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Quoted from newpinbin:That is an excessive amount of wear. A Spiderman I came across had over 100,000 plays on the audit and no where near the amount of wear as your AC/DC. Was that a routed machine? What was the play count?
Guaranteed it was a routed machine. The inside of the cabinet isn’t dirty, the mechs aren’t sloppy or anything. The only broken plastics are a couple lighting bolts. The playfield just broke down hard.
No audits, as the code was updated before I got it. There was no old school counter in the cabinet either.
Quoted from newpinbin:It must have been a very popular theme or the only pinball machine on location. Did you buy it at an auction? Mine has a clear factory plastic cover over the pop bumper area, which is to protect the high wear area. It looks like yours may have been removed. Are you able to provide any more photos? I have always been interested in seeing how much abuse a well played AC/DC has on the playfield like yours.
I took the game from my friend. Online auction purchase. Things look better in a picture.
I have done a bit or reading on the game and I am missing the spring near the exit of the pops. Sure the spring made the circular wear on that part of the pf.
Here are a few pics.
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Cabinet looks great. Solid everywhere. No wear at the flipper buttons (no extra protection applied to cabinet), couple of minor scrapes is all. Even the glass has literally no scratches.
There is a clearcoat on the pf because you can see it missing on the edges of the inserts.
Quoted from pinballjah:I hope it wasn't the P1 auction recently? I think that game went for $7k plus Canadian. He should have gone and inspected the game in advance as they always have a day the public can come and check out the games for sale (even with COVID).[quoted image]
It had to be a P1 auction, but it wasn’t a recent one. He’s had it for 3 years. I think he might have played it 100 times since he bought it.
Added some pop bumper caps and light rings today. Also put a red flasher inside the bell, wired to insert flasher. Ordered new lightning bolt flashers from AliExpress ($26 CND for 3 shipped to my door). They are great.
I really don’t like the “R” insert being totally hidden under the cannon. Will try to add a visual aid soon. Still thinking of ideas.
During gameplay all I hear is Immortan Joe from mad max doing the call outs.
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Quoted from pinballjah:Where did you get the lightning bolt flashers for $26CDN? Would love the link. Didn't think you could add light rings to the existing bumpers. Thanks.
I add caps and light rings to all my stern games that use the plastics instead of the traditional caps. Some take some work with a dremel but it is easy to do. I usually use Bally Williams caps as they are cheap and readily available locally for me.
Added them to X-men, Walking Dead, AC/DC, LOTR.
Quoted from Darscot:Have you gotten anything else from them. I have been thinking about trying their flashers and bulbs?
I bought 150 (cool white) star post lights from them as well. Installed about 100 so far. All working perfectly. I add star post lights to every post on B/W games.
Flashers and leds I get from my local guy, he is competitive on pricing and no wait time.
Quoted from Darscot:I haven't tried star post LEDs do they glare on the DMD?
Not really at all. Here is a pic of Fish Tales.
1C8746CD-A436-4E08-AADD-747CDAE324BA (resized).jpegQuoted from Darscot:They do look sweet and I do love color matching posts and rubber. I always put spotlights in my games for extra light but they tend to glare real bad because they point up straight up at the DMD. This seems like the way to go and at 50 cents a pop you cant really go wrong.</blockquote
Thanks for the link! Are they easy to install, seem to come with bare wires as an attachment?
The lightning bolts are plug and play. Star post lights need to be soldered.
Put under the post, run wires under the PF, cut to length, solder to the bulb of your choice. Usually GI for me.
Quoted from newpinbin:What is the play count on this under your audits?
Quoted from Darscot:I haven't bought them but it looks like they come with the connectors, Stebel did say they are plug and play, so I assume its dead easy. I just saw them recently when I was buying stuff on Ali.
Quoted from newpinbin:What is the play count on this under your audits?
I didn’t think to check the audits before I updated to new code. I have 40 games on it since updating.
Quoted from newpinbin:By the amount of wear marks it had to be a lot.
Pf is trashed. Going to get a new one soon. Us Canada border is still closed. I will get killed on taxes and customs if I order one now.
