Hello everyone! I currently live in Dublin (Columbus area) and I'm getting ready to move to ... Dublin (still Columbus). Needed a bigger house for all these damned machines. I've only got GnR and WH2O at my house right now while we're getting ready to sell, GranpaDave has my Wonka, FT and TMNT. Moving next month and looking forward to the reunion of machines!

I was looking to get some local pinsiders together for some casual pinball at each other's houses. Anyone interested?

Current game room:
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New place:
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Also, I couldn't get a walkout basement, so I got a cargo lift installed from the garage to the basement instead!
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Moving today. Looking forward to when I don't have to do this to move pins anymore.

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That cargo lift is brilliant!

So, Godzilla Premium is back in the collection. Just got it all setup. Been looking for a Stranger Things Premium, but this will def. work!

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Just received mine too! This game makes me moist!

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Ditto

I’ll be there !

Hey! Just started collecting about 2 years ago. I’m in the southern part of ohio near Cincinnati.

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Welcome to the Hobby...lots of us in your area. I am just North of you in Liberty Township.

Cool. Here in river city, we like the pinball.

Hey, I'm in Central Ohio and I own a pinball machine...does that count as a collection?

It has been in the family for 40 years and ready for a new home, it would look great in some of the awesome game rooms I'm seeing on this thread, you guys are insane!! (In a good way, of course )

When I was growing up we had this pinball, an air hockey table, bumper pool, a dart board and a ton of board games in our finished basement...I was a little pool shark and the king of this pinball game.

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I'm in, current lineup in NW Ohio

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I went to go check out a game over the weekend but found a pile. Still couldn’t afford my first game

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WHAT IN THE WORLD!

A little Naphtha and a Magic Eraser would save that

All that shit under the playfield that doesn't do anything fun? Must be a WoZ?! Great find!

Newest addition

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It is raccoon shit. Let me tell you about this andromeda playfield that needs restoring lol #Cle-Pin 2023

Let's just run that thing through the car wash.

That sounds curiously familiar...a few years back I ran across 3 Andromeda playfields in "crappy" shape due to poor storage conditions...damp and subject animal "abuse" They were in one of the barns of a popular pinball show promoter in Northern Ohio. I cannibalized a complete set of plastics and a few other parts as well as the unobtainable single drop-target assy. He wanted me to buy the playfields (for a great price) but they simply were too far gone...one of the playfields was up in the rafters much like the photo above shows, the other 2 were laying on the floor...I am now wondering if it was the same location/playfield(s).

Does 8 coats of poop brown count? All over the nice oak as well. Had to sand it down to wood and start over...

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Finally getting settled in a few months after the move. We're having our daughter's birthday party today, so I had to get everything put together. Let the memories commence!

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Hello
Anyone out there have a Bally Star Trek un-restored that they know of in the area? Looking for another project. Just about any condition is fine.

Love the pics of different venues. Now my Wife knows that there are others with the same "sickness"!!

Thank you

Hello All,

In addition to my ad in the marketplace, wanted to place a note here as well. Looking for an Ice Cold Beer, the original one if at all possible. Happy to bring it back to life if needed.

Any ideas, please send them along. Only one that I am aware of now is in Brooklyn, NY. The cab would need some serious work and for the money being asked, a no go.

Thank you

George...

Pincinnati is right around the corner. Anyone in the Ohio group bringing anything cool or need any pinball parts?

I will be there and looking for a few manuals if anyone has them:

Star Trek Pro
Whirlwind
EBD LE
Williams Ringer EM Arcade

Been out of the loop and not on here in a long time. What happened to the thread that had pinballs for sale in ohio? I thought there was a thread for Ohio or Midwest stuff?

In the market for one

oops dupe.

https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/whats-for-sale-in-ohio-right-now/

I am retired and have no excuse… No expo this year, but going to Pincinnati in December. Hope to see you all there!

WHHAAT!! Hit the road Jack! I mean, Dave

Family pinball night

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So awesome! I wish I could get more of my family to play… is happening slowly.

I've got a stock of used displays that I definitely don't want to hold onto forever... This sounds like a great idea.

Well, it probably makes more sense to organize it around an upcoming show... Like Pincinnati. I have these parts that I can bring to Pincinnati. I'm an admitted Ohio pinball parts HOARDER and I hate shipping things!

I can speak from years of experience, if you haul a garage full of stuff to a show, you only unload a small percentage of it. If you list all your jusk and bring what people want, you usually meet up and actually sell about 70-80% of that stuff. LOL.

NEW PARTS:
-EATPM Boogiemen (NEW)
-The Shadow playfield (ORIGINAL PF was professionally restored) this was actually the “master” PF that CPR created their Playfields from. It's the best one I have ever seen: $1300
-Houdini playfield (new)
-CPR Flash Gordon backglass (original process, very nice)
-Ghostbusters Pro translite
-Metallica Pro translite
-“No More Rests” PinSound board -This is an essential testing tool to quickly determine why your WPC game is resetting.
-leg casters
-flipper buttons

USED PARTS:

Original Bally and Williams pinball manuals: roughly $20 ea.
Original arcade manuals $20 ea.
Ton of used GENERIC Bally pinball parts/assembles from the 70s/80s
Ton of used GENERIC Williams pinball parts/assemblies from the 70s/80s

-pop bumper assembly (Bally)
-trough ball kick assembly (Bally)

TESTED/Fully working PINBALL BOARDS:

-Classic Stern MPU-200 (with galaxy roms)
-Classic Stern (Lightning ROMS) speech board
-BALLY -17 or -35 MPU (Eight Ball Deluxe ROMS) —>Jumpered for 2532 EPROMS OR original masked PROMS
-Bally "Vocalizer" (Xenon) board
-Bally (-17)/(-35) Solenios Driver Board
-Bally -50 sound board (Dolly Parton,Harlem,ect.)
-Williams late Sys 9/early sys 11 (and Laser War) display driver board
-Williams sys11 AUX Power driver board
-Earthshaker “Interconnect board”
-Earthshaker display “awards” panel (LAMP PCB only)
-Williams system 11B power supply
-Data East (Alphanumeric) power supply
-Data East TOMMY,GnR,Frank,RoyRum Sound board (has GnR ROMS but I can change them)
-Data East PlayfieldPowerBoard driver board (latest rev -05 version)
-DMD display (weak, but works)

-Bally lock down bars
-80’s Gottlieb lock down bar with triangle tips

USED semi-populated PLAYFIELDS
a Demolition man cabinet and head wiring only. It looks damn near complete, carefully removed, no crazy cuts.
a Gottlieb Frank Thomas Big Hurt PF wiring harness only with no parts on it, has all the Molex though.
a Firepower Playfield wiring harness only with no parts on it

a wired Secret Service playfield (very worn)
a wired Lost World playfield (worn)
a wired Xenon playfield (worn)
a wired Pit Stop playfield (good)
a wired Solar City playfield (so-so)

That's why I just set up transactions ahead of time. No room required and you only have to bring a few items. It could possibly be planned for future shows but, the show's image is not to be a "junkyard thrift pinball swap meet" show, but instead more of a "nice collector quality well working games" type show.