Finally starting my TOTAN restoration after having it a few years. This thing is a total wreck and I’d be better off buying a nice one but I like restorations.

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Here is my original NOS PF I paid dearly for, then sent it to Ron Kruzman for touch up and clear, he does amazing work and worth the wait. No reproduction PF here, Thank you Ron!

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Replacement is best. One could restore this cab but the time involved would be nuts and the structural integrity would not be good. The plys have separated and a lot of the wood is swollen.

No, it was sitting in a metal shipping container in Georgia I believe. The heat and humidity over the years created a damp environment and the condensation collected at all the low spots and edges causing all the corrosion.

Tonight’s progress

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Tonight’s progress

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Slow and steady, pop assemblies complete, black stained quarter sawn oak I cut and installed.

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Been swamped with other things, I will jump back on it soon and post some updates. Nice to know someone is following this thread. Bahahaha

Been awhile since I’ve been able to put some time into it, but I did have some time tonight.

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Came out of a container in the south, it sat in there for years and collected condensation. I bought it from pinsider “THE_DIRECTOR” a few years ago.

Unfortunately no more progress has been made. I just took a new job and been out of state for training. Also setting up another pinball location. Needless to say, TOTAN has been at idle, but I do think about it often! Bahaha.

I’ll start cracking on it again when I get back from training.

I’m out of state till the end of the month, then only home for a few days. I will post some pics when I get some time to work on it

Did a little work on the totan tonight

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Finally cut the harness out of the pin, time to clean it up

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Harness is scrubbed clean, freshwater rinsed 3 times, all connections blown out with compressed air and now hanging clean.

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Chris royalty.
http://www.pinballplating.com/

Been trying to get some paint and decals done on a few other projects before it gets cold, then I can get back to the TOTAN. But here are some pics for eye candy of the other projects.

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Here’s a few more

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Didn’t plan on doing a PF swap on the No Fear but the other one just need redone and I already had this one.

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Seems like it, it’s so dang hard to find deals anymore though. The only “deals” for the most part are pins that need total restoration.

Not for totan. I had somebody doing some detail work for me and he seriously messed up a PF in a pin that’s not mine. With that said, this mess up has taken all my extra free time away to get it right. I’ve had to pain this 3 times to get it right but now I’m happy with it. 1 pic of where he was buffing the PF and caught a switch in the buffer, it scratched the PF pretty bad and he also burnt the PF with the buffer.
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Did about 2 hours of soldering last night on the playfield, no pics. Just an update, slowly working on it when I can.

Finished up all but one coil and the outlane roll over switches and lamps on the underside. After I test all components I will tidy up the harness. I spen about 7 hours on the underside tracing, trimming and soldiering wires. Every single lamp socket is new, the old harness was cut from the old PF lamps and sockets, only a handful of old sockets stayed attached for the transfer and they got replaced too.

I populated some more of the topside today too. This is where the progress stops as I have to go back on the road for a few weeks.

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Did a little more population today

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Got most of the PF done and switches adjusted. Just missing a couple pieces of hardware. It will be ready to drop in a cabinet very soon. I’ll try to do better with updates and pictures. Wish I could upload a video.

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Got the playfield dropped into the cab today. Also installed brass side rails, hinges and a brass plated ground plate. Chris Royalty’s Hot Rod Arcade did all the brass work on this pin and there is a lot of brass.

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It has, but at this point in my life and the number of restorations I’ve done, I wouldn’t do one like this again unless it’s super rare and worth a lot of money. How long has it been since I pick this project up from you?

Swollen wood from water damage.

Little more progress today

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Almost finished up. Just have to hook up the speaker panel, update the color DMD for TOTAN, drill holes in the backbox light tube and install the lights/harness/ribbon cables and I think it will be done. Then the usual dialing in the pin.
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Unfortunately I had to sell it. I just need to finish it up and sent it down the road.

I got the light panel drilled out and ready for the harness. Hopefully the mirrored back-glass comes in tomorrow.

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Finally got this mirrored glass in. Funny thing is..... this was one of the hardest tasks to do on this pin. They do not want to fit, but I got in there.

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I think it’s only an issue with WPC95 machine because of the lighting panel that is attached to the glass via plastic trim.

I have one in my IJ and there is no issues at all. I would imagine all pins with a swing board light panel would be easy to use the thicker mirrored glass.

All done.

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That’s an entirely different pin, I bought it to reference some of the wiring and used a couple small parts off of it and the wiring harness for the light tub on the backbox.

This pin is an excellent restoration candidate, previous owner applied new decals to a solid cab. It came with a new reproduction playfield, a new skill shot and I added a bunch of other new parts to the pin in addition to the leftover parts from the blow out TOTAN. I was going back and forth on restoring this one too. But pins are like gardens, you only get to redo so many in your life time and I didn’t want to do another one back to back.

I’m sure it’s going to turn out real nice knowing the kind of work you do.

The unsalvageable parts went to the fire. The old cab was so bad my kiddos were able to smash it up in a few swings.

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Lol, that’s not zip-tie. It’s wax string used for cable lacing.