Pinrepair down?

Yeah the only thing you can get now is the Pinball Ninja and that requires a small donation.

It's been a long time since you tried to get to them - more than a year.

-Al-
 
The link you posted is down, but there are several guides still up, just the basic stuff. It's unfortunate he doesn't post a sample of the Pinball Ninja, I think it's pretty good. It's a blog-format, he posts repairs of games as he does them, videos too. I figured it was worth a $10 donation for access considering all that I've gotten from pinrepair over the years.
 
The link you posted is down, but there are several guides still up, just the basic stuff. It's unfortunate he doesn't post a sample of the Pinball Ninja, I think it's pretty good. It's a blog-format, he posts repairs of games as he does them, videos too. I figured it was worth a $10 donation for access considering all that I've gotten from pinrepair over the years.

I just heard back from Clay.
He told me $20 and I'm in!!!
I will gladly send him $20 tonight to support this efforts!!

Steve
 
Does anyone know anything about the Pinrepair site being down?
http://www.pinrepair.com/bally/index1.htm

I've emailed Clay, but haven't heard anything.
It looks like most of this links are down.

His guides were removed by him back in April 2011.

The replacement guides are here:

http://www.pinwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page

I wrote almost the entire section on home model pinballs there. Many other people stepped up to the plate and fleshed out all the other guides. You'll like it and it's totally free!
 
Well,considering most of the info was provided to Clay as free info to share seems kinda lame to charge for it....
Agreed. Knowledge should be free. Especially when the guides included information given to him by contributors. Is he giving those people royalties?
 
His guides were removed by him back in April 2011.

The replacement guides are here:

http://www.pinwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page

I wrote almost the entire section on home model pinballs there. Many other people stepped up to the plate and fleshed out all the other guides. You'll like it and it's totally free!

Thanks Ken, I haven't had a single pinball problem in over year, so I haven't needed that site until now. Now my Paragon is acting up since I moved it out of my basement, on a hand truck up a bunch of bouncy steps to my shop. Something shook loose!
 
Well,considering most of the info was provided to Clay as free info to share seems kinda lame to charge for it....

This is exactly why the repair guides will never be back - because of mis-informed and incorrect statements like this, parroted by people that don't have a clue. If you think Burt666's post is correct, then provide some data; where did "most of the info" on pinball repair info originate? and who did the writing, organizing, testing, retesting, fact checking, writing again, writing more, taking pictures, editing pictures, hosting, etc. etc.??
 
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This is exactly why the repair guides will never be back - because of mis-informed and incorrect statements like this, parroted by people that don't have a clue.

Why have misinformed statements affect your actions? Act on your own convictions, not other's opinions.
 
Remember this...
cfh said:
[SIZE=-1]Why Free? These guides are free because I want people to use them. The more people use them, and the more it helps them...[/SIZE]

And try to remember how many people your guides have helped as opposed to how many people thanklessly just took, took, took.

It was, and still is, the best pinrepair guide out there.
 
This is exactly why the repair guides will never be back - because of mis-informed and incorrect statements like this, parroted by people that don't have a clue. If you think Burt666's post is correct, then provide some data; where did "most of the info" on pinball repair info originate? and who did the writing, organizing, testing, retesting, fact checking, writing again, writing more, taking pictures, editing pictures, hosting, etc. etc.??

If I was mis-informed then I apologize for my statement.
 
Remember this...


And try to remember how many people your guides have helped as opposed to how many people thanklessly just took, took, took.

It was, and still is, the best pinrepair guide out there.

I totally agree with you, but, a lot changed between the times that those two statements were written. A lot of things happened behind the scenes and keeping the guides up for download just became impossible. It wasn't Clay's actions that led to the removal of the guides, it was the actions of others. Clay unfortunately HAD to remove them. And Yes, they were the very best guide ever written. I miss them as well.
 
I've never found that I needed anything from Clay's guide directly that wasn't answered either by pinwiki or other people here, RPG, or Pinside.

Just saying. I tried looking at the "guides" a few times, and whoever archived them did a very poor job of preserving the presentation format, I'm guessing...was nearly unreadable. Maybe they do contain some amount of highly technical info or troubleshooting steps that isn't convieniently available somewhere else, but I've yet to need them..thankfully, I guess, since I can't read the version I have.
 
I totally agree with you, but, a lot changed between the times that those two statements were written. A lot of things happened behind the scenes and keeping the guides up for download just became impossible. It wasn't Clay's actions that led to the removal of the guides, it was the actions of others. Clay unfortunately HAD to remove them. And Yes, they were the very best guide ever written. I miss them as well.

I don't know any of the behind the scenes so if it was indeed a "HAD TO" type deal then that just sucks for all involved. :(
 
This is exactly why the repair guides will never be back - because of mis-informed and incorrect statements like this, parroted by people that don't have a clue. If you think Burt666's post is correct, then provide some data; where did "most of the info" on pinball repair info originate? and who did the writing, organizing, testing, retesting, fact checking, writing again, writing more, taking pictures, editing pictures, hosting, etc. etc.??

How about filling us in on what happened ???
 
aeneas' account is only partially accurate.
of all the repair guides, only about 2 paragraphs in the pinball2000 guide and one paragraph in the wpc guide and several pictures were at question. i could have probably taken that info/pics out pretty easily. but the fact that people were complete dicks about the whole thing just really set me off. i was trying to help the PPM. but people just couldn't wrap their heads around that. so instead of arguing about it the situation, it was just easier to take the guides down. will they ever come back? maybe. but frankly when people like Bart666 parrot incorrect info, there's just no incentive for me to do it. i sure would like to meet these magical contributors that wrote all this magical pinball repair info for my guides. it sure would be great to know who they are, or what exactly they contributed or what they wrote.
 
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