I needed to start doing something to start the build. The parts pile was building and still being added to. I appreciate all the offers given and will take all of them up when needed so you will hear from me if you havenâ€™t already! See below for the next instalment. Thanks to all that have liked and responded to my first post of my restoration. So thatâ€™s the start of my T2 build thread thanks for looking! So with that being said my first pics will be the pile of parts I have collected. Now I have started this build a while back so Iâ€™m going to start from then but as you would know you donâ€™t just slap it together so with 4 Kids a business a wife and Covid my posts could be an will most likely be erratic. So itâ€™s now 2020 I have sourced a lot of parts now and thought I would have a go at recording it. Since then havenâ€™t looked back and are addicted to the Pinball For Sale Section, Restoration threads and well pretty much the whole site really! Got a few replies were contacted by some good people then there was one who contacted me who said do you know about Aussie Arcade? I ended buying a fair few parts from this user and he ended up being from what I can see a T2 guru and Aussie Arcade regular. Being a newbie got the courage to place a Wanted add. Found some parts came up and bought my first pieces. I searched the internet, found Pinside and watched the market place. So I bought it watched some YouTube videos removed the Mylar cleaned it up and then started the hunt to find every part for a T2 Pinball machine. I saw a T2 playfield that was not in Very good condition stuffed really but hey I heard about these people who restore them could I do it? Why not Iâ€™ll have a crack. After getting some parts for my other machines to tune them up I got the bug again. I wanted another machine and always loved T2 but Was never in the right place at the right time to pick one up.

Add a wife a business and a Kia Carnival full with 4 Kids I need an outlet pinball was back in the frame as reviving my footy career was not an option. Fast forward to 2018 still have them all and add a Dr Who and a Fish Tales. Then into storage at the Parents house and skipped the country. Fast forward to 2001 and I picked my first pin up from a fish and chip shop an Indiana Jones for $1100 and then an Addams Family for $900! Over the next couple of years added a Twilight Zone and a Getaway. When I left school and started my apprenticeship I used to get the Melbourne Trading post and see the machines being off loaded for as little as $500 for a getaway in 1996 which was out of my reach on $200 a week. Well where do I start I have been addicted to pinball since the early 90â€™s when I wouldnâ€™t eat lunch at school to be able to drop $5 into Getaway and the Addams Family on the way home.

T2 pinball