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Highland Village, TX
Will you be able to post to Australia ?.. If so I would be keen to put my name down for a topper.. cheers
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Here is the current list. I need a few more confirmed to meet the minimum based on the qty price.
Bumper - Confirmed
CollinT - Confimed
toro1966
Gogojohnnyquack
HighNoon
dirkdiggler
alexmogil - Confirmed
finman48127 - Confirmed
Mr-Jupiter - Confirmed
mrWol64 -Ship Quote
All these years now and I thought I had bought a pretty beat up Pinbot when I paid $750 for it in ‘91. Factory mylared, no broken spiral ramp, and the topper had only a few tiny cracks on one corner near a screw hole. Now I am wondering if a new topper is the least of my worries and if I want to or should get a repro just as an insurance policy on my original topper, like the insurance policy I got on my machine by buying a NOS bare pf, translite, visor assebly, spiral ramp, plastics set, and all the standup targets, and drop bank stickers and pf sticker sheet (all the ramp stickers) back when they were available. Hell I even got a black Jackbot spiral ramp to back up my rare orange NOS ramp. Talk about paranoid at the time.
To this day, I have never needed any of those. I shopped it, relamped it, replaced all the flasher power resistors and HUO play has saved him from his routed siblings fate.
Anyone else buying one as insurance? Kind of on the fence after 27 years of having all the spares in storage.
Quoted from wombat:No worries Bublehead, I have a problem with purchasing spare parts that are difficult to find. Wife hates it but I always think of my kids needing that part in 20 years when I'm long gone
Its that fomo factor. Or when you need it its not available anymore like so many parts, because the ones that typically break are the one no longer left! Like the spiral ramp whick some is now making.
Please take me (Gogojohnnyquack) off of the list ibjeepin . I was able to find a used one a while back. I appreciate you keeping track and remembering that I was looking for one!
For anyone who will need to build the flasher wiring harness, here are pics of my build where I made a simple loom with a 2x4 and nails to get the wires in place using the holes in the top of the head to set spacing. I ran the wires using the diagram in post #204, then removed the nails one at a time, screwed down a light socket in its place, trimmed/soldered the wires to the socket, and held everything in place with a lot of zip ties. Have fun!
Gogojohnnyquack , great work, but you make me appreciate the shape my Pinbot topper was in when I bought it. I only had to replace all the flasher power resistors (that were almost all laying in the bottom of the cabinet) and relamp it. The power resisters make a huge difference on the light show. You would think they would make the flashers dimmer but it actually makes the flash brighter by reducing the lamp ramp up time. Worth replacing for those who have left them off.
Quoted from ibjeepin:Here is the current list. I need a few more confirmed to meet the minimum based on the qty price.
What's the number to meet minimum qtys?
I'm wondering (out loud) if it makes sense for me to "fill the gap" and offer these for sale at Pinball-Mods.com.
If this is something that interests you - let me know.
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Here is the latest list. Its only 10 people confirmed. I have zitt who's thinking of filling a gap so it depends. Its close.
Bumper - Confirmed
CollinT - Confimed
toro1966 - Confrimed
alexmogil - Confirmed
finman48127 - Confirmed
Mr-Jupiter - Confirmed
mrWol64 - Confirmed
animesuperj - confirmed
Dok - confirmed
megadeth2600 - confirmed
If your are not on the list please let me know that I can add you
IBJ
Happy Thanksgiving all!
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Quoted from ibjeepin:Done, got you on the list. that makes 11, still need a few more to meet the quantities, but I am on another search this week for another vendor who will do smaller quantity for same price. Will let you all know.
IBJ
Checking in. Are we still below the threshold ?
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Wondering if there is any update on the toppers here, if folks who were confirmed before have heard back, or are still waiting / wanting the topper ? Looking quickly looks like it has been several months with a post here or activity by ibjeepin on pinside at all..
Someone may have noted this above, but the guy who did the last run has not been on Pinside since early February. If he is like me, his Pinside messages forward to his phone so you might try sending him a pm.
I think this post is a "zombie"...
I emailed the guy and he is out of them ... not producing new batch any soon...
He should close this post...
A friend of mine told me he should be capable of building toppers following this technique
https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/diy-pinbot-topper
I will let you guys know how this goes.
He might be able to build some more...
Maybe we can get a list of folks that would buy one ? I messaged Freeplay40, and even asked a guy I know who worked with plastic molds / etc, and could get these created, but would be about the same price as quoted here.. (Most of the cost was one time having them made in China...)
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Quoted from toddtuckey:Hi all...I would commit to 5 of them depending on the end cost. Todd from TNT Amusements
Haha, I just bought a Pinbot with your sticker on it from 2007, sure enough it’s missing the topper!
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Hello,
I made a new Pin*Bot topper for myself since my original melted and decided to make a few more for you folks on Pinside. Here's my ad on Pinside;
https://pinside.com/pinball/market/classifieds/ad/98819
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