Welcome to the hobby, you might want to make room for a couple more pinballs. Your playfield is in awesome shape, nice find.

Definetely order the rubber kit from Marco. It will have all the rubbers you need for the game along with a diagram of where they go. The rubber on your flippers are not correct either. The Marco kit will have the correct ones. I would also order a new ball if you have not already done so.

Alberto

You need to remove the pop bumper to change the protective mylar. The pop bumper body is held in place by the two screws inside of it (easy enough to remove) and then also by the bulb socket which is soldered to wires that run under the playfield.

The subject of playfield cleaning will lead you to endless techniques and sources. Be very careful using Novus 2 on an EM. The clear coat on an EM is thin, the Novus will take it right off.

What I like to do is vacuum the playfield with a soft brush attachment for my shop vac, then clean it with naphtha on a shop rag, and then two coats of wax. Wax is key to protect the paint. Use 100% carnauba wax like Blitz Wax.

Hope this helps

Alberto

What is wrong with the existing metal posts for the spinner? Can you post a photo of the ones you have?

The white piece of metal is called the apron. It’s held in place by the two screws and the four brackets. It can be difficult to pop out. I normally try to work my fingers behind it near the outhole to help push it forward.

One word of caution, for some reason, the inks they used to silkscreen the apron never really hold well to it. Clean it lightly (or not at all), the red and blue ink can come off pretty easy. Your apron looks good so I would leave it be.

Once you remove it, clean the tracks the ball runs on, those get really dirty.

As you take any pieces off the pinball, take lots of photos to help you with reassembly.

Another area to be careful with cleaning are the pop bumper bodies and caps. Those inks also don’t stay on well.

hofmeester

That PF is gorgeous. Great find!

Following your progress on this thread.

I use the non-adhesive mylar plates. I lay them down over the waxed playfield and the pop bumper locks them into place

Alberto

Try soaking them in Krud Kutter, it works really well for me.

Alberto

After you press start, is the scoring motor running continuously? Do the score reels try to reset?

Can you give us more details as to what is happening? It will make debug more straightforward

Nice job on the debug of the issues keeping the game from playing the way it’s supposed to.

Alberto

Looking at your issues:

1) could you have a 1000-point scoring switch that is gapped too tight and the spinner/pop bumper action is making it register?

2 & 3) look at your schematic and find the switches that control the Player 2 lights and the power to the Match Unit lights. Make sure all those switches are clean and gapped properly

4) I’m not familiar with King Kool, but the 3/5 ball setting is usually done by changing a Jones plug. Could the connectors be dirty? If you leave the Jones plug disconnected, what setting does it default to?

Alberto

EM’s do have modern wiring, they are not all cloth insulated wires.

On #5, look in the schematic to see if there needs to be a connection between those two switches or if they are connected to the same node.

On #6, that switch looks like it should be open. You can always check each switch stack on the schematic. Where it lists all of the relays, it will also tell you how many of each switch style a relay should have. For example, if a relay says 2A, 2B, 1C, this means that stack should have 2 normally open switches, 2 normally closed switches, and 1 make/break switch.

On #7, again check your schematic for those connections. I don’t have a King Kool so I can’t check that for you.

Alberto

Congrats! Job well done

From the photos you posted, your PF looks very good. What work does it need?

You don’t have to take the full clear coat approach. You can always just fill the inserts to get them level. I like to use MinWax Polycrylic in satin. Level the playfield and use a dropper to fill the inserts to level. Add the Polycrylic in small amounts and fill the inserts slowly.

This is just my approach.