Toledo OHio, late 1940's or early 50's

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Put a machine on a mountain, build some snow ramps, and jump over it.... Colorado 2016

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I don't know if I could emotionally take on drilling two gigantic holes into a playfield for the repositioning of the flipper shafts. (Most of us see a playfield bubble or chip and we freak!). And then there is the filler he used for the old holes, staring us in the face.

So much work with an "quirky" but unique return.

By the time they soldered-in THREE fuses in parrallel, they essentially bypassed the fuse altogether! I am surprised they didn't just stick a 1/4-inch lag bolt in the fuse socket!

I like your positive thinking. Sure, let's go with that. It was an available fix to put the machine back into the revenue stream so the tech replaced a blown 1-amp fuse with three 1/3 amp in parallel. I guess its possible. What a very creative 'out of the box' thinker!!!!

LOL

Wher'd all the paint go????

If it was just 'dirt' as the seller indicates, it would be everywhere. It's not. I am thinking it some kind of mold or other organic deterioration. The paint near the posts and bumpers remains, so perhaps whatever ATE the paint was attracted to the oils and grime that the ball leaves on the playfield? The brown 'mold' seemed to follow every place that the ball touches. Also, I wonder if the glass was left off for "all those years" and only re-glassed recently to take a picture and sell it.

I am very confused to what we are looking at.

At first I thought, “why would anyone change the original”, but it looked ok so who are we to say. But When I zoom in on the painted cabinet, it actually looks pretty poorly done! So it’s a very odd piece of art done in a pretty poor way.

The harder mushroom to fix is when a magnet post, like the Tiger Loop on TOTAN or the Shrunken head on RBION, have mushroomed ABOVE the playfield.... and the bracket underneath has been Loctited in place. Now that's an afternoon project!

Alot of people would agree that it doesn't really matter where the money from a student loan was used, since the money to pay for SCHOOL had to come from somewhere that the student was obligated and authorized to use. Its not a cash accounting process, its an accrual, so if the student qualifies for a student loan, but they pay for the tuition from their savings account, it doesn't really affect anything if they take their student loan check and buy a truckload of bubble gum with it.

The real question might be "How can a student with THOUSANDS of $$ of extra money get approved for a student loan?" Seems like qualifying for a student loan a bit more accurately based on true need might be a better question....

"Billy" really didn't have any tools or parts when he was maintaining this machine over the years. Points for keeping it working on location (I assume).

The perfect storm: 1) The post screw was too short, 2) the rubber ring was too small, and 3) the plastic looks like it cracked with age or impact, making the whole house of cards come tumbling down. As painful as that looks, it would be an easy fix if the plastic can be found... the wood damage will be covered by the post, and a longer post screw can be used with a little toothpick&glue scenerio.

I just can't imagine the discussion that the machine's designers had that resulted in those two posts and the rings being included in the design. I see it's factory, but why?

And no apron cards either....

Maybe he has the playfield incline set differently on each cabinet? LOL