prepped every pf here for spray, plus there 3 ready for hand block and polish, and 3 more ready for polish

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I didnt see one. he is mostly a dmd collector, though he has a FH and kiss

here is crappy pics of NOS pfs some people may have never seen before.
The art on incred hulk is insane!!! I used to have a hulk lunch box. It was back when the show was on tv, . Every episode ended with this haunting beautiful piano song, and him hitch hiking to a new place.

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I realized I didnt get around to listing the rest of chads pfs that are for sale. All of them have been cleared by me. besides what I listed previously there is:
Monster bash NOS
Medevil. Madness nos
wiz of oz
walaking dead
ac/dc prem
Attack from mars nos
Lord of the rings
Shadow
monopoly
Pirates of the Caribbean
No good gophers
spiderman
iron man

Here is a copy of what I listed all ready
Simpsons pb party
Breakshot
T3
Fish tales
metallica prem
no good gophers
safecracker
kiss nos
IJ nos
TZ repro
I500
roadshow
champ pub
FH
TAF
MB
MM

Again, not a fire sale, but some titles are very hard to find, and I often get emails looking for them. the sellers name is chad and here is his email again
[email protected]

Wow! is that an original space invaders? when I was in about 5 and 6th grades, I had no issue walking or riding my bike, over 2 miles to the party store that had Space invaders and then asteroids. I think there has only been one time in history, when coin op vid games were making so many quarters that the coins boxes filled to the top and jammed the mech.
I love quarters.
Considering that H.R. Gigers work was part of a popular movie, and sort of a style of Horror, it has by no means lost any of its artistic relevance. It still blows people from new generations away, and brings forth, so much emotion. No aspect of his work seems dated or passé.

I didnt know that they found the BG as copywrite infringement. I would think that would only be when reproducing a particular work, not style or subject. Like in music, you have to steal a chord progression, or lyrics, otherwise every metal artist would be sued by Sabbath.

I only have one book on HR Giger, so I dont know all of his work or even close. So I dont know if bally came too close to copying one of his works or sKetches(which are amazing).

I would just like to read some of the memos or hear the convos to Faris about "we didnt get the licence for alien. Can you make it Space invaders?"

I never got very good at Vids. I graduated in 86' so robotron, and defender, shit even asteroids I sucked at. I just didnt like them. (galaga was fun to hit the button as fast as possible)
I did like the old school shoot games from the late 60's early 70's I would find up north, in the bars. Or that old sub hunter video game. though there was no video. I think it was a screen , with slides moved across it.

After I run a polisher on the pf for 5 or 6 hours, I bring it in the house to thread a rag thru all of the holes to get the polish compound out of there. Then I set it in the living room to wipe down with a micro fiber and apply a coat of wax.
I noticed this complete mata hari waiting to go out to the shop to be cleaned up and wiped down, but the reflection was so perfect and undistorted, I tried to get a pic

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I rolled a perfect 300 on this cpr mata hari. Christensens art is so beautiful, and I am so inspired by the clear bringing out the depth of the colors and contrasts.
Most people know I have to deal with being manic, obsessive compulsive, and nothing is better when you are on an up wave. This pf has put me in such a mood I am like a giggling 13 year old girl.
Of course when my brain chemicals are bad, this pf still wouldnt be enough to get me back to base line. Its no fun for the people (who used to be) around me.

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I hit send before I wrote that the inserts all showed wood or the edge of the insert down on the tail of the arrows, so all of the arrow inserts got double coated. That was all that got painted. You cant see but I double coated the back with poly also.

The 3x bonus insert should have a bright light or something to draw attention to it. 55 and still love boobies!

If you ever decide to clear a cpr mata hari yourself, make sure to sand the wood grain level on the black paint. If you dont sand that perfectly flat, the clear will magnify the wood grain and the valleys between the grain. It will magnify the texture.

