No pics, but my queue is Lightning, Quick Draw and Mata Hari.

Restoring an OXO.

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Playfield resto is done, I just have a few issues to sort out before I can start enjoying this awesome game.

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That’s a surprisingly complex gearbox. I’ve never seen more than 2 before.

I spent 4 hours today trying to figure out why 14 feature lamps are out on my Embryon, I thought I’d nailed it when I found 2 broken wires on J4 of the lamp driver board, but after rebuilding that connector I was back at square one. Early SS pins can really test your patience sometimes.

I’m focusing on fixing lamp issues on all of my older pins. I really like the little lamp test board I got from Pinitech: you know right away whether the problem is the board or the socket. Fathom had a problem where ALL of the feature lamps intermittently went out. It was a cold solder joint on BR1 on the rectifier board, an easy fix. I like “themed” repair weekends. Next weekend will be Atari color vector games.

Yeah, I remember the $500 Quicksilver I passed up. I wish I could go back and smack myself.

I bought both of these OXOs in the past 2 months. The first was on the first day of my quarantine, March 13. The second one was a total fluke. An old friend called and asked me to help him bring a game up a hill covered in pine straw. I ended up buying it, and used its cabinet, head and pop bumper caps to make my first OXO a lot nicer.

After combining the 2 to make 1 nice one today, I fixed a bunch of other problems and I’m close to 100%. Can’t wait to just PLAY this.

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I have so many stencil kits and so many cabs to paint. Gotta get on that in the fall. Most are old Bally pins.

I’d love to know what you did the 2nd time, that looks amazing.

I forgot to order lamp sockets, so my Mata Hari playfield swap is starting with teardown/clean/rebuild of the drop target assemblies. Man I hate those e-clips.

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I made progress on my Mata Hari playfield swap this weekend. GI is all wired, harness is clean. Next step is to clean and rebuild the drop target banks.

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Looks great, and I can relate. I gave a decent chunk of my life to my WW.

Off topic, sort of. These were all down a week ago. I hope they stay up longer this time.

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I’m getting a lot done during my 2 weeks off between jobs. I was about 90% done with a Mata Hari playfield swap, then my new C37 playfield came in. If I can get it swapped and back in the game by Friday, it’ll be a new record for me. Usually I sit on a new playfield for years before I get around to doing a swap. But this one is way too pretty to sit.
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