I’ll be documenting bringing this Taxi back to life for a friend of a friend. It’s a bit rough but is getting the full treatment. New playfield, rails from @taylorva, backglass, topper, cabinet rails/legs, lockdown bar, ramps, MPU from @dumbass, plastics, LED’s, etc. Basically this is going to be about as new as it can be. The cabinet is pretty rough with some moisture damage. I will address the issues as best as we can and will get Radcals for the artwork.

Here’s the starting point. I never saw rubber that just fell apart like this. I’m thinking it was sitting for a long time. I like the wasp nest on the flipper board.

There’s only a few hacks. GI relay in back box has wires soldered right to the relay board and some GI lighting which is typical.

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Sweet! Are you documenting it here?

She was busy…
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Playfield tear down top side only complete. I usually would have this yanked and on the rotisserie but thanks to my friend, he is loaning me a power supply and MPU Sunday so I can make sure all seems to be good including
the displays.

After that, I can pull the playfield to take to rotisserie and get the cabinet stripped for the cabinet to get worked on. Jury is still out on that as it will need a new bottom and tightening up before even considering the Radcal install.

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The old topper. More old wasp nests.

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I recognize this plastic but it’s not for Taxi.

I didn’t pay much attention due to the dirt and did a double take. So it wasn’t the worst plastic to use but it does have custom holes to fit.

Who knows what game it’s for?

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You nailed it! I recognized it only as I had one for a bit. It is getting a CPR playfield swap. I’m not sure. I think it was in a warehouse for a very long time. Will be great to see it come back from the dead!

So far for all the major parts ordered, the ramps have already shipped. Nothing on the playfield/backglass/plastic. Marco is always really good and has that order on it’s way. Radcals shipped out today too.

Other parts are custom and require built to order. Very thankful for the guys like Taylor and Victor that have been filling needs. I’m in they’re que and happy to wait patiently. Thanks guys!

The biggest hurdle here is the cabinet. A carpenter friend Grant does this work for me as I suck and don’t meet my own requirements. Hoping he can get this cab solid and ready for the Radcals. He does excellent work. If you’re in the Lancaster, Pa area, shoot me a PM if you need work done. Very high quality at fair prices.

As parts are drying from ultrasonic or in the tumbler, I’m tearing down the coin door. After a cleaning, rebuild and repaint it should look like new again.

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Huge thanks to 80spit for loaning me a few boards to get testing to make sure all is ok. It’s alive!!! The displays are going with LED’s as they’re missing segments and they’re not very bright.

It’s missing the coin door service switches so working on getting them so I can take into test. The wires were cut so they were robbed at some point. I ordered the Siegecraft test board too because I seem to run into this issue a lot lately. But want to bring the coin door back to original so it works right.

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Coin door tubing is getting replaced too.

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Thanks again to @80spit, I have the coin door service buttons working. Everything but the bell solenoid, pop bumper switches and their solenoids not working. Well two stuck on as soon as I went into test. So will need to check those switches.

This relay coil for the backglass needs some repair!

Here’s the hacked harness. I’m not sure why they hacked it?!

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New topper vs old topper. Just a slight difference.

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I know right? I feel like I wasted the money on it.

I need to get some pics of what wires are supposed to go where rather than trusting the hacked molex. So a proper connector should fill the header despite no wiring there. It's for the backboard which is puzzling as they had enough wire to land them without adding in that mess.

So if anyone has a Taxi and can send a good picture of the wiring for this connector, please do!

Thank you Paul!!!!

The coin door is about together. Some paint drying. Going with clears and some yellow led’s behind. If it looks bad, I’ll sub in some orange or red’s.

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Parts supply is trickling in. Playfield now shows Friday so I can really start to cruise.

With the new ramps from Starship Fantasy here, I’m starting tear down of the old ramps.

Old ramps:

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New display came. If you didn’t know, DumbAss makes these and the extra display like this and others use. I never knew he did those too DOH! Much cheaper and I trust his work over others.

The aux display isn’t in the picture but present and working! I should now be able to start stripping the cabinet so it can reworked.

Speaker panel was disassembled for cleaning and the hardware is in the backlog of tumblers right now. I have one large and one small one as I prefer each depending on what I put in.

