Many times the capacitor on the switch goes crazy.

Cut one leg, if random firing stops, replace the cap.

Hellfire, thats a beautiful job, I am impressed, what kind off tape is that that you are using for
the lights, I have not seen that before, neat, no staples, I'm figuring you put a 470 ohm resistor
across all the sockets, and can use the original light board with LED's. Do you have a picture of the whole playfield with the tape pattern, I am thinking of going this way also
Geeze this pin is turning into a Money pit, but I love it!!

Yep, I do the same thing.

Change 555 into 47 sockets and be done with the crappy Bally socket misery.

Yes with the Alltek board there is no need to add resistors to each light socket. This only needs to be done with the OEM board with LEDs.

That looks really cool - can you say more about what you've done here, why, and what the advantages are?

-mof

Hey, has there been any updates on the possibility of new plastics or a repro glass from CPR? Thx

Hope to add some pictures of my restored playfield some time soon. Just went in with a great Aussie restorer

I think I have a bad #555 socket. Does anyone have a source for new ones or an equivalent 44/47 replacement? Thanks

http://www.pinballlife.com/index.php?p=catalog&parent=63&pg=1

Here's mine, it was in storage for 7 years.
It's was a project machine and i worked 1 month on it to make it
working nicely. The 7 digits conversion done.
Next winter, i would like to restore the playfield. It's a very nice example with a full mylar.

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Ok guys ( and gals )......We are now ready to announce that we have released our new Embryon Plastics.....

EMBRYON Plastics:
18-piece extended set, genuine 7-color ink-silkscreened on laser cut PETG. Includes doubled slings, clears, and a custom key fob. Vivid colors and brand new, perfect replacement for scratched, yellowed, broken, or incomplete Embryon plastics sets. Protective coatings unpeeled.
http://www.classicplayfields.com/store-plastics.html

Stu
CPR Art Director
Classic Playfield Reproductions
http://www.classicplayfields.com

Awesome.... I'll be ordering a set this spring.

This is perfect timing, I just recently got my playfield back from HSA , was planning on starting the rebuild this week! HSA's work is just fantastic, my playfield looks better than new! I'll be ordering plastics

Stu - I see on CPR's website that you guys now have a 50" sander. Big enough to do the widebody playfields. Any plans to reproduce Embryon to go along with these plastics?

Thanks for asking about a repro Embryon pf. I could use one myself.

Also... a couple of my upper plastic pieces are warped & 1 is broke (clean line) in the center. Can this type of issue be repaired w a heat gun & super glue?

nudge...

Stu, this is amazing news!!! Just ordered my CPR plastics. Grabbing them while they are in stock now. Can't imagine you will have too many in stock. I mean c'mon, only 2250 of these games were ever made, how many could have possibly survived since 1981?

Can't wait to check them out!!!

Placed my order with the australian distributor so hops there's enough for us

Has anyone received the plastics yet?
Want some feedback on quality before I order.....

Haven't received mine yet. Placed the order Wednesday. Hopefully see it monday or tuesday. Unfortunately CPR has a good catalog website but a non existant full functional ecommerce site with shop cart, checkout, and inventory awareness engine in the background. I would hope id get a UPS tracking# to my paypal email once it ships.

I ama logistics manager by day, supply chain is my expertise of 10 years. Yes international you lose visibility due to the multiple transfer points between drayage, container, steamship lines, back to port, and out for delivery by truck. Premium ship methods like air cargo is easy, and expensive. Truck to air, air lands, onto truck, out to you.

EDIT: Is CPR located in Novia Scotia Canada? I thought they were out of CA?? I should see it Monday once it arrives to the Watertown delivery terminal, then out to my house. Just weird it would be coming from there unless CPR is drop shipping from a 3rd party vendor who has the plastics in stock.

Plattsburgh, NY, United States 03/13/2015 2:18 P.M. Import Scan
03/13/2015 11:45 A.M. Arrival Scan
Lachine, QC, Canada 03/13/2015 7:48 A.M. Departure Scan
Lachine, QC, Canada 03/12/2015 7:56 P.M. Export Scan
03/12/2015 1:54 P.M. Arrival Scan
Dieppe, NB, Canada 03/12/2015 3:00 A.M. Departure Scan
Dieppe, NB, Canada 03/11/2015 11:30 P.M. Arrival Scan
Dartmouth, NS, Canada 03/11/2015 8:40 P.M. Departure Scan
03/11/2015 7:35 P.M. Origin Scan
Canada 03/11/2015 5:23 P.M. Order Processed: Ready for UPS

Just became a member of the club! My wife and I love this game. I just recently put LED's in the game. I used Comet's "sunlight" bulbs for the GI. For the inserts I used Pinballcenter's "Superflux Noflix Plus". I have the original light boards and I only have some very slight flicker in 3 or 4 of the lower bonus wheel light. No other flicker issues with the inserts. I did try to place some LED's under the two middle rollover lane plastics and they strobed like crazy. I am going to try the parrellel resistor trick on those. For the pop bumpers I tried Comet's ice blue but I ended up using PinballCenter's "teal blue". It matches the blue of the pop bumper caps perfectly. They also have a turquoise color that I would like to try some day. image.jpg

Welcome to the awesomeness that is embryon!!!
-mof

Welcome! Very cool looking with the LEDs, do you have the stock lamp driver board still or did you swap for the Alltek board?

