Tag: pinball restoration
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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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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…
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Taxi, wood repairs
This area of the shooter lane was totally ruined and was preventing good ball launches up to the spinout ramp, so here i have messed it up more removing all the soft flakey wood and putting in some holes to anchor the JB Wood that i’m going to use to rebuild it. In other news,…
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Scraping ain’t going to work
Tried scraping the playfield but that isn’t going to work. Will have to sand it down completely.
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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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Making metal look great
Pulled the metal parts out of the tumbler and wiped them all down to remove dust. Also cleaned a number of larger metal parts and hit them up with mother’s mag polish and they are looking good. Ordered some oddball replacement screws and new flipper bats and now I’ve got everything in order. Just need…
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Repopulating Sinbad and getting aggressive with the Taxi playfield
Got everything but the flippers done on Sinbad over the weekend. My oldest helped a bit on Saturday and that was fun. Got the Taxi playfield back on the rotisserie and started messing with it. Got some good results from a green scrubby and citrus degreaser. I’m bound to remove some good paint too but…
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Sinbad: underside completed
Reinstalled all of the leaf switches and stand up targets that poke up through the playfield, including the ones that attach to the drop target mechs. Reinstalled the mech that kicks up a new ball. Put all of the rollover metal pieces back on and adjusted leaf switches. Reinstalled the metal trim pieces that meet…
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Repopulating Sinbad (progress)
Apron, top arc, and metal guides all in