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Let Maverick lick your foot
that will help the healing.
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Quoted from pinwiztom:Let Maverick lick your foot
that will help the healing.
He is definitely willing.
Final update on the HH.
The VUK mod was driving me mad.
It kept activating the lower playfield when it shouldn’t making the main playfield flippers shut off when they should be on.
Triple popping etc.
I am running updated pop boards so I could eliminate the ground path noise possibility. 611645AA-39F2-4FBC-A2EB-B2CADFCF6A97 (resized).jpeg
After wasting a whole day trying to isolate I eventually narrowed the lower playfield pop bumper as something related
This means when I disconnected it the issue goes away.
I first replaced the coil 963E9B78-535B-47B4-957A-367F3DDB6193 (resized).jpeg
No luck.
Then I finally figured it out.
The pop switch was too sensitive!!!!7C6BA25F-6245-48B9-8810-CF90A6084F3B (resized).jpeg
What was happening is when this fired to send the ball up It does so with enough force to set off the pop switch making the game think the ball is still in the cellar1E3812DF-2597-437C-BB05-F4ACDEF15DEB (resized).jpeg
These System 80s always burn up a bunch of extra time dialing in and troubleshooting but it is always the most simple thing in the long run.
They are like solid state EMs for lack of a better definition.
All good.
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Leduc, AB
Ah, Liberty Bell. I worked on a liberty bell a few months back. Had quite a few issues. Had a few burned up coils due to gummed up mechanisms. Was able to get her up and running 100%. I was not a fan of the game play. A little boring even for an EM machine. The owner liked it because it went with his game room theme. Will be fun to watch it go through the HEP renovation process.
Quoted from High_End_Pins:Yes it is. Mix of 2019 and 2020 bottles.
How much is a bottle of that in the US? We now pay huge prices in the netherlands due to the limit amounts of this. There is a complete protocol of calling the monastry with cell and license plate registration to get 2 crates per go on a certain date at a certain time. Next to that the monastry will only pick up the phone like 1 hour a day in the morning. The bottles itself at the source are going for around 3 euro but once in the wild you could pay up for 10-12 euro a bottle.
Quoted from PeterG:How much is a bottle of that in the US? We now pay huge prices in the netherlands due to the limit amounts of this. There is a complete protocol of calling the monastry with cell and license plate registration to get 2 crates per go on a certain date at a certain time. Next to that the monastry will only pick up the phone like 1 hour a day in the morning. The bottles itself at the source are going for around 3 euro but once in the wild you could pay up for 10-12 euro a bottle.
I buy most of my Belgian beers direct from a source in Belgium.
A lot of this stuff just isn’t available here.
These probably come in about $18 USD per bottle once all is said and done but access and convenience have a cost.
It’s kind of a hobby for me. Not so much the drinking although I enjoy that in moderation but the hunt and making the connections.
Time to shuffle the deck around here.
I can move stuff around solo again.
Not 100% pain free but tolerable.
Tron and ES leave today. 1FE7FA0B-ED9D-40BD-B94A-56524C0EA3A4 (resized).jpeg
CFTBL and F-14 will filter in 4053D019-5053-432F-BCC3-73DF469DBF42 (resized).jpeg
FH and my final Spirit will also
First step for Spirit will be getting the cabinet painted.
With my foot in a little better spot I should be able to get back to the Cyclopes cabinet as well.
I was behind about 70 posts or so, and after catching up and getting another round of entertainment, I am reminded once again why this is the greatest thread of all time. You can’t make this stuff up.
Some highlights:
- goes running and somehow manages to bash the hell out of the ankle/foot, orders crutches from the internet, keeps working.
- someone notes he does more in a day than they would do in a month, he says it is from being experienced. But turns out has never seen or worked on that playfield before! Still rips it apart and reassembled it like it was nothing, even though it is such a complicated mess it would take me a year to figure out.
- a big debate about where to put a wire guide, and the answer was right there in the manual the whole time...like we used to say in tech support, RTFM. 
- more cool beer.
- more wiring pr0n.
And
- references to Hollywood Shuffle, one of my favorite movies ever and a totally forgotten and underrated pic. It is hilarious.
