1953 Silver Chest Upright Pinball / Pachinko Machine

[jodini]

Is it a pinball, a bingo machine, a pachinko. Tough telling! According to the Internet Pinball Database, it's an upright pinball game...but I think to the purest, it's consider a bingo machine.

Regardless it works and it's fun to play. Purchased this last week and touched up the cabinet and playing field. It has 6 stepper units inside, so that took some work and lots of relays. The best thing about this machine though is how nice it is to access the mechanics.

The bad thing about this machine is the lack of info on the net. I did find another owner of this machine on pinballowners to tell me the correct operation of this beast. Thanks Rob!

So here's the machine before all the work...