I will go with my printer that did all my glass & playfields locally Atlantic Digital Reproductions for the backglass & plastics. Fantastic Pinball (Greg Walker) will be doing the playfield for cnc, lenses, printing, & finish clear coats. He took over my previous production & is doing other small playfield projects along with more titles. Avi & Richard are here to torture me about the playfield & em Jungle Queen in for service.

Thanks for the summary. I missed some of these when they happened.

One addition would be that a virtual pin version of Jon Norris's design debuted, with the design and flow of its figure 8 shot winning particular acclaim. John then nixed the figure 8 shot from his actual build.

Not just nixed but more like taken behind the shed and beat toothless…

Coach said I can get back to posting daily life stuff. Had my crappy cheap Bob's Bacon for breakfast, cheese & crackers for lunch & a yogurt. Finishing beer #2. Wednesday was only 3 beers. Working on Jungle Queen, bunch of stuff (pop bumper, target banks) & got a short on the playfield fuse. 10 amp fuse, got a resetable 15 to trouble shoot. Avi is learning & doing some stuff on his own. He got his marque installed.

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Any particular reason to work on this stuff instead of wiring your game?

Yes got to pace myself & clear out some space. Do you wonder why the oversize plywood whitewood keeps moving around my confined workspace. Have not dropped it on the floor yet, & everyone has a look. It should play well, but people will always think the worst. Maybe Avi will give his interpretation of it tonight. He holds nothing back, & I am not going to boot him out what ever he says! 6 pins set up to get serviced & out of here, along with 4 upright in the corner. Avi has his vid waiting on parts, & Simpsons vid waiting on parts. Hopefully we haul the beast Drag Race out tonight or Friday, but it is Thursday Night drinker at the shop.

John charge for your services. Seriously, that’s minimum $50 an hour. Especially EMs that very few have a damn clue how to fix. Yeah I know you get rent and utilities covered for your work effort, but I suspect you are probably getting the raw end of the deal here on the barter system. At a minimum take outside work from paying customers to service in your space. I suspect it can highly supplement what you yourself have called your meager pension. More nickel slots and maybe graduate from 4 day after date meat to 1 day after date meat. Even at my arcade I pay myself $15 an hour as our tech to at least have some token acknowledgement of the hours I put in there.

I am so glad you are passing on knowledge, especially EMs. Very few people left that can figure these out that I worry the few games remaining will become true museum displays since nobody knows how they work. I believe it’s much of the reason they haven’t accrued in price. Bingos have already met that fate for the most part and you have to almost give them away.

The other younger fulltime tech is leaning more towards powder coating & painting cabinets. Hard to believe only a few of us service techs for a regional population of 500k in a 1 hour radius. Lucky jukebox & more em's are not coming in, but winter is coming fast. Avi is gone for the night & will return next week. Still hope someone posts up a video simulation of what is the play. The bash toy area is fine, people think the skill shot up the middle to target at the top looks impossible but I have faith. Told the coach I will mount the power supplies on top for testing, & he is ok with that.

Yes bingo games are a very hard sell & almost get no money in my area. EM's have doubled or tripled in value from the lack of pinball games for sale at the bottom in my area the last 10 years. Never thought they were going to go in that direction.

I don't have much in the way of pictures but that's how the marquee turned out. it looks nice. I don't have many thoughts on the Playfield. The area with the 3 targets with the gaps does 'work'. I still believe cleaning it up would make it more desirable and presentable but the way it is now isn't the final release anyways so i apologize for coming off grouchy on that end. It looks much better in real life then it does via pictures.

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It probably looks like there's alot of room via pictures. but take my word for it. it's a pain in the ass. Having to move a bunch of shit around all the time. Even if GWJ doesn't wire it exactly by the end of the month. there isn't awhole lot else he can do with the playfield till it's wired. So it's not like as though he's waiting on a certain part. it's just a pain in the ass with the clutter.

Does the clutter only go down over time or as fix jobs move out do others come in?

People are getting sick more here so I might be drinking alone tonight. I always get a flu shot, but my buddy & his son are now sick & seem to have sore backs. So it looks like Drag Race is here longer, what a beast of a vid.

Well think of it like this. There is my machine in there. There is 3 machines that Brew HQ own. Simpsons and 2 pinballs (i think). A Drag Race Machine that was suppose to come out tonight. perhaps it still will. or tomorrow. Plus 3 other pinball machines that all has to be cramped into John's section of the workshop. The Operator has the much bigger area of the workshop and it's a total fucking mess. I offer to sort it out and help him out but he just gets in a weird mood about it. Same with his arcades. I offer to do work for him just for free. Just to help him out and he gets weird about it. Fair enough though he drives around cleaning out the arcades. I don't expect my machine to be done till early December just based on shipping estimates on parts. but i could be wrong.

Oof. I would offer to transport it but i'm more then positive it wouldn't fit in any vehicle we have.

Are you a Swiss chalet man John/Avi?
Free chocolates with a Festival quarter chicken FYI..

I like Swiss Chalet but i would never go there to eat unless someone else was offering to pay for it. pretty well the same for anything. It's not that i can't afford it. just don't care to waste money on junk food when there's food at home.

