Pinball North West

16/11/2022

Nice little job at a lovely customer's home yesterday. His Data East Jurassic Park wasn't giving a game, complaining about missing balls and sometimes, mid-game, resetting to game over.

After several hours of fascinating work, this growling beast is now working perfectly and looking great with a clean and new rubbers!

03/11/2022

Finally! Repairs and restoration complete on this lovely ST25 🥓

06/05/2022

Our nice little summer restoration project. Possibly my favourite machine, ever, rescued from the skip (not quite, but you get the idea)

Williams Black Knight (BK). I spent more in one of these than I paid for this relic (and it wasn't cheap!). Just give me 6 months and a grand or two...

19/03/2022

Good advice!

03/03/2022

A few more fixes on this Addams Family today. In limited time we cleaned out the under-playfield ball trough (which was filthy!), fitted a swamp mod (the green illumination in the first two pics), fixed the broken diverter in the left return lane and heroically replaced a faulty mechanism on the left flipper.

We'll be back again in a few weeks to fit a remote battery box to the CPU board and replace some crusty old star posts. Nice machine, this one!

02/03/2022

Today was quite a long one with a mixed outcome. This '94 Maverick wasn't booting but it's now playing pinball again and looking a lot cleaner and well-looked-after, but there's a sound board issue that we couldn't resolve on the day. Such a shame, but sometimes it takes more than one visit after more research... nice game!

02/03/2022

Yesterday's work on this lovely High Roller Casino which we've worked on before. We fitted some beautiful new transparent hemispherical targets which are out of stock everywhere apart from Pinball Mania, so thanks, guys!

28/02/2022

Fixing a gentleman's STTNG today and cured the sound failure with a replacement board. New trough optos and 3 flipper bats have completed a modernising of this machine and probably added about £1000 to its value.

28/12/2021

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21/12/2021

Our 2nd job today was to fix the dodgy Mini Playfield on this lovely, clean Doctor Who (1992ish), clean only because we've previously cleaned it thoroughly and repaired multiple faults!

Anyway the MPF seems ok after reseating the fuses and power-board connectors so we used the time to do a Treasure Cove job on the tired, dull playfield. Look at the difference between the first 2 pics... Yazoo! 😆

21/12/2021

Very interesting machine to work on today, look at this, a Williams Fun Fest from 1972, wow!

It lives, but sadly we didn't manage to fix it on this visit so there's "no charge" today. A little more homework is needed and it's all great experience.