Hey folks
In the ever evolving world of the pinball sliding tile puzzle, an opportunity has arisen for me to purchase a Diner. I’ve wanted one of these for years to go next to Taxi and I was rather hoping it would time itself to coincide with me selling Rocky but that’s not ready for sale yet and I’ve gotta strike now.
So that leaves me with a difficult decision. What to sell??
Space Station it is.
This game is epic. Incredible gameplay, music and layout. Condition green multiball never gets old and due to the lack of inlanes, it’s very challenging to achieve jackpots as you can’t easily trap a ball on the flippers.
Condition wise I’d describe it as excellent for its age. Great cab and playfield. Original Mylar has preserved it superbly. Been stripped and cleaned recently (not by me).
In my ownership I’ve re rubbered it, and fully led’ it. And just last week rebuilt the flippers with new plungers, links, sleeves, eos switches and cabinet switches. They are lovely and strong.
It has a new Freeplay40 replacement blue ramp fitted. The upper playfield has no damage. It has pop bumper led rings and led flashers. If you suffer from epilepsy you might wanna skip this one.
It’s a 1987? Machine. So it has corrosion on the metal parts underneath. It’ has a scrape or two on the cab. But honestly it looks great and was in my lounge all summer. It wouldn’t be going anywhere if timing was better.
I did manage to blow up the aux power board the other week whilst trying to diagnose some locked on flash lamps.
But it’s all fixed now albeit with a couple of jumper wires on the back of it. So has a hack or two. Some evidence of replaced transistors on the mpu in the past. But you gotta expect that on a game of this age.
Display is bright and nice although sometimes there’s is a slight wavey flicker on the top right display. Nothing drastic and it improves once it’s warmed up.
The new ramp has a crack at the entrance where someone (maybe me) over tightened one of those little ramp flap screws. It’s mostly hidden under the flap but it’s there if you look for it.
Legs are a little rusty. Will easily clean up with a bit of tinfoil and water though. Just never got round to it. Glass has scratches.
As of now it’s A1 100% working and one of the nicest space stations I’ve ever seen.
I’d like a nice easy sale. If you’re the kind of person who wants a pic of the bulb holder under the left slingshot, we’re probably not compatible business partners. You know pinball machines, sometimes they break cos they don’t like the way you looked at them. So if it isn’t working when it arrives with you, that’s just the roll of the dice. I’ll help you as much as I can to rectify it over the phone but I don’t want a law suit filed cos the display stopped working. Sorry for the blurb but had some awkward customers in the past and heard equally bad horror stories off folks on here.
£2500 takes it. Based on the price one sold for last month which needed some niggles sorting.
Mines good to go. It’s a rare awesome 80’s time machine from the greatest era of pinball (IMO
)
Martin welcome or collection from Ipswich.
Here’s a vid of me doing flipper rebuild and aux power board fix
Pics…
In the ever evolving world of the pinball sliding tile puzzle, an opportunity has arisen for me to purchase a Diner. I’ve wanted one of these for years to go next to Taxi and I was rather hoping it would time itself to coincide with me selling Rocky but that’s not ready for sale yet and I’ve gotta strike now.
So that leaves me with a difficult decision. What to sell??
Space Station it is.
This game is epic. Incredible gameplay, music and layout. Condition green multiball never gets old and due to the lack of inlanes, it’s very challenging to achieve jackpots as you can’t easily trap a ball on the flippers.
Condition wise I’d describe it as excellent for its age. Great cab and playfield. Original Mylar has preserved it superbly. Been stripped and cleaned recently (not by me).
In my ownership I’ve re rubbered it, and fully led’ it. And just last week rebuilt the flippers with new plungers, links, sleeves, eos switches and cabinet switches. They are lovely and strong.
It has a new Freeplay40 replacement blue ramp fitted. The upper playfield has no damage. It has pop bumper led rings and led flashers. If you suffer from epilepsy you might wanna skip this one.
It’s a 1987? Machine. So it has corrosion on the metal parts underneath. It’ has a scrape or two on the cab. But honestly it looks great and was in my lounge all summer. It wouldn’t be going anywhere if timing was better.
I did manage to blow up the aux power board the other week whilst trying to diagnose some locked on flash lamps.
But it’s all fixed now albeit with a couple of jumper wires on the back of it. So has a hack or two. Some evidence of replaced transistors on the mpu in the past. But you gotta expect that on a game of this age.
Display is bright and nice although sometimes there’s is a slight wavey flicker on the top right display. Nothing drastic and it improves once it’s warmed up.
The new ramp has a crack at the entrance where someone (maybe me) over tightened one of those little ramp flap screws. It’s mostly hidden under the flap but it’s there if you look for it.
Legs are a little rusty. Will easily clean up with a bit of tinfoil and water though. Just never got round to it. Glass has scratches.
As of now it’s A1 100% working and one of the nicest space stations I’ve ever seen.
I’d like a nice easy sale. If you’re the kind of person who wants a pic of the bulb holder under the left slingshot, we’re probably not compatible business partners. You know pinball machines, sometimes they break cos they don’t like the way you looked at them. So if it isn’t working when it arrives with you, that’s just the roll of the dice. I’ll help you as much as I can to rectify it over the phone but I don’t want a law suit filed cos the display stopped working. Sorry for the blurb but had some awkward customers in the past and heard equally bad horror stories off folks on here.
£2500 takes it. Based on the price one sold for last month which needed some niggles sorting.
Mines good to go. It’s a rare awesome 80’s time machine from the greatest era of pinball (IMO
)Martin welcome or collection from Ipswich.
Here’s a vid of me doing flipper rebuild and aux power board fix
Pics…
