# Is there anything like "Rick's Restorations" in Canada?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [November 13, 2013, 8:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-anything-like-ricks-restorations-in-canada/673803 "2013-11-13T08:23:05Z")\
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**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\
**Post date:** [November 13, 2013, 8:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-anything-like-ricks-restorations-in-canada/673803/1 "2013-11-13T08:23:05Z")

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I’ve enjoyed “American Restorations” on TV, and I’m impressed with Rick’s skill and abilities in restoring old machinery. I’m wondering if there is an equivalent to Rick in Canada.

I have a beautiful, old, Gottlieb “Out of Sight” two-player pinball machine. As best as I can tell, it rolled off the line in about January of 1975. It is an EM (electro-mechanical) machine. Sadly, right now, it won’t reset. It keeps chunking the numbers around, and never finds its zero.

I’ve done a bit of work on it, but in addition to the above, the step-up units for the bonus scores won’t work properly, and I cannot fix the problem.

If anybody can point me in the direction of a Canadian “Rick’s Restoration” kind of guy. I’d appreciate it. It’s a fun game, and I miss playing it.

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**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\
**Post date:** [November 13, 2013, 11:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-anything-like-ricks-restorations-in-canada/673803/2 "2013-11-13T11:53:28Z")

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Here is a pinball restoration shop in Ontario:

[http://www.genesiscreative.net/Genesis\_Creative,\_Pinball,\_publishing,\_mac\_service/The\_Pinball\_Restoration\_Process.html](http://www.genesiscreative.net/Genesis_Creative,_Pinball,_publishing,_mac_service/The_Pinball_Restoration_Process.html)

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**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\
**Post date:** [November 13, 2013, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-anything-like-ricks-restorations-in-canada/673803/3 "2013-11-13T13:55:05Z")

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I did a Google search on “Alberta pinball restoration.” The very first result (for me at least) was a shop that sells and services old pinball machines in Calgary.

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**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\
**Post date:** [November 13, 2013, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-anything-like-ricks-restorations-in-canada/673803/4 "2013-11-13T16:35:28Z")

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FWIW, Rick would outsource that sort of thing to the local guy who fixes video games and pinball machines (like the place **Fear\_Itself** linked to). Rick’s Restorations does bodywork and motors but involved electrical like pinball gets sent out.