Tag: surf champ
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Rolling over
I really love playing Surf Champ. It’s both fun and challenging. Always feels good to roll over the score 🙂
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Flipper buttons cleaned, bushings replaced
I had actually purchased replacement buttons for Surf Champ but I like the tone of red in the older ones better and they cleaned up nicely. It’s fun to have little one night projects like this to do every once in a while—a good break from the long timeline projects I have going like Big…
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Spinner woes and a stop gap solution
I used epoxy first, then super glue to try and fix the spinner, and I reinstalled it into the game but it took all of two balls to destroy it. I’m placing an order with PBR this week for a bunch of stuff including a generic spinner replacement. Surf Champ is one of my favorite…
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Broken spinner, faulty lamp, more wood filler
Stepped up to Surf Champ to find that the spinner was broken, which probably happened when my littlest son was playing earlier today. I tried to reattach with epoxy, but I’m not hopeful. That spinner gets pounded. I’m going to look this up on Pinside tomorrow and see what my options are. While I had…
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Shooter looking good
Mirror polish because I can.
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Surf Champ – before & after photos
A couple of months ago I bought a 1976 Gottlieb “Surf Champ” pinball machine out of a basement where it had been the last 20 or so years. I completely stripped down the top side of the playfield and cleaned all parts. Metal went in the tumbler. I replaced the plastics, cleaned the star posts,…