In the lower level of Ron Barbagallo’s Smithtown home, a quick flip of a light switch powers on more than 25 pinball machines in a high-ceilinged showroom. Godzilla, Austin Powers, Star Trek, Elvis ...

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If you pull back the plunger of a pinball machine ever so slowly, your wrist can feel the delicious tension building in each coil of the metal spring, one after the next, as the kinesis of ...

So far, with his special tools and lifelong mechanical talents, he has been able to repair and restore every single one, no matter how old or decrepit. It didn't matter if it was a Ding Dong, or a Hot ...