Pinball Machine

[Bensonrad]

I've been offered a pinball machine, its a 1967 Williams Magic City, one private owner since new, its been sitting in a garage for the last few years with stuff piled up on it. He told me its hard to look at fully, but glass is fine on it, needs repainting and has no ideas what the internals may be like.

I imagine a pinball of this age is going to be hard to get replacement parts for, who knows it might work! gotta be worth a gamble hasn't it. I know naff all about pinballs, so if anyone knows of a place I might be able to download a manual or something for it, I will do a bit of reading up on it.

Cheers

Ben

 

[G-man]

ipdb.org is the main place for manuals et al.

That vintage of machine will be an electro-mechanical. I've never tinkered with them, but they need a lot of TLC to get working properly and are not to everyone's taste. Not really recommended as a first machine, especially a project, IMO.

There is pinrepair.com as well so you can read up all you need on restoring/repairing.

 

[guddler]

Totally agree but with one proviso. Obviously if the guy just wants it out of his way for £50 or something then it's going to be worth it. Into the hundreds and I'd walk on by...

 

[Bensonrad]

Its been offered to me free, so not spending out any money on it initially. Think I will plump for it and save it

 

[G-man]

FREE is always good

Pics!

 

[guddler]

Yeah, can't really go wrong with FREE virtually no matter what state it's in