Wow you made short work of that game. awesome!!!
was the yes show inside or out? I am crazy for when bands play a whole album. I saw pearl jam play no code in 2014(one of my fav albums in moline. I have 2 different versions of it recorded). I wanted to see dark side of the moon so bad I actually saw a tribute band called britt floyd do it, and it could have been better than the floyd, it was pretty dam good, plus no Waters ranting about isreal

I ask about the yes show being in or out side because I just went to a blliy strings show. this is blue gress, with a little blues mixed in, but still no drums. stand up bass, fiddle, gituar and mandolin. It was so loud that every time the fiddle got up in the high range it caused me pain. it was like in a clockwork orange when they made him watch ultra violence all day. Can you imagine blue grass so loud that it causes pain?
When billy strings talked between songs, I had no idea what he said. There was a 2 sec echo that was 80% as loud as the first time. It was because of the venue and the butthole on the sound board, turning it up to 11.
I walked out at the end of the 5th song. I had great seats thru the fan club. 2 days later the show was on you tube, sound from the board before it went to the pa. It wrecked my day it sounded so beautiful. I wrote a letter to wings stadium (the venu). I used to work there and I have seen plenty of good sounding shows there. man it pissed me off. waste of 150 bucks.

I would kill to see that yes show playing "close tot he edge" but if the sound sucked, I would be suicidal.

wow what a venue!

Its snowing cats and gophers out there today, so I finished a rare Bansi run cpr repro, and i have to shoot the pics inside. not nearly the dramatic effect of outside. Anyway use you imagination, or focus on the reflection of the light bulb

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Its that time of year where I plan my work around the weather. The good thing is it changes pretty quick. The bad thing is it changes pretty quick.

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I will detail the madness a bit more. I dont have a plow for the kubota L3400, but a loader. It took 2 hours to plow and shovel, and I destroyed my back. it was 12-15 in (just from last night) when I was out there. Its still blasting snow so bad I cant see the tree that is about half way to the road, so that tree is at about 400-450 ft. Going back out to do some more painting. may be a good weekend to build crates, as well as I realized that my roof trusses are sagging between an inch and almost 2 in where someone put up a beam to have a tall door. They got rid of 3 trusses and put in a beam 16 ft that just connects to the remaining trusses. So these trusses are made of 1 by material, and are 28-30 feet long. The Beam is attached with hangers at the peak of the trusses, and they didnt put any posts up to support. The trusses are just sitting on a 2x4 wall. I have been here since 05, but I just noticed the sag in the middle of the trusses, so I am going to get some steel posts of the ends of the trusses, and in the middle I am going to build one that supports under the center of the truss, and goes up to the peak of the truss and get under that beam. so that is a little over 16 ft. I am going to buy 16' 2x8's. I am sure they are going to be pricey. Lowes doesnt carry basement posts any more so I gotta find those. I am going to look if there is a habitat for humanity store in kzoo soon and see if they have some, because I am sure they are stupid expensive now days.
I was a remod/builder for 21 years, and I threw away so much materials back in the 90's that I would fight for the dumpster dive, now

Ok then. I am going to put my 8 bags of 60lb sand in the back of the 2wd f250, and head to menards.
I will have to build 2 posts for the middle of the trusses because I want them to support under the middle, and then straight up from the middle is where they hung the beam (to put in a tall door so a RV can be parked in there). Its been a while since I got to over build something. Its not as much fun now with the price of materials, but it does make the process less burdensome. I would rather work on pf's

I finished a WPT yesterday, that I will try to shoot pics of today

That my dream project: to restore a kubota from the 80's. they are the coolest tractors since the 1930's. I have been watching for about 12 years now. Everything is so far, I dont have the truck for a 800 mile trip. I did pick up a JD 850, when I went to look at a kubota. It came with a sweet snow plow system. It was parted at a hospital for 20 years to push the snow on the sidewalk. It came with a never used 72" deck, and a post hole digger, and a soft cab. I fixed it up and sold it to my neighbor across the st. By the way he never offers to let me use that sweet plow when I am out there doing it with my loader!
I learned a good plow system makes for a much cleaner job. warmer with that cab.