I want LED's eventually myself, maybe leave the GI's incandescent. The cost for good non ghosting LEDs though is steep. Still can't deny how bad ass it looks! Congrats!

Pinwiz, I have the stock lamp driver board. I'm super happy with the Pinballcenter's super flux noflix plus LED's. I think they are the perfect brightness for inserts and like I mentioned above I only have very slight flicker in 4 of the small bonus wheel lights. Not too bad, I was expecting a lot worse from the stories I heard about the early Bally's. Just an FYI, when looking at prices on Pinballcenter's website the prices shown include a 19% European sales tax that you do not have to pay. If you create an account with them the prices will show up cheaper without the sales tax.
If you want to look stateside, Comet also has a bulb that is similar to super flux. I don't have experience with them so I do not know how they compare to the Noflix.

I joined the club today and brought home a nice Embryon! It's nice overall, but not working. Game won't boot. I need to service the boards. More pics later.

Rob Bell
Robsgameroom.com

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Here are some more pics...

Rob Bell
Robsgameroom.com

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Looking for some experts to assist me with an issue on my Embryon. The game works perfectly now that I have an Alltek board on loan until mine is repaired. My issue is that on ball 1, I plunge the ball and as soon as it hits a stand up target (not the rollovers), the SHOOT AGAIN light comes on and stays lit until ball 1 drains and then it goes off, but does award me another ball.

It's acting like a ball save that stays on forever or I'm earning an extra ball for no reason, but only does it for ball 1 only. Anyone else ever see this?

Thanks,

Rob Bell
Robsgameroom.com

I am guessing that you have it set to a replay earns an extra ball and the replay is set very low.

YEP. Nice sleuthing. Someone did that to "coin up" instead of just adding credits.
-mof

Sure enough! The replay settings were wrong. Corrected and we are now playing Embryon!

Thanks everyone!

Such a great game. Walked up after not playing it a few weeks, an put up a million last night (2 free balls) and of course didn't break 200k after that...

I tried to earn a free ball off the left drops, and ALMOST got it. I was testing to see whether that is truly a sucker shot, and I decided I would not rate it as such, compared to say, shooting an angled center 3-drop with the left flipper (Gorgar/Taxi, etc)

I think I almost threw out my shoulder trying to nudge the game a little. Such a beast.

I will keep dreaming of CPR re-doing this PF in the future. I'll be the first in line.

Still in my top-20 all time...

-mof

Is CPR doing the backglass? Does anyone have a nice BG for sale that will ship?

I'm in. Picked up a really nice one a week ago and tore into it immediately. I am getting close to putting her back together. there are some elements I am adding that should make it pretty damn cool. I just ordered a new set of plastics so I will have the old ones available. they're actually pretty nice but slightly yellowed. I am going to create a restore thread and will post it here too.

Welcome!!

I bought a set, but wasn't absolutely impressed. The clarity and quality of the scans miss the mark. Definitely an improvement if you have missing or broken plastics but maybe keep your originals until you site these. They may be pretty good once installed from the playing angle. I haven't installed mine yet as waiting for my playfield to be returned from resto work

hmmm bummer. I got them in yestersay but havent peeled off the backing to look at them. my old ones are basically perfect aside from the slight yellow tinge. what I am doing with this game I don't want anything to look old. I will post some pics when I get the pf put back together. Here's where I am at now. I am grinding away to have it done by sunday night

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https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/medhigh-end-restoration-embryon

bought them. they can be seen on my machine here:
https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/medhigh-end-restoration-embryon#post-2654526

i think the plastics from cpr look good. my old ones were in nice shape but just slightly yellowed. check it out:
https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/medhigh-end-restoration-embryon#post-2654526

Great looking game. I hope mine turns out half as good and I'll be over the moon. Thanks for sharing.

I haven't used mine yet so I may be a little picky with my comments on the artwork quality. Will be interested on our's comments that have purchased cpr plastics. BTW, was there any problems with fitting these ie. I had funhouse ones and from memory one or two plastics were missing a hole and/or hard to fit. Any heads up would be appreciated. Thanks

they fit perfect on mine and they look great in my opinion.

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You've help a lot with the colour led pre selection for me. I like the effects you have. Did you need to do anything to the lamp driver or replace it with an altek? Also did you led the backglass? Thanks

I used these for the flicker only because I have 5 or 6 original lamp driver boards laying around.

http://www.marcospecialties.com/pinball-parts/MB-07-010

In retrospect I should have just replaced the board with an altek for a few reasons. 1. all new components 2. these double the amount of connections. for an extra 50 bucks I think it's worth it.

GI is comet single smd natural except in the uterus thing where I used 2 green twin smd and 2 red twin smd's. Under the PF I used twin smd's in all the inserts. I ran out of color matching ones so I just used white because the inserts were in very nice shape.

Left incandescents in the back box. I don't like that too bright and reflecting off the glass

No worries as I will switch it over to Altek when you sell me the game (lol)!