The H channel for the speaker panel had some scratches so I repainted it and it’s drying.

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Thanks to Pablito350 for the heads up on the aux display (Note two ribbon cable places; I used J1 and that’s what you want for this title) and many other huge helps. Great meeting you today. And he and his wife are Mustang people.

The cabinet is torn down.

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Lol yeah the bottom is about ready to fall out of it!

Cabinet is loaded. Waiting on my buddy to drop off.

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Playfield, plastics and backglass came. Use Sys11 plastic trim from PL for the CPR backglasses.

Coin door is done other than soldering in the new service switches.

Playfield bottom side finally on a rotisserie so I can tear it down.

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The bottom tear down begins…

Dat lamp board dirt! Many bulbs were replaced (not by me!) but a lot of crusty ones. Surprisingly almost all were working. They’re in the trash now.

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Last of tear down…

One of the 906 flasher bulb holders was busted. I had it taped up when testing. A new holder will replace it.

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Here’s some post lengths.

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I’ll be using the infamous kruzman install kit to prep the playfield. This isn’t one of his famous hand jobs but his kit is still useful on any clear coated playfield.

So far the playfield looks ok. And the shooter lane is cut out. Saw some were missing that step.

The shooter lane “divot” is shorter then original. I ran into this on an EATPM and some washers to space the wireform up helped clear the area. We will see if that’s necessary here.

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I use new T nuts on any swap. It just saves hassle and I know they’re good. Well usually until you get a dud new one.

22 6-32 T nuts bottom side
4 8-32 T nut bottom side
6 8-32 T nuts tips side

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Progress tonight. Parts slowly coming together.

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The official start of the playfield today.

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Here’s what got completed today. Most posts were done. All but the flipper bat area wire guides are installed.

Most holes are too small. Any thru posts were too small. It takes some time to swap drill bits, countersinking, prep with Ron’s kit, etc. once you get a rhythm it goes quick. I try and do all thru post studs, then work with threaded posts, etc. It saves time to do the same ones at the same time. Just take your time!

The yellow rings at the lane change are staying. Not sure what to do with the other rings yet.

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She’s been around doing quality checks so far.

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The ball guides are almost all installed. A few are still drying and another needs a new flap cut as it’s wrinkled. They were all regrained.

Rubber rings aren’t decided yet but providing options for the owner. I’m leaning towards all black with some small post rings, mini posts, and posts getting some colors for accent.

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Before and after regraining of the ball guides.

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Mechanism tear down. Bell and outhole kicker.

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Kicker, catapult, and sling tear down. All in good shape so far.

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Saucers and shooter mechs.

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Pop bumper bracket is bent. It’s getting all new parts so no worries there.

Gate mech and flippers. No surprises. Flipper had one busing nut and screw missing. We will got the WPC return spring route during the rebuild.

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Lol thanks it’s like anything with practice. The more you do something, the easier it gets. And I enjoy doing this than playing them.

The cabinet was dropped off with Grant last night so looking forward to seeing it repaired and painted. He’s also making a new light board for the backbox.

I’m cleaning mechs and wire harnesses and the tumblers have been running non stop.

The Radcals finally shipped but they’ll be one of the last things to do anyway lol.

Victor is the man and the new MPU will be here soon. I also got one of the GI relay boards from him since the one on the light board was pretty bitched up.

New ramp flap replaces wrinkles one made thanks to PinRestore parts and tools. Hit them up before they retire and close at the end of the month!

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Replaced the traffic light plastic. It was pretty filthy.

All posts, wire ball guides, and ball guides are now installed. New foam was added to the bracket for the left ramp.

Progress top side to date.

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New ground braid got ran today with new bulb holders.

I have some work to do soldering it all up. And some of the wiring from the old playfield needs transferred on the new one yet.

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Here’s the post sizes.

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Thank you. Yes, I rebuild with the WPC return spring. It’s all I ever do now on the Sys11 as it isn’t much work to do when it’s all apart. Marco even includes those parts in the rebuilds.

Last of the riveting. Signs are done and installed.