I almost bought a M series in 06 when I bought the L series. It was just in the 30's with a loader. I got the l3400 new with the loader and 7.5 back hoe for 23000. I have less than 350 hours on it, and its never slept outside, except a couple times when I left it on the trailer for a job the next day. Please send me a pic of your tractor or post it

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That thing is a monster! I dont think I have driven one that size before, when I see it next to your van

I totally agree with frunch about the design of the kubotas. What I think is so cool is everything is 100% form follows function, but yet they still achieve a cool distinctive design. I dont have time to look for a pic right now, but the real old stuff form the 80's looks so different than anything else.
I think the era of my kubota is really tame and soft looking, but maybe if I make it another 20 it will look different compared to whats being made. I know the tractor will make it another 20.

This time of year, I fill my loader with firewood, and bring it right up to the door of all 3 buildings. I can barely handle all of the handling of firewood with the tractor. if I had to hump 20 face cords a year, I would be in amazing shape, though more likely just having natural gas run to the place.

If anyone has a CPR The Addams Family gold playfield, that they want to sell, please send me an email, I have a customer looking for one.

Got some pf porn: this is a wpt that really came out nice. I have this game in my living room, and it would be wild to play with a zero friction pf. I think of all of the steve ritchie games with cleared pfs would be insane, like balls floating like on ice.

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Na, this belongs to a customer. I do have about 65 new pfs for sale.
Completed pfs with my clear coat that are available are:
medusa cpr
rocky and bullwinkle restoration
sharkies shoot out restoration
Demo Man nos

my website is pinballplayfieldskruzman.com
The following pfs are getting posted this week.
nos demo man/cleared
nos 007
nos incredible hulk
nos Tron
nos Guns and roses JJP
nos pink panther
cpr medusa

There is a new section on the website for new arrivals, and these will go there first

Great start to my day. awesome it worked out for you. I really appreciate this network of pinheads/pf people, which includes pinside. I do have a facebook acct, but I dont really post on there, but I can be found. Its fun to be part of a group that can help locate something as rare as new pfs.

I have cleared a lot of pfs for chad and he has been super supportive, so I am super happy I could help him, and who ever got one. I know steve is getting an I500 (he restores that title. he is an I500 specialist).

You have to admit it is pretty cool of chadly to offer up his pfs to anyone who needs one. Some NOS pfs are as rare as chicken teeth, or a sorority girl without HPV. Even better yet, he didnt price them at a stupid price and say take it or leave it. Its always a bummer when you want a rare pf, and when you find one its just totally unreasonable. I do know he paid a lot for what he has. I try not to be the highest price, but I only sold him a couple.

I have been focusing on pfs for 15 years now it seems. I can think of several pfs I had to sell that bum me out so bad. I dont make enough to afford most of the pfs that I want so bad. The way I look at it, is I try to enjoy the short time I get to have them. My rule is even if I buy it for me, I make my self list it as available, and if someone buys it, I have to sell it. Since I am so many years behind on projects, I would have all of the pfs, and no one else would have any!.

The NOS pfs that I have owned that come to mind are:
several IJ's
rocky
amazing spiderman
incredible hulk
proto TZ
Most of the sys 11 titles in diamondplate which is very cool
asteroid anne
genie
Iron maiden and viper/classic sterns
charlies angels EM (after dayhuff spent 10 years looking for one, and sold the game)
several TAFG
Anyway I finally got a pf that I have wanted since day one. It was the second game I owned, and its a licensed game that I love the license and the game. In fact in my opinion the 3 greatest games made are IJ, DEGnR, and wiz of oz. I may add godzilla if I still love it after a couple years.
So I got this nos GNR that I cleared for chad years ago, and he didnt install it. This is the first pf I have owned that I am keeping for me.
I have a JJP GnR also and I want to hang both in my office. I am bummed I sold my roached out, used GnR to someone, because it would be cool to have that on the wall again also.

