Yes, I was asking about your original game because mine came out of the Game Room store in PA and thought it might be possibly the one you are looking for. Any way to positively identify it?

So have been reading forums regarding HH and since is my first pin and I am new to pinballs wanted to make sure some of the mods I can do. For those mods I may be worried to do on my own I guess I will have to find a local pinball repair shop. Right now the beast works fine no issues besides the Kicker on the basement when the ball is to go up to the main playfield., Every so often the ball will not go up may take several attempts before it reaches the end of the tube. My main issue at the moment is that in the transport the back box key was lost is not hanging on the coin door or anywhere inside the pin. I may have to either drill the lock out or get a locksmith, does anyone in the club have any suggestions on drilling the lock?

The mech on that lock bar for the backglass is a little different. I will look at it and get back to you

I was just wondering has any one made the cellar kick out feed to the pops?

I have and its great but I like my games really difficult. It keeps you on your toes for sure

Could someone please take a pic (or better yet, a scan) of the lower playfield so I can do the repairs?

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I took some pics of the inside of the mech of the BB lock. Hope it helps. If you do drill it out it may be difficult to get the mech to move to release the glass.

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I replaced the line filter in the bottom of the cabinet next to the transformers with no change in the display flicker. Guess I need to decide if I want to spend the $300 on a new set of displays. The flicker is not that bad, just noticable and as long as it is not harming anything, I may leave it for now.

Hello everyone!
You will be glad to hear I just bought a rescued HH!

A friend rescued one of a guy couple of days ago, got a pretty sweet deal I think.
My friend knew I wanted one and that suited him well since he can't really fit any more games at his place.

I was over to see my "house" today, and was exited since the condition was unknown.

And guess what... the PF look great... not awesome but ok.
The backglass art is pretty gone, I'll have to think about what to do with that.
The game is very dirty so I guess it's been in a basement or some storage for years.

I'm very exited to start working on my "house", and maybe I'll post some pictures of the process.

I don't have any pictures of the PF now, I'll get some later.

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Hello everyone,

I acquired my HH a few weeks ago so far is coming along and I should be sharing pictures soon. I do have one question my HH does not have any lighting on the top left of the playfield on the post by the welcome where the ball comes out. I have seen plenty of HH with the lights so I was wondering are these light mods and if they are can someone share how this mod is done? I would love to have lights in this section since is dark in that corner.

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I worked with Steve at BGresto to correct some blocking layer issued. He fixed the lightning bolts, so they exist now.
You're welcome.

Those are factory. Mike

Just joined the club. Mine with a n.o.s. new backglass, rebuilt power supply, new drop targets, plastics, rebuilt flippers, pops. Plays perfect. I thought Black Hole weighed a ton until I moved this beast.

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Leds in hh look great.

No LEDs in Haunted House, just in Black Hole. I may add a few but not overdo it. I like the way it looks as the way I remember playing as a kid. The Black Hole just looked better with LEDs with the whole space theme of machine.

Cointakers "Super whites

Well, I'm pretty much in an awesome situation here. I actually have 2 project HH's, waiting to be restored. One is a sample version. One of the games will probably find its way into my permanent collection, next to my BH. The other one... not sure. One option is to restore both the HH's side by side and sell one of them when it's finished. Another option is to sell one of them before restoring it and concentrate on restoring the other one. What would you do?

A few years ago, (before my BH and HH's) I actually had a Spirit. Even more of a rarity here in the Netherlands. Sold it for the money it was worth back then. Which is a pity amount next to todays standards. How I wish I knew back then what I know now... both regarding its value and regarding the fact that I now own both of its siblings.

Hello everyone,

As a new HH owner I am glad that I joined the HH club. Plenty of useful information and able to get knowledge from a great community of HH owners. I acquire my machine a few weeks ago and made a few modifications on the lighting. I need to figure out how to get the illuminated posts in the back to work and I noticed the Trap Door to go to the basement is not working when the trigger is pushed. If anyone has this happened to them and have information to share I would be grateful.

