A Thank You, and my new pinball table, Pin-Bot

[Tanooki]

I had sighted a Black Knight table and kept trying to get the owner 2 hours away to talk but his rudeness and ignoring me almost entirely was grating on me. I did a craigslist search a few days ago saw a random posting for a Classic Williams Pinball table (vague) and my eyes popped out when I saw it was Pin-Bot, the only table of that period I loved more than Black Knight and had the most time on. I immediately called the guy, he still had it (and he had refreshed it 3 days ago and had posted it 3 weeks earlier.) He's a retiree as of now, moving down south in a month, wanted to not move it if he didn't have to (but would.) Long story short, he was willing to take a mix of cash and paypal, bought it 2 days ago and my body is still paying for it (had to take it up 3 flights of spiral stairs and stairs not to mention carrying it and tear down/reassembly too.)

Cool thing to note about it -- Home use only. Never been around dirty bars, chuck e cheese or the rest. The interior has excessively minimal wear, playfield is near cherry thanks to being 100% covered in mylar everywhere including the mechanical ramp on the left and it's a solid 9/10 in quality. The exterior has a few scratch and dent issues, minor, my black touch up paint cured much of it, and the light on top work but the topper is cracked to hell (not visible from front thankfully.) Translite(back glass) has little wear to it, it's a good 9/10 too, beautiful. He never knew it, and I only found it yesterday, but the very back of the unit had the original bag of spare bulbs, fuses and bulb sockets still there and the old blue/yellow pinbot key fob too which was amazing to see.

I've been fixing up issues with it since, somehow the playfield got tilted back and right a little, made the vortex impossible to get 1/2 up to 100K killing the skill shot but I fixed that. Green light center was out as were Pinbots eyes up top, replaced (have a box of spares from Gold Ball.) Orange light top left out, fixed that, and the wiring popped on the sensor on the blue ramp near it and resoldered that too. Owners (both) never cleaned the interior much if ever, had to wipe all the dust out and the black trails of funk off every rollable area with Novus 2 then 1 to polish it smooth. Currently on the to-do list is superficial mostly. The big one is the test switch someone pulled 3 wires, no idea where to re attach those, then the tilt bobber bob is gone(pole there) and the ball in the tilt ramp is gone too both easily replaced for under $10.

Thanks to anyone and everyone who picked up one of my gaming items off me from here, Racketboy and the big spenders last night on ebay too. It's amazing what just a few easily emulated or everdrive(n) overpriced NES and SNES carts can get you.

[fastbilly1]

Wow thats clean, have you waxed it yet?

[Nintendork666]

That's a sexy table.

Congrats dude!

I've always wanted a table of my own.

[marurun]

Did you mean to imply that you overcharged Racketboy members with that last comment, there? Cause those who bought might not appreciate that, especially given how much you complain about others overcharging for stuff.

[Nintendork666]

He's likely just alluding to the fact that most games are overpriced in general as of late.

[Tanooki]

No I implied what he said just above, game prices have got out of control so I got out of it. And I decided since it went downhill and I'm tired of being down about it, I put the money to good use is all.

I quit buying old console Nintendo games on ebay coming up in a few months 2 years ago as I got over it. I switched over to vintage toys, lego, buying the laptop I picked up December to do PC gaming again, and then pinball. This was in a way like that other thread here of a member going cold turkey and dumping stuff. This was my light dump of the expensive stuff I mostly had, but I am keeping games I bought at retail in the day that have aged well plus about 5-10% I did not I like too much. He wanted a house, I wanted a pinball table.

Two people bought from me here. One got a spendy game around 25% off the going rate. The other got a stack of good guides and a game with it, reduced the price, and threw in a free guide too. I was fair.

[Tanooki]

Fastbilly - Thanks! And no I have not. I'm a pin noob. I'm not familiar with all that. I've used both on this and Gold Ball a healthy amount of both Novus 2 to clean where needed (GB needed it badly, many times) and then a few coats of Novus 1 to polish it nice and pretty (it really sped up gold ball.) Is waxing really needed on mylar? Every area of the wood that ball could ever touch has it applied.

Thanks too NIntendork.


Today I went into marcosupplies website and picked up the missing little things I needed new plunger rubber tip(2), tilt ball (2), tilt plumb(bobber.) They ship priority mail, hoping it pops up Friday otherwise Saturday.

[mjmjr25]

That's fine and it's really cool you got the pin - I think if you'll re-read the part you bolded (which adds even more emphasis) that in one breath you say thanks for buying...and in the next breath you say...overpriced games. It has a sour ring to it - but you've clarified, so all is good. Congrats on the pin.

[Bradtemple87]

Sweet pin pickup! I plan to get one when space allows.

[Jmustang1968]

No I implied what he said just above, game prices have got out of control so I got out of it. And I decided since it went downhill and I'm tired of being down about it, I put the money to good use is all.

I quit buying old console Nintendo games on ebay coming up in a few months 2 years ago as I got over it. I switched over to vintage toys, lego, buying the laptop I picked up December to do PC gaming again, and then pinball. This was in a way like that other thread here of a member going cold turkey and dumping stuff. This was my light dump of the expensive stuff I mostly had, but I am keeping games I bought at retail in the day that have aged well plus about 5-10% I did not I like too much. He wanted a house, I wanted a pinball table.

Two people bought from me here. One got a spendy game around 25% off the going rate. The other got a stack of good guides and a game with it, reduced the price, and threw in a free guide too. I was fair.

You came off the price you were asking which was nice, but I think the final price is about the going rate, not 25% less