Hi All!

Pretty new to the pinball scene. Just picked up a LAH after looking around for a year as to what I like. This game has a ton packed into it and I remember watching this movie with my brother when I was a kid, listening to the soundtrack, very sentimental. Anyway. I'm starting to realize the person who owned it before me had no clue what was going on with the machine or even what was in it. The ad said "works as it should" "LEDs throughout"... stuff like that. I counted 6 LEDs and there are certain combo shots that aren't working. I started finding switches and parts on Marco to rebuild the double scoop and I'm in the middle of that right now. I was replacing the bulbs last night with LEDs and I noticed two things. I have a board for the bulbs for the lane lights which is cracked, labeled part number 520-5067-06 which I cannot find anywhere online but I might be able to save with some creative soldering. The part I'm REALLY looking for is the Power Scoop Assembly labeled 500-5691-00, as mine was swapped out with a different scoop and is blocking one of the lights from Benedict's Eyes. Does anyone have a resource for parts like these that can't be found? Even like a junkyard of Data East machines that you can go and pick parts off of? My only hope right now it seems is to wait for Pinfest and keep checking Ebay.

Thanks for reading and any suggestions!

Youpa

So attached are 4 images - The two of the lane light board (520-5067-06) I used a pen to indicate the same solder point on each side. I'm thinking I can use a small piece of wire to jump the run marked 40A and resolder the black bit (transistor?) Sorry for my lack of terminology. Do you think that would work?

On the other two images you can see how that scoop assembly is mounted blocking the third light under Benedict's Eyes. I was thinking of just taking a multi-tool and cutting a chunk out of the metal to get the light back in there until I find the actual power scoop assembly (500-5691-00). My concern is there might not be enough meat to keep the scoop in place and it will shake loose after a few hundred games or warp or something. I might be being overly cautious. This is the first pin I've owned and wrenched on in this amount of detail.

Thanks again!

Youpa

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These are awesome! Thank you! Definitely going to try this!

Hi Everyone,

I'm back again for another help ask. I replaced all the switches in the ball trough assembly with these rollover switches https://www.marcospecialties.com/pinball-parts/180-5119-02

that are marked to replace the switches in the manual 180-5119-00. The old switches were pretty haggard. I thought this would be an easy thing to do. Take part A off, use the little black jumper, and put everything back the way it was only using part B. Well I soldered everything back using pictures and not mixing up wires and it says that there are 4 balls missing. I took out balls one at a time and it seems the last two switches in the trough are registering but the following 4 are not. I tested for continuity and its there for all the center posts on the switches as they are in line, and the continuity registers as it should when the switches are pressed down. I don't know what the little black jumpers are call that go from the 1st to the 3rd post (are they resistors or transistors of some kind?) and I did not get new ones of those. Could that be the issue? The roller is high enough for the balls to activate. I manually pressed them all down and it still registers at 4 balls missing. Any help or insight as to what I could have messed up would be great. Attached is a photo of the ball assembly as it stands when i finished it. Please don't judge too hard my solder skills are super rusty, but nothing is touching. I went through and pulled on everything and it all seems solid.

Also attached is a picture of the old switches.

Thanks in advance!

Best

Youpa

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MadEwokHerd THANK YOU! Also thank you for the article. Swapped them around this morning and did a little adjusting at drummermike 's advice (Thank you as well!) and it is back to working perfectly! I have to keep this in mind going forward. I am reading up on the fundamentals of electricity. I do residential stuff with my father as he's an electrician so I know enough to be dangerous but this is a whole other level of signal flow. Lots of fun to learn. Thank you thank you thank you!

I’m so excited that I found one of these in the wild that I had to share with you peeps! The one on my LAH was swapped out at some point and you can’t assemble this from parts on Marco because some are discontinued. Can’t wait!

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Awesome!!! Are you planning to put these up for sale? Did you vac form them? Super awesome dude!!!

