So in the evenings, for months now, I've been working to help Mike's dad with outstanding orders after we lost Mike in the accident. It looked as if another person was going to take this biz on and run it but he eventually decided it was not for him. When that happened, Mike's dad asked if I would would be willing to take it on and run with it as apart of our biz Hot Rod Arcade. It was a huge honor that he would even ask this, as I know many of you thought as much of Mike and the work he did as myself. So today we are announcing what we've been working on.

Pinballplating.com is a domain Mike bought and never got around to using. It's an honor to see it come to life and it's been with the help of many friends that has become a reality. Out of respect to those that were waiting on outstanding orders so many were waiting on after his passing, we have waited to share this statement: that we are officially taking new orders now! Thank you in advance for your support of this endeavor! We will continue to do Chrome - Brass - Nickel - Black Nickel - and soon will be adding Powder Coating as well!

Special thanks to Michael Rochelle, Vince Johnson and Andrew Fudge for your help in working through a bunch of this stuff to get to here. Also, special thanks to Ben Adkison for whipping together this site in literally a few days. It will have more added with a store in the future but we wanted to go ahead and get something up and going. Check it out and let us know what you think.

A very special thanks to the Chestnuts. They have become family to me and they really wanted to see this happen, if not I promise you it would not have. I'm so grateful for them and glad that this will continue to benefit them as well as all the rest of us in the hobby.

Feel free to reach me directly anytime at [email protected] or call/text @ 615-598-0024
Check out the new site and let us know what you think, thanks!
Chris
http://www.pinballplating.com

Thank you guys! I hope to do it exactly as Mike would and intend to make his parents proud. If there is ever an issue, I promise it will be resolved as Mike would have done it as well.

Woody has his own business.

It's been so awesome already getting to know so many other folks in the hobby over the past few months just dealing with the outstanding orders. Even just today, so many that I've never talked with before have called or emailed with encouragement, our family is excited about all of it. Thank you all for the support. It means more than you know!

Great question, I use different shops for different things now - this is new to the whole pin plating thing, this allows me to offer a few more options with powder coating coming. I'd want to play around with powder coating more before I offer to our customers but we'll get there. It also allows for me to have the guy that does the best X jobs to do those jobs, meaning better products.
In buying Mike's biz, I now have all of Mike's stock which allows us to do quick exchanges on many items, so send me your Indy gun to brass and I send you one I already have done on the shelf and you don't have to wait, etc. I hope to continue to offer more of those types of items that are ready on the shelf as time goes on. Making turn around time much faster.
I've always felt from the beginning that Mike's biz could and should keep on and could continue to benefit his parents, and the agreement we made does that for years to come. That was long before I had any idea I would be asked to do it. I think Mike would have wanted it this way. Woody is a great guy and I do believe there is plenty of work to go around.
The pro in using someone that has a biz taking care of it is quality control, no one would believe the amount of stuff I've already had to have the old shop redo (ask some of these guys that have waited on their stuff) and getting a better rate due to quantity of work being done in the shop. I come from the hot rod world where plating has to be very nice - what we call show chrome. I know pin guys well enough to know they want the same. I've gone back to some of those connections from automotive stuff to try to improve on some of the quality we will be offering here for pinheads at large.
It's still work at the end of the day and I'm glad to be doing it. I hope that helps answer your question? If not I'm available, just hit me up, call or whatever
Chris

I'm not going to lie, it was touch and go for a bit. When there were parts that I couldn't find and the plater wasn't sure he had them, it was a little nerve racking. But we've made it through! I'm glad to say everyone has received their parts back or they were just shipped this week. I'm grateful for everyone's patience through it all!

Bobby, I should have you a hinge then, let's get together and trade out. I want you to be taken care of on that. I'll be on vacation this week with my wife and kiddos, which is much needed after the last few months. After that we'll make it happen!

That is the plan, like I said, this was just getting point of contact up and letting people finally know. I'm still working out what he charged for everything too, I'm taking a box of invoices for the last two years with me on vacation today to look at after everyone else is asleep while we are gone to try to build the price list stuff. I do appreciate the input! We'll get there eventually!!

We are back from vacation if you are one of the ones waiting to ship parts, send them on!
Detailed instruction are under contact on our site - pinballplating.com
Dropped off a load of stuff today and a couple of things to test the powder coating waters.
I have been amazed at the response in the last week and a half. It's been awesome getting to talk with so many of you via email and on the phone.
Let me know if we can help you with something you are working on!
Chris
[email protected] or 615-598-0024

First batch of some stuff we had powder coated came in, really nice stuff.
Thanks to everyone for the orders. Glad to help anyone else that needs it! Please be sure that if you send things in you try to follow the instructions under the contact page of our site pinballplating.com and give me a heads up to let me know it's coming. Seeing some cool stuff!
I'll get some pics up in the next couple of days of some of the stuff we've been working on.
Chris
[email protected] or 615-598-0024