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I'm picking up an extra Black Hole in Florida today (while on vacation) Looks nice

If anyone is looking to trade their HH for BH, lmk! Will be going to Allentown.

Hello Everyone,

I am having a problem with the Trapdoor on my HH. When the ball goes to the passage that suppose to open the trapdoor nothing opens. Since this is my first pin I have no idea where to go. Any suggestions or guidance would be helpful.

Thanks....

The left rollover switch to the outlane opens the trap door,
When you hit this switch by hand, what happens? Turn your volume all the way down, hit the switch by hand and listen. Anything happen or trying to move?

P.S
has anyone thought to experiment with glow in the dark titan rubber for the basement? I will be trying this soon for the Black Hole lower playfield

Shacklesrevenge -- When I hit the rollover switch nothing happens and nothing is heard trying to open.

Ooooooo, good idea. I wonder what it would look like with blacklight leds too....woah!

try adjusting that switch, clean the contacts,

Hello Everyone,

As many of you have stated HH is a labor of love. I am having a problem I cannot figure out when the ball goes to the basement and when is time for the ball to come back to the main playfield the ball does not go up all the way and I noticed the score just keeps increasing on its own by a thousand without the ball in play. While the ball was trying to be sent up I noticed the smell of electrical burn. I checked the coil on the up kicker and it seems hot. Would like to know if anyone has any ideas or had this happened to any of you.

Thanks

Alrightttttt!.....I'm back in this thing. The guy who had the BH, well...he had a HH too that he sold me for $1000

It's buried in my trailer currently, which I had to rent while down here in Florida...That High Speed you see there ended up being -$50 (Yes, minus $50!)

Here is the skinny. Guy owned the HH for over 20 years, backglass is MINT, organ plastic wasn't cracked, boards were real clean and ground mods done. Wear at the basement drop zones, and in the checkered section in front of the organ at random places. Played real good. I'm thinking that if I can get the touch-ups done nice enough, maybe a germany playfield protector. I'll definitely enjoy jamming out on this game again. I'll post pics later

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Can I join the HH club?

I’ve been slowly working on my HH, touching up and clear coating all three playfields over the last twelve months.
I’m still very comfortable using acrylics with an air brush and frisket and a total of four sprayed 2K clear coats sprayed by myself, (with all the safety gear) this is my second machine that I have tried clear coating a PF. First was Volcano.
Basement PF was not too bad to start with, most of the wear was on the main and attack PF’s.
Someone had already removed the mylar from the main PF, but the unprotected chequering had suffered.

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The attic still had mylar installed, but found that leaving it in the car dash board on a hot day, it came off very easily. Most of the wear was on the ramp entrance and at some stage in its life, some idiot ramming blocking screws in the PF on left side up kicker entrance to stop the ball getting up there.

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Being a keen follower of Vid’s restoration threads, once all PF’s were cleaned, I put down my first ‘sealing’ clear coat. This filled up all the divots and I found that I can airbrush paint straight onto bare wood colour, without prepping with a white base. Worked for me!
A pic of frisket applied ready for the yellow. Took a while to cut out all those segments in one go. Once dry, a new sheet of frisket and cut out and apply the orange/red afterwards.

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A bit OTT, but I photo shopped and applied a new water slide Gottlieb decal around the pop bumper, which was previously completely worn away. Probably a waste of time, as you can’t see it once the PF is populated.

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After many months of touch ups and final clear coats, the main PF came out ok. The semi fluorescent greens on main and attack were extremely hard to match. I had to resort to taking them to art shop and only found an expensive German airbrush ink that had a close enough resemblance. Because it was a thin ink, it took four to five coats to cover well enough.

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I’ve been following a few Pinside HH posts and decided that I would extend the missing art on the edges of attic ramp and left up kicker. Not the original design, but I think it looks better. Especially that raw timber edge on the ramp lip!

