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i did a pickup yesterday of this lot of video game and some pinball parts. i haven't even dug through all the boxes to see what all is in here, but there's at least 8 coin buckets, a complete K4600 chassis and a GO7-CAO, Stargate ROM board and widget, Dick Smith flyback and transistor tester kits, a dozen or so coin mechs, at least three nice WICO red-ball sticks (one 4"!), several other joysticks, hacked Centipede CP, bunch of wiring harnesses (many Nintendo VS, i think,) power supplies, buttons, leaf switches, a few manuals, some plastic bezels, craploads of used locks (many with keys,) several manuals, lots of pinball parts i don't recognize... damn, the list goes on.

even with the 200+ mile round-trip the deal was too good to pass up. there's a lot of stuff here i can use immediately or in the near future.

is this how people end up with a dining room full of parts and their wives walking out the door?
 
which ones are the pinball? none of 'em i immediately recognize, but there looks to be at least one that should fit Atari or Stern and one or two over/unders.
 
which ones are the pinball? none of 'em i immediately recognize, but there looks to be at least one that should fit Atari or Stern and one or two over/unders.

The two coin buckets in the front. One with the the 'C' on it and the one containing the coin mechs look like they are for a pinball machine.
 
which ones are the pinball? none of 'em i immediately recognize, but there looks to be at least one that should fit Atari or Stern and one or two over/unders.

Bottom left with the backwards red "C", and bottom left black w/ handle full of coin mechs. Both look like shallow pin buckets.
 
neither of those are actually shallow; the "C" is 5" deep and the one with handle is 6" deep.

there is a shallow white one under the black bucket with the red leaf joystick in it
 
you can rain on my parade... it's ok.

i've already found parts i currently need worth well over what i paid for the lot. i can put a lot of it on the shelf for future projects and get the rest into the hands of people who can make use of it.
 
Is this how people end up with a dining room full of parts and their wives walking out the door?

No but it is the beginnings of pack rat tendencies that end up with a completely full garage and a lot of wifely head shaking. The only hope you have is to start posting gobs of that stuff in the for sale forum to show your wife that it was worth keeping.

ken
 
wait! the garage is already full. what the hell am i going to do with all this stuff?

oh, yeah, i just took an empty cabinet over to Godot's... i can put it all where that was.

(and i did pick this up with the idea that i can sell or give a lot of it away. some of it's obviously headed to the dump as well.)
 
it wasn't all that much warmer than refrigerator temperature when i hiked the Ozette-Sandy Pt.-Cape Alava triangle after i did that pickup. if i'm driving that far to get stuff i might as well take advantage of being in the area and do something fun.

it was kinda cool standing at the western edge of the contiguous 48 states. hadn't been there since i was about 12 or 13 in Boy Scouts.
 
Hey Todd, I may need one of those coin buckets if they'll work for meand you don't need it. If you could PM me the dimensions of the plastic ones that would be cool. -Barry
 
Barry, you can have either of these if you can use it:

- 9 1/4"d x 10"w x 6 3/4"h
- 10 1/2"d (11 1/4"d with the extra tab for the lockbar) x 9 1/2"w x 6"h (in back; bottom is sloped 5" in the front)

these dimensions do not include the extra width due to the handle.
 
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