Here is a fun early Bally game that has come to be known as the pinball featured in Happy Days at Arnolds. It features a ball-grabbing device in the upper right playfield, called a ‘Balligator’, is activated by a ‘Gator’ button, located next to the right flipper button, to pull the ball into a special high-scoring lane.
This game has not had the usual extensive restoration that we do but it has been made playable, new rubber rings, flipper button switches and end of stroke switches have been cleaned and adjusted. Game has been high-tapped, bad light bulbs replaced, switches have been adjusted, bad fuse holder has been replaced, new power cord has been installed. Game plays surprisingly fast. Only known issue is the indicator lights for ball 4 & 5 do not work. Game is sold as is no warranty.
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We've now moved into our new building at 925 S. Bay St Eustis
Over the past month we have worked endlessly to get all our machines (50+), equipment, tools, shelving, parts inventory, into our location. We have passed all of our city inspections for the partial build out renovations.
Store hours do vary some days. Generally we are in 9:30am – 5:30pm Monday – Saturday
But some days we are picking and dropping off machines or just stepped out for a short lunch break. Always best to call (407) 618-4971 before coming over just to make sure someone is on site.
We finally got the front sign in place and are currently designing the front outside window wrap. Once that is done I will be posting pictures for all to see.
Thanks to all who have stopped bye to say hello and check out our new digs!
Sincerely,
Joe
We will be moving...
I am excited to announce that we are in the process of moving into our own building. This new location will feature a lot of exposure for us as it is on a busy main street. Best of all it will have a showroom, air-conditioning and is only 2 miles from the old location.
We will be moved by the end of April and our restoration pace will be back to normal within a few weeks after that. Stay tuned for pictures.
The new address is 925 S. Bay St. Eustis, FL 32726
Help needed
Bored with retirement? I wanted to see if there were any retired pinheads that were interested in getting their hands dirty 5 – 6 hours per week. We need help disassembling & polishing playfields, paint stripping & sanding empty cabinets. I do pay. Call for more details.
Joe
Free Play Florida
I want to thank all the wonderful people that stopped by our vendor booth this year. Some were familiar faces and some new. There was great energy amongst everyone there that share a common love for this hobby. I especially appreciate the positive comments about the three restored machines we featured in our booth.
The fully customized Close Encounters of the third kind was our first restoration that we tried to imagine a higher end pin in booth visual and sound concept. Based on the amount of positive feedback, I have decided to do a similar transformation to Count-Down another System 1 pin. It will feature NASA Apollo wrap graphics, Apollo sound bytes, LED lights thru out and under cabinet and under backbox LED strip lighting. I have included a teaser picture of the front coin door here.
We were proud of the two purple One Up Awards we received. One was for our fully restored 1966 A-Go-Go. The second was for our booth. You can see pictures of our booth, our raffle winner and the entire show under the Free Play Florida 2017 button.
If anyone is close to our shop in Eustis, please feel free to stop by and look around. Best to call to verify we are there first.