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The basement PF didn’t have to much wear (compared to others I’ve seen), but the basement up kicker hole was completely ripped apart, down to wood fibres.

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She’s slowly coming back together, just waiting on some shoe & shaft assemblies to arrive from PBR and then iron out all the reassembly bugs.

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Can’t wait too finally get her up and running again!

Just need to now find a Black Hole in Australia, to complete a trifecta!

OzPaul, that is one gorgeous playfield! My HH looks very similar to your "before" pictures, and while I've restored PFs before, the art on this game is so detailed that I've been putting it off for several years. I hope one day to restore mine to this level.

Insane ozpaul!

That...is...beautiful. I have been drooling.

Well done OzPaul, very nice!!

One really cool thing I found that it adds ( i have one in a BH) is it flashes between million and your score, should you happen to roll it..

I feel like his board is a must just because of this. Would cost just as much and cause more harm to your pin to change to 7 digit dont you think?

Definitely in my future once I roll.

I think you're right, as far as cost. I was testing switches in my BH the other day and noticed this and was pretty surprised. I was a big fan of the 7 digit kit, but I don't even know if it got off the ground/released?,
So to see this as a secondary option is pretty sweet, because it is all too possible to roll these system 80's, and I feel this really adds to the replay value.
I think it even had the option to put initial in, but I did that wrong.
Of course the other benefit to the all in one is no interconnect, and skill shot, tweakable options as you pointed out. I plan to play with it some more after I return from my trip.

I've been converting my System 80 6 digit pins to 80A 7 digit slowly for many years now, I even posted a "how to do it" thread on Pinside. I see no negative aspects to doing that conversion, even with the newer boards (if they are set up to do so).

Steve
System 80, not just a job, it's an adventure

Does it add a skill shot to HH? Sweet. I have pascals board in my super orbit and it adds a ball save, high scores initials, and lighting flash option for the pop bumper strikes. Plus the reliability. Its been solid. Just a few blown display fuses now and then. I think my displays need work, lol, as with both my system 80's.

I need some guidance from anyone that owns a HH. I have verified all the connections and made the ground modification all boards have tested good. The main issue is in the basement VUK, when I start the game it automatically starts adding score and the VUK in the basement starts to work. Appears the game thinks the ball is at play in the basement but the ball has not been shot out. I ran a test all during the switch test I get switch 31 as an issue. Does anyone have had any experience with switch 31?

This is my first pin so I am sorry for asking too many questions.

HELP NEEDED! this one is an easy one, for people that own Haunted House without a molested transformer :/ Lets just say that this transformer wasn't fastened too well, so when I went to pick the game up vertically, that thing fell down and ripped out some wires. ugh.

All I need is someone to take a few up close pictures of their transformer section in the back of the cabinet. Focus in on the larger transformer, There is a purple/white/silver wire and a purple/white wire, I need to see these exactly as they sit. The purple/white/silver should be on the outside lug an the purple/white wire should be 2 up from that, is that correct?

I will take a picture to show what is going on with mine, some wires pulled out

The wire connected to the large transformer still, is a white wire with purple and silver stripe

as you can see, one or two wires pulled off one side of that silver box/line plug. There is a connected wire on the large transformer still, but not sure where that other end goes, and I suspect another wire goes on one of the other lugs too.

Last picture-Those two wires are separate, one is a white wire with purple and silver stripe and the other is a white with just purple. I think I know where they go, but I want to be sure. Can someone confirm this by cracking their game open? Huge thanks in advance

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Holy crap James I just saw this post, what a mess. I'll go take some pics of my HH tomorrow evening when I get home from work. Unless your at PWA and want to take your own on the way.

Thanks!
Yeah, I did a boner. Let's just say, that a 4x8 trailer only fits so many pins...driving from central Florida, and who could guess the transformer had FOUR loose bolts or screws...
I don't even know if this transformer is good anymore, but I do have a known good one from a Mars God of War cabinet I will use if need be.

sigh :/