PINBALL: Pinball Repair Guides. Collector buys pinball, arcade, coin operated sport games, baseball pitch bat, manikin mannequin games

THIS OLD PINBALL DVDs on pinball repair! Shows how to fix, restore broken games.

Games Wanted.

I am looking for the following games to restore for my personal collection (I really don't sell games). If you have any of the following coin operated games for sale, please email me at cfh@provide.net

I Repair, Collect, Buy Pinball & Coin Operated Games!

In-Home Pinball Repair Service - I can FIX your game!
I do pinball service & repair in your home (no need to move that machine). In-the-home pinball repair & service done in the Detroit, Southeast Michigan, NE Ohio and surrounding areas (Grosse Pointe to Walled Lake to Jackson to Ann Arbor to Monroe to Bloomfield Hills to to Toledo Ohio to Flint to Port Huron to Kalamazoo). Click here for more info on In-Home pinball repair and pinball service.

I Buy Old and Broken Coin-Operated Games (Pinball and Non-Video games).
I collect and restore coin operated games, especially from the 1930s to 1970s. This includes pinballs, coin operated sports and arcade games (no video games), and 1990s and newer pinballs. These are the machines I restore and collect. If you have any for sale, in any condition, please email me at cfh@provide.net for more info. This is my hobby, not a business. I'm located near Ann Arbor, Michigan (Southeast Michigan), but I can pick up a machine from just about anywhere in the U.S. and Ontario, Canada. Check out some of my 1950s, 1960s and 1970s restored vintage pinball machines.

Pinball games wanted:

Grand Slam (Gottlieb 1953)

Twin Bill (Gottlieb 1955)

Harbor Lites (Gottlieb 1956)

Roto Pool (Gottlieb 1958)

Skyway (Williams 1954)

Thunderbird (Williams 1954)

Sports games wanted:
Midget Skee Ball (CCM)
League Leader (Keeney)
Texas Leaguer (Keeney)
Basketball Champ (CCM)
K.O. Champ (Mutoscope)
37 World Series (Rockola)
Play Ball (Evans 1941)
Bat-a-Score (Evans 1948)
Quarterback (Genco 1957)
Batter Up (CCM 1958)
Mini Golf (Williams 1964)

Arcade games wanted:
Motorama (Genco)
Space Age (Genco)
Jet Fighter (Williams)

Bowling games wanted:
Midget Skee Ball (CCM)
In the Barrel (Evans 1940)
Ski-Ball (Evans 1940)
Skee-Ball-Ette (Gottlieb '40)
Roll in the Barrel (Jennings)
Skee Jump (Scientific)

*Coin-Operated Game Info:*
	TOPcast Hear about pinball history by the people involved, and in their own words and voice! TOPcast is a series of downloadable MP3 podcast files with interviews of pinball designers and engineers - The people that have brought their pinball ideas to the marketplace.
	TOPcast Video Thirty minute downloadable videos for the beginner gameroom enthusiast. Includes things like: how to take the pinball top glass off, how to move a pinball game, basic pinball evolution, how to clean the pinball playing surface and rubber, basic information on other game room equipment (slot machines, gun games, bowler, etc), and much more.
	1930s to 1970s Penny Arcade Games Tons of information and pictures on EM arcade games, fortune tellers, driving games, diggers/cranes, gun games and sports games.
	Pitch & Bat Baseball, Sports, Manikin, Mechanical Animation Games Games. Tons of information and pictures on Pitch & Bat Baseball, Manikin and other mechanical animation sports games from the 1940s to present.
	Bowling Alley & Shuffle Alley Games, 1949-1990s Tons of information and pictures on bowling games from 1949 to the 1990s.
	Gottlieb Pinball Evolution 1947-1979 Chronologic information, pictures & features of Gottlieb flipper pinball games from their classic era.
	Williams Game Evolution 1943-1960 Chronologic information, pictures & features of Williams pinball and arcade games from their classic era.
	Penny Arcade Pictures Pictures of old arcades. A step back in time!

