Salt and Vinegar. Your eyes must water, your nostrils must flare, tears of vinegar joy!

I grew up in the Springy/Noble Park area.  From my memory as a kid, I remember it seemed it was a 50/50 mix of shit from hong kong and stuff that come out of the Sydney/NSW area.

hi mate, I'm from melbourne, lived in london for 5 years now I live in the usa. Where in Melbourne do you live?

whats prices/parts availability like down there?

hello southern maryland from central va!

as a kid I remember getting an Astro Wars, which was cool. It had a VFD so the graphics were 'fixed', but bright and colourful. thing was awesome. wikipedia says 1981 which would be right in my memory.

http://www.handheldmuseum.com/Grandstand/Astro.htm

Time to fix 35 years of crap with a little refurb






first pass buffing 35 years of shit off



shiny!


out with the old coil wrapper and in with the new




looking good!


replacement leaf switches are too blooming expensive (12$ each). time to make a shim for a $1 microswitch




niiiiice


Can't make a custom Skyrim pinball without Bears!

he needs to do a shootout of every version of donkey kong on every 8bit home system of the time, c64/2600/speccy/ti99/trash80

Added a data East and a Paragon pin last week
!

paragon is awesome!

there is a great Paragon restore going on here;
http://pinballinfo.com/community/threads/adventures-in-budget-restoration-1978-bally-paragon.6519/

dewalt protective goggles, $10 http://www.amazon.com/dp/B000RKQ1NI/
3m respirator, $10, http://www.amazon.com/dp/B000FTEDMM/

you can use vapour carts for really strong chemicals, http://www.amazon.com/dp/B000XBKLLE/

and for sanding + painting you can use the cheap pads

3m filter pads http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0013Z0TV6/
the pads require the two attachment pieces http://www.amazon.com/dp/B009POHIRK/ and this http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00065UJ0U/

I have a silly question, since its a virtual pin why does it need a coin door, coinmechs etc and all the other  'real' hardware? its not going to have real flippers, real tilt, real plunger etc why do you need a real coindoor or coinmechs?

anyway, I assume if you have a jpac, you can just wire up the coin mech to it, like any other switch. that would bring it to pinmame or whatever software to require 'coins' to play, I assume you can do it that way.

vga monitors are 31khz.

old cga or amiga monitors can take 15khz. some sony broadcast monitors can do it.

also check the GBS8220 converter

myedc is a crkt m16-00k tanto blade edge, no serrations.

in my workbag I keep a Kobalt Quick-Change Folding Lockback Knife, one of those box cutter blade ones. very handy.

I think you have some VERY unrealistic expectations about sound in early 80s pins.

if you think BOP is going to be boring and repetative, welcome to the pins pre dmd. everything on your list is going to be boring and repetative.

so.. to you

paragon is boring, space shuttle is boring, high speed is boring? holy shit dude.

good luck in your search, because what you want does not exist. 

for me, bride of pinbot would be out because of the shitty scoring (the billion point shot) just makes it no-fun.

xenon sound drives me insane.

tx sector is fun.

for me I'd be looking at

fathom, centaur, high speed, sorceror, space shuttle, paragon, etc

gorgar + firepower are fantastic pins. great playing. gorgar's sound is phenomenal. its a product of its era. gorgar was ground breaking. it was 1979!

it sounds like your expecting far more than these machines ever had.

sounds like youd be fine with any 80s made solid state machine. just depends on how much you want to spend and what kind of condition machine you are looking for.