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Electro-Mechanical Pinball Restoration Service
We are now offering a flat rate restoration service for your electro-mechanical pinball machine.
Most, it not all of these bell-ringer machines have become pretty worn in and are in bad need of attention. Often, they sit for years without being turned on.
We can get your machine back to beautiful again without breaking the bank – all while maintaining value..
When we’re done, you will be proud to display this machine in your living room.
What Machines
Bally / Midway pinball machines from 1970’s
Gottlieb pinball machines from the 1970’s
a) You can bring us your machine (or we can pick it up), and within 3 weeks (typical), you will get back a fully transformed game.
b) You can ask us to find a game for you and perform this service. Service price does not include the purchase cost of the machine.
Note: pinball machines must be complete without parts missing. Please, no fire or water damaged units.
What You Get
Our flat rate service includes:
- Full sand down of cabinet and back box
- Wood repair, panel replacement (as necessary) cabinet and back box
- 3 step paint process (base coat and 2 color hand created stencil painting)
- New coin door and trim
- New coin entry and trim
- New and updated chrome legs, levelers and bolts
- new shooter assembly (if equipped)
- new flippers and all linkages
- new LED lighting
- new targets (if available and equipped)
- new pop bumper assemblies (if equipped)
- new rubber
- new plastic star posts
- new lights
- cleaning and repair of artwork plastic. New slingshot plastic if available
- new lane guides
- full disassembly top side of playfield for cleaning and inspection
- Paint repair on playfield
- Deep gloss buffing and restoration. (see note for damaged playfields)
- Stealth mylar on high wear areas
- New ball(s)
- hand paint repair of backglass and then sealed
- New coil sleeves
- New coils (if damaged or out of spec)
- All contacts disassembled, filed and cleaned. No more flaky operation
- All motors, wheels etc cleaned and lubricated according to manufacturer specification
- Free local delivery and setup
- 90 day in-home warranty (in the l0cal delivery area) – which is 60 days longer than new machines today!
Extra Charge Options:
- New artwork plastics (if available) – price may vary
- playfield restoration and clearcoat service ($600+)
- New backglass (if available)
Generally, time to completion is 3-4 weeks from time of pickup/purchase of the pinball machine. Time may vary due to hard to find parts or extra work requested.
Note: we also have flat rate packages for 1980’s early solid state machines and 1990’s modern solid state machines… inquire today
NBA Fastbreak (Bally 1997) Pinball
As one of the last efforts by Bally and Williams (also known as Midway) to keep pinball alive was to create new and involving pinball machines. The NBA Fastbreak is the only basketball themed pinball machine by the masters of pinball. Recently Stern came out with an NBA pinball machine, but many view it as an inferior knock off.
This NBA Fastbreak has a very unique mechanical backbox where it shoots baskets while you play, and in one mode, you control the action of both the backbox and real game. Not many pinball machines use the backbox for anything else but score.
Additionally, this machine has dual scoring (pinball score and baskets), which make this one of the best multi-player pinball games ever. Typically, pinball machines are best played as single player, but have the option for up to 4 players. This machine plays BEST with more than one player. Of course it has all the great features of modern pinball such as multiple multi-ball modes and missions to accomplish. Play at around midnight each night for a completely awesome surprise and chance to score big points.
Fully restored to like-new condition.
Backbox: a couple paint blemishes but no damage at all. All corners are perfect.
Cabinet: no fade. There is a small chip in the center bottom where it appears the prior owner removed an aftermarket sticker improperly and nicked the cabinet. It will be un-noticeable when we paint match the issue. Also, there is a small chunk of wood missing under the right rear leg. It is completely covered with the leg on.
Playfield: literally perfect. Zero damage or wear. Even the inlane and outlanes look brand new. See pictures.
Only 4414 units were ever made and this gem as become very hard to find now that people are on to how great this machine is.
Restoration
This machine was generally in good condition when we purchased it, but it still had plenty of issues. Apparently the operator borrowed pieces from this machine to service another, so we had to re-purchase all of those parts to make it whole again. Sometimes, I wonder what they were thinking.
