Hello, My name is Chris.

I have a hobby.

I have an addiction ;)

So, this past weekend, I went and bought myself 13 Pinball Machines. Putting my herd up to 16 Pins! But thank goodness, not for long as I will have two collectors from Utah coming up and buying 9 of the pins, and Tyson may buy one as well.

Here’s how it all went down:

Three weeks ago, I was picking up my Killer Insinct 2 and I was talking to the soon to be laid off Tech and he said “I don’t want to piece out these pins. I’ll sell these 12 for 3k.” I asked about another pin, and he threw that in as well.

But these were EM and early SS pins! I am outta my league! So I sat on it. I showed Alan the pins, I thought about dropping the price. I posted to RGP about it. I posted to the Utah Video Game Collectors list about it.

And I sat on it.

The tech was laid off.

I went in to the op’s place, and he talked to me about selling me three of the pins for 3k. Meanwhile I had a collector in Utah start emailing me and offering to buy a majority of the pins ( I had taken pictures of the pins and he saw them in my Gallery and he liked what he saw.

So after much coaching from him, I went in to the Op and said the following

Me: Your tech offered to sell me these 13 pinball machines for 3k. I have a friend, and we are willing to pay that much for all of these pins for that much. I can give you cash today for the pins.

Him: Ahh hmmm… Well this pin, it only has cosmetic problems.

Me: And this pin is missing boards

Him: Ahh hmmm.

He looks at me, looks at the pins, looks at me, looks back at the pins.

Him: Ok, I will give them to you for that price. You are getting one heck of a deal.

Me: I know.

So then, I had to go and find any money I could to complete this deal. Now I am just waiting for the two collectors to come down from Utah this Saterday to pick up their games.

So for this brief period of time, I am the owner of 16 pinball machines!

Without much further ado here they are:

• Kiss
• Pinbot
• Pinbot
• Shaq Attaq
• Spring Break
• Solar City
• Target Alpha
• Target Alpha
• Ali
• Punk Rock
• Circuis
• Strikes n Spares
• Dr. Who
  

  So now I just need to wait till Saterday, and get some more STORAGE! ;)
  

  Oh, and he has three other pins I might try to pick up (or one or two as part as a bulk buy) (Independance Day, Johnny Menomic, or Batman Returns)
  

Well, the fishtales is “almost” finished. I had a chance to strip the playfield completely.

Let me mention one thing. I always end up with extra bolts, screws and washers. Never fails!

So I put like three rounds of Novus. I finally got the playfield cleaned. A few of the ball swirl marks (caused by dirty pinballs) wouldn’t come clean. Even wit h the Magic Erasor.

Then came the four layers of wax. I put three layers of kit wax on the playfield. Got it nice and shiny. Then I put on one layer of hard caranuga TreWax. Then I buffed it to a nice shiny look. Then it was time to start putting things back on.

I will put on a few additional photos on here. Or you can just check out the gallery

I will also put up a more detailed description later.

This past few weeks have just involved me working on my Twilight Zone Pinball Machine.

I would not recommend this to a beginner. This machine is a nightmare of optos and toys.

I have been stalling as far as putting insert decals onto the playfield. They just don’t look right. This makes me nervous because it means I have to put an additional layer of varathean or send it off to Bill Roberts to clear coat the beast, which would mean I would be paying money and striping the playfield totally.

I don’t want to do that.

So I`ll watch the “This ole Pinball” videos again to see if I can get a good idea what to do.