• Been a long time......

    From David Kluber@21:1/5 to flipper on Sun Aug 15 13:41:21 2021
    On Tuesday, May 25, 2021 at 8:16:45 PM UTC-6, flipper wrote:
    On Thursday, April 22, 2021 at 5:10:50 PM UTC-4, cfhatprovidedotnet wrote:
    No doubt Donal Murphy, he was the coil winder for all
    coils Gottlieb (and others), supplied to Gottlieb (when
    they were around), and then to Steve Young.

    I had a copy of the DVD spoken of. Donal had (i believe)
    a copy of each gottlieb one player EM woodrails in
    his collection, and a number of wedgeheads. This was
    documented on his DVD. it was not a great video production
    by any means, but it gave you an idea of what he had.

    Unfortunately Donal passed away a few years ago...
    he was cleaning his gutters and fell off the ladder.
    (I am reminded of him when i see those gutter-guard
    ads on TV!)

    I have no idea what happened to his collection. I do
    own a couple wedgeheads that were Donals. Bought
    those from a Chicago guy a few month ago. But i
    think he bought them from Donal probably 10 or 15
    years ago.
    On Wednesday, April 21, 2021 at 8:42:46 PM UTC-4, John Robertson wrote:
    On 2021/04/21 4:48 p.m., John Dayhuff wrote:

    I'm guessing your talking about Donal Murphy?

    John

    Ah, I had heard he had a lot of pins...even better to see him talk about them!
    John :-#)#

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    I knew Donal, saw his collection when I was picking up sooped up
    Gott flipper coils Green with a yellow mark on them.
    I have one of Donal's machines myself. Along with a hand signed letter of sale for my Centigrade 37. I spoke with him once on the phone and he was such a kind and generous man in helping me with finding a backglass I was looking for. He invited me to
    see his barn collection if I was ever back in the area. He touched the lives of many a pinball enthusiast as I have found in my conversations with several older collectors here in the Denver area. My C37 now has an even more special meaning to me.

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