The other pf title I would kill for is a pabst with dirty donny's art. I doubt that one will ever happen.

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I dont have the money right now, but I will be in the market for the game soon. I have owned 3 of them. I think one of my mine is still in the detroit area. I forgot the fella's name I sold it to (chucks partner on the pin2000 boards). After april 15th.

I think chad is one of the few that wraps better than me

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I heat the shop and the studio with wood, and I have electric heat as a back up to keep it above 49. Same with the guest house and garage, except with a propane boiler. So I process a lot of firewood. It all comes from my land, and anyone who has a tree drop usually calls me. I will pick up wood on the side of the road.

As for this log it was obviously happy to see me, but my saw did not care for it. I live in a one light town that was settled in the 1840-50's and a oak at one of the original houses was cut down because the new owner wanted nicer lawn. I saw a team tackling the job and I had to butt in and include my self. Within 30 min I had my truck, trailer, loader and saws on the job. we counted over 150 rings on this tree, and they were goin to sell it to a sawmill but when the buyer saw big blue runs inside the trunk, they couldnt use it, because that meant there was iron somewhere in there... and I finally found it. I have been cutting up this tree for 3 years now and I still have more than half. I dont have a saw long enough to slice off a chunk. I have to rip and split to get some logs off the big 8 chunks in my yard

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I have been working on this pf for so long, that I am going to start at the beginning for those of you that were not born yet when I found it.
The pf and 23 others came from a man who was the floor mgr at linc smith. He really liked his job, and he tried to save one of each of the pfs that went thru in that era starting in 91. Many of them were proto/sample pfs. I found out that some games were so straight forward they didnt really do a test run, and all that they went thru with TZ.
So this is a very special pf, and in my 15 years I havent seen one, even back in the day, when the nos stuff was a plenty.So when I posted this for sale, I was thinking, kruzman you finally hit pay dirt. they are selling IJ's for 3k, I can buy a car with this one.
This is one of those things the collector in me hates to sell, but I ran across a fella here on pinside that used to work in an arcade, and they ran a proto TZ in their location, and he ended up buying the game, years later. (That is another story in its self)
He was the he second or third person to get a hold of me knew the pf exactly. he knew all of the little differences, and could tell between proto and sample, and he even had a game with a trashed pf that was a match for this pf. I had to make sure he got the pf which he did. It was still super expensive, but I charged the same price as the other non IJ A-tier games. (I didnt get an IJ in the group. he wanted to keep that)

So my work started with gluing and clamping some lifting on the bottom edge of the back laminate from sitting on cement for 28 years. It has just a slight warp to it, so I mounted some wood blocks that it would sit in when up against the wall to keep it from warping more. I drilled and dimpled it, and sanding and prepping was so stressful. I double coated the back with poly, and I painted all of the inserts in the door, and about 70% of the rest of them. I waited a month or more in between coats. The buyer was in no hurry and needed to save money, and I finally got it done today!!!! One of the things I really like is I didnt have to re-do it, even once so it has my minimal thickness of clear (8 coats). So its doesnt look far from stock, just the finish is richer and deeper.
I am going to post a bunch of pics so sorry if it is too many, but after more than a year, this pf deserves it. I am so happy, and it is not often that I am happy that it is leaving. I couldnt have dreamed of a better home for it

Yep its the white oak. Burns fantastic and the bark pops off, so not to bring the bugs and dirt inside. Once they knew the trunk was not going to be used, They were cut in to 30-40 in lengths and my loader couldnt even come close to lifting them. It was all way too big to expect it to get picked up by the neighbor people for free wood, and way to big for them to handle for profitable firewood. so the job boss used his skid and dump trailer to bring 2 or 3 at a time to my house and dump them in the yard.
I hate cutting live/healthy trees. Even if it is crap wood like poplar or mulberry, I still cut and split it and use it. waste not..... I have found tree guys like to sell firewood, but even though they get it free, in fact they get paid to take it, there is so much labor involved that they only use the best, perfect sized, straight limbs. And only the good wood. SoI am always stopping at jobs to let them know that they can dump at the compound for free if it will save them time. I will gladly pay for a dump truck of big limbs.

