Today I lucked into a brand new, freshly unboxed 1977 Bally Miss Universe! Never even had a ball rolled on the PF since unboxing. The glass and lockdown bar are still taped together!! It doesn’t turn on at the moment. But hopefully I can get it up and running soon.

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Facebook marketplace of all places. It was way out in the sticks of the Cherokee Forest. I'm not entirely sure how the guy I got it from came to have a NIB bingo, but he unboxed it recently and it wouldn't power on. He opened up the back, figured the Transformer was bad and started trying to sell it.

So far I have found that nearly all of the fuse holders are brittle or broken.
Tomorrow morning I have an onsite repair, so I will wait until I get home from that to unload my tools and replace them. That will also give me a chance to document it in pictures before I go messing with it.

I have also learned that it did come from Ebay, back in January.

Ok, well I am going to need some guidance. I have so far replaced or jumpered all of the fuse holders. No change. Is there something you have to do to these things, besides flip the power switch, to turn them on? It has been too hot the last few days to spend much time in the garage with it, just late nights. Also, there are locks on the side of the cabinet, what are those for? The PO must have tossed out the manual as I can't find it anywhere inside the machine.

The glass has never been off, it is still sealed. I can see the balls. So yes they are in there. And it is a 3 ball game I do believe, not 5.

When the switch is flipped on, nothing happens at all. It is just dead. I'll grab the schematics and see where the power stops at.

Thanks,
Randy

I will happily take some pics and send them to you. Is there anything else you need pics of as well?

I pulled down the schematics.. man I really have to get better with EMs and their schematics.. But anyway... I have voltage at the transformer and not at the fuses. Flipping the power switch does nothing. Later, I will remove the table holding the lockbar to the glass, pull the glass and see what is up at the power switch.

I found the goodie bag!

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Also baldtwit , I sent you two emails full of pics. let me know if you need anything else.

If I put my ground lead on the ground strap on the transformer and put the positive on various pegs on the jones plugs, I see various voltages. But I have squat all at any of the fuses or at the power switch. So I have to chase down this grey with yellow stripe wire and see what is going on. So far, it is very confusing to say the least.

I don't mind admitting that it took me an hour to figure out that I had to remove four screws to raise the playfield.

They are. I dd some more testing with fresh DMM leads and jumpers. I have 121 volts from the plug to the switch. Both sides of the switch, regardless of if it is on or off. I also tested continuity to be sure. The Grey wire from the cord, to the switch. Good. To the other side of the switch, which is thew grey yellow wire.. also good, regardless of switch position. But no continuity back to the transformers Grey Green wire. So, the switch is confusing me and I also have to find where they wires change from grey yellow to grey green.

I can’t believe I missed it. It wasn’t until a Facebook member asked about the jones plugs that I even considered they could be wrong.

If I had disassembled this pin to transport it, I would never have known why it did not work for the Previous owner. He had the left harness on the right and vice versa!

It still doesn’t play, but it turns on and stuff happens! It’s just stuck in tilt atm it seems. And yes, the tilt Bob has been adjusted from its locked down shipping position.
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Beautiful pin! Thank you, I will give that a shot!

I am MORE than happy to work with baldtwit ! He has been a tremendous help to me as well. Besides, I regularly procure resources for Virtual Pinball projects, with all the pins I work on. So why not try to help the real pin community too

Not to mention, All I have to do is take pics and stuff. Phil is the one documenting everything. That is the hard work!

This is what the table does at this point.

Yea the R button has worked 3 times and not worked about 100 times So Still gotta figure that out.