thinking & making
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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…
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Taxi, before & after pics
Before and after pics from the Taxi restoration. Night and day.
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BAM! (Taxi!)
I now have all the plastics and plastic ramps installed. All I’ve got left now are 4 wireforms to polish, wax, and install. Then it’s putting the apron on, installing the flipper bats, then it’ll be playable. There is still a list of more cosmetic/mod type things i want to finish after that, but once…
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Swooning for Taxi
Unfortunately, Taxi is not playable just yet. Problems to fix 🙁 For the record, what makes this not playable: Lots more tweaking to do aside from that but VERY exciting!
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Cleaned Taxi flat plastics
Novus 2 and 1 on all the flat plastics. I need to assemble the connected plastics and the decorative mini posts and figure out where I am potentially missing posts. I was able to attach one of the small plastics and it was quite satisfying. Only plastic parts left to clean are the spinout ramp…