And here is another NOS prototype. I am realizing how bad my old gun was because I am super happy with the clear lately. I didnt realize how it was splattering until I bought a new one.
This pf got drilled and dimpled also except for the last inch and half on the left side because that had been cut off the template pf so it would fit in a drop ceiling grid. basically its the side rail holes.

I forget who owns this one. I will have to dig up the records.

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In the pic where you can see the reflection of my hand, I was trying to make spocks Live long and prosper sign, but I cant do it with my left.

Here is an opportunity to turn a really cool/fun game in to a collector game. I restored this pf, but installed it will easily pass for NOS. look at the shooter lane and ball holes. price is 1675

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The website has been updated. There is a new category for new arrivals.
pinballplayfieldskruzman.com

I am not really wanting any WPC games at this point in my life... except BSD. Man I love this dark assed game.
I got this pf blocked so flat, its just going to scream when its installed! The owned likes the worn look/effect, but I had to paint the round insert in front of the rat hole. Its such an eye draw, that I hate that big round circle from the insert below.

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It was lightly snowing when I took the pics, so you can see small drops on the pf. bummer. Michigan.

Ah! a nos for me? why thank you!!!

I just got a cpr Earth Shaker. Other than 3 triangle inserts that I didnt notice when I bought it (extra ball, 2 green lock ) that show just a sliver of edge its a super nice repro. It has a nice stock clear with no wood grain raised or the inserts haven't dropped. I cant tell if it is screened or printed. Its going up on the website when tommy gets time. So if you have any interest or questions, let me know.
I am always interested in trades!

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So this is an early IPB kiss pf. It had a horrible clear on it that was so full of vapor holes, it was like pock marks every where, as well as dusties. I think it was done in a garage, by someone who had no idea what they were doing.
I started to sand it with the sander and 500 grit, but the depth of the vapor holes was all the way down to the ink. I quickly stopped using the da sander, because I own a kiss pf from this batch, and when I was trying to sand out the holes, I hit the ink several times, and caused problems, but then I hit the ink in the center of the pf and took the word scores right off the pf, thru the white and down to the wood. It happened so fast I had no idea. so I have tried a couple ways to make a sticker for the scores area, but I will have to paint the white, and to make it look right, and would have to paint a lot of it.

There is one pic of my pf. Its the one where there is a sticker on the spot where I sanded it off, just to see how it looked. I realized a sticker wont work I need someone to cut the script with one of those vinyl cricket cutting machines, and apply it after I paint the white.
So I took a beating on this pf, and I would rather sell it for 400 bucks as is to someone who is up to the challenge. CPR has not had any in stock in a long time.

So the rest of the pics are a new job that I was hand sanding, and I had to be so careful, not to get in to the ink. super stressful, so I was taking pics so I would be able to explain to the owner what happened, but because of my experience with my kiss pf, and doing it all by hand, i got the whole things sanded without any damage.
You can see on the edge of the black screens, where the thickness of the black ink makes the block miss the clear on the edge of the black. Its especially difficult in the inserts.
I work under a big LED light system and I have to look at it from all angles to find the shine, as well as the dots, from the vapor holes. Those I had to be super careful with, because there was no clear in the center of the circle. This took most of the day, and this is exactly one of the reasons I went to college. when I was a kid working at a car wash in the michigan winters, the owner used to say you better go to college so you dont have to do this shit your whole life. I do more hand sanding now after 2 degrees, than I did before any college. Its a good lie to tell kids, but I am just pissy that I believed what they told me back in the early 80's, and that was you go to college and get rich.

