🔗 Links

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The following websites include pinball machine repair and maintenance guides, buying and selling advice, community forums, reference material, and replacement parts suppliers. The list of parts suppliers is geared towards Australian pinball owners, as it can be difficult and expensive for us to buy parts from the most popular parts suppliers in the United States. Therefore, a lot of the largest, US-based pinball companies are not listed here in favour of local suppliers.

Please note that this list is not exhaustive and appearance of a supplier on this list is not an endorsement of their products; the list is provided for informational purposes only. 

Databases

Internet Pinball Database

The most comprehensive source of pinball-related data in the universe. This should be your first port of call whenever researching any particular pinball machine, pinball company, or game theme. If IPDB doesn't have any information on it, it probably doesn't exist.

Internet Pinball Serial Number Database

A database of user-submitted serial numbers for pinball machines. A great resource for historical data on individual machines.
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Discussion forums and online communities

Aussie Arcade

Australian pinball and arcade discussion forum. There is plenty of good information here about the Australian pinball scene including Aussie parts suppliers, events and more.

Aussie Pinball

Australian pinball discussion forum. Similarly to Aussie Arcade, Aussie Pinball is a great place to get information relevant to Australian pinball.

Pinside

Pinside is the largest pinball community website in the world. There is a huge amount of expertise and knowledge on Pinside and it is a good way to stay up-to-date with pinball developments around the world.
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Repair information

Pinwiki

Pinwiki is the most accessible and comprehensive compendium of pinball repair information currently on the internet. If you're having a problem with your pinball machine, its fix is likely already documented here.

Clay's Repair Guides

Clay Harrel's repair guides were, up until several years ago, freely available for anyone to view. Now only a subset of the original repair guides are accessible, but still contain a wealth of information, particularly on EM and Gottlieb machine repair. The Pinball Ninja Webzine is the successor to the Pinrepair guides, and can be accessed by making a donation on the Pinrepair site. 

Pinball Parts Search

This is the most useful search feature you'll ever know of, and should be your first port of call when searching for somewhere to buy a specific part. This search engine allows you to search multiple pinball suppliers at once, instead of laboriously going to each of their websites and searching manually. Searching is best done using part numbers instead of part names, and the search can include typical search operators (for example, entering "site:.au" after the part number will list only Australian suppliers). 
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Australian parts suppliers and retailers

Ride The Boney Beast

RTBB stocks many common parts and is the Australian distributor for various international suppliers including Classic Playfield Reproductions, Cliffy Protectors, and Starship Fantasy pinball ramps. 

Pinball Spare Parts Australia

PSPA has the largest stockpile of second hand parts in Australia, and has a huge range of new parts for most eras of games. 

Pinball Haus

Based in Queensland, Babak at Pinball Haus stocks common parts such as rubber rings, circuit boards, and playfield plastics, mostly for Bally/Williams games.

Mr Pinball

Mr. Pinball stocks new, licensed Bally/Williams parts, as well as generic parts for other manufacturers.

Austral Amusements

Austral are an amusement company based in Queensland. They have an online store with a good array of common pinball parts. 

Tangles' Pin Parts

Run by Malcolm, Tangles is an Aussie and has manufactured an impressive number of circuit boards, displays, test rigs, and other useful electronics. 

Pinball Mart

Pinball Mart (now Pinball Parts) is run by Martin, based in Tasmania, and offers playfield parts including LEDs, rubber rings, switches, and other common components.

Scribbly Gum Technology

Scribbly Gum is operated by Bill and sells a variety of electronic parts, LEDs, and a small number of playfield parts. 

Fred's LEDs

Fred's LEDs is a newer online shop based in Melbourne that specialises in LED lamps.

Homepin

Homepin, based in Taiwan, manufactures multiple pinball parts including circuit boards and reproduction parts for older machines. Homepin also manufactures pinball machines.
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International parts suppliers and retailers

Steve Young's Pinball Resource

Steve supplies new old stock and new, reproduction parts for most manufacturers. If a particular part is unavailable, Steve either has it, or can make it.

Marco Specialties

Marco is one the largest pinball parts suppliers in the world. If none of the local suppliers have a particular part, then Marco probably does.
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Electronic components

element14

Also known as Farnell, element14 is a distributor of electronic components for electronic system design, maintenance and repair. Most common parts are kept in local stock for quick delivery. 

RS Components

RS Components is a huge electronic parts distributor. If you need a particular electronic component, RS is bound to have it. Quick local delivery is available for many parts.

Jaycar

Sometimes you need to be able to grab a simple component from a local brick and mortar store. Jaycar doesn't have the best variety, but it has saved me in a pinch several times when I needed something straight away.
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Custom instruction and pricing cards

Inkochnito's Pinball Cards

Inkochnito is the most comprehensive and up-to-date source of original instruction and pricing cards, as well as decals, stickers and other cabinet livery.

Pinball Cards

Instruction cards for various games, often with multiple versions to choose from.

Pinball Boy

One of the newest instruction card resources, with related pinball items also available for sale.
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