Looking for a good Tech in SoCal

Kind of depends on what you need I guess.

I think Francis (Nash / Ataricade) has started offering some services via his site. I think its things like board repair and rebuilds. He's certainly set up for it and definitely has the knowlege. www.ataricade.com
 
i still got a game over at his shop. doh! i better go get it. wasn't dave real busy with those wind machines out in the palm springs area?? chris


Yeah, he was very busy with the wind machines, but I get the feeling that he is not spending any time even trying to troubleshoot my machines? I could be wrong, but in the 3 months he has had the current two in his shop I have never once got an update from him on any progress. I just finally got a call this week saying that he can't get them fixed and would like me to pick them up?

Thanks for the Tip about Francis, I'll get in touch with him and see if he can help me out. If anyone else has any others please post them here.
 
I'm going to be setting something up with a guy who advertises his services on San Diego craigslist in the next few weeks, I'll let you know how he is/if he will travel.
 
I'm going to be setting something up with a guy who advertises his services on San Diego craigslist in the next few weeks, I'll let you know how he is/if he will travel.


Andy, Andy, Andy... just think of the fun comments we could make about this... :D:D:D
 
Kind of depends on what you need I guess.

I think Francis (Nash / Ataricade) has started offering some services via his site. I think its things like board repair and rebuilds. He's certainly set up for it and definitely has the knowlege. www.ataricade.com

Doh. I wish I saw this a couple of weeks ago when I was looking for Atari repair services:
http://forums.arcade-museum.com/showthread.php?p=833361#post833361

I'll bet it would have been substantially cheaper.
 
I had games with Dave at Gamewizards for several months. He never called me to tell me if he was working on them and I ended up having to pick them up and get them fixed elsewhere (I mailed the boards out to people). He mentioned several times that he was thinking of closing the doors on arcade repair because there just wasn't steady money in it anymore.

That being said, the guy is a very good repair tech and if he can't make a living at it around here, nobody can.

When I collected 20 years ago I could get guys to deliver the games and to come and repair them at a reasonable price. Just doesn't seem to be the case anymore.
 
He mentioned several times that he was thinking of closing the doors on arcade repair because there just wasn't steady money in it anymore.

That being said, the guy is a very good repair tech and if he can't make a living at it around here, nobody can.
I agree Dave is a good tech and a good guy, it will be sad if he decides to close up shop.
 
I had games with Dave at Gamewizards for several months. He never called me to tell me if he was working on them and I ended up having to pick them up and get them fixed elsewhere (I mailed the boards out to people). He mentioned several times that he was thinking of closing the doors on arcade repair because there just wasn't steady money in it anymore.

That being said, the guy is a very good repair tech and if he can't make a living at it around here, nobody can.

When I collected 20 years ago I could get guys to deliver the games and to come and repair them at a reasonable price. Just doesn't seem to be the case anymore.
If there isn't steady money in it, how come he's keeping people's games for montha and not fixing them??? Not going to get more customers that way... :confused:
 
I have no idea why he sits on games that long. Maybe he's working on non-arcade related stuff like the wind generators in Palm Springs and doesn't have time for arcade work anymore.

I have seen him at a few auctions. He doesn't buy anything though.
 
I'm going to be setting something up with a guy who advertises his services on San Diego craigslist in the next few weeks, I'll let you know how he is/if he will travel.

Sav,

Did you meet the guy from San Diego? I heard some bad stuff from some guy down in that area doing crappy work. I was just wondering the name of the guy your meeting with to see if it was the same guy and to give you a heads up.

Toby
 
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