I cant imagine the product you get when people take a pf to a body shop, and they spray a dust coat, and then spray it. they dont sand it, and if they did they wouldnt be able to fix the issues that they caused.

When it comes to some things, there is no getting around the fact that the more hard, crappy work, you put in to it, makes it a higher quality job

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Its not a prob just part of the job. If my job was the same every day, I dont know how I would do in that situation. When they are all the same I guess you work on efficiency, which sorta comes natural to me. When I get to issues like the kiss pf, or painting, I have learned to just accept that this is going to take some time. I remind myself its better than digging ditches or a real job for sure!!!!

So this is a early quicksilver repro by mirco. It needed the roll over insert's key lines painted, which means its missing a half inch hole under the apron that was missed during original production.
I couldnt fine my notes on the placement, and I asked tommy. He quickly found them here on pinside in a post Daane did right after they came out.
When I couldnt find my notes, I still prepped and started the clear process until I realized, I only have 2 more coats to go, I better do this hole.
Since I had 3/4 of the clear all ready down on the pf, I picked out one of the bits from my handy kruzman install kit, and I drew my circle. My extension cord was being used, and the extra one was in the other barn and I didnt feel like getting it. So I decided that this will be a good opportunity to experiment on how brittle the clear is and how much it lifts, ect.

I drilled a pilot hole, and no lifting or chipping at all, none. ( I dont know what size it was, but it is the drill I use to predrill the drywall screws in my crates)
Then I drilled with the 1/2 in bit. Its a high quality, sharp bit. The clear didnt chip at all.
I just need to sand and or file the edges, and the last 2 coats will take care of the edges.

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Now that I see the pic, I have all ready sanded when I took that pic.

Since I am a male of 55 years, and college, I think its safe to assume I watched caddy shack at least 50 times in my life. Probably many more. Now that I think of it, thats where I got the ditch digger theme. I got it from caddy shack. not my grandpa.
I am a horrible golfer, and I know that movie word for word.
Things I have held as gospel.... no dummy! you picked it up from caddy shack.
I walk around alone singing under my breath, "I was born to lick your face"

I dont really celebrate christmas or any holiday, but I have been spending money like I do. consumer therapy to get me thru the winter. So I picked up some more NOS and a repro pf

NO good gophers peter bathause repro
Toy story JJP
GnR jjp

My new/nos collection is at 66. Baby steps.

I have been painting since friday. It took me 2 days to paint 90% of the inserts on this cpr totan. I painted every insert that you could see a cresent of wood from the mis alignment. Its such a beautiful, expensive game, I dont think a crappy looking pf should be installed, especially with my clear.
I havent always double coated my black key line stuff, but I have been putting them on the light table after paint, and the inside edge of the black which is painted over the insert, sometimes is not thick enough and you can partially see thru the paint when the insert is lit. It looks perfect on my bench, but like I said when I put it on the light table, the lines are not so sharp. So I am now just doubling everything.

Do you think I am off track here, and just going too far? maybe if this was a used pf, but installing this pf is a huge job, and this game cost more than my car, so Its my opinion, that is there was ever a case to do it right, this is it.

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Someone contacted me looking for some translucent arrows. The only opaque I have are purple

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finally getting to this centaur. sorry for the delay. When stuff needs paint work, I wait until there is a bunch of it, so I can focus on it all day, rather than doing 4 different kinds of jobs in the same day which leads to mistakes for me. If I am going to do it, I may as well tighten up the arrows also.

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Here is a congo after all of the paint work. it was only about25-30% of the inserts. mostly from the cracks around the edge of the plastic

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You cant really see the paint work on the congo.
I got 2 new cats. they were abandoned in a mobile home, after the tenants moved out. These are 2 of the biggest cats I have ever seen. They are super chil and rode home in my car without cat carriers. I didnt hear a peep from them. Thats a good start. Hopefully that wont bankrupt me from feeding them, or see me as a possible dinner. I have to get them some medicine, and get them to swollow it, and I am not sure I am man enough to make a 42 lb cat take his medicine. This is the smaller one ruben. The other is max. couple of nice jewish boys

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good idea but its this slimey yellow custard type stuff that you have to give about half a syringe full. in the past my cats have acted like I am sending them to the gas chamber. such drama queens. I just dont want to get shredded by these beasts. Maybe wait a week. Let them get to know who payd for the food around here.

