January 26th, 2010
Busy Saturday. Delivered a GTB Stock Car restoration to a customer’s home. Replaced a missing coil in a recently purchased TSPP for another customer. Continued work on a Creature from the Black Lagoon and a Kiss duet at another customer, and cleaned up and eliminated a continuous scoring problem on a Star Trek for another.
The Kiss needed a new power cord before I could start trouble shooting it at all. Took me a while to figure that out. The cord was trapped between the head and the body. Then it worked out it needed a new driver board. Sent that out to Coin Service Technology for repair.
The Bally Star Trek had a couple of shorted switch capacitors that were causing the switch to score continuously. Readily apparent once in switch test mode, but not so apparent just visually inspecting the switches. Gave it a clean up and new rubbers. The power driver board was working most of the time, but would occassionally hum and drop out the flippers. Customer wants that replaced.
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January 12th, 2010
So for this weekend it looks like I’ll have a flipper button on a Twilight Zone, and a delivery of a Stock Car I’ve been restoring.
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January 12th, 2010
So this is the first entry in the blog. I’m going to try this out, and see how it goes. I’m going to keep a running log of the pinball repairs I’ve performed, as well as machines I’m buying and selling, and any anecdotes about the eBay price list I compile.
I solicit repair customers from my website, bostonpinball.biz. I get about 3 or 4 new customers each week (in good times), and schedule their repairs, typically on a Saturday. I work on all pinball machines, Electro-Mechanical and Solid State. I charge at the rate of $100 for the first hour, and $80 an hour after that. There is no minimum charge, so if it takes 15 minutes, the charge is $25. I schedule several customers in the same area at a time, so I don’t have to charge for travel. I don’t work on other arcade machines, although I have done some work on Video games and Skee-Ball machines.
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