I'm also putting back in the lightning flipper bats.

It came with standard bats but you get a little more power off the coils with slightly shorter bats.

The 1/8" seems like a lot shorter, but the game came with lightning flippers.

1/4" increase in flipper gap should be challenging lol.

I can always change them if it's too hard to play.

Has anyone else put in the lightning flippers?

Titan rings and flippers, and Cliffy posts for me. That perfect combination of good play, good looks and longevity.

In terms of music, it is hard to find a band that has lots of tracks without vocals. Rush seemed a good option and very futuristic IMO. If you like the band, you will love the orchestration. There are not many Dr Who Pinsound orchestrations so the more the better.

If you have suggestions on music, let me know. I am currently working on a Pulp Fiction orchestration for the Getaway.

At the moment I have regular red rubber on the flipper bats. The slingshots have dark blue urethane and the rest of the rings are yellow urethane. Used a mix of black, yellow sleeves on the playfield and red blue sleeves on the time expander. Game looks great. Now I was only good at playing this one. Love the way the game looks but it crushes me all the time....

Interesting perspective. It would seem to me that many of the tracks from 2112 and Hemispheres (not to mention Cygnus X-1 from AFTK) would align perfectly with DW, given the timeframe and subject matter. After a while, anything is better than the same.theme.over.and.over.and.over...

Mine came with them as it was a prototype or something.
I can not really tell the difference BUT I love the lighting bolt pattern on the flipper bats.
I love following what you are doing with the game!
Keep posting!

I think I'll go with red flipper rubber also.

Seems to match the outlane plastics border better.

Sleeves will match the flyer I think.

I do think all white rubber will brighten it up and add bounce.

If it rots off fast, probably go with white titans or urethane maybe for durability.

I have tons if white I gotta use up. Lol.

Agreed. Push of a button and you can switch between orchestrations. He likely won’t want to try my Green Day remix I may do next for the Dr Who or Pink Floyd

I think Pink Floyd would be amazing for Doctor Who.

How come you did not repair the Damage at the front of the time expander. Cliffy's will cover it, but I would have put some filler in those divots.

I did, had broken flippers on mine when I got it. Now it plays perfectly.

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Ummm...I do have it too...

I was focusing and polishing and sorting out post locations and forgot to put on the cliffy!

Great call...lol.

My bondo filler tests failed to grip as much as I wanted, It just cracked off. Casting resin would have worked, but it's a tiny area.

I'm hoping the steel will hold up unsupported under the divots for home use.

Now is the time to install the cliffy hahaha!

I'll put it on when I start adding rubbers

Thankyou so much for the playfield picture!

Pinside is amazing!

I didnt take any overview shots.
I started by doing a simple shop and wax. There was so much damage and nonsense going on, I had to do a complete restoration.

You just saved me hours if work!

And, I like the black flipper rubber now...

In the picture your flippers are adjusted up from the alignment holes.

Is that a gameplay afjustment to make it play better?

You can also try using the wood stick epoxy (or the steel one, if you’re really brave!). Put in some very very small screws for grip and you should be able to mold it out and use as little or as much as you need

I’m confused - this game came factory with Lightning flippers. Do you mean it had regular flippers at first and you replaced them?

On the Lightning Flipper topic... should the upper flipper be a Lighting or standard bat?

Yes, in fact many Doctor Who have the wrong flippers on them.

Operators just put in what they have on hand when someting breaks.

Good qusetion!

I'm going with the lightening, since I have them, but I'm also wondering if that is correct.

Upper flipper is a normal bat AFAIK

The Allen shoppe picture on the ipdb.org middle left playfield shows it as a regular flipper.

It's not hi-res but doesnt look like lightning embossed to me.
The lower flippers indeed are lightening.

Great call.

Now I'm going to put a regular one there.

Looks like he’s back as of this morning...
Really enjoying watching your progress!
-Brian

I got my Dr. Who back in 1995...
All three flippers on the game are the same.
Regular 20-9250-6.

