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Pinball Oz Wide - Episode 7. Flying Solo from Peninsula to Peninsula

PodcastAnalysis updated 3d ago1 hr 29 min listen
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-  No Mat this week with a throat that just won’tget better I run solo-       Month in review-       Solo trip to Geelong to visit Tim at Hot RoddedPins and a long overdue catch up...

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Highlights

  • Tim discovered pinball around 2008 via a broken Terminator 2 machine at a bowling alley gym while finishing university.
  • Tim's first pinball acquisition was a heavily damaged Fun House purchased for $1,200 delivered from Sydney to Melbourne around 2009.
  • An electroplating company lost all the bracketry hardware from Tim's first customer job (a PinBot), but he had acquired a second PinBot and was able to recover.
  • Classic Chrome in Geelong became Tim's long-term electroplating partner after the initial failure, with a commitment to never lose customer parts.
  • Tim's first commercial location was a row of sheds at the end of a street in Geelong that he discovered by chance while feeling discouraged.

Notable quotes

“It's so fucking cool. And I was really into, like I was mucking around building like MAME arcade machines. I love making stuff.”
Tim Reid
“the stars had aligned and I'd found the thing.”
Tim Reid
“I nearly, at that time, that was like... It's almost a deal breaker, isn't it? It's like, what am I doing?”
Tim Reid / Jared
“I was thankful to God that I had two. And it's like, well, there goes my PinBot.”
Tim Reid
“Because it's not even your stuff, Tim. It's your customers, and I respect that.”
Classic Chrome owner
“he's like, get it done, Tim. Like, what the hell?... You don't get it. Like, yeah, I'm trying to – I was trying to do something that, like, the average person – A bit of a wow factor behind it.”
Tim Reid (recounting father's dialogue)
“I pushed this thing out. It's like I didn't even see what I'd done, truly. It was like, I was like looking at it like, shit, I think I might have done a great job.”
Tim Reid

Entities

  • Bumper Action Amusements· company
  • Classic Chrome· company
  • High End Pins· company
  • Hot Rodded Pins· company
  • Mantis Amusements· company
  • Treasure Cove· company
  • Pinball Expo· event
  • Aussie Arcade· organization
  • Tee'd Off Pinball Podcast· organization
  • Chris Hutchins· person
  • Jared· person
  • Matt· person
  • Matt Scott· person
  • Michael Keogh· person
  • Michael Shalhoub· person
  • Rob· person
  • Tim Reid· person
  • Wayne· person

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