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It's nice to not only hear about good thorough work like this being done on
a pin, but to occasionally see & hear that people really realize what kind
of time and effort has to go into it. We get so many "uneducated" pin
buyers that come through our showroom and only look at the price tag on a
game- never asking about, seeing, or noticing any of the work that's gone
into the game to bring it back to top condition- all of which justifies the
higher value that the game carries. And these are games that get anything
from 40 to over 100 hours of work invested in them.
So THANK YOU for understanding *and* sharing the experience of what goes on.
If more people really knew and understood what it takes to make a pin
reliable and to look, play, and work like new again, I think it would be a
much better hobby and/or business!
Even my wife who I've known for about 6+ years now- still doesn't understand
it. "You guys can have that game done in what- a week or so? That's no
problem." Well, sure, it's 40-80 hours which I personally typically squeeze
in in a week anyway but have to spread all that time out between fixing
other people's games- in the shop and out on service calls, filling &
shipping parts orders, answering the phone & making return calls, reordering
and replenishing parts inventories, playing salesman, accountant, and even
janitor. So we might have that game done in 2-3 weeks if we're lucky...
Ray J.
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Action Pinball & Amusement, LLC
Salt Lake City, Utah USA
Web: www.actionpinball.com
We're serious about pinball. Anything else is just for fun!
<seymour-shabow@excite.com> wrote in message
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> depends on a shop job. I like to shop them out myself anyway because I
> like to "tune" the machine to a very high standard. (Tune in this
> sense means that all mechanisms are working perfectly.... not modify)
> So that it plays fast - rag over playfield doesn't command $600. It's
> probably priced at $600 because they DON'T want to do it and setting a
> high price to discourage the buyer asking.
>
> It takes me about 15 minutes to do 2 bulb sockets (clean, sand, flux,
> solder base, test). They are the worst part of a "shop" job that I do
> (most people would consider this unnecessary, but every machine I've
> done this to NEVER has a bulb out unless the bulb burns out) as it
> burns the fingers horribly.
>
> I spent about 1.5 hours last night rebuilding 2 sling mechs on a medusa
> - of course part of that was spent looking for the missing wavy washers
> in my parts piles, part was cleaning the WD40 off the plungers, part
> was filling the holes in the PF that were oversized and through from a
> 3" wood screw that was holding one in......
>
> all this in the quest for a fast playing game..... for instance I will
> skip any kind of artwork repainting and might not even replace the
> mismatched target. I will skip scrubbing the cabinet.
>
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