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Nice find on the games. Finding a second chopper may be an issue. Is the one you have complete a plastic chopper? The best part of this is you have a chopper. Worse case scenario you may use the one you have to have one made. If I find anyone out there who does this I'll inform you.

Check out pinrepair. He has a link on vaccume forming which I don't know if it'll work for this situation. May want to shoot him an email to see if he knows anyone that may be able to do this for you.

Good luck...again nice pick up!
 
Molding your own is the way to go, plenty of how to vids on instructables or you tube. AFAIK pinrepair pulled all his stuff, it is gone. PM me as I might have that page/info saved.
 
Molding your own is the way to go, plenty of how to vids on instructables or you tube. AFAIK pinrepair pulled all his stuff, it is gone. PM me as I might have that page/info saved.

No, most of pinrepair.com is still there. He just took the pinball repair guides down. Go to pinrepair.com, and you'll still see lots of good info, but the things like the 'Gottlieb system 80' guide are gone.
 
No, most of pinrepair.com is still there. He just took the pinball repair guides down. Go to pinrepair.com, and you'll still see lots of good info, but the things like the 'Gottlieb system 80' guide are gone.

Anyone know the reason why the repair guides were taken down?
 
Anyone know the reason why the repair guides were taken down?

Oh man. Search the RGP archives for all the drama.

My understanding is that the author tried to move them to a pay model, with payment to benefit some particular pinball museum. He did this rather suddenly (one day the pages said 'go here and pay to get your copy on CD'). The general pinball community pretty much freaked out that something was no longer free. The freak out was so bad that the intended recipient of the donations actually backed out of the whole thing because they couldn't afford to be embroiled in something that pissed off so many people. After that the author just took the pages down.

The freak out was partially because many people are just kinda jerky, but also because the guides had been improved over the years with user feedback, and a number of the users got pissed that their feedback was now being taken away from them (a few users claimed that whole paragraphs were their authorship and that they never consented to it going private). It didn't help that apparent intention was to ship CDs, with no mention of an 'upgrade' path for newer versions of the guides, and no mention of how soon CDs should be showing up on people's doors.

My response to the original drama:
Frankly, I think the problem boils down to the author having done it suddenly and without forethought. I think if he'd thought through the fullfillment mechanism (it's 2011 here, CDs are no longer an appropriate way to do this), and gotten ahead of things by announcing a 'new way to support <blah>', etc BEFORE he put up the paywall, I think he could have made the transition OK.

I don't think the supposed copyright issues from various users would have amounted to anything (he always maintained a copyright notice at the top of the documents). The issue was that he did it in such a poor way that the negative feedback killed the idea.

I'm more than a little saddened that he's chosen to take his ball and go home instead of finding some other way to distribute these wonderful guides to the community. I'm also more than a little annoyed that he's completely blanked pinrepair.com from the internet archive - I understand why, but it's still kinda jerky to go forcing the IA to remove stuff.

Note that if you are of a 'not respecting the authors wishes' bent, there are a number of folks out there that have the guides, and there's a torrent of a recent save of them out there as well.
 
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