Thank you for bringing happiness in these stupid mind-numbing Covid times.
Quoted from xsvtoys:I was behind about 70 posts or so, and after catching up and getting another round of entertainment, I am reminded once again why this is the greatest thread of all time. You can’t make this stuff up.
Some highlights:
- goes running and somehow manages to bash the hell out of the ankle/foot, orders crutches from the internet, keeps working.
- someone notes he does more in a day than they would do in a month, he says it is from being experienced. But turns out has never seen or worked on that playfield before! Still rips it apart and reassembled it like it was nothing, even though it is such a complicated mess it would take me a year to figure out.
- a big debate about where to put a wire guide, and the answer was right there in the manual the whole time...like we used to say in tech support, RTFM.
- more cool beer.
- more wiring pr0n.
And
- references to Hollywood Shuffle, one of my favorite movies ever and a totally forgotten and underrated pic. It is hilarious.
Thank you for bringing happiness in these stupid mind-numbing Covid times.
Always glad to hear my time is well spent here. Thank you.
F-14 set up
Typical example nothing great not terrible. B0FF003B-5AB3-4FAB-97D5-B63103980873 (resized).jpeg90A10ED6-9650-4C54-893A-E5F82B232AA3 (resized).jpeg86CC03F4-235A-41F4-8B79-5296F4E9A305 (resized).jpeg
Has the expected insert and cabinet issues.
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FH cabinet is caught up with the F-14 cabinet55936573-578B-4062-8B01-C2B80FD43078 (resized).jpeg
Creature is decaled F1F56181-4131-48D4-8AE5-5A5BA7D50713 (resized).jpeg
Creature is braided and I can get it on legs now. image (resized).jpg
The game is unique in that you must paint half the floor black so it doesn’t show that bare wood look through the hologram window.
Also the speaker and transformer are offset. image (resized).jpg
Probably not as important on this one though. image (resized).jpg
CFTBL is going in black nickel trim.
It is a cool finish but it can be a bit inconsistent color wise.
That isn’t a dealbreaker but you have to be strategic with how you assemble and place the parts.
This batch of legs has two that are more on the brown side of the finish and two that are on the blue for example.
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But the threads are usually overplatedimage (resized).jpg
They are often only good for one use
On this game I am going to use plain black bolts image (resized).jpg
But by polishing them with metal polish they will take on that black nickel look
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Playfield is Too Shiny!!!!
I have a recommendation - a little Jergens for the closeup hand shots (at least the nails looked trimmed). 
Quoted from Mr_Tantrum:I have a recommendation - a little Jergens for the closeup hand shots (at least the nails looked trimmed).
It’s going to take way more than that to pretty these up.
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You don’t wrestle all this stuff around and keep them smooth. My poor wife!!
image (resized).jpgimage (resized).jpgQuoted from High_End_Pins:When it comes to plated leg bolts I find them problematic very often. They look great
But the threads are usually overplated
They are often only good for one use
Have you ever considered Titanium Nitride coating? Its a bright shiny gold and super durable. Plus its so thin that it wouldn't matter if the threads got coated. Probably cost about $3.25 a bolt though. Not sure if thats high compared to plating or not. I do coatings like this at work if you're interested I could run some samples for you. I've been trying to figure out what some good pinball parts for coating would be, as most parts you'd want done (wireforms, armor, ect) probably wouldn't work do to just the restrictions of the process.
Quoted from Haymaker:Have you ever considered Titanium Nitride coating? Its a bright shiny gold and super durable. Plus its so thin that it wouldn't matter if the threads got coated. Probably cost about $3.25 a bolt though. Not sure if thats high compared to plating or not. I do coatings like this at work if you're interested I could run some samples for you. I've been trying to figure out what some good pinball parts for coating would be, as most parts you'd want done (wireforms, armor, ect) probably wouldn't work do to just the restrictions of the process.
Thanks I haven’t put much thought into it because I never really know what someone is going request for their game but the community could use as many options as possible.
Haunted house is ready to leave.
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F-14 is fully gutted. E6A3F788-C3C8-4870-BEC0-BF253B6127E5 (resized).jpeg
I have a bunch of playfields and boards I need to get rid of.
