Hi all,

My first post in this section, as up until now I've just been working on EM Pinballs.

Picked up this Big Top today. Man it was so much bigger and heavier than I am used to. My wife is going to go nuts when she comes home tomorrow and sees it in the garage (could not face getting it down to basement). It "looks" fairly original with nothing major missing.

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Appears the cabinet as been hand-painted.

I was just interested in opinions:is it tricky to restore? For example, seems very difficult to be able to get into the box - does it come apart, or just the two big panels on the back and the side box?

how does the back glass come out?

Does PBR stock manuals, schematics, etc - I'm assuming some of the switches and coils can be substituted by them if needed.

Any and all advice welcome?

Finally, are they worth much?

OK, I'm in. Ordered manual and schematic from "jeff" on ebay.

Machine super cool, loads of steppers to clean!

But still no idea how to do some basics, any advice welcome:

1. Backglass, so Mopar do i actually have to unscrew these screws to get the glass out?
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(I thought there may be some sort of release on the back, but there board with the score reels looks firmly nailed on
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2. How to get the guts out to clean:
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When I look closely, on each side is a wing nut and a bit brass bolt, seems somehow things remove?
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3 Finally, it looks like whole top when the gun sits can open somehow (see it has a retaining chain below) but I cannot see how it moves, especially as the backglas frame seems to be in the way of it tipping up (if indeed it supposed to tip up!)
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Sorry if these are such basic questions, but its like starting all over again

Tullster, thanks - how does that gun assembly come off, do you remember? And the backglass? Plus I assume the rectifier is that cool circles thing bottom right? Will the schematic tell me what i need to order?

(So many questions, sorry!)

Excellent info, thanks both of you. I will leave the glass for now, but assumed I'd need to do it at some point to clean the mirror behind?

Tullster, re: swing gun away - ah i see! Any clues or order of attack for the back where my photos show that wing nut, but more interestingly those large sort of brass bolts that seem to allow something to slide/move in a certain way?

And I've used Clays site so many times for pinballs, but obviously always skipped over the Genco rectifier - who'd need to know that?