Gottlieb ROLLER DISCO Restored by Dr. Dave's Pinball Restorations
Approx 25 hours restoring this wildly colored Gordon Morrison masterpiece from 1980 to make it look and play like new! Rebuilt flippers, pop bumpers and kickers. Would have replaced the plastics too but the are N/A and are luckily in decent shape. Magic erasured and buffed playfield and all playfield metal to a mirror shine. Will be for sale eventually. E-mail us for all your pinball restoration craftsmanship work needs: drdavespinball@gmail.com ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMOLJJSMc1Q
Beautiful Williams T2 restored back to it's glory with over 50 hours of restoration work. Stripped down the playfield, throroughly cleaned everything topside and added some tasteful mods to it like color changing LEDs underneath the HK ship's engines and clear red pop bumper bodies and skirts with a red LED insdie each as well as upgraded the funny red Bender eyes from Futurerama in the metal skull to a more meancing and filmatically correct bright red LED with metal surrounds . Rebuilt the flippers, pop bumpers and gun handle mech as well. New switches where needed as well as a combination of warm white LEDs in the GI and head mixed with some red and blue and color changing LEDs in the head of the game. Clear silicone rubber all around and colored post sleeves add to make this title pop with colorful panache. Also upgraded to brand new MPU with NVRAM and a new latest technology DMD driver board. Rebuilt the 5V section on the main driver board as well. A blast to play especially in this look and play like new condition version T2!
To get on the list of what we have in out current restoraion queue, email us here: dave@pinballdoctor.com
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Podcast on this title coming soon: https://podbay.fm/p/the-classic-pinball-podcast
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Over 50 hours of restoration work went into this 1976 Bally Classic!
It was a bit of a rusty scupper with previous repair attempts apparent inside the head and inside the cabinet. Had to correct all that as well as derust many mechanisms as well as clean and adjust all 16 score reel units. As well as rebuild all the stepper units in the game, pop bumper assemblies, flipper assemblies, drop target asssembly. Deep cleaned the playfield and cabinet and head and touched up all 3. New premium silicone rubber all around, buffed all metal to a mirror shine, new power cord, warm led lighting for the head and green LEDs for the star rollovers in the playfield. Added a few more blinkers to the head of the game for added accent effects.
New tempered playfeild glass and rebuilt the worn out chime unit for nice after ring of the chimes now.
Looking amd playing like brand new again!
1976 is back and never looked better!
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E-mail us to inquire about our latest list of pinball machines available in the restoration queue to secure a restored classic for yourself. =)
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Found this 1979 Bally KISS back in the early 90's near an arcade in Revere Beach, MA. We restored it to look and play like new condition and have had it in our personal collection ever since.
All metal buffed to a mirror shine, boards all gone through, NVRAM installed for game memory so no problematic batteries to worry about. Playfield is the original that I deeply cleaned and had automotive clear coated by well renowned clear coat specialist Bill Davis. All flipper assemblies and pop bumper assemblies rebuilt. Game is all ORIGINAL /well preserved including the board set (gone through and bullet proofed) and plastic set as well as the orange and black apron and the cabinet paint all well maintained original from 1979!
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Over 50 hours of restoration work went into making this World Cup look and play like new again. We rebuilt the flipper assemblies, pop bumper asemblies, and outfitted the playfield with white silicone rubber and warm white LEDs as well as some red LEDs and some specialty FIRE LEDS for the white saucer holes. New soccer themed spinner really ties the game play together. =)
All new upgraded LED master and score displays, All new sound board, New upgraded multiple light fusing circuit as well as upgarded special solenoid fusing circuit and bridge rectifuer fusing added that all these system 3-6 Williams games were missing from an oversight from the factory engineers at the time. Cleaned all the playfield plastics and buffed all the playfield metal as well as the coin door, new tempered playfield glass, rebuilt ball shooter assembly, new coin insert red plastics and red leds to light them up. New leg bolts and leg levellers as well as cabinet legs refinished to a chrome shine.
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This handy cradle that you can make combined with an RV type high lift jack makes for a back saving pinball rear of cabinet lift. Backs everywhere rejoice! =)
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Many hours of restoration work went into this wonderful skiing themed Bally Widebody pinball machine from 1980. NOS automotive grade clearcoated playfield, all new drop targets, excellent condition plastics and all boards gone through for high reliability. All metal buffed to a mirror shine. Looks and plays like new!
Now FOR SALE!
Details: dave@pinballdoctor.com
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This is our Goddaughter Emma dancing to Blue Suede Shoes after a dropped a quarter into it start it up. At 17 months old, she already loves the audience. The feeling is mutual. = )
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My basement arcade walk through with time period music accompanying it.
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Beautiful iconic 2 player game from Gottlieb circa 1976. This game was quickly brought to market and is essentially a Gottlieb Pioneer but with an add-a-ball twist. They only made 300 of this title to commemorate Pinball coming back into New York after many decades of being banned as gambling devices. It has the typical 9 credit credit wheel in the backglass but they put a star'd sticker on a white plastic boot to cover it to get around the "no replay" law. The great thing is you can win credits and/or extra balls with this title. Just no adding stacking them up like your typical add-a-ball. This title you can only earn one extra ball per ball. Unique double double center hole which if on the last ball AND you get all the drop targets down AND you hit a lit star rollover AND if it lights the center hole for double bonus THEN you get 4 times bonus score from that center hole. Build up your bonus on that ball and try and do it again. VERY TOUGH to accomplish but so rewarding when you do! We put over 60 hrs of restoration work into this game: rebuilt all the pop bumpers with new mechs and new skirts,bodies,caps and likewise with the flipper assemblies. All metal buffed to a mirror shine even the internal chime bars! Oh yeah and we of course rebuilt the chime box so that it gives our trademark "pleasing melodic after ring". We installed a new plastic set as well as all new white posts, new tempered glass, premium Titan silicone rubber. Rebuilt all the steppers and cleaned and adjusted all the numerous switch stacks for years of fun and reliability. For more details visit: pinballdoctor.com or email: dave@pinballdoctor.com
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