Tag: surf champ
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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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Putting in pinball work
Tomorrow I’ll go through Funhouse and that’ll mean I’ve got 8 machines nicely dialed in.
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Rearranged the line-up
Making room to work on Taxi and set up some art studio space so I can make paintings again. Will end up bringing big guns to the office but need to finish up some work on it. Planning to repaint the space mission cab this summer, then maybe that gets sold. I think the garage…
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Surf Champ drop target rebuild
Cleaned the whole mechanism and replaced the grimy old targets with new. Pretty awesome feeling to be able to knock it out so quickly. Gonna rebuild the pops on this machine next.
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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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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…