Received a call from a gentlemen in Vegas with a 1972 Williams Travel Time EM pinball machine. They had recently moved it across town, and the movers dropped the game off the truck. This resulted in the backbox wood cracking open, and the score glass backglass breaking into several large pieces. We were asked to fix the wood and glass problems, and repair the game to fully functional state, in the owner’s garage.

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Went to a gentlemen’s house in Las Vegas with a Dirty Harry pinball. The problem was, the kicker that loads the gun on the playfield would not stop kicking (with or without a ball.) And when it did stop, game play ended if the playfield gun was to be loaded, like the game did not know the ball was loaded into the kicker.

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Working on a Bally Playboy pinball from 1979 today. The problem was interesting… game would start up, play the intro sound, but no ball delivered to the shooter lane. None of the coils worked either.

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Working on a 1979 Gottlieb Cleopatra pinball today (solid state system1.) The owner wanted new drop targets installed. Since the targets are right dead center of the playfield, the originals were pretty beat up (and one was broken.) So indeed it was time for new targets!

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Working on a 1980 Williams Black Knight pinball for a customer in Henderson. Game was just moved, and needed to be set up. Did that and found the game to generally work well (needed a few adjustments, but noting major.) BUT there was one problem, and that was with the score displays. Instead of being “solid on” or “solid off”, they had a weird scrolling effect. See the YouTube video link below for a better view of this (hard to capture in a picture.)

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