Trying to fix a playfield myself. Color matching is a b$*%&!

Not so good

I bought a new DMD and transferred the microlouvre film onto it and taped it down with packing tape and trimmed it just like I did the old one put it in the game and nothing.
The old one had the metal pins but the new one had ribbon and when I trimmed the tape with the razor blade I had cut the ribbon in half.
Dropped it in the trash and ordered another one.

Bought a NIB Safecracker for a great price (it was on closeout or something i think).

Opened it and found the glass had broken (dropped in transit??).

Called the distributor, they offered to replace the glass and knock even more off the price... i refused and had them come pick it up.

I assumed I would come across another one....

only bright spot is I bought like 3 full cases on tokens with it. I found them about 10 years later cleaning out the basement.... i think I sold the tokens for more than I paid for the pinball machine.

That hotel would have thought someone was murdered after I got done throwing my fit.

I just recently brought my Whirlwind back home from spending the weekend at Gamewarp for others to enjoy...

Set it back up, played a few games when I realized the fan wasn't working....
Opened the backglass, pushed on connectors, tested fuses.....all is good.
Start gently tugging on wires, viola!! A broken red wire leading to the fan board, unfortunately it was behind the power board and grounded out , POP POP POP ! Then all the pop bumpers started firing on the playfield.
Quickly turned off the power, checked for damages. Three fuses , hence the pop pop pop.
Replaced all three, turned the machine back on and F106 -POP. Have a buddy with a spare power board come over and test it out a week later.....POP!

Lost my display and high voltage....Fast forward to last week, new display in , high voltage fuse removed and I'm no longer playing blind. Then my single drop opto goes bad....doh!

Lesson learned , turned the power off first! The life of a rookie pinball owner.

Lee, you have some of the best stories and some of the worst luck!

I had almost forgotten about this backglass. Did you ever check with Juan to see if his buddy can repro it?

About 3 years ago we were moving to a new home. I decided to move my pins myself because I didn't trust the moving company to be careful with my machines.

After moving 2 with no problems at all, it was now time to move my favorite an first owned pin Firepower. Got it close to the truck to load it up and I picked it up at a weird angle I guess. Because the next thing I knew the machine was going down to my left and it hit the ground hard, flipping me over the top of it. Luckily no glass broke but the whole left side of the cabinet was scratched up something awful.

Felt sick about that ever since.

Mine isn't so much a stupid move as much a its a stupid dream.

I want to play gilligan's island.....like bad. haven't played it since the few weeks it was at ziggy's taco and subs in buffalo ny in 92 or 93.

My most memorable was losing a Judge Dredd off of my old truck.

Now the business is insured, the truck is insured, the game is insured. The only thing there not insured was me.

Instead of leaving it go, no I go catch the damn game. About tore my left arm off. Pretty weak for about a year and had trouble lifting my arm higher than my shoulder.

At least I saved the game.

LTG : )

I sold a project machine to a guy one day and I wanted to make sure the machine would be something he was going to be able to fix fairly easy since he was new to pinball repairs. So I went through making sure all but some little stuff worked. Then I had to raise the playfield up for something and tossed the ball into my pocket.

Next thing you know it is lunch time and off I went for lunch. Got back and started back on the machine and the stupid thing wouldn't start a game. I spent the next 5 or 6 hours messing with it before I realized there was no ball in it. VERY VERY dumb!

Bwahahahaha..... Hard to beat the van vs. bridge story.
One of the dumbest things I've done (that I'll admit to)
was buy an older EM without checking inside first. Lots of
hard to find stuff was missing. Its a game I wanted soooo bad
and was so jazzed to finally get one didn't even bother. Dumb.
Steve

Wasn't there a picture of an upright pin(backbox up, legs on, everything) on a flatbed trailer, about to be transported that way, where it didn't survive the trip?

Taking the legs off of my TZ. Slipping and dropping the end of the game on my left foot.

Feel the pain!