Need replacement sockets for the lights in TAF topper and they look like they are slightly different from the sockets under the playfield. Can someone confirm and if I am right point me to where I can pick up the correct lamp sockets?

Only place I ever saw this was from loop combo, but it's now listed as being out of stock:

https://loopcombo.com/products/backlit-signs-for-the-addams-family-pinball-thing-vault-pack?variant=15449097666626

Thanks so much!

Have a routed Addams Family that I just started to maintain and discovered light battery acid damage at the bottoms of two batteries. Visually from the front of the board, the damage seems to have been contained to the battery holder terminals themselves. Cleaned the visible acid damage from the battery holder with alcohol and lightly with a picking tool and installed new batteries that I know are good, but the machine reverts to factory settings upon reboot even after new settings are punched in. Otherwise, everything works perfectly in the machine, so I'm puzzled. Is it worth replacing the battery holder? Any other ideas?

Below is a photo of the board AFTER I cleaned off the acid and installed new batteries.

TAF Batteries (resized).JPG

Thanks much. Will do.

From memory, I feel sure it's the ramp. I say that because the train shot would end the sequence, whereas the ramp shoot delivers to the small left flipper, allowing you to continue the combo, which then ends if you hit the graveyard shot at the right scoop. I think I recall getting that sequence a few times and getting the combo award. But I'm sure someone will correct me if I'm wrong.

Yup. Nice. And it's a short but very gratifying video and audio callout, as I recall.

I'll take a look under the hood and see if I can help with board location. What do you mean by "the two pieces on the left"?

Here you go. The board goes under the playfield near the rear left. One photo of the board installed and one of the board pulled to show detail. Hope this helps.

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TAF Pulled (resized).JPG

As to the difficulty of the assembly of the ball shooter lane feeder and the kicker arm slingshot assembly, that's a tough call without knowing your experience. But I'll say two things--both of which are mechanical rather than electrical. For the ball shooter lane assembly, I would first remove it from the playfield by way of the screws and do no disassembly unnecessarily, using the removed assembly as a template right in the machine if possible so that as you assemble the new part you have a guide to go by. For the kicker arm slingshot, I would follow the same advice, but in this case you have the advantage of a complementary assembly on the other side of the playfield, so you can always use that as your template. For any original coils involved, just let them dangle from the soldered wires during your disassembly but note their orientation within the assembly and be sure to reassemble them in the same orientation.

Hope that helps.

Sure. Good luck!

To state the obvious, just in case, be certain that you don't already have support brackets and the old board in the machine. If so, you can always drill out the rivets that mounted the board to the brackets originally and use something like standoffs or other mounting hardware such as bolts and washers instead (I think I would use plastic washers, but maybe that's not necessary). Otherwise, going by appearance and the listing of product compatibility, I think that TWO of the below brackets from marco would work. Again, you would have to use some other mounting hardware to attach the board to the bracket unless you can rivet.

https://www.marcospecialties.com/pinball-parts/01-10756

Looks good. I'm no expert on this, but in the case of those strips running to your pop bumper lights for the lower-most pop bumper in the photo, I would separate the strips more when you staple them down and make sure they aren't coming in contact with any other metal parts, such as a support bracket. Again, I'm no expert and not positive of this, but I would worry about a short otherwise. I like the way you've clearly separated them and kept them away from metal parts for the other pop bumpers.

Yes, that just secures them to the wood and doesn't present the possibility of a short. But I wouldn't let two staples touch or let the leads or staples touch anything else metal.

I don't know the answer as to whether the marco light kit you linked to (listed as Out of Stock), and others may certainly disagree, but on TAF and other titles I've had much better luck going with non-ghosting premiums from Cointaker. Kits from other manufacturers sometime have ghosting issues in my experience and it can be really annoying. And if light color doesn't matter to you (with a few exceptions where color matters to indicate status of the chair and Thing), you could count what you need and order non-ghosting white bulbs in bulk from Cointaker at a discount. I like bright whites for feature inserts and warm whites for anything that shows, such as GI. My only other thought is that for flashers, I actually don't go with LEDs in many cases and use incandescents. The flashers can actually be too bright. Just my 2 cents.

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