The game is playing fine. I only have one ball hang up and that’s between the cannon and the ramp.
DF6B1A32-18ED-479D-8B2D-E9C78BF79848 (resized).jpegQuoted from newpinbin:That's actually very impressive. Shows how well the game is built. When you first bought the game did you have to replace anything?
Replaced the top post of the right sling. It was broken in half. The game is pretty solid.
When I do the pf swap, I’ll get new nyliners for the auto Fire mech, ramp protector kit, and a plastic set. Then just general rebuild stuff, coil stops, all new pop bumpers, etc...
Quoted from Shenanigander:Is there supposed to be a light behind this lightning bolt like the other two?[quoted image]
Yes
Quoted from Psw757:Anyone with the pinbits lightning bolt flashers know if the tiny bulbs are replaceable?
I just noticed I have a row out on one of them.
I don’t know about replacing the bulbs, just buy new sets straight from AliExpress. $26 cnd and I had a set of 3 bolts, plug and play.
I don’t know how anyone plays this game without extreme frustration with the F I R E inserts on the in/outlanes.
The R is obstructed by the cannon and after playing and missing R light - I got pissed off and got out a drill. I did both sides.
I will have to replace the apron decals with something custom, maybe some flames with the hold button instructions.
23D336BC-111D-4E59-B253-E50BFF5581FA (resized).jpegQuoted from Psw757:You have a link?
Don’t think pinbits is even selling them anymore but hooked is selling them for like $150 for a set of 3.
C$ 28.13 | 3pcs Super Brightness Thunder Lightning Flash Shape Non polarity AC DC 10V-30V Pinball Game Machine Led Bulb Lamps Lights
https://a.aliexpress.com/_mrVGyX4
Quoted from Jkush18:Honestly doesn’t do a lot for me. Most people don’t even notice the display. If it was a few hundred ok but $500 for color? Idk if I can pull the trigger.
Get the cheaper pin2dmd version of the color dmd. It’s a great alternative.
Quoted from DaveH:I have to disagree, for many reasons. I've done all 3. ColorDMD LCD, LED, and pin2dmd. By a LARGE margin, I prefer the ColorDMD LCD. That is an opinion, not a fact. However I hate the LED versions of both. I find them difficult to look at, and annoying to my eyes.
So in my games, it is almost exclusively the ColorDMD LCD in supported games. Yeah they are expensive, but so are pins.
Sure but the op wasn’t impressed with the price of colordmd. If he wants a budget alternative the pin2dmd is a fine replacement for a color display.
Quoted from davalve:Finaly ACDC Pro is in and very happy with this machine.
Wondering if the Hemi bell mod is still around?
Anybody have one and willing to sell?
Thanks
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Where did you get the decal for the playfield?
Like to say a big thank you to BigalzPinz for selling me an NOS playfield. My Ac/Dc is now playable.
Only notable thing I did on the game was to light up the hells bells sign on the swinging bell. I only bought the frame from pinballlife for the swinging bell and made the rest of the parts.
ACE59081-C7DB-40CC-A1D6-5B2E37AE6A35 (resized).jpegQuoted from newpinbin:Looks good. Throw up some more pics.
Some other pics.
Found LE side armor. Went with gold for cannon and logo and silver for bolts.
AliExpress lightning bolts, $10 a bolt
Mirror blades
Light bar along the back. I have side bars too but I don’t like how I attached them.
3D print train that looks decent.
LEDs on apron tied to F I R E inserts which the RE is hidden by the cannon.
CPR speaker plastic and light up speakers that are sound reactive.
CPR Metal cut out topper (not installed).
Added the ramp protector guards to edges of ramps.
Things to still do:
1. Need the Cannon mod….
2. Would like to add blue and red el wire to TNT box.
3. Flat clear plastic for the top of the right ramp. Left side has it.
4. Clean up the look of the right side diverter like others have done.
5. Have the Helen decal for playfield and apron, but need to make a copy first as they do wear out. I don’t have the Helen translite, only the pro and premium.
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