I restored a 1951 Chicago Coin Hooligan Pool coin-op (coin operated) machine and listed it on ebay. I sat on this thing for many months but knew it's value. I wasn't going to give this thing away. There is not another one like it in the world to my knowledge. Well my patience paid off big time. Not only did it sell but the buying is a "Coin-Op Musem" in the Netherlands! You will have to forgive me if I am just a little bit proud of this fact! Not bad for a machine that was given to me! Someone called me many years ago and asked if I wanted a Williams Defender machine. I said sure and I went to pick it up. He told me he had another machine in the garage and if I wanted it I could have it. I looked at the thing and it was in really bad shape and full of mouse crap. I shrugged and told him I would take it. I could restore everything on the machine but the bed. Here is a picture of the bed after I pulled it off the machine:



I took the bed to silk screeners, sign makers and all said they could't do it. I thought how damn hard can this be?!?! So, I taught myself silkscreening, which wan't very hard dealing with one color. Although silk screening onto this machine did pose some unique problems. But I got it done:



The guy who bought it said he had been looking for one for 15 years! I really wish I had some more "before" pictures. But, I only took a picture of the bed to get the artwork recorded before I stripped off the felt.

It turned out pretty nice.

Dave