strange vintage??

[mudfud]

if I get it then, i'll take detailed pix, especially the stickers for you.

and, since it's so "different", i'll bring it to pachiCON in las vegas, go pachiCON!

[Tarnish]

You get it, I was maybe going to fire $85 as a bid close to Zero Hour. Looks like a lot of polishing to be done on the pins.

Didn't I read somewhere on here that you really love the finish work ?

[mudfud]

if I get it, since it's a bit more unusual than my others, I promise to polish the pins . maybe shock's brite boy will help me, after brasso.

[ShockSystem]

I would be more than happy to send you some!* I have a lot. It works very well but smells heavily of ammonia. You can see the results though - not bad.

- Shock

*Offer not dependent of ebay machine win. Recipient must accept gift of gratitude with a wink and nod and the promise of use no matter how foul the odor. Recipient must swear unwavering allegiance to the Diabolical Pin Polishing Pahinko Plan Patrol™ without equivocation or reservation. Recipient must continue to participate in the Pachinco World Domination Network™ by continuing to encorage the use and restoration of machines by emparting knowlege and sparking curiosity in others with jovial fortitude.

[luckydog]

I would suggest if you are not going to bid over $100.00,

don't bid at all or you will drive the price up.

[mudfud]

I would be more than happy to send you some!* I have a lot. It works very well but smells heavily of ammonia. You can see the results though - not bad.

- Shock

*Offer not dependent of ebay machine win. Recipient must accept gift of gratitude with a wink and nod and the promise of use no matter how foul the odor. Recipient must swear unwavering allegiance to the Diabolical Pin Polishing Pahinko Plan Patrol™ without equivocation or reservation. Recipient must continue to participate in the Pachinco World Domination Network™ by continuing to encorage the use and restoration of machines by emparting knowlege and sparking curiosity in others with jovial fortitude.

i'll have to compare that to brasso, since it has oxalic acid and ammonia , too, so maybe they're similar? as long as something eats off the oxidation (lemon juice, mild acid), I guess they work the same. it's the degree of scrubbing that I don't like, but gotta get used to.

[Tarnish]

I would suggest if you are not going to bid over $100.00,

don't bid at all or you will drive the price up.

Trust me, I was winning an auction for a Classic Modern pachinko with a total of $5.50 until some schlub drove the price to my maximum, bid over my maximum was winning the auction and 13 minutes and 33 seconds later retracted their last to let me win the auction for 101.00 ... My maximum.

I'm not going to do anything like that to anyone else.

I complained to eBay about shill bidding, but they haven't gotten back to me, if I don't hear from them by Saturday, I have to close the deal at that price ... Haven't paid up yet, I have 5 days after auction end to pay. Wanted eBay to have a chance to investigate, but even at the close price, I wouldn't have bid it if I wasn't prepared to pay it. It's still a fair price (to my mind), but my rump is a little sore from a n00b bidding trying to hump me.

And that is why you can't reach through the flat screen monitor to strangle people.

[sharmoni]

I got it. I've been watching for one since that other Narita showed up in a member's post last June. Sorry to outbid you, but I really, really wanted it! I'll post lots of photos.

[JACKSJE4]

I got it. I've been watching for one since that other Narita showed up in a member's post last June. Sorry to outbid you, but I really, really wanted it! I'll post lots of photos.

Congrats on your new Pachi!!

And I thought you were done collecting for a while...

[sharmoni]

Well, I'll always consider adding pachinkos from the early 50's to my "museum," and the mechanism on the Narita machines is very unusual, so it was doubly qualified. Now I need to sell my vintage Sankyo and Toyomaru to make room for it.

[Moparformances]

con gats to ya

im really curious how the balls move threw that machine

i know once u post im gona be upset i didn't bid

i hope its in good shape ... the guy never sent me any more pictures for it either?? how rude

[sharmoni]

I got the seller to email me some close-up photos by mentioning that I had previously paid as much as $500 for a vintage machine in good condition (true, but I didn't bid that high on this one). I was worried about the condition of the playfield, since it was hard to see details in the auction photos. The first set of close-ups were so blurred I couldn't tell anything, but the second set I requested looked ok (cross-fingers). My maximum bid was pretty high, but I sniped it so I wouldn't drive the price up early.

[hanabi]

I got the seller to email me some close-up photos by mentioning that I had previously paid as much as $500 for a vintage machine in good condition (true, but I didn't bid that high on this one). I was worried about the condition of the playfield, since it was hard to see details in the auction photos. The first set of close-ups were so blurred I couldn't tell anything, but the second set I requested looked ok (cross-fingers). My maximum bid was pretty high, but I sniped it so I wouldn't drive the price up early.

Congrats, it's in the safe hands of a PT Member now

Will be interested to see more of this one and how it works...