Thanks!!

Hi,
Looking for a picture of the connector J3 (big one) of the Power supply, to check the COLORS of each pin . Mine is broken ( 3 parts ) , and some pins were disconnected ..
I need to rebuild it totally

Of course i have the schematic, but i preffer to be secure..before power-up.

Sounds easy to shoot , through the door

Thanks
Lionel

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Thank you so much Cottonm4 !

I don't mean to derail this thread, but i just wanted to let everyone here know that the company that made the replacement 555-style lamp boards for the bingo cards (the ones Chuckwurt was posting about) is considering making a similar pair of replacement lamp boards for Nine Ball. These would replace both 12-lamp grids next to the 8-bank drop target assembly. I saw a few folks here that expressed interest in getting those made for Nine Ball. If anyone is in for a set of these, please pm me or come to the Nine Ball club and add yourself to the list. With enough interest, i think we may see this happen!

Ok guys, I have just traded emails with the guy who is making the Big Game bingo card light boards. As of today, he has only sold three sets. He is not worried about it but some of you who said you would buy a set ought to step up and make an order and give him an incentive to work up something for Nine Ball.

I already bought mine! I have it ship to one of my friend in Florida who is bring it back to me!

Step it up fellas...
-mof

Yeah that's a shame. Thought we had at least ten sets sold. I might have to buy a backup set or two in case he pulls them.

Is there a link to understand what these are. I just got a Big Game and trying to figure out what this is

Mike V

My Big Game doesn't have any metal frame where the playfield glass ends at the head of the game. Is this correct?

Mike V

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http://pinballreplacementparts.com/products/product-0016

Ron...

My Stars has one, but my Nine Ball, Stargazer, and Big Game do not. So it's probably correct.

Ron...

Yes. it is correct. I have a Dracula cab with no metal frame. I cannot speak for the four pins after Stars (Memory Lane, Lectronamo, Wild Fyre, and Nugent) but my guess it that Dracula and all that followed had no metal frame. Probably to cut costs.

I have thought about getting a 2nd set. Lord knows that are cheap enough.

still LOVING THIS GAME. we play 4 nights a week 4-5 hours a night. big game does not get skipped ever and i have a big collection. who knew!

My SDB burned up from a locked on coil. Still waiting on the repair to be finished. Bummer. Miss my BG bad.

how much is the repair? who does it? I need a gottlieb guy. these things are brutal.

barakandl in cbus. Very reasonable. Not sure if he does gottliebs.

i thought he was out of that business. I actually bought a sdb from him. great guy and knows his stuff for sure.

Hasn't turned me away. I think he has developed another option for replacement early stern MPus too.

Temporarily joining the club... Fixing this one up and will probably pass it along to a friend:
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Have party this weekend and needed to get ge Z card working quick (X and Y are pretty reliable), so I busted out my soldering iron:
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Had a lot of interesting problems, but it pretty much works now...

Two questions though:
1. If I cradle a ball on the lower flipper and then release the flipper to make a shot, the ball gets trapped in a little nook between the upper flipper, the end of the lower flipper and the metal guide, which sits lower than the lower flipper. Is that normal, or are my guides mounted wrong?

2. I tried to put the backglass in, but it's very hard to do because the lower 7 digit displays stick out past the slot for the glass. The holders are mounted on the inside of the insert like they should be, but the glass is still basically touching the displays?

nice PF

1. Shouldn't happen. That flat metal guide can be adjusted. Be careful the legs can snap from too much adjusting.

2. Make sure the displays are sitting all the way back in their housings. They shouldn't be close to the backglass.

Bonus: if your bonus card insert lights are still flakey after your fix that you did, see previous posts for a permanent fix using a 555 lamp board.

Btw, that playfield is so nice. I wouldn't pass it on. Haha.

Adjusted how? All I see is a screw going into the playfield? One of the legs is snapped, but it's happening on both sides....

They're all the way back

I've seen those, but they're a bit expensive and I don't have time to wait for them to arrive. Lights on that card are nice and reliable now (although it turns out two of them have bad transistors, grr), and unlike the other two cards (which were reliable), they don't flicker when I flip anymore...

Can you post hi res well lit pics of your flipper and display issues? For the displays I mainly want to see the back of them sitting in the housing so I can compare to mine.

While taking pictures of the flipper problem I noticed that one of the walls was a replacement, and that both had three sets of holes... No idea why the original holes weren't good enough (or which ones those are) but i moved the guides to holes that seemed better and it seems to have fixed my problem. Plus being able to able half the time from the lower flippers allowed me to get a new high score on my test game!
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As for the display issue... they're definitely pressed against the back of the mounts, and they definitely are touching the backglass when I try to put it in:
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It seems to only really be noticeably happening on the lower displays, which also confuses me as I can't see any difference between those and the upper ones. Then again, I've had my black rose for more than a year now and I still can't figure out how to get the (atrocious) backglass into it so maybe I'm not the best person to be putting backglasses in

Nice on the ball guides. One down.

I'm perplexed on the displays. They look fine so the only thing I can think of is the door with the displays is sitting too close to the front of the backbox. Maybe see if that looks messed at the hinge.

Say Hello to your new friend.

No really though, that playfield is in very nice shape.
Must admit puts mine to shame. But truth be told I like that mine is a bit of a beater. Love to just flail away on it!

Heh, I was liking how much of a controlled shooting game it is!

I can't see anything about the hinge without removing the whole panel first, but nothing looks weird. Even on the far (right) side, the display protrudes slightly past the wooden frame and I can tell the insert is pressed back against the latch plate, which can't move, so...

I always put a washer between the holders, that put the display a little farther inside and make and extra protection for the backglass, i did that for all my bally and classic stern!

Just checked my game. My displays are sitting 7/16 of an inch out in front of the white light board. The track that the backglass sits in starts at 9/16 of an inch from the white light board door thing. Haha. So I have effectively 2/16 or 1/8 of an inch clearance from my display fronts to the backglass.

7.... 16ths?! Mine are sitting almost 7/8ths of the way out from the insert, and the backglass channel is 3/4" away, giving me -1/8th" of clearance

I thought you had zero clearance? As in the displays touch the backglass?

If you have an 1/8 of an inch clearance between the front of the display and the backglass I say that's normal.

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Just shy of 1/2". Isn't that 7/16?

*negative 1/8th*

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Haha. Okay man that's weird. I checked my old displays and they are the exact same as yours. Maybe the brackets are stock and aren't deep enough? No clue man. Sorry.

I thought they're the same brackets as normal, just mounted inside? but yeah I'm really confused. How deep are your brackets and how deep are your displays?

2 1/4" deep on the brackets.

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3 3/4" on the stock displays. I just measured the pcb that the display is attached to.

Also the display board door is 5/8" from the backglass track.

Well I guess there's my problem!

How the hell does that happen

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Looks the same to me. Measure all the way to the back to the bracket. The part by the connector.

It looks like 2 1/8 to me

Okay. Man that's so weird that it's that snug for you. I can tell ya that the xpin displays leave plenty of space at a cool 320 bucks! Haha

I'll die before I put LED displays in a game. Been stocking up on plasmas for years...

I'll sell ya my stock ones. Dirt cheap. 60 shipped for the whole set. Haha

I will buy it if you are serious!

Here's the catch. I have no idea if any of them work. They started to go and that's why I replaced them all. And it ain't cheap to ship to you mister. Haha

I will take the risk... i can give 15$ more to cover the shipping cost... for all 5 display. Let me know, i can paypal you!

Looks like I only have the credit display and three players displays. I'll do 60 shipped for all these.

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I just pm you!