Now, this is a most curious topic. I'll bet that when you pinball collectors tell people that you collect pinballs you get some very strange looks; perhaps stranger looks than I got nearly a decade ago whenver I mentioned that I collected computers. How do you tell the pinballs apart? When you collect one, how do you know what type of machine it really came from, or that it really wasn't recently manufactured? What if someone accidentally lets all the pinballs loose on the floor - would you ever be able to tell which was which? Wouldn't something such as shirt-button collecting be easier? Inquiring minds want to know! :-) On Mon, 9 Oct 2000, Wouter de Waal wrote: Well, they are older than my car, but they don't seem very old. After all, it seems to me that pinballs should not wear out for a very, very, long time, and, when do they do wear out, antique or not, is there any reasonable way of restoring them? Doesn't it just make more sense to just put new pinballs in the pinball machines? ;-) -RDD (who doesn't understand why a car that's only 28 year old can be called an antique) -- Copyright (C) 2000 R. D. Davis "The best way to gain a true understanding of All Rights Reserved Wile E. Coyote on the Roadrunner cartoons is to rdd(a)perqlogic.com 410-744-4900 fly, head-first, off a horse into something like http://www.perqlogic.com/rdd a fence or a tree; trust me, this works." --RDD