Going to pick up Steve Ritchies first pin (any guesses?) $150 in decent shape figured I couldnt pass it up to have a piece of atari history (that was your clue) - even if its not the best playing sure has cool 70's look and playfield

Its here - when I brought it in the house the only thing that worked was the lights in the back glass and the credit display. 5 mins later and a few fuse adjustments - lights up,speakers work and all bumpers, flippers etc are fully working - granted it needs some work and some flipper rebuild probably - but the backglass is perfect and the playfield is pretty darn nice for 30 years old - will take some picts tomorrow for the crew. Yes Brokedad its an airborne avenger. The thing is huge by the way LOL, the one thing that doesnt work yet is the score board.

Yep big and slow - and actually it was pretty light - My buddy and I were surprised and instead of using the hand cart just decided to carry it - My ToM must weigh twice as much. There's really not much to them inside.

Here is the before picts - currently I have spent about 1 hour or so - and it went from doing nothing but the backbox lighting up to now it has sound - scoreboard and everything else is working. Next steps I will rip down the playfield and clean all plastics re-rubber etc - the fun stuff, when I get some time.

http://evolvestudios.com/atari/

let me know what you guys think - not the most fun to play but it is cool looking and cool old atari sounds - I think it was a good deal at $150

so far hasn't cost anything - I think rebuilding the flippers is going to be an issue if I decide to do it - any suggestions? The yhave the weirdest flipper setup I have ever seen, you don't see the coil or anything its encased in this round metal thing I cant seem to get apart.

I think somewhere someone referred to it as "Motor" flippers ???
Is it possible to substitute and entire flipper assembly from say a later model atari or williams etc?

anyone on my flipper problem here

Been busy - this is where I am now putting playfield back together 1st pick is before I cleaned and waxed. Have some switches to clean and fix, and side rails to clean up - then onto restoring the coin door.

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I got the flippers working now but the one could use some help here is what they look like from beneath - you cant really get inside this thing seems pretty sealed up.

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nice find jbscar - might have to put a bid in on that
Here are some picts of her lit up - I managed to screw the scoreboard display up in my cleaning and fixing - so back to the drawing board on that, but everything else is working.

http://evolvestudios.com/atari2/album1/