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After a few busy months now some time for a website update with what's happened with the Bingo stuff.

The Lido has been added to my collection for some time now and I must say that the bingo is still a joy to watch and play and this is very satisfying because the bingo runs extremely well and has accomplished many perfect games.

End of May I received a tip that on a website there were some images with a few Bingo's, it was an album made by someone from Sweden and and in the picture was a Magic Ring to see (one of the hardest to find bingos) also stood a image of a Big Wheel. Because the Magic Ring always been a bingo that I wanted, I have sent an email asking if the bingos were for sale. read more

I also got my hands on a Bonus7 and because I was interested in the extra game I decide it to mechanical restore the bingo. This bingo also has played already a lot of games but for me it´s not a bingo to make room for in my collection read more

Have also gone further with making backglasses and I made another step forward. Now I can make with the use of special glass and a new printing technology backglasses with even more color intension then ever before. I also went on making the mirror edges. read more

It took a while but my Lido is finally finished and there is now a long-cherished dream Bingo title added to my collection. The end result is a bingo both inside and outside completely restored and is again an old Bally bingo given a new life. will one of these days add a story with the necessary pictures to "news".

Last weeks spent my free time with something different, making a new backglass for an old pinball machine. A friend of mine has a restored Williams' Struggle Buggies " but with a poor backglass, when he did his request I started making a new backglass, for me it was a new challenge to do more and better learn to go with my drawing-program. Making the digital file proved to be a very time consuming thing but when the design was finished after many nights of reconstructing. I could look back on an educational period. I was even a possibility for me to print the file at a new printshop not far away from here and if this company can make the right color / quality print we like than it makes things a lot simpler for me because our prinshop we normally go to is much further away by car.
The colors and quality the printshop delivered were exactly what we like so that was already the first profit. After we put the print on a 5mm glass the end result was truly amazing and I can therefore look back on a successful project.

February 2010

Currently working on the restoration of my Lido. The cabinet is returned to its original painted drawing and first I begin to assemble of all refurbished metalparts. After that the technical inside has to be done what of course will take some time . Here a first picture of the bingo as it stands now. Later more...

January 2010

It has taken some time but finally finished, the new website is now online.
Hope this innovation is for the visitor to make it more attractive to learn about the things I make for Bally's Bingo and my hobby.
Soon there will be lots of new pictures / text placed in particular the gallery and my collection but not all photos are ready for publication.

Finally we found the right way... Now we are able to make backglasses with the latest print technology which also print directly onto the glass but in a way that it seems as if the backglass is made by silk-screen printing. The special feature of this machine is that it now can print white color and the printer makes a real layer so the result is stunningly original and no longer improvements are needed.
The machine will print in three layers, the first step is color printing and there after immediately print a white mask over it and finally again the black mask is printed with extra color in the features. click here to read the complete story.

Finally starting the restoration of my Magic Ring

After selling the beautiful restorated Magic Ring which was a guest at my collection for some time and was owned by Frans Pilger it was finally time for me to start with the Magic Ring that I bought last year in Sweden. Many of you would probably never seen a Magic Ring and that´s a pitty because it´s one of the biggest gambling bingos Bally ever made.

Look for the difference....

2 original Silver Sails bingos which were restorated lately but in the base the 2 bingos are having differences what was normally not possible. Both bingos were original made as Silver Sails by Bally and shows us that Bally reproduced bingos in a later time. one of
the bingos has a double coin entry and bigger door and that was introduced years later after the first production of the Silver Sails. Read more

Selling backglasses,

Because making a backglass was very time consuming according to the "old" way of making one no backglasses were made for other people. Now that we have improved our technique it´s now possible for other fans to a buy a new backglass for their Bally Bingo. The backglass is now printed direct on diamond-glass and is the absolute best you can get. After talking with Chris Dade it´s now also possible to order all other types of bingo backglasses which are available. Because it´s not possible to send the printed diamond-glass backglasses there will be foil-sets available also. With the foil-set it´s now possible for anyone to make a ´real´backglass and the foils are easy to send. The cost of manufacturing a complete backglass printed on 6mm diamond-glass is 225 euros and the price of a foil-set is 160 euro. The foil-set consists a transparent colored film, special white film for intermediate layer and the black mask. Because with the foil-set everything is stuck on the backside of the 5mm glass we also got the looks of an original backglass.
For more information about making a backglass is sending an email enough to see the possibilities for you.

We just made our final steps in backglass reproduction....
With the new technique everyone can make the best backglass possible without mistakes, now we´re able to make a single foil with all the layers intergrated which are needed to make the best backglass with the same looks as an original backglass. Because of our new technique you only have to put one single layer foil on the backside of a piece of glass. The new foil gives the backglass the nice sparkling colors and remain that color even when the feature lights up.

Last few months finally finished my Magic Ring and I´m verry happy with the result. Also did the firtst Bingo ever made, a United´s ABC. The United bingo has 3 playing cards and a kind of roulette wheel as playfield. It´s a 5 ball game and a game is normally played within a minute time for each game.