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Cypress Gardens
Bally, 1958
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Lincoln, NE
You’ll be glad you saved this Bally. Bingo Pinball from becoming a coffee table. I sold a fully working one some years back and the new owner loved the playability and gambling aspect of this all skilled game. Good luck restoring.
That might come in handy. I purchased a schematic off of E-bay. Can you imagine that a guy buying a Bingo machine wants a hard copy to look at? I did not realize how heavy and complicated they are. It should be the journey that I am looking for.
the document packet should have a manual and schematic, maybe score/instruction cards.
the pacific pinball museum probably has a bunch of spare document packets for the earlier bingos if you need something. I don't know if there's a cypress gardens door ... or at least a compatible one ... in the parts pile. I can look monday if you don't have a door.
pinball resource has paper as well for around $20 ... hopefully the ebay folks asking more than $30+shipping for the paperwork will give up eventually.
even if there's a CG door, it won't match your cabinet due to paint fade and if you want pretty, you have to repaint or cover the door with a metal plate (ok, maybe not pretty with the metal plate, but it hides the crappy door that was broken into a few times 
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These things are certainly a challenge to work on. I am glad you saved it. I love the artwork on these old bingos.
I like the old technology and different variety of these games. This would be tempting to keep in my line up. As is the case with these things, what would have to go?
One of these days, that washer/dryer will be turned into a stand up and moved upstairs. that would give me room for two more.
Congrats and thanks for saving it from a horrible fate. Have a few bingos here and enjoy
fixing them up. Cypress Garden is one I'd like to find because as a kid, went to this
place many times.
Quoted from zarco:Congrats and thanks for saving it from a horrible fate. Have a few bingos here and enjoy
fixing them up. Cypress Garden is one I'd like to find because as a kid, went to this
place many times.
if you're on the west coast, the pacific pinball museum has one they would sell, tho I think it has a metal cover on the front. It likely came from daina smallwood's collection in washington, so the cosmetics should otherwise be decent.
shipping across country these days is probably prohibitive.
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I don't recall seeing a full metal front wrap on a game before, so I took the blanket off the pacific pinball museum's donated cypress gardens and found the same kinda thing.
I guess the difference is the PPM machine looks like it hadn't been operated in a tough location and I'd guess the artwork under the metal is in good shape.
anyway, yell if ya need pictures of anything. Looks like you're making good progress.
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Creating the front of this machine was a huge undertaking. I had to get out the hole saw and router just for starters. I had to back cut the old door for measurements.
For painting, I used packing tape for an outline of my artwork. I transferred that over to photographic paper and peeled off the backing. Some of my artwork was destroyed and others did not make sense. I made it up as I went along. My boat and its occupants turned out the worst. My waves turned out really good.
This game has spent a long life on those legs. I just cleaned them up and repainted them. It would be a shame to make wooden ones and also more work than I wanted to tackle at this time.
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I have a mess on my hands. There was a bracket holding this loom down. It was rusted and probably holding in some moisture. The wire loom has the cloth wiring brittle and decayed all the way down to bare wire. There is enough slack in the harness that I can cut the wire and splice it back together with some heat shrink. It will just take some time.
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This game must have been stored on the coin door. There was a lot of rot and corrosion on the front of the machine. The leaf switches for the coin door were a two-piece style. A solder tab and a bare leaf sandwiched together. I had to take all of them apart and clean them.
I had some loose jones plug receptacles. They were weak and broke off easily. I had some spares from a junked Keeney flasher.
The leaf switch stack holder was brittle, and I broke it. I was able to get a donor from my Keeney parts.
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