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Would like to hear what things people have found in Pinballs when they have purchased them?

 

I just opened an old Gottlieb Dragon and it must have come from Adelaide as it contained two (2) tokens with the folowing stamped on them:

 

1 side: SA No cash value

2 side: Down Town Centre

 

Does anyone know if this amusement centre is still open in Adelaide?

 

Cheers :)

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I have only 2 - (1) Bought a TAF from an operator that the lease in a F&C shop had ended and found the original mauals ,op handbook & little brown envelope with brand new sling plastics. (2) bought a CFTBL from a purveyor of everything pinball in Sydney that "had come down from Qld" and reeked of ciggy smoke to find during cleanup a business card in German and on the underside a handdrawn map of which autobarn to find this particular place of fun. "Qld" my arse - Voldermort!!!
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went to an pinball auction ,in melbourne think is was Top Guns few years ago. l won a Fish Tails,,they said before auction ( all machines dont come with locks or keys) anyway,,while l was about to load the machine into my ute,,they took the lock out,,while taking it out, there was a origional fish tails manual right at the back of the machine,,l know he seen it,but did,t say anything. l was not gonna let them take it, as at auction, it goes with the machine.
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One VERY LARGE bag of waccy baccy found in a Hot Tip I bought from Canberra. It was old and mouldy but hey, what can one do?

 

I recently picked up a GTB Golden Arrow which had a bottle of "clear eye's" with a 1992 expiry date on it, just inside the door . it was hidden between a piece of wood which had 2 counters on it & the cabinet , right where the chime box should have been.

Maybe it was from the same seller as your "Hot Tip" Shaneo.:lol:lol

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Imported a couple of pins from Europe a few years ago and because the address here was for the Swan Valley the guy packed a couple of bottles of wine and 2 bottles of olive oil for us to try
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Well, it wasn't in a Pinny, but I picked up a number of "parts" video machines at an auction about 15 years ago for $10 each. When I vaccumed em out there was some sort of cash in all of em. The best one was an unopened coin box with $33.60 in 20c pieces in it. Not bad from a machine I paid a tenner for.

Total cash in 16 x $10 machines was over $70.

Dave

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A nice pair of stainless steel tweezers in a pin and a grundys token inside a cab.

 

Grundys! Bloody Hell I was only talking about that place the other day and couldn't for the life of me remember what it was called.

 

Never found anything too exotic, just the old goddy bag with it's contents intact, oh and solder splash, wires, nuts, bolts, blown globes melted connectors etc.

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Uh, OK.

 

Sure, why not. Where it is mounted would have been more like a dust stirrer than a fan though.

 

What a weird thing to find. I don't recall that being normal in a CFTBL...

 

The only pinny I have that has a fan in it is my AG Soccerball, and that was factory.

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Yeah, pretty sure it is not standard :) and you are 100% correct, has blown all the dust up into the backbox, then again, the underside of the playfield is really clean and the machine only has about 30% of that special pinball smell !!
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