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Quoted from pinballslave:Not really horror, but an interesting hack, stolen from the Facebook Woodrail pinball group... Leaf switch broken, spare jig-saw blade... problem solved![quoted image]
"Cutting" edge technology!
Quoted from girloveswaffles:"Cutting" edge technology!
Quoted from girloveswaffles:"Cutting" edge technology!
Quoted from Neal_W:I saw what you did there.
At least the person didn't use a file. That would be a "Bastard" move. 
Quoted from girloveswaffles:At least the person didn't use a file. That would be a "Bastard" move.
Actually, I don't get that one... 
Muskoka, ON
google flat bastard . . .
Quoted from pinballslave:Actually, I don't get that one...
Quoted from pinballslave:Actually, I don't get that one...
The rasping edge on a file is known as a "Bastard".
Also, a flat file is known as a "Flat Bastard".
https://www.sfgate.com/realestate/article/Butt-Marker-Flat-Bastard-File-9-Weird-Home-15874617.php#:~:text=1.%20Flat%20bastard%20file%20It%20sounds%20like%20a,from%20anything%20from%20axles%20to%20lawn%20mower%20blades.
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Dirty Harry. Game in cellar was on when a hot water pipe burst. Steam caused some shorts between driver board and backbox back plate. Got the game cheap, managed to repair the boards 
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Dot matrix controller board also slightly suffered from shorts to backplane...
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Quoted from girloveswaffles:The rasping edge on a file is known as a "Bastard".
Also, a flat file is known as a "Flat Bastard".
https://www.sfgate.com/realestate/article/Butt-Marker-Flat-Bastard-File-9-Weird-Home-15874617.php#:~:text=1.%20Flat%20bastard%20file%20It%20sounds%20like%20a,from%20anything%20from%20axles%20to%20lawn%20mower%20blades.
Us 7th graders had a good time when we were told the file we had in our hands was a bastard file. We also had a good time when we learned that electrical plugs and sockets were male and female
Quoted from jibmums:Really, nobody mentioned that it should be a hacksaw blade?
"Hack"saw blade?
In a post about hacks?
Actually, that's a saber saw blade. 
Quoted from balzofsteel:"Show the weird place your ball got stuck "
Weird that nobody seemed to get it "unstuck", and left it as it was??
Quoted from Dakine747:Weird that nobody seemed to get it "unstuck", and left it as it was??
It was down near the outhole when I loaded the hulk but after a couple potholes at highway speed - Viola! there it was upon arrival at home.
Quoted from balzofsteel:It was down near the outhole when I loaded the hulk but after a couple potholes at highway speed - Viola! there it was upon arrival at home.
Wow! Had to be one helluva pothole!! 
Quoted from balzofsteel:Parts is parts.
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The spring on that shooter rod looks rusty.
Quoted from Dakine747:Weird that nobody seemed to get it "unstuck", and left it as it was??
That’s how games end up neglected in a barn for three decades. “The ball is stuck.”
“Welp, that’s it for that.” 
Quoted from balzofsteel:Super Star fresh from the barn.
What I want to know us how the flaked paint from the backglass ended up laid out on the playfield glass... it would have had to have passed through the backglass glass!!
Quoted from pinballslave:What I want to know us how the flaked paint from the backglass ended up layer out on the playfield glass... it would have had to have passed through the backglass glass!!
In the second picture, taken before the first, the backglass was paint side down on the pf glass.
Quoted from balzofsteel:In the second picture, taken before the first, the backglass was paint side down on the pf glass.
A ha... that'll do it... very strange that someone would take the glass out, turn it round, then place it on a strip of wood on the playfield... odd preservation technique...
Quoted from pinballslave:A ha... that'll do it... very strange that someone would take the glass out, turn it round, then place it on a strip of wood on the playfield... odd preservation technique...
And an even stranger technique... leave it all out in the rain... er.. Oregon Liquid Sunshine!
Quoted from balzofsteel:And an even stranger technique... leave it all out in the rain... er.. Oregon Liquid Sunshine!
Maybe that's why they put it paint-side down so the rain wouldn't damage the paint...
Quoted from packie1:1940 Bally "Dandy" Fuse bank. Not sure of their AMP ratings...
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Now you good to go using your 50-amp car charger circuit!
Quoted from vinnypeppers:Deleted post
Not sure why so many down votes.
Students are able to take out loans in excess of tuition - they stay on campus until the final disbursement then stop showing up to classes. This was (probably still is) a very popular scam for gangs and the drug trade. Fortunately, it can only be done once and the moment you catch a felony the Stafford loans go bye bye.
Though not pinball horror, still horrible.
Quoted from P1nhead:Not sure why so many down votes.
Probably the reason for the down votes was the comment about Biden. Whether you like him or not, this is not the forum to be making political comments.
Quoted from JethroP:Probably the reason for the down votes was the comment about Biden. Whether you like him or not, this is not the forum to be making political comments.
Doh, I must've glossed over that. Oh well.
Quoted from P1nhead:Not sure why so many down votes.
Students are able to take out loans in excess of tuition - they stay on campus until the final disbursement then stop showing up to classes. This was (probably still is) a very popular scam for gangs and the drug trade. Fortunately, it can only be done once and the moment you catch a felony the Stafford loans go bye bye.
Though not pinball horror, still horrible.
