| corydzbinski
- 04 Jun 2012
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Check out this table. Looks like it's high quality. I've heard of these before but never seen one. Is this worth getting to preserve a piece of air hockey history? Looks very rare but not sure of the quality...it is coin op.
http://losangeles.craigslist.org/sfv/tag/3046018158.html
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- 04 Jun 2012
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| Mark Robbins would have an opinion on this i'm sure. I've heard some things, both good and bad about these tables. Not a lot of them left.
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| tableman
- 04 Jun 2012
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Interesting how they take photos with the TARP ON, I guess to avoid showing the warps and dents that were common on the stainless steel tables (SST's). We all hated those tables because they were so much slower and weaker than the Brunswicks. The SST was introduced around 1976, before that U.S. Billiards had the Aerojet (actually a better table with a formica top).
By 1978 Brunswick stopped making AH and it was a dire situation indeed - all that was available was the SST. I got U.S. Billiards to prototype a formica-top table in '79, then in '81 they built the Tournament Games model, which I took over after that company folded, and I sold the U.S. Billiard-made "Air-Table-Hockey" table till 1985, when I started with Dynamo.
I suppose the SST's have historical value, but painful memories for us who almost witnessed AH's permanent demise. Last I looked, they still had some SST's at the Santa Monica beach boardwalk. Even though they play poorly, they have an advantage in beach areas in that the top isn't worn out by blowing sand like formica tops.
Mark
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| corydzbinski
- 14 Jun 2012
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| Great, thanks Mark. I'll keep and eye on it and see if he'll go down. If it's good and I can get it for $300 or less I might go for it. I have never seen these in Santa Monica and i've spent quite a bit of time down there in the past 15 years. Last I was in the arcade on the pier they had 6 Hot Flash 2's in there.
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