Those of you who have followed the blog for some time will have noticed that I tend to document many of the restorations here in excruciating detail bordering on anal-retentiveness. I'm a highly analytical, detail-oriented person, and the way I document my restorations reflects the way I carry them out. I feel that documenting things in detail serves this blog's purpose of being a technical resource for the wider pinball community. After all, that's why I maintain the blog and make an effort to document my restorations in the first place; so that people can find relevant information to repair their own machines.
That said, I have decided to make a slight change of pace. My personal circumstances have recently changed, and I'm now going to dedicate myself to repairing and restoring pinball machines and arcade games full-time. Life is short. You should spend as much time as possible doing what you enjoy, with who you enjoy doing it with. Saving what you enjoy for weekends (or even worse, retirement), makes for life in "limbo" which is never truly lived. But that's enough philosophy for now!
I'll be doing many more repairs, most of which will not be the in-depth restorations many have come to expect from this blog. However I still feel like it's important to document these smaller repairs for the same reasons. Even small repairs are important for the maintenance of pinball machines, and arcade culture more broadly. As a result, most of my posts will shift to a shorter format, focused on text and images that describe the issues I'm repairing and not much else. Sure, I'll still have longer, detailed posts documenting some of the bigger or more complicated restorations, but they'll be less frequent.
Please let me know (once I've posted a few blog entries of course) what you think of the new blog format!
Sincerely,
Alexander
A&F Pinball Restorations
