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If the price is fair, I send the full offer. If the price is too high but they don't say that they're firm on the price, I send what I feel is fair. If the price is too high and they state that the price is firm, they won't hear from me. I'll wait until they update their listing. On the other side ...

Follow up: hey folks, it’s a fire sale over there right now. They’re aggressively discounting playfields and other items in order to clear out their space, so if there’s a project that you’ve been on the fence about, you’d better order it now. By the time you want to do it, you might not be able to.

That’s big news. I’m glad to see that they’ll be continuing to reproduce playfields. I guess the whole “on demand” thing that they were hyping with the new printing tech never really panned out, if they’re going to allow titles to be “sold out” after a launch period. Once they stopped screen printing ...

Amazing! Don’t know how I would do restorations without you!

Unpacked a great big order from Marco Specialties for all of the current ongoing projects. I seem to do one order a year from them, and every time, they screw something up. This time was no different; they sent me 25 of the wrong coil sleeves. Waiting on their solution; I really don’t want to have t ...

So I bid on some items, but it's definitely not a silent auction: I can see the bid history and who bid on the items!

Busy week this week auditting the repair/restoration work necessary on an Elektra that I picked up last summer. Four pages of notes of things that need to be worked on. Took the notes, made a spreadsheet, and spent the better part of a paycheque ordering replacement parts. Elektra is an interesting ...

Thanks a bunch!

If anyone stumbles across this later and is in need of a decent playfield for any of the above titles, please reach out. All three are quite nice, and while they have a good home, they’ll have an even better home inside a playable machine.

Literally nothing desirable about fluorescent tubes.

They’re not efficient, they don’t look as nice as either incandescents or LEDs, and they’re a pain in the arse to dispose.

I’m pretty happy to make fluorescent tubes history.

Sending you a DM.

I finally finished this Mata Hari project that I’ve had on the back burner for a couple of years now.

I’m going to give it a good home for a few months until I get around to listing it for sale.

I'd get a quote from B&N Transmission on Gladstone. I've found their pricing far more reasonable than the dealer and they've always done top notch work.

For your last question, they were definitely never intended to be high fidelity. They were intended to be reliable with as few parts as possible, and never powered off. That said, recapping with parts from digikey shouldn’t be that expensive. Sure, big body caps with terminal screws are pricey, but i ...

Sending you a DM

Looking for either a reproduction set of Elektra plastics, or any original unbroken pieces that surround the upper playfield.

Centek out at St. Laurent and Walkley does this sort of work and so does Hi-Tronics. That said, through-hole re-capping is one of the easiest electronics repairs you can do; for under $50 you can buy every tool you need to learn. Now... one thing about graphic eqs on jukeboxes that you should know ...

Backglass typically isn’t tempered.

Mike Pacak has the manual if you don't find it online: http://pinballmike.com/product.asp?id=6496

Yeah it’s probably not controversial to say that the multimorphic folks are way cooler in every possible way than JJP.

BTW if it’s a game you would never be associated with…. Why are you lurking in the Pinside hype thread?? This is MAACA, a discussion forum for pinball and arcade enthusiasts. I am an enthusiast, and I’m going to discuss things I’m enthusiastic about on it. Also, implying I’m dishonest because I link ...

Back on topic with the thread: someone did an analysis of the game’s art and it turns out to be some pretty heinously bad AI generated slop: https://tiltforums.com/t/jjp-harry-potter-and-the-order-of-ai-a-visual-analysis/9662 Imagine dropping $15K on it and receiving this. Yikes. Jersey Jack seems t ...

Mike, I'm going to ask you, as a friend, not to put the rights of my family and close friends as merely the product of polarizing political attitudes. They're real people; let's not lose sight of that. There's no separating the art from the artist here. The artist uses proceeds of the sale of that ...

That’s not entirely accurate, Mike. Licensing normally works on a royalty basis, per sale of machine. The more sales, the more royalties. In this case, a significant portion of each new game purchased can definitely be shown to fund real world organizations that actively lobby to harm trans people — ...

I like fixing games more than I like playing them, and I love playing them. It works out.

Yeah! It’s still playing great! Sorted out a couple more connector issues this morning. Gonna have to order a couple of triacs for the playfield GI. The old stud mount ones at the bottom have been bypassed and probably for good reason. The legs on one have been soldered together and that’s usually a ...