I just bought this tragic City Slicker from ForceFlow
Would’ve hated to see a game this rare parted out.

Plugged it in and connected the nightmare within and it INCREDIBLY, actually booted.
Now I’m not looking to go deep into this right now. I want the quick, dirty, Home Depot Handyman special on this since the cab is mostly a loss in my book.

I’m looking for any tips and suggestions on securing this cab from within, to be able to set it up and shop it out and play it, so I can work on building a new cab and still being able to play it.

I also need to figure out how to complete the head for the time being since the original is merely tattered remains.

Calling all those Low-end Pin Men!

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I meant to send you a message letting you know it boots completely and it goes into test mode, but I can't get past the switch test, I keep pressing the button and it keeps restarting the switch test.

It'll be one hell of a fixer upper, my god. But that fact it boots is incredible!

I read the manual, I didn’t realize that if a switch is stuck in parallel with the remote, it won’t move past the stuck switch.

Front panel and head removed and are being fabricated currently!
Both are unfortunately a total loss.

All I need now is a lockdown bar!

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Just picked up the new front panel and head! Pics coming soon. Hoping to install them tonight or tomorrow! Any recommendations, glue and then drill and clamp, or some better way to install new panels to the existing cab?

I’m very happy with how it all came out! Finally I can get this game together and play it!

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I forgot to take “before” pictures, but I primed and painted both parts tonight! They came out great! I skipped the sanding, tomorrow I’ll see how they came out and I may sand them, not sure what to use for it though.

Then either tomorrow or the next day, I’m gonna glue and clamp them! Very excited for this!!

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Here she is, coming along beautifully! Reassembling/repopulating the back box and putting the legs back on tomorrow.

Enjoy my shopping-cart pin-dolly. It’s actually exceedingly mobile and smooth!

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Just got home at 1am and work is at 6
Who needs sleep when you have Pinball?

Got the ol’ girl on her legs for the first time in who knows how long! Playfield fits perfectly, what a relief.
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The lockdown brackets were bent, which was expected since it took such a massive hit. Took them off and bent them back, they sat perfectly with just some crude shaping.
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The legs were tough to get on, the back ones didn’t want to thread. Took some persuading!

Playfield is filthy as you can see, it took all my energy not to strip it immediately! I’ve been wanting to tear it apart so badly, but I’ve forced myself to reassemble and test it. I know in the long run it will save my hours of headaches. Plus I can find any potential issues that may be lurking in it... Clearly this game was played a lot!

Just based on what I saw when I first received it, along with the odd things I found when I disassembled and inspected it. I’m assuming the kickouthole to the hostile flipper is bad. Probably the coil. And it appears that uptown must have been broken since there were no balls in it. It’s got some broken stand ups and the upper flipper is seized.
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I didn’t get a chance to even fire up the self test, because upon mounting the head, I realized my woodworker either forgot, or disregarded the holes for the displays! Granted, when I received it the hardware was already stripped off the head, so I actually didn’t realize this game sat on hinges so the head could fold down! I’m relieved since I had been wondering why it had seemed to be made for hinges. The brackets for the head were in the coin box along with all the hardware! So I removed the head and I will drill those necessary holes tomorrow or Friday! Then I can finally hook this chica up!
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So excited to see if it still works and what the tests have to report!

Sidenote, the last picture here shows that one of the inserts popped out when the game exploded on the ground. Any suggests to get that sucker back in?
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I can't stand the spaghetti monstrosity of connectors that is the 6803...

What’s up with the underside of this game being so clean?
The topside is an utter mess, but the underside seems to be perfectly untouched? All coils are original and I can’t find any repairs or cuts or ANYTHING.

Any clue why this game is so clean, is that common? I’ve never had a game that wasn’t blackened underneath it.

I don’t want to jump to conclusions but could this possibly have been an HUO game that simply wasn’t properly maintained? All the rubber was brittle and rotten, and the balls were rusty. Impossible to tell if that was due to storage or usage, but I’m curious if maybe it was HUO and they never changed the balls or rubbers out and thus the dirty, sand-paper effect on playfield.

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Wow I can’t believe it’s been a year since any work happened with this.

Just finished cleaning the playfield, it came out great!

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I tried Flame-Polishing the ramps and it MOSTLY came out great... however one side of the "Up Town" playfield got too hot and curled inwards. Best way to fix this? I was using a heat gun, so it didn't boil or anything, just got a little too hot and I didn't notice till I set it down and it flopped over.

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After searching the forums, there didn't seem to be any great topics with flame polishing tips and ways to fix mistakes. Maybe I should start one? I know I'm not the only one who's ran into these kinds of issues.

Only other debate is if I should wax and Mylar areas of the playfield before I repopulate it since I'm not going to do any touch-ups at this time.

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