How is this a scam, aren’t you still obligated to pay the loan back? Maybe I missed something and I can let my sister know her loans are forgiven! Lol.
Personally, I went to work instead, found a job that pays for college, and have money in the bank and no loan debt. That’s why I am drowning in pinball 
Quoted from Isochronic_Frost:How is this a scam, aren’t you still obligated to pay the loan back? Maybe I missed something and I can let my sister know her loans are forgiven! Lol.
Personally, I went to work instead, found a job that pays for college, and have money in the bank and no loan debt. That’s why I am drowning in pinball
I will say, and this is a wild ass guess, that the schools are not all that good at teaching kids what they need to have to go through life. When I was in 2nd grade we played "store". We had play money. We bough items, We made change. etc. I learned about interest rates with my 4% passbook savings account; That is too little training for this economy. Today, IMO, these kids need to be playing "Credit Card" and learn how 30% interest rates will kick them in the butt. These kids need to leave high school understanding how loans are structured and what the payback schedules look like.
But the graduate, get kicked into the real world, where it is drilled in that they need secondary education. Sadly, when they work to get enrolled in college the councilors will show them all of the ways to finance that education. However, the councilors are defacto salesmen and will only talk up the positive.
My girlfriend and her daughter went through this exercise a few years ago. The daughter comes home with all of this ya ya stuff from the colleges, such as out of state tuition. Judy sat down and ran the numbers and said "you can to to state college 5 miles from home". The daughter finished college with no debt.
Short answer, it is a lack of education. Actually, the kids need to be taught to think like crooks because every third person you meet is trying to crook you out of your money. All IMO.
Quoted from Isochronic_Frost:How is this a scam, aren’t you still obligated to pay the loan back? Maybe I missed something and I can let my sister know her loans are forgiven! Lol.
Personally, I went to work instead, found a job that pays for college, and have money in the bank and no loan debt. That’s why I am drowning in pinball
Scofflaws don't care... but yes, for most of us we would fear the severe financial consequences.
The only way this would work for pinball would be a medical, dental, or pharmacy student blowing their wad on pinball instead of rent for the year.
Speaking of these types of horrors my free ball is at 2k points!
Quoted from SantaEatsCheese:Terrible score but I won! Horror pic for the other guy.
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I like the way you have that back glass lit up. S & S is a a tough pin to play.
Quoted from SantaEatsCheese:Terrible score but I won! Horror pic for the other guy.
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Quoted from cottonm4:I like the way you have that back glass lit up. S & S is a a tough pin to play.
Crabtowne USA in Glenn Burnie Md. This was from the weekly Tuesday 7:30 knock out tournament so the game counted.
Quoted from SantaEatsCheese:Crabtowne USA in Glenn Burnie Md. This was from the weekly Tuesday 7:30 knock out tournament so the game counted.
Been there! Visited Crabtowne for a Tuesday tournament and have lost by a handful of points too many times.
I recall one time getting a tie score on an EM in a tourney (Gottlieb Funland). Fortunately the tournament director had us replay the game and I won the second attempt.
Quoted from Ceckitti:My nephew is into urban exploring. He came across these the other day.
He got some cool shots of them.
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Here's what they looked like a few years back:
Quoted from ForceFlow:In an abandoned factory in Ohio that closed in 1992:
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Found in this video from October 2017:
Quoted from ForceFlow:Here's what they looked like a few years back:
Wow, ill have to send him those. Crazy that they are as "good of shape" they are considering.
1 week later
Quoted from fast_in_muskoka:here's one for " more kijiji laughs " :
https://www.kijiji.ca/v-view-details.html?adId=1626511508
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Screenshot_2023-02-17-20-40-11-64_3aea4af51f236e4932235fdada7d1643.jpgThe ONLY reason I would give that at least a tiny amount of "benefit of the doubt" or "a pass" is because it MAY have come from a trashed cabinet. In that case, at least it's a way to preserve a playfield for potential future restoration rather than sitting out on a shelf in a barn or worse.
Now - if they trashed a game to make that table, may the deity of your choice have mercy on their soul.
Quoted from Ceckitti:My nephew is into urban exploring. He came across these the other day.
He got some cool shots of them.
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My post must never have sent. I figured out where that was and was going to go save them. Ended up passing in the end, shame. I had sincerely hoped someone had already grabbed them.
In the future if someone comes across an abandoned building with pins, feel free to tag me, I’ll make a point to go get them. It’s better than letting them rot like that... just sad. I’ve saved a few games from abandoned places, but those would have been the best so far!
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Quoted from Isochronic_Frost:My post must never have sent. I figured out where that was and was going to go save them. Ended up passing in the end, shame. I had sincerely hoped someone had already grabbed them.
In the future if someone comes across an abandoned building with pins, feel free to tag me, I’ll make a point to go get them. It’s better than letting them rot like that... just sad. I’ve saved a few games from abandoned places, but those would have been the best so far!
They should revise the urbex code to "Take nothing but pictures and pinball machines. Leave nothing but footprints."
Quoted from koen12344:They should revise the urbex code to "Take nothing but pictures and pinball machines. Leave nothing but footprints."
I make sure to contact the building/property owners to ensure it’s at least legal. Sometimes you get lucky. I know the Urbex code, but believe that sometimes preserving history (and kickass games) supersedes the code! Besides the only thing that will happen is vandals will make it worse
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