thinking & making

  • Metal metal metal

    Metal metal metal

    Spent a good long time polishing these metal parts from Shadow. Very happy with how they came out. Now everything is ready to go back on the machine. Reassembly starts tonight.

  • HBD (neon) to me!

    HBD (neon) to me!

    Well dammit all I just got the coolest birthday gift from A. My very own Williams Pinball neon sign. HOT DANG!

  • Cleaning Shadow parts

    Cleaning Shadow parts

    Spent about 4 hours cleaning and organizing parts. Still need to polish metals, but screws, posts, plastics, and other various crap is clean and polished and ready to go.

  • Good times playin and fixin

    My personal goal for Sinbad was to clear all the drops twice in a single ball. I managed to do it last night and was actually just shy of clearing it three times. I scored 200k on that ball and got an extra ball too. Unfortunately I managed to play like crap on the other…

  • Gottlieb Team One – new to me!

    Gottlieb Team One – new to me!

    Picked this up on the way home from dropping my son off at camp. It’s very clean inside and should be easy to get working. Needs new rubber and a very thorough cleaning on the playfield and the outside of cabinet. The plan with this one is to do a complete re-theme with Allison. Not…

  • Fun game on Spanish Eyes

    Fun game on Spanish Eyes

    I couldn’t get into the “A” lane to save my life but I managed a few extra balls with the numbers and horseshoe. My reproduction backglass is on the way and I can’t wait. Love this machine.

  • Fun at Brixie’s

    Fun at Brixie’s

    Had a real fun night playing over at Brixie’s. Rob had some rarities on location that were a real treat.

  • Shadow sanctum repair

    Shadow sanctum repair

    The Shadow “dot sticker” isn’t the most elegant solution to hiding sanctum wear but I wasn’t ready to repaint and clear. Waxed 3 times then clear mylar over the entire area and green dot sticker over the wear. The important thing is the the wear is fixed and the area is flat. This machine is…

  • Shadow ready to wax and reassemble

    LED’d under the playfield and in the backbox. Cleaned the entire playfield with naphtha, then cleaned with novus 2 and then wiped down with naphtha again and a dry towel. Playfield looks really good so now it’s time to wax. I’ll be putting some new mylar down in a couple of areas – the sanctum…