Musings and Repair News from recent pinball machine restorations, with reviews and all the technical nitty-gritty.
SHERBORN, MA to WELLS MAINE: This HUO example of the Williams Classic Indianna Jones pinball machine was completely refurbished in 2021 by Dr. Dave’s Pinball Restorations for our friend and client in Wells, Maine. Originally sourced from a Boston suburb client (read about that here), it has had 2800 plays on it since that 2021 … Read the Post
NEEDHAM, MA: Welcome to this freshly refurbished 1993 Bram Stoker’s Dracula with over 30 hours of restoration work for a client in the Boston area. Many issues were plaguing this copy of the game from repair attempts in its past, as well as broken parts & rubber. This game needed a lot of love and … Read the Post
BEDFORD, NH: A client in southern NH looking to upgrade his brand new Stern Godzilla Premium reached out to us for help in doing so. Dr. Dave to the rescue! We added art blades as well as a very cool, functionally and dramatic Stern topper as well! Ditched the cheap factory black rubber and balls … Read the Post
WELLESLEY, MA to SCITUATE, MA: Presenting the story of Stern Nugent, a wonderfully restored Classic Stern Pinball from Dr. Dave’s Pinball Restorations. From it’s classic iconic back glass cover art to the unique story of chain of ownership from the owners who cherished it. We originally sourced and bought this game from a collector in … Read the Post
PAXTON, MA: 45 hours of restoration work went into bringing this wonderful 1976 pinball EM from Williams back to playing in better than new condition. Here’s what we did: replaced all rubber with premium silicone grade rubber and replaced plastic set with brand new set. We cleaned and rebuilt the steppers in head and and … Read the Post
Our latest restoration project has us restoring a very rare, only-120-made, 2-player electromechanical (EM) pinball machine from Bally called Black Jack. This is the 2-player version produced in 1977, not to be confused with the one produced a year later, the 4-player solid state Black Jack from 1978 with a production run of 5,000 units. … Read the Post
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