Tag: pinball restoration
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Good work day with E
Today some great pinball things happened. My oldest came out and worked on Big Guns with me for almost three hours. He enjoys soldering and has done a number of small electronics projects on his own, but this was the first time he’s worked with me on pinball. It was a blast. He is much…
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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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Big Guns: frustrations
More work with terrible results. I’m about ready to light this machine on fire and watch it burn. Made a new wire ball guide replacement for the top of the playfield (which turned out good). Replaced left side switches for the eject hole and cannon. Fixed a couple of broken solder joints for the guard…
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Parts from Marco
I now have the parts to make Big Guns work. New microswitches, diodes, fuses, board parts, wire for ball guides, new coils for the kickers because one was bad and the other not the right coil which I only realized when looking up the replacement part for the broken one that was not labeled. Excited…
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Space Mission playfield: wet sand, cut, and polish!
Wet sanded clear coat at 600/800/1000/1200/1500/2000. Then a medium cut with a rotary buffer followed by swirl remover. Looks pretty remarkable, but I’ve got to wait for a couple weeks because it doesn’t appear to have fully cured yet. I am chomping at the bit to put this back together!
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Big Guns and Taxi work
Still troubleshooting Big Guns. Getting some good help from Pinside on that but it’s terribly slow going and I feel confused about everything. In the meantime I got some LED strips from Comet that I plan to place under the cannon plastics in Big Guns to help light that area and the upper part of…
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Clear coating Space Mission
I haven’t been doing anything out in the garage but playing Surf Champ since I fixed it. Last week I broke that habit and put on my nitrile gloves and my respirator and rolled the second to last coat of clear on. Put the final coat on tonight. I know that it won’t be completely…
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Schematics to the rescue!
Got the new baby monitor for the little one’s room, so i was finally able to get out in the garage and try and get un-depressed about pinball. I ended up having a marathon session out there with mixed results. Surf Champ is running 100%!!!!!The good news is that, thanks to Nick’s help and this great…
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Discouraged
Feeling pretty discouraged as of late. There are a number of issues on Big Guns that I can’t figure out, and so far I’m not getting any advice from the Pinside folks either. At this point the game is unplayable due to a fuse blowing when I power it on. I won’t go into all…