Started this thread originally to tell my storm related rescue but now that a number of us have rescued games from Jack's collection iron00monkey suggested we start a club thread so I'm converting this thread to the club thread. Here's my story for those of you reading this for the 1st time.
Over the past few years this forum has helped me in countless ways. Many of you have held my hand and walked me through my 1st shop job, board repair or game revival and given me the confidence to keep taking on new challenges. It is in the spirit of that confidence that I took this next step after being inspired by Drano's thread:https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/fathom-if-you-cant-find-one-build-one
After waking up and finding a post for damaged pins from superstorm Sandy I quickly called the # when I saw that a Fathom was in the pile thinking I just jumped on that cpr short run list of fathom reruns. Here's the ad:Fathom, 1981 Bally: $1000
Superstorm Sandy damaged. Backbox, backglass and electronics good. Cabinet and playfield damaged. Calls after 6pm weekdays. 19 other Bally titles to choose from.
Jack O'reilly, Phone: 732-793-4194
I spoke with Jack himself who didn't sugarcoat anything. He's a cool collector of 80s Bally's that got royally screwed by Mother Nature. He asked me to post his info in case anyone was as crazy as I was for a title. All the heads weren't touched by the water during the storm and immediately stored upstairs in his house afterwards. All the bodies are standing up in his garage slowly rusting away. I asked him to honor me as 1st responder and he did!
I immediately contacted my pinball Godfather vid1900 and ran the details past him to get his blessing. He consented and as always offered to help, which gave me the confidence to ignore my wife and call Jack back. I drove down to Lavalette NJ last night and took the 1st step in realizing my Fathom dream! Let me know if you think I've drunk too much of the pinball kool-aid or I'm one lucky SOB! The pink in the bg is the red wall behind me. The last pic is of the bodies in his garage. Guess I'm about to join the cult of Evaporust.
20160314_213638_(resized).jpg20160314_213844_(resized).jpg20160314_213944_(resized).jpg20160314_213820_(resized).jpg20160315_125701_(resized).jpg20160315_125710_(resized).jpg20160315_125719_(resized).jpg20160315_125741_(resized).jpg20160315_125952_(resized).jpg20160315_130002_(resized).jpg20160315_130015_(resized).jpg20160315_130205_(resized).jpg20160315_130214_(resized).jpg20160315_130209_(resized).jpg20160315_130223_(resized).jpg20160315_130235_(resized).jpg20160315_130244_(resized).jpg20160314_173348_(resized).jpg