Just to show off a little bit of the powder coating stuff we've been playing with, here is a raised letter Gottlieb coin door for an arcade (Qbert, Mad Planets, Reactor, etc). This is done with a factory style texture like this door had originally. Looks AMAZING.
We've got a bunch of stuff being plated - chrome - brass (gold) - black nickel - for many new customers and a few long timers too! Just want to say thank you to everyone for the support.
I'm working to have more sitting on the shelf too for orders and exchanges. Let us know if we can help!
Chris
[email protected]
615-598-0024 call or text
pinballplating.com

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I'm trying to stock stuff for exchange and other stuff that just hasn't been available on the shelf for a while.
Parts we can exchange for many titles:
wireforms or habitrails
Gun shooters in different finishes for T2 - STTNG - Shadow - IJ - Fish Tales = the reel
Some game specific parts for TOTAN - TOM - and a few others.

I of course also have a stock of all the other stuff in CHROME - BRASS - BLACK NICKEL - and now POWDER COATING
Let me know if we can help. Please be sure to follow shipping instructions here: http://www.pinballplating.com/contact/
Thanks for all the support!
Chris

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Atari Paperboy handlebars
We can do the other pieces, this customer just wanted to do the four pieces with screws seen here.
I know it's arcade but just so you can see them, they look amazing. Our custom chrome turnaround on parts just got faster and in my opinion better too.

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It was really great to talk. Would love to help you get some stuff done, please yell anytime that I can help with something!
Chris

I wish you had more too! But hey, I'm grateful for what you sold him then. Most of it is here with us now. Had someone just send in a set of Shadow wireforms, I'll be shipping out one of the sets that are sitting here on the shelf. Awesome story, thank you for sharing it. I love hearing how pieces of the business came together over the years.

So far we've had a couple of arcade pieces. Next up is a set of High Speed Wireforms in Candy Apple Red. I'll post the results, our guys do amazing work with it. I'm also having a set of TMNT wireforms done as they were original in green and yellow. Might have those back next week, just dropped them off yesterday.

Dude, thank you. I'm really glad you like your stuff. Like you said, I'm glad we've got another crew helping now make it all happen now. And... you do send lots of random stuff, lol. But I like that and look forward to seeing what all you do with it!

Lots of orders out this week, and just as many came in yesterday and today!

Let us know if we can help with Chrome - Brass - Black Nickel Plating or Powder Coating!
Would love to help even more folks with their projects!
Chris
[email protected]
Call or text 615-598-0024
www.pinballplating.com

I'm now helping Mike's dad sell Mike's machines in case anyone is interested in anything. Many have sold to local friends but there are still several left. Let meek now if I can help.
Pics and list are here:
https://www.facebook.com/HotRodArcade/
Chris

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Here is the list of the games we still have available along with the post on the Hot Rod Arcade Facebook since some do not have a Facebook.

As many know, we lost a good friend, Mike Chestnut, back in May of this year. Mike was a larger than life type of guy, who was a great friend to many and a huge asset to the pinball hobby with his skills and knowledge. His family is ready to sell off his game collection and I'm helping his dad with doing this. All payments toward the games will be made to him, I'm just helping ease the process and will be glad to help set up times for pick up and so forth. Many of his pieces have already sold to friends of his and the list of what is left is below. Please let me know if I can help with anything. All games work great and Mike was always very particular with them. Thanks for looking.

Pinballs:
Evel Knivel - $2400
Flash - $1300
Groundshaker - sold
Bride of Pinbot - $2700
Cyclone - $2400
Funhouse - sold
Creature - sold
Medieval - sold
Indy 500 - sold
Banzai Run - sold
Twilight Zone - sold
Indiana Jones - $9500 (full restore, cleared, one of Mike's favs)

Arcades:
Asteroids - sold
Galaxian - $550
Sea Wolf - sold
Enduro Racer - $500
Motorace USA - sold
Stunt Cycle - sold
Super Hang On - $550

Air Hockey - $500
Pool Table/Ping Pong Combo - $600 w/sticks, balls, mount for sticks (not coin op)
Dartboard - $100 (not coin op)

Feel free to email me at [email protected] or call/text at 615-598-0024

Good friends ended up with all the ones from the house. We've all thought about trading our Indys for his too, but Mike helped all of us put our Indys together so it's a toss up. I got a few and already had a couple, honored to own them but it's bittersweet. You can come play what I have anytime. Any friend of his is a friend of mine.

UPDATED LIST:
Pinballs:
Evel Knivel - $2400
Bride of Pinbot - $2700
Cyclone - $2400
Indiana Jones - $9500 (full restore, cleared, one of Mike's favs)

Everything else has sold. Please let me know if you might be interested in one of Mike's games that we have left. Payments are made directly to Mike's dad. Thanks for looking.