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Quoted from RGarriott:Pretty sad looking Aerosmith machine in the wild. This is at a brewery in Westfield Indiana. Doesn’t appear to ever have been cleaned.
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Band pictures on the playfield now look age accurate. 
Quoted from Shredso:Road Show at a resort in Punta Cana. No display, no upper flippers. Lower flippers worked surprisingly well. Not much else though.
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That things disgusting, how’s the upkeep on the resort?
Quoted from JBtheAVguy:That things disgusting, how’s the upkeep on the resort?
Other than the sports bar, the resort was immaculate.
Quoted from Shredso:Road Show at a resort in Punta Cana. No display, no upper flippers. Lower flippers worked surprisingly well. Not much else though.
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So sad to see this Roadshow in such bad shape. I want to cry. I hugged my Roadshow tonight.
Zeist
Quoted from MarAlb:I encountered a very sad Beatles and AC/DC in the game-area of the MBK shoppingmall in Bangkok, Thailand. The pictures speak for them selves I think....
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Gross, did they just super glue pieces of rubber to the flippers on ACDC?
Not a picture, but definitely a horror, especially when you are leaning over the playfield and a bulb explodes and sends glass shards flying in your face and all over your freshly-waxed playfield. The backstory is I just stripped the playfield and replaced a bunch of targets and wanted to make sure they were working so I wanted to start a game and tap them. I put a ball in the trough to start a game, and let it sit in the shooter lane while I tested the targets and recorded a video. Didn't realize there was a timer to auto-plunge the ball after a certain amount of time!
I definitely learned to use the Switch Test for testing next time!
Quoted from pevo:Just picked up a sweeeet deal on a Taget Alpha...then I found this underneath.
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At first I thought it was someone getting their cut of money....
Quoted from Coyote:That knocker goes off though, and it's going to get embedded into the ceiling.
Had an old foreign game made of partial board that sat below a leaky pipe. When I was going through it and getting it partially working the knocked went off and shot right through the flakey, rotten head. It was wild!
I was able to think fast and catch it. Extremely amusing.
My Shaq had the bell-end of the VUK plunger break off, and when testing that, I forgot and the plunger shot out about a foot and a half. Almost took a plunger to the skull!
Quoted from packie1:So sad. Used to be a Gottlieb Dancing dolls. Warehouse find today.
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Lord have mercy…
Edmonton, AB
Quoted from pevo:Just picked up a sweeeet deal on a Taget Alpha...then I found this underneath.
at least if you lose your key you have easy access!
Quoted from transprtr4u:at least if you lose your key you have easy access!
Funny thing both coin door and backbox cover were unlocked (but had no key)
Im thinking it was robbed by someone on location, soon thereafter the vender pulled machine and at some point sold it for home use...not bothering to fix the hole. Both coin mechs are gone too...leading me to think it was quickly sold for home use.
Quoted from pevo:Funny thing both coin door and backbox cover were unlocked (but had no key)
Im thinking it was robbed by someone on location, soon thereafter the vender pulled machine and at some point sold it for home use...not bothering to fix the hole. Both coin mechs are gone too...leading me to think it was quickly sold for home use.
That is a real wood floor. Not the fiber board stuff.
Quoted from RGarriott:Pretty sad looking Aerosmith machine in the wild. This is at a brewery in Westfield Indiana. Doesn’t appear to ever have been cleaned.
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That AS is putting in the work.
Quoted from pevo:Just picked up a sweeeet deal on a Taget Alpha...then I found this underneath.
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Is that piece of gum still good?
Quoted from MarAlb:I encountered a very sad Beatles and AC/DC in the game-area of the MBK shoppingmall in Bangkok, Thailand. The pictures speak for them selves I think....
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That’s wild. No flipper rubber at all, but still turning on the games and collecting quarters. I really wanna take some Novus and Meguiar’s to that Beatles pf and see the difference.
Wow! How did the Beatles get that bad…I don’t get it…
Quoted from MarAlb:I encountered a very sad Beatles and AC/DC in the game-area of the MBK shoppingmall in Bangkok, Thailand. The pictures speak for them selves I think....
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Quoted from Pinkitten:That’s wild. No flipper rubber at all, but still turning on the games and collecting quarters. I really wanna take some Novus and Meguiar’s to that Beatles pf and see the difference.
And don't forget to bring a set of (flipper)rubbers. I wished I had them with me when I saw the games. The slingshotrubbers in both games were replaced by some kind of O-rings. It seemed that was the only maintenance done ever to these games. I was there in November 2023. I played one game on Beatles and didn't want to suffer it more.
