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re: Does Anyone in the BR Area Know Anyone Who Fixes Pinball Machines?

Posted on 7/16/16 at 9:44 pm to
Posted by OweO
Plaquemine, La
Member since Sep 2009
122525 posts
Posted on 7/16/16 at 9:44 pm to
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Tell him to sell it unless he wants to sink thousands into it.


He bought it over ten years ago. Has it in a game room. He also has a pacman arcade game.. its the one you can sit down at, it looks like a table, but I think its something he planned on doing himself, but he ran into a problem with the board inside.. It might be one of those things he keeps because he has intentions in fixing it, but ends up never doing it.
Posted by Porter Osborne Jr
Member since Sep 2012
44184 posts
Posted on 7/16/16 at 11:22 pm to
Cool. My dad has looked into a few but they are always wanting thousands and it's nearly impossible to find someone competent to work on them.
Posted by Marco Esquandolas
Member since Jul 2013
11878 posts
Posted on 7/17/16 at 12:57 am to
800-435-2374

Ask for Tommy.
Posted by SERVON225LLT
Baton Rouge, LA
Member since Jun 2010
309 posts
Posted on 7/29/16 at 9:36 pm to
Email me. Drhodu1@cox.net

I can help you.
Posted by Bestbank Tiger
Premium Member
Member since Jan 2005
82342 posts
Posted on 7/29/16 at 10:14 pm to
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Call my friend slippery pete. He helped me move an old frogger arcade game put of a pizza parlor I used to hang out in when I was a teenager. The place was closing and I had the high score on the machine and wanted to transport it to my house. Pete did the job.


It didn't get hit by a car on the way to your place?
Posted by tigerfanatic61
Lafayette, LA
Member since Nov 2012
156 posts
Posted on 7/29/16 at 10:17 pm to
Call Gerald's Amusement in Lafayette. Talk to Greg he does phenomenal restoration work.
Posted by rollindaddy
Member since Jun 2010
1725 posts
Posted on 7/29/16 at 10:30 pm to
Theres actually an incredible pinball machine display in industriplex.... Cant say where but the machines they have are pretty cool all lined up....ive been there once and bought an arcade game.... i tried to buy a pinball machine as well and they wouldnt sell any of them... i dont know if they redo them in house or what but i can make a phone call and see if they repair
Posted by mikrit54
Robeline
Member since Oct 2013
8664 posts
Posted on 7/29/16 at 10:49 pm to
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This doesn't make any sense.


Posted by Burhead
Member since Dec 2014
2100 posts
Posted on 7/29/16 at 11:07 pm to
Not sure I can help but when I was a young kid I played the silver ball too from a little town called Soho all the way down to Brighton. Oh man I must have played them all but I never saw anything like him in any of the amusement halls, he was really a deaf, dumb, and blind kid but man did he play a mean pin ball. He just stood there like a statue and became part of the machine, feeling the bumpers, always playing clean. He played by intuition, the counters fell. Man he was a pinball wizard, there had to be a twist, he had such a supple wrist. How do you think he did it? I never knew, what made him so good?


He didn't have any distractions, couldn't hear the buzzers or bells. Never saw the lights flashin but the man played by sense of smell believe or not. Always got that replay and never seen him fall. That deaf, dumb, and blind kid played a mean pin ball boy. I thought I was the Bally Table King but I just had to hand him my pinball crown, even on my favorite table he beat my best. His disciples led him in and he just did the rest. He had crazy flipper fingers and never saw him fall. Boy did that deaf dumb, and blind kid play a mean pin ball. I can't really recall his name but I think it was Tommy, I think he runs a pinball store under the name Pin Ball Wizard so just look him up. He'll be all over the Internet I'm sure. Hope my little story helps you my friend.


Posted by Napoleon
Kenna
Member since Dec 2007
74873 posts
Posted on 7/30/16 at 7:36 am to
I know a guy in lake view in nola that does for sure
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