Noob (not) Cambridgeshire

[mark adams]

Hi All,

Just realised i should have done this first, I'm not really a noob to pinball having worked in arcades as an engineer from 1984 - 1989 plus i collected quite a bit of stuff in the mid 90's before i got divorced and lost everything..
However, i am back in the game, ideally looking for a fixer upper as that is what i do but i'm easy to please either way.
Got my faves, Hyperball, Firepower etc Williams games of a particular era
Also loved the DMD games, Judge dredd (i restored one of those from nothing up) T-2, TZ, BSD and a few others i have owned in the past. Had 2 Star wars cockpits in the past too...

 

[kevlar]

Welcome to the forum Mark.

 

[replicas]

Welcome to Pinball Info Mark.

 

[cooldan]

welcome buddy. when you worked in arcades as an engineer, does that mean you can fix pinball machines - mechanics, electrics, electronics and all?

 

[JT.]

Welcome to the forum Mark

 

[Spandangler]

Welcome mate.

 

[Paul]

Welcome Mark to the Madhouse

 

[mark adams]

@cooldan absolutely i can, still have my stock of components in my garage, i got to keep some bits...

 

[mark adams]

Still have a good eprom programmer and eraser, various bits of test equipment (not scope sadly) in fact the only thing i don't have is a pinball machine

 

[cooldan]

do you think you might offer a travelling fixit service?

Northerners have Andy Legend these days, so down South we are always keen to find new fixing folk. Robin Kemp works around London but i don't know what his free time is like, Neil Fellender does the South West i think.

i'm not suggesting you do it for free unless you're visiting friends - but if you did offer this service, i could see it being very popular.

 

[mark adams]

Happy to help, have to be weekends though, i work full time in a hospital during the week.

 

[Andy Hancock]

Happy to help, have to be weekends though, i work full time in a hospital during the week.

Hi mark . Welcome to the forum. I'm in Peterborough and am very much a buyer/owner not a fixer so if you're interested in
a. Earning a few beer tokens servicing / fixing my machines it would be great and
b. any you do up for sale I'd be interested .
And a beer and game of pinball too if you want
Cheers Andy

 

[mark adams]

@Andy Hancock Sounds like a good plan, are there any others fairly local?

 

[Andy Hancock]

Not sure. There's a pinball show in Ely in May if you're interested , if you want to pop round for a beer and few games just let me know

 

[mark adams]

Do you have any details about the Ely show, I'd like to go to that...

 

[Andy Hancock]

Do you have any details about the Ely show, I'd like to go to that...

http://eapse.simplesite.com/

 

[mark adams]

darn it, on holiday that weekend, might be able to make an hour or so saturday morning before we leave though