About 10 years ago I got my first pinball machine. It was a working Bally Silverball Mania that I paid too much for at auction but I did not know better at the time. I only wanted 1-2 pins… Within a week I found a non-working Bally Mata Hari about a block from where I went to elementary school for $200. Within about 5 minutes of finding the listing I was standing in-front of the game. It had been in the house since about the time I was in elementary school and had not worked since the late 80’s. I bought it and within two weeks had taught myself pinball repair and troubleshooting on the Bally/Stern 1977-85 generation hardware. In two weeks time and a few parts orders from Marco Specialties I had the game up and running. These guides were what I started with and still refer to on certain parts of troubleshooting. After fixing my first game I was hooked and I went crazy from there. By the end of the first month I had 4, 6 months I had 12, a year I was over 20. Currently at 99 pins and have owned probably a total of 260-270 over the last decade. About to thin out my collection to a more reasonable 60-65 games. And this does not include all of the EM arcade games I also own…