Silverball Restorations – Pinball and Arcade Restorations

Here’s a report on what goes into making a pinball machine. Most likely this aired back around 1993. Enjoy!

Here’s another pinball review. I promise I’ll get to some arcade stuff soon…

Here are parts one and two of my review for Twilight Zone. This game was designed by Pat Lawlor and produced by Bally. I think I make it pretty clear in the videos, but this happens to be my all-time favorite pinball machine.

Below is a two part review of The Machine: Bride of Pinbot. This is one of my all-time favorite pinball machines and definitely my favorite of the alphanumeric era. Check out the videos below.

Here’s my video review for Fish Tales. More to come soon.

Here’s my quick video review for Taxi. Enjoy!

First of all, people always ask what PCB stands for as they see it often when they read about arcade and pinball machine repair. PCB stands for “printed circuit board”. The PCBs are the boards in your machines that house the brains of the machines. If you have a problem with any of your PCBs, your machine will not function properly and maybe not at all. In this video I show how to remove a PCB from the backbox of a pinball machine and give a couple of tips on how to make sure you don’t make mistakes putting it back in.

There are tons of cleaning products out there for pinball machines. I go over the products I use and recommend. Sorry if I’m a little wordy in the video, but I found that there are lots of questions about this process. Enjoy!

If you listen closely you can hear my baby boy in the background making noise. He loves to interrupt daddy’s videos.

I’m selling a Taxi and I just added pictures to the for sale page. Check ‘em out here: http://www.silverballrestorations.com/pinballs-for-sale/

Taxi - Williams

I haven’t done any work on the cabinet yet, but I’m planning on touching up around the edges. The artwork is in good shape, but there’s some paint flaking near the bottom edge of the front and a touch around the sides as well. It should be an easy touch up job, and I plan on doing it before it sells. If you want to buy the machine, please use the contact form on that page to get in touch with me.

Here’s a cheap fix if you have scratches in your pinball or arcade machine art. You’ll obviously only want to do this if you can find a good color match, but if you can, it works quite well! Enjoy the clip.