Category: pinball nights
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Stern Dracula Pinball
I’m putting feelers out to see if I can trade Dracula for another Stern of a similar year. Had to take a bunch of photos and remembered just how much work we put in on this machine. It plays and looks really nice.
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Planning a pinball class
I’ve been thinking a lot about putting together a pinball restoration class for 4-5 kids next school year. The other night I decided to just dictate a voice memo with all of my ideas about the class, and here are the results.
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Sinbad Baseball
I’ve been playing around with games on top of games, adding different rules to pinball games for variation or to focus on a particular aspect of the game I want to practice.
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Repairing a flipper coil
Made some mistakes swapping out flipper coils on Surf Champ and learned something along the way.
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Hotwiring old flaky bulb sockets
A number of sockets on Surf Champ were flickering or not even working. Thanks again to pinside for the recommended fix that I used to do 16 sockets.
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EM playfields are heavy
Gearing up to do some work on Surf Champ. I’m going to switch out the flipper coils (back to original), and while I’m at it I’m going to fix a bunch of bulb sockets. May possibly do a pop bumper refresh but I’m not sure if I have the requisite parts on hand for that.
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Taxi repairs and upgrades
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Updating Star Wars code
First time ever updating a modern pinball machine. Pretty neat stuff. I wish I had made note of some of the settings first, but i think I got it set back just fine.I gotta say, Stern really did a great job with all of the maintenance related stuff on this pin.
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Vectorizing Team One fundamentals
I’ve built every element on the playfield into vectors, setting the stage for a document that will serve as a full scale design template. VERY close to handing off to my partner in crime who’ll be doing the playfield art for this project.