Category: pinball nights
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Taxi spinout kicker ain’t kicking
Thinking this is something mechanical like a broken solder joint. Definitely not a fuse. I didn’t want to get sucked into a repair tonight so I’m saving it for another day. When Soren sees this sign he’ll be bummed for sure.
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Broken rubber?
Soren was playing by himself on Saturday and ran out to tell me that there was a problem with Funhouse – there sure was! Turns out the left sling rubber snapped. Very strange because I put these on only a few months ago. Luckily i had a spare so i was able to put a…
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Team One tumbler bounty
Pulled all this crap out of the tumbler after 3 days and it looks great. I am replacing all the screws so there really isn’t that much metal to fix up. I’ve got all the rollover switches running now with the pop bumper rod and rings. In a couple of days all the metal will…
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Polishing stuff can be fun
Actually i hate polishing most things, but metal shooter rods are really fun to polish. I just pop the rod into my drill and work it through scotch pads. In the end i’ll spin it on a rag with mother’s.
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Another rebuilt stepper
Used all the new techniques that Nic taught me and rebuilt the second stepper unit in Team One. It was pretty easy to do and took me a little over an hour. It’s really satisfying to get everything working 100% and all the contacts burnished and all the springs clean and perfectly adjusted. I’ve got…
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More Team One teardown
Getting everything ready for the tumbler, including all the rollover lane switches. ayayyyyy. Also put together my Pinball Resource shopping list. I need quite a few new parts for this machine, so much of the plastic is cracked, and pops need to be rebuilt.
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Tumbling
Haven’t had much time to work on Team One this week, but i’ve been pulling stuff off the playfield and managed to get most all the metal pieces in the tumbler to clean/polish them. I’m planning on giving this the full EM PERFECTION treatment, so i’m looking ahead at many tens of hours rebuilding and…
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Tearing down Team One
Just quickly tearing down bits of the Team One playfield.
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EM Stepper class
Learned a whole heck of a lot on Saturday in my time with Nic. We rebuilt this stepper, a few relays, and a score reel. Nic also found and fixed the mysterious issues with Space Mission. We didn’t get as far as I hoped with Team One, but now I feel 100% confident in doing…