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<\/a>Charlie Emery narrated a picture and video slideshow looking at how their games are made and some of the personalities involved such as Rob Zombie and Alice Cooper.<\/p>\n Charlie then moved to the Alice Cooper game to demonstrate the shots, and show how the features and rules work.<\/p>\n Audio of this talk will be coming soon.<\/p>\n At 1pm David Volansky took to the stage to explain how to read and use electromechanical games’ schematics.<\/p>\n After examining a number of case studies where faults were diagnosed by using the schematics, David explained how an electromechanical pinball’s electrical system works and broke it down into the key sub-systems such as the score motor and the score reels.<\/p>\n Audio of this talk will be coming soon.<\/p>\n The final Pin-U talk was by pinball repairer, restorer, operator and seller, Chris Kuntz.<\/p>\n The subject of Chris’s talk was Stern Pinball’s Spike control system and to help describe it he brought along a Stern Star Wars machine.<\/p>\n He described the differences between the previous generation of control boards – the SAM system – and then how the first generation of Spike compares to the current second generation which can drive colour LCD monitors.<\/p>\n Chris then moved on to the different types of node boards used in a game, from the core and cabinet boards to the satellite boards under the playfield or mounted elsewhere depending on the model.<\/p>\n Audio of this talk will be coming soon.<\/p>\n One problem with working at Pin-U is missing some of the other events and there are quite a few including the pin-golf tournament and the machine raffle drawings and the Flippin’ Friday Kick-Off Party at which Cliff Rinear was presented with the new Steve Charland Spirit Award.<\/p>\n In the pin-golf tournament, the winner was Per Schwarzenberger who finished ahead of second place Nick Fitzpatrick.\u00a0 Brian O’Neill was third and Nic Stein fourth.\u00a0 Full results are available at: gspf.tomlogic.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n While I might have been busy at Pin-U during Saturday’s draw for the first of two pinball machines, the stage and equipment had been torn down and packed away by the time Sunday’s draw took place.<\/p>\n Saturday’s winner chose the Lethal Weapon 3, leaving the Sorcerer for Sunday’s winner to take home.<\/p>\n The draw took place at 4:30pm.<\/p>\n The winning ticket was bought by Michael Bender.<\/p>\n Following the pinball machine draw, the regular raffle was drawn.\u00a0 This consisted<\/p>\n of multiple prizes from which entrants could choose.\u00a0 Tickets for the raffle cost $1 each or six tickets for $5.\u00a0 Tickets could be applied to any of the prizes, and when the raffle ended at 4:30pm, a winning ticket was drawn for each prize.<\/p>\n By the time all the prizes had been awarded (no, I didn’t win anything) it was just about 5pm which meant the end of the show and the turning off of power to all the machines.<\/p>\n The packing away of stands and machines then began in earnest.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a>