Saved from a life of depravity.

By IainMac

February 20, 2021


3 years ago

Bought in February 2007 for £80.  Powerplay was living in a house in Preston, England.  It was totally dead and being used as an ashtray.  I drove 800 miles there and back and took it home to Scotland.  I arrived home around midnight and immediately went to work on it.  After restoring power to the machine it played but very sluggish.  This was my introduction to SS ,machines.  I downloaded every manual I could find and my knowledge gradually increased.  A new MPU, rubbers and a thorough clean and polish and the machine was in great order.  We played for a number of years until son-in-law broke it.  Devastated was not the word!  More fault finding and it turns out there was more than one fault.  Anyway I decided to do a full refurb, so in January this year (2021) with Covid keeping me at home, I went to work.  A new rectifier board, Solenoid board, LEDs, playfield protector, red displays, targets, plastics, bumper caps, rubbers, cabinet touched up, legs repainted and away she went.  Not content I decided to add sound and now have loads of hockey themed tunes playing at various stages of the game. And just to make it the Rolls Royce of machines I added an underfield hockey rink!

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Comments

3 years ago

That's awesome, you saved a very worthy machine, and I love your hockey rink. Bravo!

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