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Anyone who could bring a pin back to Ontario? I have a possible buyer for my Paragon, but he's not sure he can make it down to Allentown.

It was there last weekend.

I saw the pictures of that one here:http://picasaweb.google.com/Dan.Crouthamel0/SilverballManiaPinball119101230PM# To my eye "minor playfield wear" is an understatement and someone did a number on it with a sharpie. Still, it can be cleaned up and if the artwork is not your foremost concern...

I stopped by the Pinball Hall of Fame in Vegas this past weekend and had a great time. They have about 175 pinballs on the floor there, everything from wood rails to BBH, and John told me that was only about 1/5 of the total collection. I only recently rediscovered pinball and having been out...

TP4 is 6-8 VAC, not VDC, so maybe you measured it without setting your DMM to read AC? Everything else is close enough that I wouldn't rebuild the power supply just yet. Check the high voltage test points on the solenoid driver board and see what you get there.

I'm just starting to tinker with my first EM pinball, Capt. Fantastic. One problem I have is that the drop targets don't reset properly during play. They reset just fine at the start of a game, but if I knock them all down it just scores 3000 points over and over again and the targets don't...

Allentown! Will be my first pinball show, as I've just found the hobby. I'll be bringing my Paragon machine for sure and possibly Captain Fantastic, though that one may not be ready. Looking to sell/trade the Paragon and maybe pick up another game or two if good deals present themselves. My...

A few more photos

Captain Fantastic followed me home yesterday. It's my second pinball and my first EM. I needed a new project because I ran out of things to fix on the Paragon machine I bought in January. This one will keep me busy for a while. I'm going to do a complete restore on this one. I know this...

Sorry, I was about to make a thread about it but I was distracted. I'll make the thread later today after I get some sleep. It's a Capt. Fantastic, my first EM game.

I did not exercise the same restraint today, and my second pin followed me home.....

Maybe it's just the web photos, but the colors on the CPR EBD playfields look bad to me. Compare a original And the CPR repro, where the 2 ball and the 4 ball look about the same color, as do the 7 ball and the 3 ball.

Someone already posted the Paragon backglass, but here's one from the playfield:

Well I thought I was about done with the work on this machine, but today I discovered that the high voltage regulating circuit isn't working and thus the display drivers are getting too much voltage. Parts ordered, de-soldering iron warming up..... The playfield now looks like this: Here is...

These guys http://pinballpal.com/shay/ have some stencil kits.

Update and some questions: I'm mostly following the repair guide at marvin3m.com. Rectifier board: I replaced the male pin headers for J1-J3 and the associated female connectors, some of them were badly cooked. I did not replace the actual rectifiers, as they seemed to be working just fine...

Yes, and there is also an extra post partly blocking the right side outlane. I guess a previous owner modded it to make it easier for a home game. For young kids maybe? I'll put things back the way they should be.

What is the consensus on coating the backglass? My backglass is in great shape and I want it to stay that way. Are people coating good backglasses, or only those with problems? Is there a down side to coating them (other than time/cost)? I'd hate to do it any harm.

Just picked up my first pinball machine, a Bally Paragon. I got the idea to buy a pinball a couple of weeks ago and although Paragon was not one of the ones I put on my wanted list, I bought it because it was local and cheap. It seems to be in decent condition, but I have to rebuild the...