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I wanted a shuffle bowler for a long time. Below are pictures of it. A neighbor of mine works for an auctioneer part time and told me of this machine coming up for auction. I would have liked to have gone, but with the machines I already had, I did not want to push the issue with my wife. A few days later, the neighbor stopped by and told me that he had put a bid of 25.00 on the machine and got it. He wanted me to take a look at it to see if there was any potential in it. As we were standing in my garage, I suggested that he store it here, because he was kind of up in the air, as to where to keep it. He liked that idea, because he would not have to take it to his parent's house. That way I could take a look at it for him and let him know what it might take to fix it. He brought it over a day or 2 later, and me, him and my other neighbor unloaded it from his pickup, and I saw that it was in really good physical shape. I thought, "man, this makes my bowler look like a piece of crap and he only paid 25 bucks for it." I looked at it a few days later and told him what it would need. All the reels needed to be cleaned up and there are about about 20+ reels, each taking about an hour to an hour and a half each. pluse one of the solenoid plugers had a broken piece that prevented it from jacking up the score reel. A month or two went by and it was nearing my birthday. The big day came, and I came home from work, Leslie handed me a small box, with a big smile on her face. I opened it and it was a shuffleboard puck. I was thinking "wow a shuffleboard puck for a piece of crap machine I have, now all I need is a miracle to get mine working." Then she told me she bought my neighbors machine and this was the puck that went with it. This was a very happy day. A very big surprise. 
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