Boxes of displays drivers,lamps,CPUs ,and Sound for Bally solid state games and gottlieb System 80s Some serviced.
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Playfield are too many to list but IJs,HGs are in multiples.
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Quoted from heni1977:AWWWW the wonderful findings you can discover!
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Yeah. I got some resistor boards that look like that on this one too. I plan on redoing all of them.
The documentation on those boards and the snubbers is hard to figure out.
Seems like they use different versions in different spots or that there was just something random about what value cap or resistor is used where. Some have no caps or resistor at all.
I am going to copy what I see and can with new parts. 5F6C27F6-462D-47ED-A727-71F102EA1811 (resized).jpeg
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I want/need to wash this harness but would not do so with the Relay boards attached They are too hard to dry back out.
Each one will be color correct and placed on plugs. 37B0FC31-7346-4384-BBEA-EA9DA92ECCF0 (resized).jpeg22BEB214-4C91-457A-9B60-3ADBE4146A60 (resized).jpeg
Wiener Neustadt
Hi Chris,
there is some basic information on the snubber boards:
https://www.ipdb.org/files/804/Williams_1987_F_14_Tomcat_F_14_TOMCAT_Typical_A_C_Solenoid_Circuit_undated.pdf
cheers
H.
I used the same process on the resistor boards. E0151712-63BC-4D59-B303-CFADFB5F81D6 (resized).jpeg
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Took a long time but all those snubbers and resistor boards are done. I rebuilt/reused the one snubber that is different than the others. I could have possibly depopulated some of the board to make it match the other(no resistor,cap only a relay and single diode)but I didn’t want to ruin a new board doing that.
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Now I can continue on with the rest of the teardown.
F122DAB2-3A0C-44E3-BEBA-3781E3B17712 (resized).jpegF-14 is coming along.
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All new targets game uses 20. 694FECDB-E14E-435C-B7C7-BA686540E9F1 (resized).jpeg3614A81C-3946-4FB1-A1DC-65EB0534842D (resized).jpeg
New rails. 927A6A75-F416-4479-A67A-313FFC118137 (resized).jpeg
Going to swap the stiffer blade style roll overs to the smoother micro switch versions.
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And the sad thing is, 12 of them you never shoot on purpose! Not hating on F-14, I used to own one and loved it, every game has dangerous shots you avoid.
Moe
Wiring this F-14 HEP style has proven to be quite time consuming.
Getting there. 2220E265-AFBA-4E0B-ADFB-4383250CE09B (resized).jpeg
The targets and GI are all placed on plugs. Things run so tight that short protection is a must. E4543C8D-01D4-4ECD-994B-D84F4D09AC8E (resized).jpeg7950EA2C-5C3A-4F3C-91D4-E21CA9BD559D (resized).jpeg
Rebuilding the coils with the same protections because some run really close to the sides.
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Getting there. [quoted image]
The targets and GI are all placed on plugs. Things run so tight that short protection is a must. [quoted image][quoted image]
Rebuilding the coils with the same protections because some run really close to the sides.
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Begs the question: which pin has been worst in terms of wiring it HEP style??
Quoted from AUKraut:Begs the question: which pin has been worst in terms of wiring it HEP style??
I can think of many but these are probably the top three.
Medusa(Zipper flipper snd lamps with lots of rollover insert)
Fathom(Much like Medusa but no zipper flipper)
Spirit(any system 80 really but that is the only I have truly wired fully HEP style)
Quoted from High_End_Pins:I can think of many but these are probably the top three.
Medusa(Zipper flipper snd lamps with lots of rollover insert)
Fathom(Much like Medusa but no zipper flipper)
Spirit(any system 80 really but that is the only I have truly wired fully HEP style)
ugh.......that's not making me look forward to putting together my Fathom basket case for my next project!
Quoted from High_End_Pins:Haunted house is ready to leave.
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F-14 is fully gutted. [quoted image]
I have a bunch of playfields and boards I need to get rid of.
Boxes of displays drivers,lamps,CPUs ,and Sound for Bally solid state games and gottlieb System 80s Some serviced.
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Playfield are too many to list but IJs,HGs are in multiples.
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Any bally radicals?
Quoted from yellowghost:Any bally radicals?
No Radicals.
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