Hi everyone, I recently finished a restoration of my Earthshaker and wanted to share that with you guys.
I also want to ask a couple questions regarding Earthshaker because I've never owned one before and the one I restored was not in playable condition when I tore it down.
I replaced the shaker motor with a NOS one, identical to the one I removed. The motor really shakes hard and it makes a lot of racket, almost like the bracket is loose but on inspection its tight. Question is, how much rattle is normal on the arcade setting?
Second question is about the GI lights dimming when hitting a flipper. Now this one may be an example of fixing whats not broke.. I rebuilt the flippers and replaced all three coils with correct values from pinball life, however now the GI will dim when hitting the flippers, particularly the upper left. I did not observe this when I first got it back together and tested with old coils. Anyone else experience this on their ES?
Im really loving this game and it was an incredible and challenging experience to restore the whole machine. The example I started with was a diamond in the rough, incredibly dirty and had a hard life until it sat for many years collecting an impressive level of grime. So much time and effort but this wonderful game was well worth it.
Thank you for any insight anybody may have and I hope you enjoy seeing this game brought back to life as much as I do.
PS: in these pics I didn't replace that trim piece that holds the glass yet
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