BUYING STUFF DAY:
That's about £600 worth of parts out of the table there. I thought after a new playfield & plastics I'd be pretty much done, but really, if we're gonna swap the playfield, might as well tart it up a bit as we go..
This is a ridiculous hobby.
Lets discuss:
New boards for lights - so LED's don't flicker.
New powerboard kit - for consistent/reliable power to flippers (the powerboard was original and not held in when i got the machine, and rattled all about when I drove it home, I don't trust it).
New balls (for another game)...though did get a lone new ball for this one.
New flipper bats.
New drop targets without wear.
new up post.
25x new posts.
2x new short posts.
4 flipper rebuild kits.
new pop bumper bodies, skirts, thumpy bits.
new LED's for GI
New shooter rod.
Fuse kit (it blew one when I got it home, so I need a set and even then I think I might need some different ones).
New rubbers.
New buttons.
New bolts.
New legs (not pictured)
New coin door bolts (shiny & chrome).
New apron stickers.
New Mylar for pops/slings.
New backbox lockbar - not pictured (as it was missing one).
New pop bumper caps.
I've also bought new yoppsickle's for inserts (led's) and GI Braid.
New rubber caps for the plastics.
Looking at the other picture you can see the backglass of the Bobby Orr we had when I was a kid (about 25 years ago).
My dad got it framed for something like £150 - which was more than the price of the whole pinball machine back then(!). The machine got taken to the skip because it broke (stuck flipper or something) and he couldn't get anyone to fix it (dark days before the internet) I think my sister kept the pop bumper caps and pinball, I kept the backglass and it's been hanging on the wall ever since. In the last 5 years since I've got back into pinball I've not seen one/played one, so do have a soft spot for Bobby Orr and am looking forward to playing it again & most importantly... beating my dad's high score on it (I had the high score for ages on the old one, then he pipped it by a few hundred thousand, around 550,000) so I'm gonna roll this one & 9 it out(!!!).
Anyway.. next task is the playfield swap. This looks to be a big job. I have never done it before, and don't want to trash the new playfield/bodge it - so have booked in time with
@Moonraker to do the playfield swap and I'll assist/learn as we go. Thankfully, the parts arrived in time, despite a delay from Royal Mail: They were sent Sunday First class, but didn't arrive til the following Friday. Playfield swap booked in on the following Tuesday - glad they arrived in time - lots of parts specific to Marco Pinball Specialists, ordered though
@new forest pinball.