- Full tear down and rebuild
- All ramps flame polished
- All new pop bumpers – these were destroyed
- many new VUKs
- new defender plastic
- new slingshot plastic
- new balls
- new rubber in white
- LED conversion
- repair of backbox mechanism
- replaced trough assembly
- replaced slingshot assembly
- repaired left ramp (around the back jam shot). This ramp is always cracked at the basket, and currently no new parts are available. When this ramp goes back into reproduction, this game will be flawless.
- repaired scoring LED circuit
- repaired various optos in the player-pass mechanisms
- refinished coindoor with new lock
- new legs and hardware
** We can also give this machine the Castle Classic Arcade exclusive
under cabinet LED flash kit for unbelieveable 16 color flash effect **
Pictures
Stern (2000 DMD) Sharkey’s Shootout Pinball
This very rare pinball machine is actually a re-release or modernization of Bally’s legendary pinball machine: Eight Ball Deluxe. Sharkey’s updates are obvious: DMD, multiball, modern cabinet, better lighting and effects etc.
This is the most modern pool themed pinball machine created, and with the aid of Incredible Technologies (the makers of Golden Tee and Silver Strike Bowling), was designed with high quality parts and improved game play. Actual production numbers of this machine are not quite known, but expected to be less than 2000 world wide! However, since this is a STERN product, parts and service will always be available for this machine.
Restoration:
See our restoration blog on this machine
Additional Upgrades:
- Full LED conversion ($350 value)
- Backbox color changing backbox upgrade/conversion ($100 value)
- New DMD display ($150 value)
Williams (1994 DMD) No Fear Pinball
Steve Ritchie and Williams pinball go back a long way. His award winning designs include:
- Firepower (1980 Williams)
- Defender (Co-concept with E. Jarvis) (1980 Williams)
- Black Knight (1980 Williams)
- Hyperball (1981 Williams)
- Devastator (1983 Williams Video Game)
- High Speed (1985 Williams)
- F-14 Tomcat (1987 Williams)
- Black Knight 2000 (1989 Williams)
- Rollergames (1990 Williams)
- Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991 Williams)
- High Speed II – The Getaway (1992 Williams)
- Star Trek: The Next Generation (1993 Williams)
- No Fear: Dangerous Sports (1995 Williams)
Restoration
This No Fear was left alone in the dark for awhile, but that’s good for you! The result is a well preserved original playfield and cabinet.
We fully disassembled this machine and worked on literally every part to bring this back to life.
- Every board was removed, re-soldered, repaired as necessary and tested. All wiring labeled and tested. CPU board is trouble free without any battery corrosion damage. Nice!!
- Each ramp removed, flame polished (including the subway ramp under the playfield), polished and repaired as necessary. The main ramp typically gets hairline cracks from the impact of the jump ramp and heat damage from the electro-magnet accelerators.
- Talking skull fully disassembled, re-aligned and new micro coil/sleeve assembly inserted. Custom red LED eyes and blue skull flashers used. It’s awesome.
- Entire playfield stripped, detailed, waxed. No wear. No Fear!
- All new rubbers (white), including yellow ramp post rubber. You have to fully disassemble this machine to get to all the rubbers. Many people just do the ones you can see and reach with simple tools (not us).
- All optics cleaned and tested. This machine uses a lot of optical sensors.
- New coil sleeves on high wear items such as drop target and shooter/kickback.
- New shooter and kickback
- New No Fear button (with LED)
- New switch on drop target.
- Rebuilt coin door
- Full custom LEDs in backbox, playfield and front buttons. A MUST for this machine.
- New flippers, linkages, and all associated parts. Including the custom JUMP RAMP flipper. Most people ignore this.
- New slingshot plastics. All other plastics are excellent.
WWF Royal Rumble (Data East 1994 DMD Widebody) Pinball
We’ve restored a couple of these machines over the years, and every time it sells, we get calls to find another.
Update – Ready for purchase today!
Restoration
- Beautiful wide body cabinet and back box With little to no damage
- Play field has no wear
- Cliffy scoop hole protectors added
- Full LED conversion
- Under cabinet LED flash lighting effects
- Legs and coin door restored
- Cabinet protectors