BLACK ROSE Hidden for 30 YEARS Finally Sees the Light!
Long-hidden Black Rose pinball arrives at Grazy garage; partially working, switch issues, price unsettled.
Nov 4

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Long-hidden Black Rose pinball arrives at Grazy garage; partially working, switch issues, price unsettled.
Nov 4
Pinball Shenanigans restores a 1988 Data East Time Machine: switch surgery done, playfield fully LED'd, plastics still pending.
Nov 2
Restoration log of a Data East Time Machine: playfield cleaning, post/target repair, warm LED conversion, and rubber replacement.
Oct 31
Mike Dimes strips and cleans the Data East Time Machine playfield, swaps shooter parts, and orders new plastics.
Oct 30
Pinball Shenanigans tutorial and gameplay tour of a rare 1977 Allied Leisure Getaway, covering rules, features, and play.
Oct 30
Pinball Shenanigans fixes a fuse and trough switch on his Data East Time Machine but hits an MPU-level switch glitch.
Oct 30
Mike Dymus repairs a Data East Time Machine's blown transistors and solenoids, but the episode ends with GI lighting still unsolved.
Oct 29
Mike Dimas revives a corroded 1991 Gilligan's Island pinball and lists it as a project machine.
Oct 27
Pinball artist Python Anghelo finished two Pinbot promo artworks at the 2008 Chicago Pinball Expo, per Tom Slena.
Oct 26
Staged video shows a wire-and-leg-bolt trick to get free credits on an old pinball machine, framed as 1978 arcade cheating.
Oct 25
Mike Dymus finishes his 1977 Allied Leisure Getaway restoration with a spinner swap, black gloss legs, and a free-credit demo.
Oct 24
Getaway restoration series wraps with MPU diode protection, start-button fix, and rules walkthrough on an Allied Leisure solid-state game.
Oct 23
Pinball Shenanigans tears down a rodent-infested barn-find Williams Whirlwind and reports it mostly dead on power-up.
Oct 23
Grasley Garage episode covers three custom Bally Kiss builds, a Popeye and Mario upsell, and Fork River results.
Oct 21
Pinball Shenanigans rebuilds Allied Leisure Getaway flippers and playtests it, finding a suspected MPU fault.
Oct 20
Mike Dymus fixes lamp, IC, and socket issues on an Allied Leisure Getaway and unboxes playfield props from Kulk Pinball.
Oct 18
Welcome back to **Pinball Shenanigans!** Episode 15 is here, and we're back in the basement with my 1977 Allied Leisure Getaway, where the goal is simple: get all the lamps working.
Oct 16
**“You should sell me Williams!”** — That’s the kind of story you don’t hear every day in the pinball business!
Oct 15
Pinball Shenanigans fixes dead Allied Leisure Getaway switches via an IC2 6520-to-6821 MPU swap and rebuilds the out hole kicker.
Oct 14
Kevin's Crazy Garage races through KISS, Street Fighter II, and Stargazer restorations; Stargazer playtested.
Oct 12