Garage Pin Season

[mrmikeman]

I sold my garage games last year. No more garage gameroom for me…

[Sparky]

Well, Dolly is going downstairs, and so is Big Run. Farfalla leaving soon. That leaves Laser Ball for a bit, I guess.

[Dave W.]

Summer is around the corner... What ya'll got set up in the garage? Always puts a smile on my face when I can pop open the garage door and play a few games on a nice evening!

[mrmikeman]

Had 1 garage game but it’s now packed up in the suv to bring to the new owner at Pinfest.

[Sparky]

No garage game in the house... yet. Keeping the space to work on games. But, for me, summer starts on June 29th. I have a game planned for around that time.

And it rocks hard.

[pixote]

Well, Dolly is going downstairs, and so is Big Run. Farfalla leaving soon. That leaves Laser Ball for a bit, I guess.

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What's wrong with Farfalla? Don't like it? I've always wanted it just for the PF art but have never actually played it

[Dave W.]

No garage game in the house... yet. Keeping the space to work on games. But, for me, summer starts on June 29th. I have a game planned for around that time.

And it rocks hard.

"HEAVY!!!!"

[mrmikeman]

Damn. Looks like I may have a garage game for the summer after all. Picked up a non-working project at Pinfest.

[Guard]

Damn. Looks like I may have a garage game for the summer after all. Picked up a non-working project at Pinfest.

And a thank you to you and your friend for working on games that went down st Ontario Pinfest last weekend.

[mrmikeman]

Damn. Looks like I may have a garage game for the summer after all. Picked up a non-working project at Pinfest.

And a thank you to you and your friend for working on games that went down st Ontario Pinfest last weekend.

Just wish we could have got those 2 games up and running. That Panthera though. WTFF.

For those who want to know:
We were trying to find a short in the coil power chain. Machine is OFF. We're just standing at the game talking about the plan to figure out where the short is and sparks start flying in the cabinet at the line filter and also the ground bus. I can't turn the game off - it's ALREADY off!! Open the backbox and discover that the driverboard went into self-destruct mode. 25% of it was now burnt to a crisp and traces lifted off the board too. I still can't figure this out. EDIT: After checking online I think the line filter may have just died by short and channeled AC onto the ground. It's the only explanation that could validate what we saw.

P.S. for those thinking we should have just unplugged the game it was in a tight lineup with no access to the power cord. We obviously did unplug it but the damage was done. OMG this game was hacked to hell under the playfield. Thought I had seen everything. I was wrong.

[Dave W.]

Damn. Looks like I may have a garage game for the summer after all. Picked up a non-working project at Pinfest.

Nice pick up!
Will give you something to look forward to on a nice evening

[Guard]

Weird thing about that Panthera is it worked fine for me for a year and about 18 months for Joe who bought it off of me.

Then the pop bumpers went out and it snowballed from there right to the light show that you got.
Corey Cooke bought it to take back to London to take the time to figure out what was done to it.

[mrmikeman]

Damn. Looks like I may have a garage game for the summer after all. Picked up a non-working project at Pinfest.

Nice pick up!
Will give you something to look forward to on a nice evening

I bought an Alltek board to get the game working and fixed as necessary while I fix the original board. Fixed a few issues already - dead displays, row of switches not working. To do: 4 controlled lamps need attention-2 stuck on and 2 dead bulbs, 2 displays are garbled. Games has 4-5 leds rest are still incandescent.