As a teenager, while waiting for the best tables in the house at the
local Pool hall, there was a Hot Shot pin that we'd play.
What's better than playing a Pool theme pin while waiting for a good pool table to open?

Flash forward some 30 years or so.....
I get the pin itch and happen across a Rack a Ball, cool and inexpensive.
Wasn't long playing it before that Hot Shot popped into my thoughts.
If only I could find one. 2 months of searching all the usual places and,
there it is! Beat up, filthy dirty, no PF glass, not working, sitting in the corner
of a consignment shop in Boston, Ma., 3 hours away.
Now I'm not a pin tech mind you, didn't know 1 single thing about fixing them,
but I had to have it! If for no other reason that even if I couldn't do anything with it,
at least I'd have a Hot Shot to look at and remember. I paid $150 for it and 6 hours on the road.
After working on it for 4 weekends straight, 10 hours each day, reading and learning
so much about fixing pins from online, cleaning and polishing until my skin on my hands cracked,
getting zapped/bitten more times than I care to count, I played my first game.
The Rack a ball is gone, but The Hot Shot...... I'll never sell.
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