Musings and Repair News from recent pinball machine restorations, with reviews and all the technical nitty-gritty.
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
LEXINGTON, MA: Bally’s 1997 Cirqus Voltaire HUO with over 40 hours of restoration work into this one to make it showroom new again. Condition fully gone through and refurbished, complete with upgrades including premium silicone rubber, color LED display, and a real metal bell for the BOOM balloon ball to hit! A real gem to … Read the Post
WESTON, MA: Presenting 1978 Bally Bobby Orr Power Play featuring our signature series restoration of work, including a new CPR playfield that we swapped in. Everything rebuilt and bullet proofed including rebuilt chime unit, new MPU board, connectors rebuilt, circuit boards and switches all gone through for superior reliability, pop bumpers, kickers and flippers fully … Read the Post
DUXBURY MA: Over 25 hours went into this refurb of this Star 80 series Gottlieb wide-body pinball machine from 1980. Re-pinned ALL the single edge connectors going to the new Pascal all-in-one board in the head of the game. New 5V cap on the power supply. Refurbished all 4 flippers and cleaned and adjusted all … Read the Post
FALMOUTH, MA: Presenting this 1994 Williams Demolition Man that we put through 15 hours of our refurbishment work, including repairing the main circuit board and adding NVRAM– so no more battery leakage going forward. Checked 5v source on main driver board and it was right at 5v and connectors looked good as well; no burn … Read the Post
Concord, MA to Hyannis, MA: Originally sourced from a collector west of Boston, we have lovingly restored this beautiful John Popadiuk classic game from the mid 90’s for a client residing on Cape Cod. This Popaduik title is just as much fun as his other stellar games Theater of Magic and Circus Voltaire! Over 50 … Read the Post
LONDONDERRY, NH: Over 60 hours of restoration work went into this Play and Look like NEW Williams Gorgar from 1979 for our client in Southern NH who tasked us with fining an restoring this beloved game from his childhood. We started out by repairing all the gremlins these Williams games from the late 70’s were … Read the Post
BOURNE, MA: Over 20 hours of restoration work went into the mini-restoration of this Wonderful System One Gottlieb Classic! This was a mini restoration in that we concentrated mainly on the high points: Repinning connectors, sourcing 3D printing of 2 connector housings going to the main board that were missing, as well as replacing part of … Read the Post
WELLESLEY, MA: Over 50 hours of restoration work went into this excellent shape 1995 Bally Who Dunnit pinball machine we sourced from a client in this Boston suburb. We repaired the train ramp exit with a novel approach as the ramp and parts for it are at this time unavailable. Also found a metal 1:43 … Read the Post
