Tag: gottlieb
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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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Sinbad complete!
What i thought would be less than an hour’s work to adjust the flipper bats and start playing the game became a few hours of work. First, after adjusting the flippers and starting to tighten the bats in place, i realized that on two of the flipper mechs i accidentally got the bushings wrong, putting…
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Pinball posts from Sinbad
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Gottlieb Team One – new to me!
Picked this up on the way home from dropping my son off at camp. It’s very clean inside and should be easy to get working. Needs new rubber and a very thorough cleaning on the playfield and the outside of cabinet. The plan with this one is to do a complete re-theme with Allison. Not…
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Surf Champ – before & after photos
A couple of months ago I bought a 1976 Gottlieb “Surf Champ” pinball machine out of a basement where it had been the last 20 or so years. I completely stripped down the top side of the playfield and cleaned all parts. Metal went in the tumbler. I replaced the plastics, cleaned the star posts,…