thinking & making
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Dirty parts need some love
This week’s goal: clean this stuff and rebuild the flippers. Taking the slow and steady approach to rebuilding this Taxi.
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Pinball workspace complete
Tool cart organized, project space completely set up. I LOVE IT
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Workshop progess update
Some photos from the shelving teardown and rebuild
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Fun with Funhouse, Spanish Eyes musing
Finally had a good game on Funhouse! Most of the points came on the final ball and it was so damn fun. Can’t wait to get better at this game. All the stuff I’ve done this week has greatly improved game play. Also posting elements from the Spanish Eyes backglass. I really love the game,…
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Funhouse: as ready as it’s going to be
Hallway gate is fixed, which was a trick because i wanted to get the wire in without removing all the ramps. Took some ingenuity but i got it! This prevents the annoyance of making the shot only to have the ball bounce out. Replaced the rubbers throughout but not all the posts. Too bad the…
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Battery fix on Funhouse
Removed a corroded and broken battery holder and wired in a remote one. Feeling lucky that there wasn’t any board damage from the leaky batteries that were in the machine when I bought it. I used an old broken toy battery holder that I’ve been saving and it worked like a charm. Now I can…
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Taxi playfield comes home and the garage is a disaster
Picked up the freaking amazing looking taxi playfield. It’s just great. Not perfect, certainly not as awesome as a new reproduction playfield would be, but for the money it is ASTOUNDING. That said, i really fucked up. i totally fucked up. i forgot to mark out the location of all the screw holes. This machine…
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Rearranged the line-up
Making room to work on Taxi and set up some art studio space so I can make paintings again. Will end up bringing big guns to the office but need to finish up some work on it. Planning to repaint the space mission cab this summer, then maybe that gets sold. I think the garage…
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Space Mission working, schematics FTW
Spent about 5 hours going through the entire machine over the weekend. Inspected and (if needed) adjusted every relay and score reel in the game. Found quite a few problems on score reels, namely some loose connections or broken solder spots so I made all those repairs. After that the machine wouldn’t do anything upon…