Tag: pinball restoration
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Sinbad teardown
Tore down everything topside on Sinbad today, except for the pop bumpers. It was a whole lot dirtier than I thought, and some areas were kind of sticky which reinforces an earlier guess I had about this machine, namely that there has been beer or soda spilled on/in it a few times (the left flipper…
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Pinball planning thoughts
I’ve been playing the crap out of Shadow, and it seems like the more i play it the more i suck. I am particularly bad at hitting the scene start shot. When i have trouble with a particular shot I will usually dedicate game after game to ONLY being focused on that shot. I’ve been…
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Spotlights for Shadow and tidying up
I installed spotlights on the slingshots to lighten up the playfield and they turned out great. Just ran some speaker wire from the GI up through the kicker hole and onto the sling post. I also installed a 3 LED light under the apron to lighten up the bottom of the field. It’s been a…
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Shadow complete!
Had to make a few adjustments after getting everything together but it is working, beautiful, and lightning fast. The Shadow multiball kickout needs adjusting a bit more but it doesn’t ruin game play. So stoked to have this machine running again!!!! Now to work on my score 🙂
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Almost almost almost (Shadow)
Everything is done except putting back the brass wire forms. This thing is like a freaking puzzle. It’s probably going to take me another 2-3 hours but I should be playing by the end of the weekend! Did the rest of the plastics, the battlefield apron, slingshots, installed diverters, plugged all the wiring back in,…
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More Shadow progress
Got more done on Shadow tonight. Tomorrow the left diverter will go in and I’ll start putting the wireforms back on. Can’t believe I’m getting so close!
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Metal metal metal
Spent a good long time polishing these metal parts from Shadow. Very happy with how they came out. Now everything is ready to go back on the machine. Reassembly starts tonight.
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Cleaning Shadow parts
Spent about 4 hours cleaning and organizing parts. Still need to polish metals, but screws, posts, plastics, and other various crap is clean and polished and ready to go.
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Shadow sanctum repair
The Shadow “dot sticker” isn’t the most elegant solution to hiding sanctum wear but I wasn’t ready to repaint and clear. Waxed 3 times then clear mylar over the entire area and green dot sticker over the wear. The important thing is the the wear is fixed and the area is flat. This machine is…