Basingstoke
I had the day off today and finally finished my latest rebuild, I took my Johnny M down to bare playfield for deep clean and maintenance.
Such an effort, about 30 hours, but now she looks the bee's knee's, new rubbers, bulbs, balls, posts, polished all metal parts(has to be the worst bits).
There was nothing mechanically wrong, but it didn't hurt to adjust and finely tune all I could.
I found a couple of cracked plastic repairs while stripping down , but the repairs have been done very well and are unnoticable when all put back together( why I never saw them before).
After I'd finshed, cleaned up, put tools away, cracked a beer, I set about to playing, no new scores yet and every bounce is all that little bit different. It looks great and feels great to play again.
I think Johnny M was built on a very tight schedule/budget, as there are a couple of minor issues I'm not happy about, I found some metal ball guide parts too big for their positions, some protude past their rubber protection posts so much it's not worth having a post at all. A little grinding and bending needed here to fix.
Another point is the small assembly to the left of Bob's Bunker. Mine was 2 metal ball guides back to back with 3 posts between them, it just didn't look right, as well as the right hand ball guide over hanging its rubber ring protection on the nearest post, and the middle post of the three appears that it should be on show rather than hidden away. So I took off the right hand side metal ball guide and put on a long rubber across all three posts, Seriously it looks like it belongs, and it plays fine!!!
Also the fact that the rubber ring sizes kit was omitted the manual, and the promised update was never produced is another reason I feel that this pin was finished (or not) in a hurry.
If you'd like some pics please ask and i'll post some.
Still lovin' the pinball!!!!!!
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Somers Point, NJ
Oldebroek
