Found cheap vintage to experiment on!

[Tony Junior]

And did you finally leave good feedback? Curious old farths need to know!

[slothappy144]

Hmmmmm

I'm a bit concerened that you HAD to kill a Spider!!!!

Couldn't you have just popped it outside gently?

umm NO it was a foreign spider shipped to my area and had to either be shipped back to its origin or suffer a quick demise. I opted for the latter. I now should fume the basement to rid the shop and pachi-park of intruders

[hanabi]

Well I guess that's okay then - as long as it looked like this



but if it looked like this one then.............

[Sid]

He's come to a sticky end
Don't think he will ever mend
Never more will he crawl 'round
He's embedded in the ground

[slothappy144]

TJ,
I opted to leave no feedback. the Ebay sale expired and It is no longer in my to-do list, The seller was really slow at every stage, I actually got the UPS thing straightened out myself and had to email and pester at every stage.
The seller offered a refund but I let him keep his money, all $27.50 of it.
Ok I just left nutral feedback
"Nice price, slow shipping & communications . Seems very honest person, WDBA "

[Tony Junior]

That makes sense, Mike. I think that is better than getting a negative in return.
Man, that whole saga was something, but it turned out well!

[slothappy144]

Wait until I post the the before and after pictures it is something. I cleaned and had to repair a lever in the payout dumper last night. It is working good except for the lights. My wife can't believe how good it is looking, she might have a tough time with me experimenting on it. I moved it to my office for now. She was playing it last night for several minutes.
Experiment update:
I used a Braun Oral B toothbrush to clean the cell and ball tracks etc. It has a back and forth vibrating head, it is small enought to get inbetween almost all nails.
This has removable heads and used a spare head to clean with.
I have a cigarette burn in the ball hopper, nasty yellow melty spot. I used Laquer thinner to remove yellowing in plastic.
Warning! Warning! this melts plactic and is a last resort! Mine came out good cause I wiped down the plastic with 409 right after wiping with laquer thinner and neutralized the melting action.

[DaStooge]

I just recieved an email from the president of "PETS" (People for the Ethical Treatment of Spiders". Evidently they are an Internet Watchdog group that scours the web 24/7 searching for the cruel and unusual punishment of Arachnids. They fell upon our website by mistake, it seems that someone was performing a search and Pachitalk threw up several red flags because of the keywords "Pets" and "Spiderman".

This man 03_spider_and_artist.jpg who claims to be the president is threatening litigation for the untimely death of the spider in question.

He states that this incident could have been avoiding using his product called the bugbuster BugBuster.jpg which can be easily purchased on this website http://images.search.yahoo.com/searc...293a2&ei=UTF-8. He will drop any future lawsuits if you purchase his product and send them a written letter stating your remorse and a strong commitment to avoid harm to any spider in the future.


He also says that any future abuse of spiders can and will not be tolerated. He states that "PETS" is a worldwide organization, growing daily, with a legal team that has a zero tolerance policy and that the only reason he is issuing you a warning is because he feels that you have been misinformed about the spider being socalled "foriegn".


I sent him a response to his email stating that the spider was clearly traspassing, and may have caused further damage to the Pachi. I informed him that any future threats of litigation would not be tolerated, and that my organization "PETP" (People for the ethical treatment of Pachi's) would indeed file a counter lawsuit on the grounds that the spider could have caused damage to our beloved machines.

I have yet to hear a response from him but I will keep you updated.

[slothappy144]

Wow DaStooge way to be on top of it there!

[Sid]

Could this have anything at all to do with Stuey’s Spider Neo going Missing?
Could the little rat have sold us out (the spider not Stuey) given P.E.T.S. a backdoor to get into Pachitalk!!!
We should STOMP out this menace, for they are truly woven a web of deceit.
And I’m afraid that some have decided to fly right into it..
Oh what a tangled web they weave when first they practice to deceive……….

[slothappy144]

Ok here are the before photo's not too bad unless you look closely. stained and filthy. The back has some damaged and parts missing and was disconnected in 2 places. Wired up in the front as well.

[slotter]

Lookin' GOOD, Mike!!! Nice work!

[slothappy144]

ok here it is a little cleaned up. ok so a lot cleaned up and almost working it shoots but did not payout. a lever was broken on the back by the shooter, I bent up a clothes hanger and hot glues it in place, now it works except for the lights.

[slothappy144]

Lookin' GOOD, Mike!!! Nice work!

Thanks Don, if you look close it is filthy, but a good place to start from, it is mostly there, only needed re-assembled and some screws added and a lever rebuilt. HA HA only.. it was easy as I have a very similar one to referance.

[Tony Junior]

Man, that is a nice looking vintage, Mike!