A friend of the owner of the Indiana Jones pinball I shopped out at the beginning of this year wanted to get his pin shopped out as well, and after agreeing to the terms he dropped off the game in May. I started the shop job on June the first and I just finished it up last week. The owner came by and picked it up this weekend and I think it turned out really nice!
Pictures: http://gallery.metahugh.com/main.php?g2_itemId=26371
Unfortunately the game developed an issue with the “car crunch” flipper, a flipper that is under the playfield which hits a ball against a plastic car to simulate the destroying the car scene which appeared in SF2 as a bonus minigame. It appeared to be an issue with the coil itself which I didn’t have on hand to replace.
Looking past that issue the game turned out great. It was deceivingly dirty under all of those ramps and plastics and it took a bit of time to tear it down and rebuild it. It took my longer than normal to get this one done and it didn’t help that I didn’t have a deadline that I needed to adhere to so the process dragged on longer than necessary. All in all I think I spent around 30 hours rebuilding the game.
This is the last shop job I do for someone else. It has absolutely nothing to do with the owner of the game, he is a super cool guy, its the fact that I have so many of my own projects to do and I find that with a project like this I need to finish it prior to working on my own games. The other side to shopping out a game for another person is if a problem develops that is outside of your control (i.e. the Car Crunch flipper problem) I feel guilty that I have to give the game back not 100%. That said I can’t see myself doing another shop job for another person anytime soon. Now when my other project machines are complete I might reassess my thoughts.
I wish I had a good picture of the assembly, its very empty inside the car itself. This part is probably the hardest part to find on any Gottlieb machine, I have never seen one for sale. It basically is just a vacuum formed piece that sits on top of a metal frame.
Nice job! I’m working on one of these street fighter PB’s. Mine has no car. Can you tell me about it? Is it just a vacuum formed plastic cover for the metal box under it? That’s what it looks like in the photos. Have you ever come across a replacement for sale?
Thanks