For those not familiar with pinball, one might assume that the game is as random as a slot machine. But if you know what you…
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I’m restoring a Bally Hang Glider Electro-Mechanical (EM) pinball machine released in December, 1976. This forty plus-year-old machine has seen about 40,000 game plays in…
1 CommentOne of my longer-term projects for my Bally Hang Glider Pinball machine will be to add a soundtrack and sound triggers. I’d like to create…
Comments closedVibrating polisher and walnut medium for polishing small parts on a pinball machine. Magnetic tool for getting the parts out of the medium after 24…
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Fanton, Melissa A., “Pinups and Pinball: The Sexualized Female Image in Pinball Artwork” (2016). Thesis. Rochester Institute of Technology. Accessed from https://scholarworks.rit.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?referer=https://www.google.com/&httpsredir=1&article=10384&context=theses Ran across this…
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I recently saw one of these ’70s made for the home market pinball machines on Facebook Marketplace offered for sale for $300 – which is…
Comments closedAs you might know, pinball machines are heavy! Vintage machines are not too bad, maybe weighing less than 200 pounds but more modern machines can…
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Back in 1999, I purchased my first pinball machine – Gottlieb’s 1993 skiing themed pinball machine called “Wipeout”. Snowboarding was taking off at the time…
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Pinball Machines often reuse a popular theme. For example, how many card game, soccer, and Star Trek machines have there been? Now with several pinball…
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To keep your pinball machine in top shape, you need to regularly clean and wax the playfield. Besides looking better, cleaning and waxing prevents wear…
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