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Quoted from bek1966:Beautiful work, it turned out great. Also looks good in that room - nice setup!
Thanks bek
Quoted from bbriese:Free is good, right? After photoshop and digital printing a new backglass, paintjob (man I love that 50's turquoise), new pins & retract mech's, LED's, massive cleaning including a 5 gallon bucket full of acorns and critter debris and rewiring all the cut jones plugs and critter chewed wire insulation, 6 months later have a beautiful 1959 United 4-Way Shuffle Alley. For some reason everyone walks right past my row of pinballs and goes directly to the shuffle bowl. This one isn't leaving my basement anytime soon!
And you guys have some sweeeeeet skeeball machines!
Nice work on that shuffle alley!
Quoted from nephasth:I have this 4 player kit. It's a model S CPU, but plays fine in my model H. Game uses 3 balls. Each player rolls 3 turns of 3 balls each per game. Completely different sounds. It was fun when I had kids in the house, but I've since switched my machine back to the single player model H.
Hey nephasth, I'm picking up one of these 4 player skee balls this weekend. I. Hoping it's as nice as the guy claims. I understand that the 4 player model is pretty rare but I'm pretty new to the skee ball arena.
Quoted from nephasth:The 4 player model is super rare. The one you're picking up will be the only complete example I've heard of in my 7 years of collecting. Mine is just a "kit". It's definitely fun, but the biggest reason I switched mine back to single player was for the classic sounds I remember from when I was a kid.
Gotcha. Is there a way to tell if it's an authentic 4 player or a conversion? I'm going to pick it up either way probably. Supposed to be 100% working, just needs a freshening up (paint, cleaning etc.) fingers crossed.
Well, I picked up the 4 player skee ball. I guess only around 100 of these were made. It's in better shape than I thought. Needs a lot of cleaning and some painting but nothing else. Here's some picks of the backboard/scoring rings after I cleaned them up. I'll post more picks after I get it back together.
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Quoted from Pugsley:Do the green things help prevent or cause bounce outs?
Exactly, they are sandbags attached to the board
Quoted from PinballAir:I think it is amazing you got those rings so white.
What did you use to clean them ?
I used this wizard skee ball cleaner I got off of ebay with a green Scotch bright pad.
2 weeks later
I just learned this the hard way. If your machine is set to distribute tickets but your machine runs out of tickets it will no longer reset for a new game unless you unplug it and plug it back in. Dipswitch #1 on an S model is for the ticket machine. Should be set to the on position if you do not want to use tickets in your machine. Hopefully this saves someone the headache I had the other night.
Quoted from flipnout1:Looked at a couple of Skee Ball games at lunch today. How do I tell which model they are. In a local pawn shop for sale. Two work and one for parts. The one I played looked like some of the bulbs in the display were out. From the little research I've done that seems to be common. If its a LED however that can be expensive. They don't know if they have the keys or not so couldn't do much looking inside, etc. They are supposed to call me on Monday. I went to the Bay Tek site and it looks like parts for the newer versions are available. Does anyone know of any other parts, manual suppliers for them other than maybe Brady? Any info would be helpful
Larry
Here is a pdf for a model S. From what I understand the model H was built from around 80-88 and the S from 89 on. Check the metal tag behind your back glass. https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=http://arcarc.xmission.com/PDF_Misc/Skeeball%2520Model%2520S.pdf&ved=0ahUKEwjfjOjT9ofSAhWGWSYKHdEwBFIQFggtMAM&usg=AFQjCNHsNISdbw-ARTzSAgujdiFXgViwcg&sig2=Ew2CXEu87ohjquXPV2XbJw
Also, check out this article. It will explain all of the differences between the S and H on page 3.
http://www.techdose.com/articles/The-History-of-SkeeBall-Machines/405/page3.html
If some of the segments aren't lighting up on the numbers it's probably just a few burnt out #73/74 bulbs. They are about 30 cents a piece.
Quoted from flipnout1:Thanks Jaymach1! Exactly what I was looking for. With that info these two are Model S games with the 100 pt bonus scoring. They also have one more for parts that they will throw in if I buy both. They want $1200 for the pair. Based on what I've seen in previous threads this looks like a good deal. Agreed?
Not a bad deal, especially if the parts machine is thrown in. I would pick it up. Fix them both and sell one and have a free machine. The 4 player one was my first skee ball machine. I completely restored it in about 3 weeks. They are a pretty simple machine. I think I put a total of $200 into it to make it like new again. Mostly cleaning sanding Bondo and repainting. I also had to replace some of those 73/74 bulbs and added led strip lights under the bumpers.
2 years later
Quoted from Oldgoat:Maybe but I just like having the multi-player games, seems like it's more competitive when you are alternating shots
Here's a pic of my 4 Player model S Skee Ball {1990} that I restored. I believe they made less than a hundred of these, tough to find. You throw 3 balls per round for 3 rounds.
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