*Coin-Op Game Repair Guides:*
	Beginning Pinball Repair Read before working on a pinball or a pinball circuit board!
	1977-1984 Williams System 3 to System 7 Repair Guide Games from Hot Tip to Star Light, including Black Knight, Firepower, Gorgar, Flash.
	1985-1990 Williams System 11 & 9 Pinball Repair Guide Games like High Speed, Space Shuttle, etc.
	1990-1999 Williams/Bally WPC Pinball Repair Guide Games from Funhouse to Cactus Canyon.
	Williams Pinball 2000 Repair Guide Fixing the most advanced pinball system ever.
	1987-1995 DataEast/Sega Pinball Repair Guide Games from Laser War to Batman Forever.
	1977-1985 Bally/Stern Pinball Repair Guide Classic Bally games like Kiss, Xenon, and 8 Ball.
	1985-1989 Bally 6803 Pinball Repair Guide Bally games like Strange Science, Party Animal, etc.
	1930s to 1978 EM (Electro-Mechanical) Repair Guide Guide for fixing electro-mechanical coin operated games of all types including pinballs, bowlers, pitch & bats, etc made before 1978.
	1978-1980 Gottlieb System 1 Pinball Repair Guide Game such as Joker Poker and Incredible Hulk.
	1980-1989 Gottlieb System 80 Pinball Repair Guide Game such as Haunted House and Black Hole.
	1989-1996 Gottlieb System3 Pinball Repair Guide Repair information for 1989 to 1996 Gottlieb solidstate pinballs like Stargate and Cueball Wizard.
	1978-1985 Gameplan Pinball Repair Guide Game Plan games like Sharpshooter, etc.
	Capcom Pinball Repair Guide Problems and solutions for all Capcom pinballs.
	Atari Pinball Repair Guide Problems and solutions for all Atari pinballs.

*Coin-Op Restoration Guides:*
	Pinball Restoration Guide Includes touching up the backglass and playfield, and general tips on restoring a pinball game. Includes clear-coating a playfield with Varathane.
	Clear Coating Playfields with Automotive Clears An extension of the above Restoration document. Describes "diamond plating" a playfield using Automotive clears (opposed to Varathane, as described above).
	Playfield Touchup (1971 Gottlieb 2001) An extension of the above Restoration documents. Shows how a very worn playfield can be cleaned, touched up, and restored. Also shows how to reset sunken playfield lamp inserts.
	Playfield Touchup (1975 Gottlieb Quickdraw) An extension of the above Restoration documents. Shows how a very worn playfield can be cleaned, touched up, and restored.
	Playfield Touchup (1975 Gottlieb Gold Strike) An extension of the above Restoration documents. Shows how a very worn playfield can be cleaned, touched up, and restored.
	Playfield Touchup (1976 Gottlieb Jacks Open) An extension of the above Restoration documents. Shows how a very worn playfield can be cleaned, touched up, and restored. Also shows how to reset sunken playfield lamp inserts.
	Playfield Touchup (1973 Gottlieb King Pin) An extension of the above Restoration documents. Shows how a very worn playfield can be cleaned, touched up, and restored. Also show how to use water slide decals for playfield touchups.
	Plastic Ramp Repair and Protection Instructions for fixing and protecting plastic ramps on late model games.
	Vacuum Forming Plastic Game Parts Instructions for making your own game parts using a home-made vacuum form. Great for older games where game-specific parts can not be found. Also shows how to make your own custom water-slide decals.
	Gottlieb Roto-Target Restoration Instructions for re-facing your worn Gottlieb roto-targets.

*Other Stuff:*
	Pinball Connector Information Info on connectors used in Solidstate pinball games.
	Upgrading Your Bally 1996 Scared Stiff Pinball Instructions to customize your game.
	Twilight Zone "Slot Target" Modifications This target gets hammered; here's some solutions.
	Resistor Color Band decoder Resistor values and their color bands.
	Video Game Conversions/Repair The documents that started it all here at Marvin's! Multi game Pacman conversion instructions, etc.
	Detroit Area Pinball Charity Work Helped by supplying local non-profits with games for their parties. Not as easy to do now because of game storage issues, but in the past we've been able to help.
	Suggested Coin-Op Parts & Repair Sources Places to buy game related parts, manuals, etc. and professional repair people.

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10/01/08, cfh@provide.net
Disclaimer: These repair guide documents for fixing/restoring coin operated games are a best effort on my part. However, I screw up now and then, so it would be unwise to trust the contents in its entirety. And if you do something silly based on what I say, well please don't blame me.

Guide History. These guides originally because as a series of notes and tips which I gathered from many sources (yes I also did a lot of research on my own too!) After a short while, friends would ask for copies and make suggestion, enemies would critize them, and overall the guides evolved and got better because of it. As new information becomes available, I add it. Hopefully this process will continue for the foreseeable future.

Why Free? These guides are free because I want people to use them. The more people use them, and the more it helps them, then the more inclined I am to keep it up to date. For this reason, if you find the guides useful, please tell your friends. These guides are free, rather than formally published, because I want to deliver the best product possible. If it was published, I would not be able to get to market so quickly. I find that as information and new idea develop, timeliness is important. Also since it's available for free, I am under no pressure to make the guides "marketable". I simply include whatever I think might be useful.

In-Home Pinball Repair and Service, Michigan and Northwest Ohio.

Check out the SANP web page too, for a distraction of how these arcade games can be used.