Surprise, I have too many pins according to my wife. But I really like all 6. The problem is I have 2 in my living room. Wife says they gotta go.
How many of you rent a storage unit to keep your extra pinball machines in? I am considering renting a unit, 65 month for 10 x 5 foot. Cheap enough but I worried that they will just be forgotten or stolen.
Or maybe I will enjoy rotating them out.
Chime in if you have experience storing your collection for later use. Good idea or bad idea?
Dont you have a good friend or family member you could park them at? Then they could be enjoyed instead of stored away.
Quoted from centerflank:Dont you have a good friend or family member you could park them at? Then they could be enjoyed instead of stored away.
This is the way to go.
Storage unit money is a waste. Cheaper to sell pins and then buy back. or store in your garage etc. I started with a 5 x 10 then went to a 10 x 15 then stopped as I realized what a waste of money it was. Just left a car out in the driveway.
rotating pins seems like such a pain, and like others have said storage units are a money bucket. After a couple years, you could probably have sold them and bought them back (with less moving). You live in florida so the temps are always above freezing. Do you have the land to build a shed with a small a/c unit? Might be cheaper (and certainly easier) in the long run.
See this thread for ideas!
http://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/metallica-arrived-girlfriend-moving-out
yea, if you can't set them up and play them, either let a friend use them or dump some until you get a bigger game room.
Quoted from lllvjr:Make sure its a temp controlled storage unit. Not that I should have to say it...
Yes they will rust and warp the plastics. Get Insurance also like renters insurance, many people stay in storage units cooking meth and they catch on fire.
I lost some video games that way. Sell, use your cash and buy back if you want the pin again or even better let a friend use them, that way they will still get the benefit of being played some.
Quoted from lllvjr:Sell them to me for a loss and tell ur wife I said thanks!!!
+100
Quoted from PINBELL:Too bad you couldn't put them on a route and make some$!
I'd put them in a place that takes care of them!
She doesn't love you tell her to sells some of her items she has to many or put them in storage. Id put her whole attitude in storage before my pins. If that's what you really have to do just sell them you'll end up spending more than there worth in storage what will you really do with them? If its gonna still be the same home issue? Id rather dump the wife get some more pins and a bitchin gf to make up. Guilt trip her best way to solve this if there's a will there's a way.
Quoted from o-din:Sell the wife, keep the pins.
I was going to go there. Thanks O-din
Av8,
Your problem has nothing to do with pinball machines in your living room.
Best of luck to you man.
Quoted from epthegeek:According to your pinside collection, you've got 2 ac/dc's and a Lethal Weapon. I see 2 you could easily cull right there.
Selling two acdc?
Quoted from Mato:Buy a bigger house
Get a smaller wife! JK(;
Quoted from VegasAlleycat:Lethal Weapon
I believe that is the nature of his problem.
Keep the 2 you want in the house and let some close pinheads baby sit them
You still own the machines but someone is taking care of them and you could always swap machines in and out
Quoted from VegasAlleycat:Unload the AC/DC Pro and Lethal Weapon
No ACDC Pro is such a Fast pin, its really a great player.
Quoted from Av8:Surprise, I have too many pins according to my wife. But I really like all 6. The problem is I have 2 in my living room. Wife says they gotta go.
How many of you rent a storage unit to keep your extra pinball machines in? I am considering renting a unit, 65 month for 10 x 5 foot. Cheap enough but I worried that they will just be forgotten or stolen.
Or maybe I will enjoy rotating them out.
Chime in if you have experience storing your collection for later use. Good idea or bad idea?
Kill wife..
Put wife in Storage unit, after you harvest her usable organs to sell so you can buy more pins.
I think what she is really saying is she wants less competition for playing time. She says time to move out some of the mistresses. Probably become better playing pinball now than her. Stop leaving immediately after coitus to play pinball then you will be able to keep the machines. Quoting a line from White Men Can't Jump, ” sometimes when you lose you really win.”
You can decide which loss to take. End of counseling, lol.
Ps... Don't get the glass of water!
But he does have them in the living room. My wife is very easy going and lets me buy and do whatever I want and never says a word. But sometimes I get a big group in and I have the kitchen full of pins, then she will say something if they are there for a couple of months. But she's still nice about it. and she knows the kitchen isn't a permanent place for any machine.
Quoted from o-din:Sell the wife, keep the pins.
FS Wife. Routed for several years and then HUO for last 5. Typical wear in shooter lane and some external fade. Accepts coins endlessly, but doesn't give credit for most of them. Could benefit from a firmware update. 
Knock down the wall in the living room. It'll open up the whole living space. Then you can decorate a corner with a few pins and related decor.
Contrary to what my wife suggests, I'd sooner move a bunch of non-pinball items out of the house and into a storage unit, and reclaim that space to store pins in the house/basement.
Quoted from Av8:Surprise, I have too many pins according to my wife. But I really like all 6. The problem is I have 2 in my living room. Wife says they gotta go.
How many of you rent a storage unit to keep your extra pinball machines in? I am considering renting a unit, 65 month for 10 x 5 foot. Cheap enough but I worried that they will just be forgotten or stolen.
Or maybe I will enjoy rotating them out.
Chime in if you have experience storing your collection for later use. Good idea or bad idea?
If it helps you out,I will take them both 
You can come visit them anytime.
Judging by your collection, money doesn't seem to be an issue, but I could be wrong.
Find a nice climate controlled storage facility that has electric service (some do) that way you can still keep them and go "offsite" to play them.
Would make for a nice work area as well.
Happy wife = happy life.
Thanks for your advice. My collection would be very hard to replace and took me a year to put together.
First of the lethal weapon was my first and we love the gameplay and nostalgia. The gun is integrated very well into the gameplay much like the fire button on ACDC. I gave it to my son as a gift so it is his decision to sell.
To me ACDC is the number one Stern ever produced. Everytime I go to sell one of them I have an amazing adrenaline rush game and I back out. My AC DC Pro plays perfect and has a dimple free field and is highly modded. I will never be able to replace this. I listed the premium for sale locally but still may keep it.
The solution might be a bigger house but that will cost me hundreds more per month. I might consider garage storage in a couple more months when the temperature drops.
Alimony and child support cost a little more than a storage unit.
I've seriously considered building a free standing, air conditioned/pimped game room in the back yard. Maybe 12' x 14'
I wish we could have basements in Florida 
Sorry, simple solution. Sell ACDC Pro and LW keep the rest and use your added income to take a nice vacation. Or, still sell the two mentioned machines and save your money for another machine that is a must have...rinse and repeat.
Renting storage is the worst thing you go do...wasting money every month.
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