Well, this weekend was quite a hectic one for me. On Saturday, I drove 3 hrs and 15 mins from Dayton to the Pennsylvania border to meet half way and deliver TFTC to its new owner.

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So then I drove back to Dayton (another 3.5 hours) and on Sunday, left at 9am for the 5 hour trek each way to Grand Rapids, MI to bring home my grail pin - Revenge from Mars!!!

Let me just say this - if you EVER have to pick up a Pin2000 (RFM or SWE1) - you can make it work in a 1993 Jeep Cherokee, but man, it is pretty tight. You have to "Jenga block" the pieces in.

As of now, I have no pictures of it in the Jeep until WeirPinball comes over to help me unload and assemble it. Tunasled, you're more than welcome to get this party started and show pics from earlier today .

This initial post is more of a "teaser", as I will have many pictures up later on Monday when it is fully assembled and running. Patience my friends.... patience.

17 hours of driving over the weekend - I am bushed D: ...

Tuna, you were way awesome to meet. Thank you for giving me this opportunity to bring my grail home. I will take excellent care of it. I really had a GREAT time hanging out with you and Mike!

Tuna was outstanding on every level. He PM'd me letting me know he had a nice RFM FS. At that point, I fire-saled TFTC, and was able to deliver TFTC to a very happy owner and snag RFM all in about 36 hours. Both gentlemen - the new owner of TFTC and Tuna - were outstanding. No problems at all - absolutely smooth and solid transaction on every level.

There. Fixed. You deserve to have that credit; YOU figured that out my man.

And yes, we had to take part of the backseat out of the Jeep. That is what is resting on of the the RFM pieces. The spare tire also had to be loosened and moved around to make this work.

P2000 - CAN be done in a Jeep, but man......

Thank you guys! RFM has made its way upstairs !! WeirPinball came over and helped me get it setup and playing. Poor guy, I didn't tell him it was going upstairs until he got here .

Here we are!

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Sure is!!! Already getting LEDs ready for the underbelly of the playfield. Game has about 115 bulbs - time to reduce the heat on this badboy. Got one or two burned out flashers and bulbs, so we'll do the easy stuff first. Love this game - there is something so mesmerizing about watching it in attract mode. Love this game - can't wait for Jessica to get home and see it !

For $3500 - sure .

Quick video:

Quick pictures from a cleaning and waxing job I did tonight - a "surface job" - not a thorough complete tear down.

Nearly all the bulbs have been converted to LEDs.

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You were just winded from us taking it upstairs .

By recommendation of a couple fellow Pinsiders, I decided to add "beer seal" to my RFM - particularly the main metal island where the ball gets launched off the pop-up ramp to the main target island. I would hear the ball nail that metal area, and it made me cringe. So Tunasled suggested beer seal, which is great stuff when you can find it. Since all the suppliers wanted $12-$15 in shipping alone, I figured I would try my hand with some local stuff first.

Here's what I used:

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And here's what it looks like in my RFM as of now.

The piece was 8.5" long and the width of the metal island was 0.5" wide (as noted on the bag).

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Enjoy

So I installed some more RAM tonight. Got it from Rob Anthony here on Pinside. Super easy to do. So far, P2000 has been super easy to work on. Only thing I had to do was loosen the VGA connector that is held into the PC box by one screw. If you don't do that, installing the new RAM is nearly impossible. Didn't have to disconnect anything else at all - super, super easy to do.

Pictures of the install. Note that the new RAM chip is NOT 100% identical to the old one, but hey, Rob sent it to me and it worked 100% !

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Quick picture of the plugs - basically what goes where.

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Shot of the P2000 computer

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That slot there is where the new RAM will be going. It is directly above the cpu fan in the picture.

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Quick shot of the new RAM from Rob.

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New RAM installed with original RAM. Note how much higher the new RAM is. This is it in its fully "locked and loaded" position.

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One last look before it goes back into the machine!

Just a huge FYI .... once you hook everything back up, MAKE SURE you hit the red reset button on the front of the computer box. If you do not press the red button switch, your machine will not boot up, and you'll be scratching your head wondering what's wrong. The translite bulb will turn on, but the computer WILL NOT BOOT until you hit the spring-compressed red reset button on the fron of the computer box.

Game takes maybe 10-15 secs longer to load upon bootup, but wow, the animations are MUCH smoother. Definitely a great improvement and for $10, sheesh, this is an easy no-brainer.

Thanks, Rob!!!