thinking & making
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PinVault (Indianapolis)
Thanks to some real lucky connections, we were able to get into the PinVault for a couple of hours on Tuesday. What a great space and collection! Thanks to Matt, Ben, and Jon, for making it possible. Special mention to some games i hadn’t played before and thoroughly enjoyed: They also had the best working…
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Millenium Falcon mod making progress
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Baby steps (M.F. mod)
Cut the makrolon for the “lens” with some newly acquired snips. Turns out metal snips are perfect for rough cutting materials in the plexi family. Random reading on Pinside often yields tips like these. I’ve still got to figure out the bracket solution. I ordered a cutting blade for my dremel (misplaced all my attachments!)…
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Working on a Star Wars mod
Used the dremel to grind out the plastic on this millennium falcon toy (from the X-Wing game) where the blue lit propulsion area is. is that hyperdrive or rockets or engine or what? I have no idea but it will glow blue. I’m cutting some plexi to fit in perfectly there and it will serve…
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Star Wars (pro) comes home
Friday night after I put the kids to bed I drove over to Brixie’s to pick up this lovely machine (Rob has replaced it with an LE or Premium). What a crazy, beautiful, fun game this is. The more I play it, the more impressed I am. The use of the theatrical score is perfect,…
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Shiny pops
Cleaned all the pop bumper parts, which were really really grimy. Thank goodness for my little ultrasonic cleaner. I need to find a replacement for the paper tubes that shade the lamps behind the drop targets. I don’t have all of mine. I tried looking online but I haven’t had luck. I’m going to look…
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Centerpoint Brewery, Indianapolis
Top notch beers, and immaculately maintained pins. This place is a treasure. I only had an hour so I played about half on Indiana Jones, half on Star Trek (managed to nab the 4th high score), and Spider-Man (which I suck at). I could have played here for hours.
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Taxi bell woes
Got a new clapper and coil for the bell so I could hook it up. Unfortunately now as soon as the power is on the bell rings. Bad transistor? I don’t have it in me tonight to troubleshoot. I did manage to fix a couple other annoying issues on Taxi. The Dracula catapult now sends…
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Scrub-a-dub
Cleaning up all the Team One mechs. A few more hours and I will have cleaned all of it, including rebuilding the flippers.