Okay so I’m back with another electrical situation haha. I have been having phantom drains that happen intermittently. They somehow always happen when the double scoop is involved (or so I thought). After digging around the inter webs quite a bit, I started to suspect the drop target bank had something to do with it as another person on here did a whole repair blog where a loose wire on the one of the switches for the bar was vibrating enough with the shaker motor to cause a short. Now after doing tons of switch tests and tracing wires to see if there were any blatant shorts I have discovered the following. When the A drop target is activated, the spinner switch (again intermittently but at the same time now predictably) will activate the N drop target light, switch, and sfx. Looking at the matrix both the A and the spinner seem to be along the white and orange run while the N is on the white and yellow run. Something is jumping from the spinner to the N when the A is activated and I think this might be causing my short. I checked the diodes and looked over the wires and nothing seems to be touching. Next I’ll undo the wire bundles and see if something melted but I didn’t know if anyone on here had any insight as to what might be causing this to happen and if it could have something to do with the phantom drains? Thanks in advance, all the best, Youpa.

drummermike new ramps look sick man!

drummermike
https://www.pinwiki.com/wiki/index.php/Last_Action_Hero
Here is a link to where the different circuits go on the board. I THINK I narrowed it down to connecting to the bottom left of the main cpu board but I’m not sure. I’m still getting the hang of these diagrams. That link has a color column for the wires as well. Hopefully this gives you a clue. Good luck!

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Hey drummermike

Found continuity on this connector! The wire color is purple with grey stripes.

Picture included! Hopes this helps!

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For reference to the DM!

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I’m a big fan of the red/yellow look.

Not totally done yet but I love the flippers

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Rebuilt the pop bumpers tonight with PaulRiccardi . Yellow bases and body, red skirts and original tops. I’m in love.

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So aside from the phantom drains I am getting (Something to do with the spinner causing a short) I cannot for the life of me score the Second Cousin Frank's shot. I have hit it now 3 times. Every time it prompts me to do the ramps, then shoot the chicken scoop. The LED lights up for the scoop and everything. It just doesn't register for some reason. Does anyone else have this problem?

This doesn't give me the warm fuzzies but it does help narrow it down. I just went and did it manually and it didn't register. But the chicken switch does when I press it multiple times... Thanks Mike.

Has anyone on here achieved the 1.7 billion to take the top score spot on their machine with 3 balls? Just wondering haha.

General question. Would a failing capacitor (the big blue boy in the bottom left of the cabinet) cause the shaker motor to run super slow and intermittently? It will turn on occasionally but its super sluggish and really sounds like its struggling.

Thanks!

Bryan

Both gameplay and test mode.

You beautiful people and all your knowledge. This is my first pinball machine and there’s A LOT I don’t know to look for. This community is amazing at pointing people in the right direction. Thank you so much, there was a resistor that unsoldered itself on my shaker motor board. Going to fix it this morning. Thank you all again!

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There’s definitely a Megadeath song in there but I don’t know which one. But with a pin sound card you can put it in there for sure!

Here is what I found from some preliminary digging.

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Im pretty happy with how the lighting turned out!

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For anyone looking, the Toppers from Ramp-o-matic landed on Marco yesterday!

https://www.marcospecialties.com/pinball-parts/550-5058-00

Awesome!!!!

Hi All,
I figured I could save myself some time to see if anyone knows off the top of their head where to get a constant power supply for a light I added to the play field. After switching out everything to LEDs, I am almost regretting it, because in multiball mode the strobe effect over the entire playfield is almost blinding. It's super easy to lose the ball with the lights flickering, so I added two spotlights to flood the field but realized I just made the problem worst. I'd like to hook those lights to a constant (I think 5 volts) but am having a hard time finding something under the playfield that doesn't blink. Anyone have any suggestions? Thanks in advance!

Bryan

So mine is a reimport from Germany. It does not have a US plug. So once I convert that over I can use the adapter. Thanks so much!