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Wow! This is a work of art DumbAss ! Really nice work and hardware. If you need one of his boards, I wouldn’t hesitate in the slightest.

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Underside lighting is finished and soldered. Stapled the pop bumper leads down and moved some of the loose wired GI sockets over to the new playfield.

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The top side plastics are installed.

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Karolina was bugging me to keep working. It was a long weekend at the OC MD Endless Summer Cruise.

Couple pics from the inlet and Convention Center.

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Pinrestore. They’re about to close at the end of the month so check if they do international shipping soon.

Rivets here:

http://pinrestore.com/Riveting.html

The new rails from Taylor are great as always.

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Laid the switch harness in. New pop spoons.

Shooter lane switch tubing is yellowed so a new one is in.

This switch bracket was glued on so will need to come up with one of the switch brackets as I doubt these plastic ones are available. Anyone know?

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FYI, the switch brackets are available through PL:

https://www.pinballlife.com/black-plastic-microswitch-bracket.html

Flippers, pops, and some mechs are installed and soldered in.

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New micro switches are finished. I need to put an order in for the switch holder that’s broken.

There’s 9 total on the playfield. I’m going to go with Sonic MRS for the spinout ramp.

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New flipper bats are in. I’m not sure if I will stay with the black or go with blue. Seems like I should keep something taxi colors!

Picture of the playfield completion to date.

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Great idea. I added in orange as another option as it matches some areas on the playfield.

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The supervisor hard at work lol. She is keeping the rotisserie from moving.

Cleaned up the lockdown bar and added the Titan decal. Tumbled brass screws look great.

New drop target decals installed.

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All solenoids are installed test fitted, switches adjusted. Outhole kicker and drop target hardware is in tumbler and they’ll be the last ones. Otherwise the bottom side is done.

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Good call. Owner is going red!

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Ramps are completed other than MRS for spin out ramp. Should be here early next week.

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Started testing of GI lighting.

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Ramps are done. The wireforms aren’t great so will be working with sc93cobra for his chrome wireforms.

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The drop target assemblies/mechs and the top ball gate are finally installed and soldered. The bell is ready to go but the cabinet isn’t ready yet.

Short of some LED’s needed, the bottom side is done and most wiring tidied.

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I should know tomorrow if the wireforms are in stock with Hot Rod Arcade. For now the top side is done other than some final snugging up of wireforms and plastic removal of the plastic on catapult wireform.

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Wireforms are likely a no go unless he gets the set he had recently sold back from plating.

Still working on other things while waiting for the LED’s. Cleaned up the cabinet wiring in ultrasonic and helped out my car clubs car show at Cabela’s.

Few pics of cars and Karolina.

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The switch clips came and they’re a perfect fit and much tighter. I got and replaced all 8. Probably a good idea for me to remember this on my next Taxi as the tired plastic likely is fatigued by now.

Couple pics showing the differences and installed new ones. They look slightly different but are the same size and fit exactly the same.

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New MRS from Sonic installed. These are great and like using them on anything I can including my own games and others games. Really speeds the ball up. The smaller profile is great! Thank you Matt!

I installed around the original location with alcohol. The isopropyl kind. But that reminded me I need a Monkey picture for Spyderturbo007 anyway. I’m not a huge fan of the Sour and Tart Monkeys but they were a variety pack given to me.

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The Mantis ramp protector was recommended by mbaumle which we used in his. By the duct tape on the old ramp, it makes sense why it should be used.

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Both GI strings tested and passed. The supervisor seemed annoyed though.

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Insert lamp testing. Spinout ramp lamps are working. Using sunlights NG here.

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Some random inserts working. Another green light to move forward. No pun intended.

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And we’re off the rotisserie. Just waiting for the cabinet so doing what little things I can.

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Before and after of the transformer.

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Cabinet repairs done and new bottom. First coat of paint on the outside.

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Can anyone help with the relay wiring for the backbox light panel? I’m repairing but with the hacks on the relay and wiring, I want to make sure the wiring and relay wasn’t modified. (Cross posted on the Taxi club)

This is what I have:

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New switches for the flippers I forgot about…

I have them soaking in Evaporust in hopes to get the one cleaned up. If not, they get painted. I did get the new switches in.

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