The operators changed them, so I put it back to original Lightning Flippers. The upoer left is a standard flipper bat.

I put a toothpick in the holes to set my adjustment stop.

Mine are Lightning on the bottom and a standard on top but I have a buddy with all lightning, that’s why I was wondering.

The picture on ipdb.org shows it that way.

I think I'm going to fo it that way also.

The longer flipper gives you more shot variety.

The shorter flippers can give you more power in some circumstances.

Toothpick, Allen wrench etc goes between the rubber and the bat then in the hole.

Yours look high from how it looks in the picture.

Just the camera angle, they are dead on when a toothpick is inserted.

Sorting out rubber colors and checking if all the posts are correctly placed. Per the maual.

I'm going with white rubber and cliffy urethane post sleeves.
I have to see what black flipper rubber I have in stock...

Time expander cliffy added.
I had to elongate to mounting holes 1/8" towards the rear to get it to fit correctly.
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This star post look like it was installed at the factory from the playfield fade.
Manual shows it as a white "I" post.

I'm leaving it, looks like a better support.
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I started with white rubber, then immediately went to black and Cliffy's colored post sleeves. White just looked silly to me. It may look amazing on yours, can't wait to see the game fully finished.

There is not a lot of rubber on the game. Super easy to change it out at this point.

White sling rubber doesnt last long.
I imagine it will be black or urethane in the near future.

Most of it is buried or unseen.

White might brighten it up a bit.
I have tons of white or black rubber.

Pinballgoddess will make her final choice

She says white for now.
She has a pretty good eye for art.
I'm color-blind and go with the flow lol.

Interestingly, I pulled cracked and dried our white rubbers deep inside the game. I'm thinking it shipped with white rubber? At least in some areas.

White rubber always looks better IMO. Black just looks too dark.

With Titan rings tho, man it’s hard not to do translucent. I didn’t think I’d like that look but I’ve done it on a couple machines now and I think it looks great.

It always comes down to personal choice. I want to see DW done up with Titans amd Cliffy posts.

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I like it!

Just a touch of brightness from the white here and there.

Looks sharp.

Looks great! Gonna have to snap a few pics of mine and compare.

Spent some time making up and installing DA3 switches to replace them all in the game harness.

I only have about 20 left. Some green, some red and a couple white button ones.

They should be ok I think.

When they are gone I'll be using the DB5 ones.

I have a ton of those. 60 grams operating force. Probably a much better choice vs 90 gram for the DA3's. But the game came with DA3"s...

I'm putting all new switches throughout. Including the trough ones.

My refreshed driver board from Chris Hibler is finished and will be here in a couple days.

The audio board is really a mess, I hope it can be repaired.

I hope to get the colorDMD and pinsound up and running then.

I dont think I need the playfield in the game to test or program them.

At least it isn't the DCS board or the combo DMD driver. Those can be a pain. The sound boards for Dr Who shouldn't be too bad. I've done a bunch of them. The most trouble is prior work if someone ripped out the through hole plating when trying to replace the larger caps. Otherwise it is usually blown tantalum caps, those awful small blue axial caps, or bad SRAM.

I have an extra DW audio board if you want - might save you some time

If mine cant be fixed I will need it.
PM me.

Escape target assembly sold out evetywhere.

There's isnt an official parts list yet.

I'll make one up later.

Clean and polish for now:
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The switch contacts looked like they have never been cleaned.

Flitz and a q-tip worked fast and easy.

One would think that there would be cool dalek targets for this.

But not for $25 or $4 each from PDI. LOL

I’m a little perplexed at the small number of mods for this game too. But I guess once you have the Tardis and a Dalek what else really is there

The mods are there. The whomobile was remade, and could have lights added to it.

Go into switch test and see if your opto switches are working. That error on mine ended up being the opto board under the PF, a cap goes bad on it and takes out a trace, you’ll need to replace the cap and run a jumper.