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Starting to lose interest in pinball

By Medic

3 years ago


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    #91 3 years ago

    I basically got rid of most of my games because I work a lot and didn't have the time to learn to fix or to fix my pins period. I had a great tech in the beginning, around 1999 till around 2012 ish??, can't remember, who was very honest and fair but he got into an accident with a Walmart truck I believe. As part of the settlement he couldn't work anymore. That was it for me. Went from around 33 A List Bally, Williams, Stern, and JJP down to two, a restored original MB and a Tron LE. I am good with it though. Having games that didn't work right was annoying to me. I can always play them in a well maintained arcade somewhere. Ocean City, NJ has a great lineup of pins in great working order. I hope that isn't the place on the boardwalk that burnt down a month ago.

    #96 3 years ago
    Quoted from PinballManiac40:

    A good rib eye steak dinner with a big baked potato with lots of butter always incites me to help out.

    That is awesome but here in NJ, most repairmen are out for blood. Had a guy fix my dad's jukebox and charged 300+ bucks for maybe an hour of work and it broke down less than a month later. He wouldn't come back to look at it without some huge service call bill. To make it more frustrating, the work he did on the first service call included regular preventative maintenance. It just isn't worth having pins and jukeboxes at those repair prices. My dad sold his V200 that I bought for him. It was fun while it lasted.

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