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| I Buy, Collect, Repair Pinball & Coin Operated Games! |
| I Buy Coin-Operated Games (Buying Pinball Machines and Non-Video games!) I collect and restore coin operated games, especially from the 1930s to present. I'm buying pinball machines (from any era old or new), coin operated sports and arcade games (no video games), and 1990s and newer pinballs, working or broken. 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. Generally pay anywhere from $100 to $5000 for a game (title/condition dependant.) Located near Novi, 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 to present restored pinball machines. In-Home Pinball Repair
Service - I can FIX your game! Mail-in circuit board repair and Parts here. |
Pinball games wanted: Skyway
(Williams 1954)Thunderbird
(Williams 1954)Grand Slam
(Gottlieb 1953)Twin Bill
(Gottlieb 1955)Harbor Lites
(Gottlieb 1956)Roto Pool
(Gottlieb 1958)Sports
games wanted: Arcade
games wanted: Bowling
games wanted:
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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. |
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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. |
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Bowling Alley & Shuffle Alley Games, 1949-1990s Tons of information and pictures on bowling games from 1949 to the 1990s. |
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Gottlieb Pinball Evolution
1947-1979 Chronologic information, pictures & features of Gottlieb flipper pinball games from their classic era. |
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Williams Game
Evolution 1943-1960 Chronologic information, pictures & features of Williams pinball and arcade games from their classic era. |
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Penny Arcade Pictures Pictures of old arcades. A step back in time! |
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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. |
| Pinball & Coin-Op Game Repair Guides: | |
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Beginning Pinball Repair Read before working on a pinball or a pinball circuit board! |
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1930s to 1978 EM (Electro-Mechanical) Pinball Repair Guide Guide for fixing electro-mechanical coin operated games of all types including repairing pinballs, bowlers, pitch & bats, etc. made before 1978. |
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1978-1980 Gottlieb System 1 Pinball Repair Guide Game such as Joker Poker and Incredible Hulk. |
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Pinball Online Webzine All the info on pinball repair making your head spin? Need to know more about new games and events? Want an online pinball magazine with updates several times a week? Well the Pinball Ninja's pinball webzine is to the rescue! The Ninja will show how repair info is applied in real life situations, and the thinking process involved. Game and show reviews too. Join the Pinball Ninja daily for repair tips and tricks and other commentary. The Ninja reports and blogs every few days, with repairs and detailed pictures, cataloged by system type (for easy reference.) There are over 600 specific game repairs from EMs to Solidstate, and review and news articles, with more added each week. Note the Ninja is only available to those that have donated to this site. |
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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. |
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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). |
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Playfield Touchup (1963 Gottlieb Slick Chick) An extension of the above Restoration documents. Shows the playfield finish restoration of a game that was left for 30 years in an open barn and no top glass. Raccoon damage to the playfield finish. Different format as this is documented at our pinball repair blog at MichPinball.com/blog |
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Playfield Touchup (1977 Gottlieb Jetspin) An extension of the above Restoration documents. Shows the playfield finish restoration of a lightly worn but very dirty game that is cleaned, touched up, and clearcoated. |
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Playfield Touchup (1973 Gottlieb Jumpin Jack) An extension of the above Restoration documents. Shows the mechanical restoration of the under-playfield components, and how a lightly worn playfield can be cleaned, touched up, and clearcoated. Also shows how to Replace Gottlieb Drop Targets. |
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Playfield Touchup (1975 Gottlieb Fast Draw) An extension of the above Restoration documents. Shows how a very worn playfield can be cleaned, touched up, and restored. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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Plastic Ramp Repair and Protection Instructions for fixing and protecting plastic ramps on late model games. |
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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. |
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Gottlieb Roto-Target Restoration Instructions for re-facing your worn Gottlieb roto-targets. |
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Pinball Connector Information Info on connectors used in Solidstate pinball games. |
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Resistor Color Band decoder Resistor values and their color bands. |
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Video Game Conversions/Repair The documents that started it all here at PinRepair Multi game Pacman conversion instructions, etc. |
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Suggested Coin-Op Parts & Repair Sources Places to buy game related parts, manuals, etc. and professional repair people. |