Just got a 1954 Gottlieb Jockey Club for my birthday. The playfield is in rough shape, and some parts are loose in the back box, but the horse racing theme is right up my alley. Looking forward to poking around it this weekend.

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Were you really able to flatten them? Gives me hope! Looks great.

Just finished Bank Shot and moved it to the lineup to take the inaugural game. No better feeling. (This one had some mis-wiring to discover and undo, and unfortunately I think I lost an insert during the 6 month project. Maybe it’ll turn up.)

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Added CF to the lineup over the long weekend. It has been playing great, and at some point I said “clean enough.” (Special thanks to ejg.) Playfield is beyond repair/retouch but the game is so fun and appealing I’ll be doing an overlay once the weather allows me to sand off the playfield outdoors. I’ll do cabinet retouches then. In the meantime I’ll be playing it into the ground as-is (with a cash bounty to any of my kids that go over-the-top).

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Time to get into the Zone…
Time Zone
I’m thinking about really tripping out on this one, maybe not as ambitious as GeorgeClements88 but more along the lines of RGB blinkers and kitschy touches.

Williams Spacelab model 443, very clean and only a few issues, one of them being that it has a Spacelab model 444 backglass in the head. I’ll have to source the correct Spacelab (or failing that, a Skylab).

note the light bleed through the five stars, because the two models have different backboxes

definitely a model 443 conversion

credit unit with no wheel, as expected

Thanks for all the help and encouragement. I’m in pretty good shape and I’m enamored with the color scheme and graphic design of this machine, the dark color scheme is doing it for me. I had a broken wire to resolver and with some cleaning this one will be in the lineup this weekend.

https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/made-a-puller-

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Working through Tropic Isle and after addressing some coin unit and 0-9 unit missing parts, I’m satisfied it will be running again soon. It looks fun, but I may need to put it aside in order to work on another commission.