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Holt, MI
Quoted from bingopodcast:Clean, scrub, clean some more. Keep going!
Up to 16 now.
Quoted from dasvis:Dang, I do want a bowler - wish I had more room!
This one's only 9' long. In fact, not quite. YOU CAN DO IT!!!
Quoted from dmbjunky:You crazy, man.
Quoted from feveredpinhead:It's the shuffle board / skeeball type game.
Neat. Is that the one where the puck goes flying up into some skeeball rings at the end of the lane?
Quoted from feveredpinhead:Plus I had to build the coin box since it was missing.
In a....home environment? O_o
Quoted from feveredpinhead:Not looking forward to cleaning all the reels. Props to you man for doing it as quickly as you have.
A couple things are helping me along the fast track:
1) None of my shuffle bowler score reels have PCB's, like my pinball machines do.
2) I'm doing sort of a cursory clean, not my customary OCD clean.
Basically I'm getting the score reels clean on the outside, ensuring smooth/snappy movement, and gapping switches correctly. *shrugs*
Also...
Quoted from RyanClaytor:Managed to finish the first dozen
Quoted from RyanClaytor:Up to 16 now.
20.
ZZzzz...
Hello again,
I've now made my way through both rows of score reels:
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...which means I've now cleaned twenty....
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...three? ...score reels?
Evidently this thing started to be swiped for parts before I bought it. Thankfully...
a) It was nicely desoldered instead of clipped:
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~and~
b) A while back I was sent a spare score reel by pinsider extraordinaire, SirScott !
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Hi Scott!
So that'll get fixed, likely once I have a guest roll into town in a day and a half. I'll be putting up (with 
) none other than NicoVolta for his North American Pinball Tour. Cue tour illustration by yours truly:
To his credit, I sent him an innards picture of this machine (which is, like, 3 EM pinball machines jammed inside one cabinet):
...and he did not flinch. In fact, I believe his exact words were:
"Looks like fun!" Ha-ha!
In the meantime, there was an anomaly on the last (present) score reel I cleaned, in that it would not advance. I'm not familiar enough with the variety of parts to know whether or not something looks as it should. Thankfully there were twenty-some-odd neighboring duplicates I could reference to figure it out. So here's what a functional score reel looked like:
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...and here's what the stuck score reel looked like:
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Any guesses?
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It turned out that rocker-arm/lever thing was broken:
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Pretty obvious when compared with one that is in-tact:
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Thankfully (again) SirScott 's care package included not one, but TWO score reels, so I was able to nab an arm from one spare reel assembly and still have a complete reel remaining to replace the missing one mentioned earlier.
That should do it for the evening.
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