#100 Under Pressure - The Classic Pinball Podcast
Rush has left the building. Lethal Weapon 3 flipper fiasco. Centaur switched illumination fix. Project games for sale. Star Trek Next Gen. Whitey Bulger. Mata Hari. Bonus feature: Off the rail. Theclassicpinballpodcast1@gmail.com
Kineticist’s take
Dave debugs a Lethal Weapon 3 flipper failure caused by wrong contact type; Rush market floods post-award.
Synopsis
In this 100th episode of The The Classic Pinball Podcast, hosts George and Dr. Dave discuss Dave's sale of a Rush pinball machine (which won awards but faced secondary market saturation), a technical deep-dive into Dave's repair of a problematic Lethal Weapon 3 machine where a previous technician installed incorrect high-voltage tungsten flipper contacts instead of low-voltage gold-plated contacts (the root cause of intermittent flipper failures), rising parts prices from vendors like Marco, and progress on a Centaur restoration project. The episode covers themes of music pin fatigue, collector bargain-hunting behavior, technical troubleshooting methodology, and the challenges of managing long-term restoration backlogs.
Entities
- Bally· company
- CPR (California Pinball Restoration)· company
- Data East· company
- Marco· company
- Stern· company
- Centaur· game
- Guns N' Roses· game
- Harlem Globetrotters· game
- Lethal Weapon 3· game
- Power Play· game
- Rush· game
- Pinside· organization
- The Classic Pinball Podcast· organization
- Dr. Dave· person
- George· person
- Ian Fleming· person
- Steve Young· person