Nice job. Now, play it - almost as much fun as restoring it was
Man, I hope my pins are across from your area again this year LOL.
Probably not, with the bigger area and hopefully less cramped layout!
Picture of "Cabinet-cat" is hilarious.
Quoted from johnwartjr:Nice job. Now, play it - almost as much fun as restoring it was
Funny you say this. Early on before the restoration I played it and thought, this is kinda fun and pretty cool. After getting it shopped and dialed in the damn thing plays nice, it's no late model DMD but for what it is...it is very challenging.
Quoted from gweempose:A true labor of love.
NOTHING more true than that ^^^ statement!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I sell lots of pins but sometimes it ain't about the money.
The physics on Varkon are way out of whack with what you expect from a "normal" pinball machine. It's more like playing the upper playfield of Banzai Run than a standard pin IMO.
Man that is the way I invisioned it in the shop, hard to see how it is going to turn out without the complete game. This machine is top notch all the way!! Glad we won't be in the same class for best 70's -80's. I must buy you a beverage at the show!!
Quoted from Bub:Glad we won't be in the same class for best 70's -80's.
Actually if you are bring the Silverball Mania we are
SBM 1980
Varkon 1982
It's all good.
Quoted from diskoboy:Now we need videos of it being played!
Asking a lot there but I will see what I can do in the next few weeks. In the mean time there is a Youtube video link on the previous page.
Quoted from Marc:Again a huge thanks to John for catching this and an even bigger thanks for posting about it!!!! Also, kudos need to go out to epotech, he made mention to this exact thing very early on in the thread.
Bridge fuses are added.
Glad your Varkon got modded with fuses!
The one pictured on clays site is mine, I'd not had the game long enough to bullet-proof it and it went up in flames in the middle of a League meet ... the smell was pretty bad and lingered round the house for weeks!
The first thing I now mention to any System 3-11 owner is have they done this mod ...
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