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#100 Under Pressure - The Classic Pinball Podcast

PodcastAnalysis updated 3d ago1 hr 48 min listenBy George
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Rush has left the building. Lethal Weapon 3 flipper fiasco. Centaur switched illumination fix. Project games for sale. Star Trek Next Gen. Whitey Bulger. Mata Hari. Bonus feature: Off the rail....

Highlights

  • There were over 20 Rush pinball machines for sale on Pinside simultaneously
  • Music-themed pinball machines see rapid depreciation due to listener fatigue with repetitive soundtracks
  • Data East Lethal Weapon 3 uses opto circuits for flippers, not traditional leaf switches
  • Tungsten flipper contacts require high amperage to function properly; gold-plated low-voltage contacts are correct for solid-state flipper games
  • Marco is the only vendor selling the correct low-voltage switch for Data East solid-state flipper applications
  • Pinball parts prices have increased significantly in recent years (switches from $5-7 to $15-20)
  • Marco recently raised coindoor skin prices from under $50 to $100
  • Steve Young's pinball parts inventory is depleting and he may be exiting the business soon
  • The Centaur restoration customer has been waiting over two years for completion
  • Dr. Dave has over one year of in-house/in-shop restoration work backlog

Notable quotes

They're sick of hearing the same music over and over and over again from the same band. It's a music pin. They're good for a little while. You get sick of it, move it along.
Dr. Dave
I basically cut off, I gave him like a 30% haircut. I basically just charged like 60% of what I usually charge... I did almost like a little pro bono work a little bit because I felt bad for him.
Dr. Dave
You don't want to put a tungsten contact in a solid state flipper game you want to use a low voltage because a tungsten contact needs a high current to make the circuit complete
Dr. Dave
Someone else had the exact same problem, exact same. Someone put tungsten contacts in there, and everybody was trying to say, oh, it's this, it's this, it's this. Someone chimed in and said, no, it should be a low-voltage contact.
Dr. Dave
I actually went online on Pinside, put the stuff in there too. Someone else had the exact same problem... He took the advice, did it, and said, that did it. That fixed my game, the low-voltage contact, the little gold-plated one.
Dr. Dave
God bless you, dude. It's all free. Don't worry about it.
Dr. Dave
I kept spending thousands. Every parts order is thousands of dollars.
George
The collector community they don't want to pay up for anything you did they just want to get you know get it for a dollar everybody wants a bargain
George
I'm not going to forget about you I'm going to make this right but I need more time to think about
Dr. Dave
I'm over a year out with in-house work and in-shop work anyway so no problem with that it's a welcome respite to get caught up
Dr. Dave

Entities

  • Bally· company
  • CPR (California Pinball Restoration)· company
  • Data East· company
  • Marco· company
  • Stern· company
  • Centaur· game
  • Guns N' Roses· game
  • Harlem Globetrotters· game
  • Lethal Weapon 3· game
  • Power Play· game
  • Rush· game
  • Pinside· organization
  • The Classic Pinball Podcast· organization
  • Dr. Dave· person
  • George· person
  • Ian Fleming· person
  • Steve Young· person

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