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Hi,
I'm Rick Caviglia (Gizmorama, both here, Pinside & eBay) and am hoping to get some help identifying parts I'm currently organizing and listing for sale. I will be posting photos of parts I've not yet identified, hoping to find someone out there who can ID them for me so I can add them to the inventory and list them for sale.

I'm in Half Moon Bay, California and if anyone out there wants to come by for a visit, I enjoy meeting and chatting with other collectors. I also need help shopping out pinball machines (mostly EM) and am happy to pay for labor or trade for games or parts.
Hope to have a new Shopify website set up and completed by summer, for listing them for sale. For now, I'm mostly on eBay but I also published a spreadsheet of NOS Williams/Bally parts.

A few items I've not yet identified. Any help is much appreciated. THANK YOU


IMG_8882.JPG SEGA V Belt- Part# 350-5085 IMG_8883.JPGSEGA Motor - Part# 350-5140 IMG_8884.JPG SEGA Sensor Cable -Part 370-5138-01 IMG_8892.JPG SEGA "Pins" - Part# 123-5062




BACKGROUND:
  • I started collecting in high school when my friend, who's great grandfather invented the Slot Machine back in 1899 out here in the San Francisco Bay Area, brought his uncles book "SLOT MACHINES" by Marshall Fey, to school....and I was hooked. Still in high school, Steve Charland (who later became the System 80 Guru) , a fellow collector / neighbor became a good friend and got me into EM pinball machines (what I mis-spent my youth playing).
  • By the mid-1980's, Steve and I started buying tractor trailer loads of pins and parts and clearing out operators warehouses around the country of all their EM stock. That's how most the pins and EM parts got accumulated. Within a year we were operating EM pins as nostalgia games in bars around us. We also were able to start getting early video game and jukebox parts too.
  • By the 1990's I started a new route company and became a full service operator (jukes, pins, vids, pool, redemption, etc) and got deep into the industry. This gave me additional opportunities to buy out small operators and accumulate more and more "stuff".
  • Then in the late 90's I bought out one of the two large route operators in San Francisco and a year or two later, the largest parts distributor in California; C.A. Robinson, of all their entire inventory of parts, library, etc. This is how thousands of NOS parts (many of which I still have to ID) came to be with me.
  • I'm now 61 (45 years later) and I've recently consolidated my collection and stock to a 5500 square foot warehouse with racking filling up the 23 foot height of the building. And I've finally started unpacking the inventory, identifying parts and listing them for sale.
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