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Data East - Lethal Weapon 3 (LW3) Club

By mima

10 years ago


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“I am planing to make my self a set of repro plastics and are considering a making a very very limited run of sets. Are there any interest out there for this?”

  • I would run and grab me a set since there are no NOS made for this pin 69 votes
    47%
  • I would want to get a few single plastics, some are missing on my pin 54 votes
    37%
  • My pin has some beaten up plastics but I prefeer original plastics 5 votes
    3%
  • Nah, waste of moey. the pin plays well without / with warped and beaten up -plastics. 18 votes
    12%

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Post #955 LW3 3.0 Chad Code Released! Posted by ChadH (3 years ago)

Post #1536 LW3 Apron Cards Posted by Malenko (2 years ago)

Post #1559 LW3 Lamp Layout Posted by AlexRogan84 (2 years ago)


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#484 5 years ago

New owner checking! Spain re-import here. Got one cheap and it was working with some issues. Family had it in their home and just wanted it out as the kids don't play it anymore. Decent shape was shopped out in 2008 it looks like. I just ordered some new drop targets from Marco along with some new slingshot plastics. There is one plastic broken I can't find on the left circled in the pic below. If anyone has a good one for sale let me know. LED's and rubbers are next. I'm missing some PF GI so I'm sure I'll be rebuilding those connectors next. I uploaded some pics on my Flickr page have a look! I've been playing it and I'm liking it so far. I'll start reading from the start here to learn about it.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/phillyturbosix/albums/72157698576278700/with/45520672994/

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#486 5 years ago

And it's done! Complete full rebuild of everything on the power supply. GI connector burnt up. Just the top part of the GI was barely working. trifuricon pins on a new molex now with LED's should fix that forever! New rubbers, drop targets, new plastic on the left and slings. Have a look at what I did to protect that plastic on the left kick out. 2 of those plastic o-rings sandwiched together. That should protect it. I added a few of those here and there to protect some other plastics as well. Only problem is the thing plays like a rocket now! So fast the ball is smashing into everything! It hit the glass one time though it was going to shatter another time the ball hit the side of the cabinet I though it was going to bust through! Fun to play that fast for sure and I totally understand why almost all the plastics are cracked or broken! Here she is... enjoy

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#489 5 years ago
Quoted from Electronmagic:

Looks great. Mine has a clear plastic above the center drops that prevents air balls. I'm assuming they all came with them originally but many have been lost over the years?
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Oh yea mine did not have that and that's an air ball area for sure!

1 week later
#496 5 years ago

Just added the TNT button cell battery board to mine. What a great inexpensive little board and great mod to keep that battery acid off the boards! Took me about 10 mins to install it and no more leaking AA's! Here is the link get yours today! https://www.tntamusementsstore.com/wptnt/product/franks-famous-battery-board/

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#497 5 years ago

Oh nice instruction cards as well. Thanks for sharing I like em!

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#499 5 years ago
Quoted from MoSeS_1592:

Do you have a template for those instruction cards? I really like them.

I found them in this post actually on one of these pages. Printed them out, laminated them, and cut them out.

#502 5 years ago

The things you find when you look around! I don't know how this was so mushroomed. Is this a common wear part on this table? I'll have everyone checking their kicker lever assembly!

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#504 5 years ago
Quoted from vec-tor:

Yes!yes!yes!yes!yes!etc,etc,etc,........... Why???
Because Data East used
cheap,cheap, cheap, soft,soft,soft,metal!!!!!!! Ugh! I hate them for doing it.
They really did not want their games to be around.
The old Stern parts from the 1980's are actually better. Go figure.
All Data East outhole kickers are crap!

Well that explains things! haha damn that is some soft metal! I was cleaning under the apron added some LED's and I was like What?!!? Not sure if it was original but it's got a new one on there now from Marco!

#506 5 years ago
Quoted from dung:

Just got one of these yesterday. It needs a shop, the dmd had issues (replaced), and a few broken parts. I need to find the bracket for the ramp entry switch anyone seen one? Also could use a new plastic dome for my topper.

Well the topper domes are long can and can't be found. I looked high and low the last few months. Found a blue police light on eBay for $15 shipped that's 12 volts. I'm going to wire that in. I saw a LW in an arcade recently and he had the same light I just got from eBay on it. Marco does have some things for them for your other parts

#508 5 years ago

Got my $15 eBay beacon installed. Works great! Really lights the room up.

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#512 5 years ago
Quoted from allsportdvd:

Link?
Also people, which are the correct targets for the skill shot bank & the single target near the left outlane? I've seen 3 different ones installed in the photo gallery

This guy is probably going to think who the hell is buying up all these lights! The lamp it comes with sucks. I put the typical 89 in there and it looks awesome. Chopped the cord off and used the molex shell over with new pins so it even looks factory.

ebay.com link: Rotating Blue Emergency Car Light Magnetic Base 12v

#513 5 years ago
Quoted from fatality83:

Looks awesome did you print them on regular printer paper or card paper, would love to have this!

Yup regular cheap printer paper decent printer laminate machine I have at work. Looks great and cost $0

1 week later
#515 5 years ago

One thing I noticed with mine is the left out line (not the kickback) when the balls goes down there I hear the same speech as if it went down the far kickback out lane. And the kickback goes out. Anyone else run into that? I have to check the wires under there but I thought that was a strange one!

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