Jungle Queen is finished now. Avi did 2 new targets to the top of both target banks, & helped clean up a sticky top left pop bumper. Showed him a bunch of stuff, & we both lost screws which we found. He stripped a screw which I had to grind off to get out, shit happens & I likely would have done the same. Then we played it & the playfield fuse kept blowing. Thought it was a bad GI socket by the right target, & replaced it. After searching out I found one near the pop bumper that was shorting out. Very hard to spot the tab. Learned from my AC & Refrigeration instructor, fuse blows & you replace it with same results. More fuses are not going to fix the problem. Next time I will show Avi how to lay a towel down so you do not loose the screws. Showed him how to magnetise a screwdriver tip. The replacement leg plates he previously installed were perfect after I ground the ends down from Pinball Life (Nice Quality, not in a bad way!) to fit. The neck to the head got some epoxy just for strength. Showed him how to use a chair for installing the back legs, & install the head bolts. I may get grumpy at times, but I like passing on my years of knowledge to anyone who wants to learn. So Drag Race, & Jungle Queen ready to leave. Beer #4 coming up.

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Better value with my Chicken Picnic Plate with discount, + no tax! Got 3 meals over 2 days with that one. Wife buys Quality Street, I get what she does not like. The steaks were very nice, let them age a extra day. Tonight I hot wired the cheap electric heater with the crappy micro switch for safety. Bashed it on the floor too many times, now it works like a charm, or to the landfill it goes.
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Do you have a rotisserie for wiring? Or is this a sawhorse operation?

I have been hot wiring stuff all my life, but not cars! Working for the City I have a few good stories about my work visits to the cop shop. Never there on my own time to visit & stay in the drunk tank like family (brother) & friends. I do have a story about a close friend who got mental problems & somehow slipped off a bridge to the tracks below. One night he was drinking & got thrown in the drunk tank. His Father was a Sargent with the paddy wagon division. So he gets his son out while working, son wants to continue on drinking instead of going home. Father takes him downtown to the bars which are near the cop shop, & he made it home later alright. Likely walked the 4 or 5 miles, just like my brother. Those guys were real heavy drinkers being born in 1965. Same father use to come home & drop the loaded revolver on the kitchen table. Everyone respected the gun being loaded, & never touched it. The son was very talented in sports & school smarts. In Canada it is likely everyone knows someone with mental illness.

Why does being born in 1965 make you a heavy drinker? If you had said being married makes people heavy drinkers, I totally understand and no argument there. Pretty sure most married men would agree with that.

It feels right now doesn’t it.

That’s a nice looking playfield. Almost no wear so it seems. Better than the one I own. Not a fan of the purple LEDs but I know that’s a personal preference.

Just seems like my brother & friends from 1965 were heavy drinkers. 1964 for me & most of my friends were not into being plastered most times. The Jungle Queen does have a lot of wear & not a fan of LED's being used until late 1980's pins or newer.
The playfield should get the wiring started this weekend. Try to meet the end of month deadline for a flipping pin.

What's the plan for wiring the whitewood? Going to go through the multimorphic boards so you can have autofire on slings and pops and stuff, or just hard wiring flippers to 48V?

Can you hard wire single would coils? I would think they'd tear themselves up pretty quickly...

Ah I didn't realize he had single wound flippers. You could still do it with an EOS and no flipper hold just to pop a ball around, but way less than optimal.

Way less than optimal you say? That could be this entire thread title.

Here’s a playfield Greg did for my custom build. He’s great at what he does

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Avi is here stripping old EM wire harnesses for wire.

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I subscribe to this line of thinking. If it happened to me it happens to everyone. I’m rarely right though…

I think I remember that. Was that the one someone fed you at my place?

It was at the hotel before the tournament. Had to lay on your sofa & withdraw from the games. Do not want any more consumables, second hand smoke is ok.

According to the Chinese Zodiac, 1965 is the Year of the Snake.

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That's exactly what the American Lung Association says as well.

Edibles can take down even the heaviest Marijuana consumers..definitely gotta be careful with those! Much different than smoking the plant! Hey john, what's your favorite pinball manufacturer to work on and play?

Well I remember smoking being everywhere you went. I thought those were the good old days, likely not. Smokes are real expensive in Canada, & I wonder what long term problems all the vape people will have. Guess I mostly have to worry about my beer, food, & being over weight. Not second hand smoke.
Avi is looking at wiring up a pachlinko game. See if we get smoke in the shop. I do allow smoking at the shop since it is private, but the signs do not stop the hookers & crack heads.
My favorite games are Bally 1978 - 1982 electronics. Worked on hundreds of them over the years. I tell everyone to buy only early Stern or Bally.

You need a proper sign.

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I have a Bally SpeakEasy-4 from '82, that game scares me the most if i have to work out a problem.

It actually wasn't that bad. only took an hour to strip two of them. Mind you i made a mess doing so but i cleaned up afterwards.... Not much in the ways of work today. Got a Pachinko machine working for a buddy who asked GWJ to do so. Really shitty design choice with the way they do their electrical connections. it's like all the parts that are meant to touch eachother are made of paper.

Avi got to go to the local bar, & play some pool for free on the poor quality pool tables. I found a sliver of chalk on the floor. Had 6 beers, & some KFC later. Think there was a hooker there to use the washroom.

Did the hooker choke your 'KFC' chicken?

Are hookers legal anywhere in Canada?

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uh-oh...
Who's gonna be post #9000???

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