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I've just bought the Pinbot pinball machine...

By lecter

5 years ago


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#12 5 years ago

Welcome to the club. Looks like your Pinbot has given a lot of fun to a lot of players in the past 30+ years, and yet he still has even more fun left in him to give to you. I have had mine for 28 years, and once I had him working 100%, he has been rock solid ever since. But my machine saw a lot of wear in his initial short, but very prosperous career, he made a lot of $$$ for several ops before I retired him to my home. He had a lot of miles on the cabinet... been up and down a good amount of stairwells, by the looks of the dings and scrapes. You got a decent machine to work with, and parts are more available due to the number of machines that have been parted out over the years. When buying replacement parts, big piece of advice. Don’t buy two of everything and put one new one in and keep one new one as a spare. You will most likely never need the spare parts unless it is a consumable like flipper or mech parts that will need replaced now and again. But I bought a spare everything I could find and put it in storage, and I have never needed them, plastics, ramps, targets, target carrier, translite, displays, all of it... once I had it fixed, the spares were an insurance policy on future damage that has just not happened in 28 years in my home. If you need a part and you can’t seem to find it anywhere, just ask on here. One of us will more than likely have 2 and be willing to part with one.

#23 5 years ago

+1 on the missing bushing... more than likely the problem. Needs to be a metal bushing, plastic on plastic rubbing will destroy the target carrier track faster if you use nylon, although initially it can make it work, it gets worse as plastic dust builds up and helps accelerate the wear. The correct metal bushing lets the mech work for years without a hitch. I know, since mine has worked flawlessly for 28. I cleaned and lightly lubricated the bushing when I shop it, realigned the target carrier brackets and visor actuator and made sure it all ran without any rubbing or binding. Leveled the target carrier using the adjustment screws, tweeked the carrier up and down switches to stop the Visor in full open and fully closed positions. Once you have this working 100%, you will never need to mess with it again.

#25 5 years ago

The bushing goes on this pin that rides inside the oval of the target carrier....

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#26 5 years ago
Quoted from CrazyLevi:

Can you guys be a little more specific where this bushing goes? Mark up a photo maybe?

How’s this @crazylevi?

#33 5 years ago

That is the bushing. There is a crude dimensional diagram on their sight showing the bushing over top a 1/4 inch grid.

#35 5 years ago

These look like standard bushings in English measurements of 3/8” outer diameter, 1/4” inner diameter, 1/2 inch long. Convert to metric and see what you can find... send me your address in Warsaw, I’ll send you one in an envelope, they are small and cheap.

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