I'll start...
I just finished putting the final touches on a Dr. Dude I just picked up. All I had to do was put in the coin box inside the cabinet. Power on... metal coin box... box gets snagged on a wire... touches something on one of the flippers under the pf... sparks fly. Fired it up and luckily only the left flipper was dead. Luckier yet... just a fuse. Dumb a@@.
I had a piece of pinball glass that had a sharp edge on it....soooo I took it over to my buddys windshield shop to use his belt sander on it (I know bad idea right its tempered) i touch the sander to it and all is good, I smooth it out and go for 1 last pass... then boom the glass explodes in my hands 
What a mess!
I put a little mylar circle protector where the ball drops down out of the Tortuga on POTC, then reassembled the game, which is a few layers. THEN I realized that I forgot to peel off the paper backing.
And now that I think of it the most recent thing was tonight: I went to a local restorer's house and when offered to play his A list row I first declined since I don't want to like them and then "have to" own one - but then I gave in a played MM anyway. So yes. Its going on to my wish list. what a dumba$$.
Had a flipper get stuck in the up position - troubleshot it for over an hour; pouring through the manual, studying schematics, measuring voltages... then spotted a small broken piece in the cabinet - problem was a cracked opto interrupter.
Overpaid when I first got in the hobby, 13 years ago........Still hurting........
Recently passed on $800 for a decent Apollo 13, didn't want to haul it up out of the basement, up the steps, etc.....Too tired, and too many pins.
Quoted from pinstor12:Overpaid when I first got in the hobby, 13 years ago........Still hurting........
Recently passed on $800 for a decent Apollo 13, didn't want to haul it up out of the basement, up the steps, etc.....Too tired, and too many pins.
Why can't I find deals like that to pass on??
Ruined the apron pain on Quicksilver trying to remove some nasty operators labels. Had my local printer make a label for $37 but they misunderstood the description I gave. Instead of printing a clear label they printed it on white, claim they can't do a "blackout" label on clear. I was stuck hand cutting the label print out with an x-acto knife. I guess it looks just o.k., was not really the results I was looking for.
Quoted from Ronnie1114:I traded a Whirlwind for a f14 tomcat. I don't even know what I was thinking.
IMO both titles are evenly matched. While a trade is even, the best option if you have either is to add the other 
. I have the Tomcat, would like to find a Whirlwind - but no way would I trade my F-14 for it.
I was putting LED's in a machine with the power on.
I saw that a socket was really close to a coil lug.
Thought I had better turn the power off before I started moving the socket around to get the old bulb out.
I didn't.
Pop, poof, coil stuck on.
One new transistor later, and the game was back to normal. Stupid, stupid, stupid.
Quoted from Triumvirat73:I trusted a fart earlier today. We're no longer on friendly terms.
Swapped out a bulb w/ machine on and wedding ring on... Tapped a coil w/ ring bzzzz! Yep won't do that again
zapped myself (more than once 
) implementing the "fonz mod" because i was too dense to insulate the new start switch from the door...
I wish I took a pic! Bought a real nice...low play HUO Elvis Gold lthis past weekend. I was only moving it up 2 steps into my house so I thought I try out my nice new Escalera stair climbing dolly. What could possibly go wrong?
Never using the dolly before..I now know there's a very weird balance point when going up the stairs...way more angle that I thought. Of course I was already exhaust from getting the game out of the owners basement (with a regular dolly). I started up the first step at almost a 90 degree angle and the game completely flipped over on the head (folded up). So basically the game was laying upside down on it's head..with the dolly still strapped to the bottom..which was now the top. Kinda looked like a turtle that was flipped over..and could get back on it's feet.
Luckily I shrink wrapped the hell out of the game when I picked it up and it landed on the grass...I couldn't find a single mark on it when I finally got it sunny side up.
It was pretty entertaining...
I should of paid $4200 instead of $3600 for my huo ac/dc pro. I could of prevented the crash with $600
Quoted from mrgone:while replacing an eos switch I burnt myself on the soldering iron. I have a nice little blister on the tip of my finger.
This happens every time I Solder something...LOL... 
I wasn't paying attention when I was soldering a diode back on a sling coil and reversed it. Fired up the game and cooked the transitor. Luckily that was the extent of the damage.
Live and learn.
Ditto......but actually I'm okay with it.
Fixing the playfield hinge/slider assemblies on my only pin (The Getaway). Had the playfield propped straight up for JUST A SECOND while I went across the room to get a tool. Heard a noise and then the CRASH before I could turn back around. :-/
Luckily it only took a pair of new brackets and some straightening of the locking bar to bring it back to health.
Reversed the flipper coil on a flipper rebuild and matched the pictures exactly.
Oops the pictures were from the way it was originally installed. (ZZZZZZ smoke, dead flipper, fuses blown.)
I've done this 2x now. Wondering when I'll learn.
I eventually stop feeling like $hit about it, and remind myself I do 20 awesome things for each machine between $hitty mistakes... !
-mof
Quoted from wayout440:IMO both titles are evenly matched. While a trade is even, the best option if you have either is to add the other
Yeah, but this one has acid damage.....
I pre-ordered STLE even though I previously said that I wouldn't buy another pin before playing it, and despite the fact that 90% of Pinside is crapping on it.
Quoted from RobT:I pre-ordered STLE even though I previously said that I wouldn't buy another pin before playing it, and despite the fact that 90% of Pinside is crapping on it.
you KNEW you'd pre-order it, resistance was futile... 
still a lot cheaper than pre-ordering the latest greatest projector sight unseen...
Quoted from RobT:I pre-ordered STLE even though I previously said that I wouldn't buy another pin before playing it, and despite the fact that 90% of Pinside is crapping on it.
Yea but the upside is you will likely not wait years to get it.
YMMV
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