Tag: em
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Repopulating Space Mission
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EM work
Pushing hard to get Space Mission finished this weekend and organizing parts for Spanish Eyes. Working on EMs is fun.
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Space Mission playfield restoration complete
Last night I finished buffing and polishing the Space Mission. It had been two months since sanding and doing a medium cut buff, which was more than a month after the last round of clear was applied. I was hoping that waiting longer for the clear to cure and using a better tool would give…
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Spanish Eyes teardown
Middle-oldest was looking for a way to earn some money over the weekend so I paid him to teardown Spanish Eyes. He removed everything that could be removed without messing with the underside of the playfield—including the apron and ball trough parts—and sorted out the pieces for me. He was a little grossed out by…
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Sticking 10s score unstuck, and other Spanish Eyes troubleshooting
When I went out last night to show Allison the machine, it no longer started a game and when I got one started, as soon as a 10s score happened the match unit coil would lock on. Found the 10s relay and adjusted the leaf switches. Unfortunately one is very oddly bent from some prior…
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Pinball Hall of Fame (part 3)
I enjoyed playing all of these EMs. Most were set up very nicely, though El Dorado’s flippers were mushy and weak. Standouts for me in this group were Strange World and Central Park, but i would be happy to own any of these machines!
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Pinball Hall of Fame (part 2)
Yet more awesome pinball machines from the Pinball Hall of Fame! I can’t even pick favorites from this batch – i absolutely loved playing each of them.
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EM odds and ends
Got some time over the last couple of days to work on the pins. Finally got the Surf Champ spinner fixed by using an old off brand spinner and applying new decals. I wet sanded the spinner very smooth before putting on the stickers – hopefully these stay on nicely and last. As for Space…
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Schematics!
I jumped headlong in to learning how to read and use pinball schematics last night. I don’t have any schematics for Big Guns yet so i figured i’d take this opportunity to figure out my Surf Champ problems once and for all. Thanks again to the awesome community at Pinside, I got some good advice from Nicholas…