Musings and Repair News from recent pinball machine restorations, with reviews and all the technical nitty-gritty.
MARTHA’S VINEYARD: Presenting Stern GODZILLA Premium brought to ENHANCED fruition by Dr. Dave’s Pinball Restorations. Pinball Day Spa’d and modded out: Deep cleaned the playfield, replacing all black rubber with Perfect Play clear silicone rings, colored post sleeves, and colored flipper rubber. Rebuilt the flippers. Added new Titan premium shine balls. Mods installed: Pinball Life … Read the Post
SPIDERMAN 2007 version Restored and Modded and now ** FOR SALE! ** Email us here to inquire about purchasing this game.** Over 40 hours of restoration! Modification and upgrade work now completed for this wonderful title by Stern Pinball. Work done: Deep-cleaned playfield and ramps; new clear premium silicone rubber, rings, colored silicone flipper rubber and posts. … Read the Post
MARLBOROUGH – Over 50 hours worth of work went into bringing this tired Dolly Parton to the stunner she is NOW! Playfield swapped a new CPR clearcoated playfield in to replace the well worn one. New CPR backglass, new legs and hardware, new Weebly MPU and sound board as well as a new power supply … Read the Post
NORTHBOROUGH, MA: Over 30 hours of restoration work went into this Home Use Only 2006 Stern World Poker Tour for our client in a suburb west of Boston, MA. We essentailly made this WPT into a WPT LE ! We did all our usual touches with this restoration including premium perfect play silicone rubber all … Read the Post
MEDFIELD, MA: signature series restoration of a 1977 Bally Eight Ball for a client southwest of Boston. Everything rebuilt and bullet proofed including a new CPR playfield, and rebuilt chime unit for wonderful, pleasing to the ear after ring tones. Best looking and playing Eight Ball you will find out there. Going to it’s new owner … Read the Post
FRAMINGHAM, MA: Approximately 40 hours worth of work went into this restoration. Many parts under the playfield, and the game needed extensive board work done to get this to look and play like new again! Buffed all playfield metal and rebuilt all kicker, pop bumper and flipper assemblies. Touched up cabinet and playfield, new playfield … Read the Post
FALMOUTH, MA: Presenting the result of a 100-hour restoration of this 1992 Addams Family pinball machine for one of our clients in the Cape Cod area. This TAF looks and plays like new and tweaked up to perfection. Combination of incandescent lights and LED scoops and thing box LED mods. Upgraded stock speaker system to … Read the Post
Concord, MA: We threw lots of time and pinball love into this Williams SPACE SHUTTLE. We were on the hunt for a nice restoration candidate for a customer in the Boston area who wanted a Williams Space Shuttle for his new bride-to-be. Found a great restoration candidate locally and put over 40 hours of restoration work … Read the Post
LITTLETON, MA: Well over 60 hours went into re-restoring this 1991 Bally/Midway The Addams Family pinball machine. While the previous hobbyist / restorer made the game look nice on the outside, the boardset as well as many assemblies under the playfield had failed and/or had issues causing many “gremlins” that needed addressing. These included: partially … Read the Post
Westwood, MA: A client that grew up with this title wanted a fully-restored Globetrotter game as the main attraction in her family’s gameroom. To that end, we put over 60 hrs of restoration into making this 1979 Bally Classic look and play like showroom new! We started by rebuilding all mechanicals and circuit boards, cleaning … Read the Post