Bulli
Quoted from Maverick222:Wow! How did the Beatles get that bad…I don’t get it…
That is residue from the black rubber that Stern uses. It cleans right off.
Quoted from illawarra92:put power into a chicago coin carnival gun game from 1968.
I just got my 1959 Williams Vanguard DeLuxe rifle game delivered. Appears to have been sitting in a warehouse for decades. The power cord is ripped out at the cabinet. I'll take that as a clue and give it a thorough look before I even buy a cord for it!
Quoted from SantaEatsCheese:Omg who designed these wide body williams lockdown bars. At a show and might have a bruise after 1 game.
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What did they do, just extend a standard lock bar in those days? “Let’s just add a couple inches onto the standard bar. These wide bodies will never take off anyway. No need to mass produce longer ones.”
Quoted from SantaEatsCheese:Omg who designed these wide body williams lockdown bars. At a show and might have a bruise after 1 game.
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That is weird. What game is this? I had a williams scorpion and the lockdown bar didn't look like this. It looked the same as any other lockdown bar, just longer.
Quoted from Foxxstone_80:That is weird. What game is this? I had a williams scorpion and the lockdown bar didn't look like this. It looked the same as any other lockdown bar, just longer.
Pokerino. I'd never heard of it either...
Quoted from SantaEatsCheese:Omg who designed these wide body williams lockdown bars. At a show and might have a bruise after 1 game.
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Quoted from Pinkitten:What did they do, just extend a standard lock bar in those days? “Let’s just add a couple inches onto the standard bar. These wide bodies will never take off anyway. No need to mass produce longer ones.”
I thought he was talking about those sharp corners like on the William Joust pinball. These a palm killers with that sharp corner. I'm only good for a couple of short games on the Williams games with the sharp corners.
Quoted from cottonm4:I thought he was talking about those sharp corners like on the William Joust pinball. These a palm killers with that sharp corner. I'm only good for a couple of short games on the Williams games with the sharp corners.
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I think he was. I just noticed the strange corner that looks like a 2-piece modified bar with corner extenders. They probably aren’t that. But unusual looking!
Quoted from Pinkitten:I think he was. I just noticed the strange corner that looks like a 2-piece modified bar with corner extenders. They probably aren’t that. But unusual looking!
I see that two-piece mod, as well. And it looks like that corner was beaten with a hammer ??
Not so much horror more frustration at the jackoff that decided to cover every bolt with what appears to be some sort of glue or resin. This was on all the flipper bases in my F14. They also put a silicone adhesive over bolts as well. Pain in the ass to remove all this crap.
20240427_100549.jpg20240507_162244.jpgQuoted from Foxxstone_80:Not so much horror
Certainly was a horror for you !
Quoted from transprtr4u:Certainly was a horror for you !
It definitely wasn't a good time.
Quoted from Foxxstone_80:It definitely wasn't a good time.
But with that avatar you should be use to mayhem!
Poor LW3..
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What a disaster, good luck with that.
Quoted from Foxxstone_80:Not so much horror more frustration at the jackoff that decided to cover every bolt with what appears to be some sort of glue or resin. This was on all the flipper bases in my F14. They also put a silicone adhesive over bolts as well. Pain in the ass to remove all this crap.
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Didn't some sys11 games come with locktite installed from the factory?
Quoted from Chrizg:Poor LW3..
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Oof. That looks fun
I like how there are stray strands of wire sticking out from some of the butt splice connectors.
Quoted from Chrizg:Poor LW3..
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Ouch!! I know that situation well. My first pin i ever bought was a Williams Jubilee with the entire harness cut. It had connectors on the bottom of the cabinet like pretty much every pin does. A LW3 with all those wires, ouch. Someone was impatient and had no time for using their brain.
Quoted from aeneas:Didn't some sys11 games come with locktite installed from the factory?
Yeah but not on those nuts... Just the posts into t nuts. Snap city
I picked up a lw3 like that. It had been converted to a weird artsy theme and spent a couple of years at Burning Man. The artist had cut the entire harness near the head. I repinned it to run on a cobrapin controller. One day, it will become the basis of a homebrew rework project...
Quoted from Chrizg:Game was moved by prev owner and took head completely off. I found a harness on eBay for it so will get it back up and running
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This outfit sells all kinds of pinball wire if you need.
One of my first pins was a Duotron where they cut all the wire harness from body to head. And this was faded out cloth colored wires. Nightmare.
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