Having to restore this pos , I did restore it but that's another story.

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Not a pinball horror story , Just the most burnt black and melted coil i've ever seen ,
Fixed a guys williams Jackpot the other day ,
The kids were playing it , no adults in the room , One kid came out and said to the owner , The pinball machine is on FIRE!.
The owner raced in and the room was full of smoke , no fire luckily. owner turned game off at the wall . The fuse was blown when i went over to repair the game .
This was the step up coil from the Match unit ...

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Is That Fire Damage or Just thick dust ?

Scrolling through them is like slow torture ,
Wish id taken a shot of a Pinball Pool I wrecked, that had about 25% of the paint left.
Im crying with laughter from those Zenon pics . The first one looks cross eyed too...

What a shame. At least some of the parts look okay .
Are huge pieces of backglass art laying on the table??
It could be "Curly" , it looks very curly .

That game is in Australia.
I was asked to "have a look at fixing this " , no thanks , I heard its sat in a shed for 18 years , Probably with battery leaking still ,
As you all should know it takes hours and hours to get a machine working, that's in such bad shape.
It would at least need a new or rebuilt mpu and power supply

It might have new 'pinball Rescue' plastics and they would be the best thing on it .
No offence to Pinball Rescue as they make quality Plastic sets etc .
Looks like they painted planets near the out lanes too

Bally/Stern from the looks of it , battery date code 7836. 36th week of 1978.
id be changing it, as it expired about 39 years ago!

Strikes and Spares. Horrible black mess , all the Bumper coils were fried and a few others.
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That's more like a explosion . I can't believe they fixed that . Unless a new board 'fixed' it .

Sad looking Kingpin

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I wish it was , but I'm putting another door, coin insert etc , won't be new parts either. as they would distract from the rest of the 'patina' throughout the game . joking I'm getting this fixed for someone and he doesn't want it restored , just working and some new flipper parts etc . The playfield is great on this, just the cab and metalwork are a bit sad .

Not a pinball , but still horrible
Homemade coin pusher on Ebay in Australia , Advertised as 'vintage style'

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Damn I need one too , looks to be better than both my original and a spare I was intending to touch up and use in the resto , its even got half the lights left in it aaaah
I have one of the 430 odd LAI/Sterns Meteors built here in Perth , Silkscreen cab art . sweet .
It's the one game I remember seeing at almost every pinnie parlour circa 1980. , is the table for sale? , I don't need the legs either

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Aussie Meteor Art at top compared to US cabs

And 2 lock down bars used on this , and we all know how hard these are to find

Found this while looking at some parts ,
found it amusing but didn't know where exactly to post it , so here it is!

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It's from a Gottlieb Wedge head . The camera angle makes it look square ,
It's priced at $100 aussie dollars

Not to horrible but Bees! All good now bees removed, no bees hurt. Was outside with cover on and queen moved in along with the swarm. I suggested to put the machine inside.

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