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Excellent game.
Too bad every single backglass is faded on these. They were amazing back in the day.
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Quoted from NinJaBooT:My FBclassic I recently picked up is acting strange. Once you start a game it automatically starts scoring 10000 points repetitively? The game still plays but the scoring just keeps climbing by the 10000's. I think the left orb is the only thing on the game that scores 10k and the switches look fine. I did notice poking around underneath that all the capacitors on the switches have been clipped on one side? Should I re-solder them one?
Replace those caps with new ones, they will insure that fast ball strikes are registered.
Don't resolder the old ones, they always are bad.
Go into switch test to see which switch is stuck.
Quoted from NinJaBooT:Thanks Vid!
Why would someone clip one end off each one?
Bally had those terrible caps that after a few years they would start pulsing on and off.
A quick fix is to cut the cap - that gets the game working instantly; but not working correctly.
So at a pinball show, I'll cut someones cap to get the game back working through the weekend, but I tell them to be sure and buy a new cap.
If I have a playfield out for swap or repair, I always replace all the Bally switch caps at once.
100 caps for .90 cents:
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^I'd snip that battery off the MPU before it warms up and pukes.
When you take the plastics off the playfield, you can see the colored caps where some of the 555 bulbs had color in the GI.
You have the best backglass I've ever seen. This game must have been stored in a dark basement or something for the last 40 years! Be careful, it's worth more than your entire game.
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If bally wanted to save a few pennies, they would not have installed a knocker assembly in the game in the first place.
Before you replace the driver transistor, make sure the knocker coil and diode is good.
Otherwise, you'll blow the new transistor instantly again.
Quoted from gdonovan:I have seen this before, what they call a "running change" where half the change is done and the other half is not for one reason or another.
There is no transistor on the board at all and the board tags match the game.
That's interesting, we'll see if anyone else reports the same.
For another data point, I've got a FBC game, with original boards & tags (-35 MPU), and it still has it's factory Motorola driver transistor for the knocker.
Id have to have my niece look at the cab and see what range the serial number is, but I know the lamp and solenoid boards are white.
I know it thunks when you roll over @ 9,999,999
But I can't think of the other standard thunking scores.
I think it's one of those Bally where you have to turn on the awards to "03" with the coin door switch. Maybe setting number 15,16 or 17?
Quoted from gdonovan:I tried that before discovering the driver was not on the solenoid board.
Simply have to wait for my next Mouser order as I have no 330 ohm resistors in stock.
You can steal one from one of the unused solenoid driver channels
Then run the solenoid test, and see if she fires
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