Good karma Wickerman! I will do the same thing. Invaluable advice from members here since I'm located in an area with *very* few pinball machines (I know of 1 other) and no technical advisors....well there might be a few of those "advisor types" but not so relevant if you know what I mean! So thanks too from sleepy Smithers BC.

Wahnsinniger - where do the early ss machines fit on your scale for friendly owners? I was watching some videos about machines with circuit boards, transistors, capacitors etc and thought switch stacks and dirty contacts are not so bad!

Peace everyone and all the best for the New Year.