Here are some after pics of the inserts on the totan. (the before pics are about halfway up this page). I dont know if many others get as annoyed by the misaligned inserts as I do. It screams reproduction, and I like things to look NOS even if they are repros. This is just one coat of clear so I could put it on the light table and see how it looks.

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Happy new year!!
I have been working in the shop all weekend, finishing up a Taxi, and a champ pub. They will be done this week. My living room is full of new pfs that are available. That is a very Rare NOS Bally Rolling Stones, with no insert cupping! its in amazing condition!
The NGG is a repro with a beautiful stock finish.

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If you have been waiting to send a pf here for clear coat, now is a good time. There are only about 15 jobs in the studio and I have 6 pfs that have the last coat down and they just need the last 2 days of work before they are complete.
Here are the pfs that are done except final sand and polish
quick silver
catacomb
a motorcycle racing pf that belongs to matt. I dont know the name of the game
Taxi
quicksilver
space invaders
champ pub
STTNG proto complete

Also its a good time to make an offer on buying one of the pfs in stock!. You can always check with me to see if I have a title in stock. Or check the website pinballplayfieldskruzman.com

There is always a hand full of pf's that havent got up on the web site yet. I also have a strange world reproduction

Lets hope for a great new year, and the end of the war in Ukraine.

Sorry I didnt make it clear. the list of games that are almost complete, are customer's pfs.
I do have over 70 new/nos/repro pfs for sale besides those.

I just got the first to Heavy winter electric bill for the studio. I am going list a pf, or a used pf, or parts that I have in the shop. I am going to try to sell them first, before asking Tommy to put them up on the web site. If they dont sell I will probably send him the pics to put up when he has the time. His son Conrad, should be off to college in about 18 years, he will have time then.

Here is a list of pfs I have, used
Fish tales
Popeye
Attack from mars
joker poker
family guy
shadow
demo man
high speed
6 mil dollar man
T2
volcano
Haunted house set
Black Hole set
Earth shaker
Incredible hulk
007 (gottlieb)
cue ball wizard
Magic
stern Iron maiden set
apollo 13
IJ
congo
BSD
Totan, almost completely restored, needs clear. I may put this in the line up to get finished.

Today we have a IPB Circus Voltare repro. I dont remember where this one came from, it been in the shop for a couple years. Its a really pretty pf, but Gene never really ironed the kinks out of CV, before his biz ended. I remember when he made these, and he only made 30 of them. They are not as sharp as the original, its not dimpled. If I remember correctly, this was a prototype of printed pfs, which is why its not a sharp as a regular screened pf. It seems like it was like 2012 when they were made. (guessing). It has the stock clearcoat. Its been in the shop a long time, and moved around so it has scuffs and what not.
I am horrible at selling anything that is not perfect, because all I list is the imperfections, but that is because I assume its perfect otherwise. So I have learned when I sell stuff on ebay, to just keep my trap closed and show plenty of pics. Since I only mention the flaws, it sounds like the thing I list is garbage. price is 475 OBO
If you want more pics or have questions send me an email. lets not negotiate or talk about it on the thread if possible.

Hopefully, this idea will fund the heat and power, and a new compressor!

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If you have experience installing one of these IPB CV pf's, I would like to hear how it went, or how it ended up.

I have had this populated mini pf for fish tales for years, hoping to use it. I was thinking about offering populated pfs at the time. asking $350. I have a populated IJ mini around here somewhere also. The surface has some planking though. I do remember that it needed to be restored for sure.

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