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Pinball Machine Care and Maintenance

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An excellent resource for those who own an arcade pinball machine, need to repair it, and don't have a clue as to how to read a schematic. It offers helpful hints for creating simple testing devices. It also is written in clear, concise English with an offer for further help from the author.

If you're thinking of purchasing a pinball machine, this book will give you all the guidance you need to making a smart purchase. If you already own a machine, Bear's book will help you make repairs that you never dreamed you could do without a professional repair person. The explanations and drawings are presented for the novice. If you are a professional repair person, you will still probably pick up a tip or two from this book. I have many detailed repair books for pinball but I keep coming back to this one.

This book has step-by-step help for people who have never maintained or repaired a pinball machine. The book has a full section on general repairs, another full section on fixing flippers, and chapters on what to look for when buying a machine, disassembling and setting up the machine, protecting the painted backglass and playing field, checking fuses and checking batteries for leaks.
The book has information about the balls, rubber rings, locks and missing keys, lightbulb types that should not be used, wiring problems, tips for making the machine faster and more fun to play, and where to find parts and game manuals.
This book gathers all this information in one volume, with a separate terminology section that describes the parts and operations of a pinball machine, a lengthy index, and over eighty illustrations. Highly recommended, best guide of its kind.

I could reduce the number of service calls I perform by over 50% if the pin owners simply followed this manual. The truth is, there isn't any other book that puts pinball repair in layman's terms. How many pinball owners can actually read schematics? How many really do their own circuit board repair? The point I would stress is that all the repairs in the book can be performed by just about anyone, no kind of previous experience necessary. It is truly an outstanding manual and should be required reading for all pinheads, novice or skilled.

I acquired a 1971 Williams Klondike that had almost no maintenance performed on it in almost 25 years. Mr. Kamoroff's layman terms and step by step troubleshooting technics and hints saved me considerable money in returning a dead game into something special again. His simple approach to what may seem a difficult problem coupled with a everyman's writing style made for not only a handy manual but a very good read as well. I recommend this book to anyone who has an old pinball machine and I would not recommend anyone to even consider purchasing one without reading this book first.

I am the editor of GameRoom magazine which covers the world of pinball and all other coin-operated games. "Pinball Machine Care and Maintenance" is a hugely useful guidebook for novice and professional alike. What Kamoroff has accomplished here is the best of both worlds. By explaining the simple things, and offering helpful ideas to the seasoned folk, he's handed the hooby an all-around silverball guide.

This guide is perfect for the Newbie to the Pinball hobby. It is written in clear concise language that is easy to absorb. It certainly has answered a number of my questions as I dove into buying my first game. It is broken down in a very logical fashion and approaches each major component of a Pin to make the subject easier to digest and certainly less daunting.

My only wish is that it had some actual photographs of some of the examples of the subject matter at hand within the book. There are tons of illustrations which helped immensely but some photos would help get your head around few of the subjects better.

Very well written and extremely helpful for someone like myself who just bought my first pinball machine. Good diagrams. Highly recommend.

Good coverage on Williams Pinball machines. Would like more devoted on my machine being Fire Pinball.Overall Item is good and the price was excellent. Thank You. Frank

Overall, a very good book on the subject. You can do regular/needed maintenance on your own. Gives the reader the foundation knowledge needed to understand your pinball machine. Worth the money.