I picked up a nbafb today so I am in the club! Any suggestions on what led bulbs work best for the GI and the backbox?
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I wound up going with warm white for all of the G.I. and color matching non ghosting inserts. I also put in red and orange titan rubbers throughout. It cleaned up really nice to almost new condition. It was a good find for me, probably the nicest cleanest 90s pin I have ever picked up. All I have left to do is replace the blue rubber near the left saucer. I have the rubber part but I do not have the hardware to attach it. Can somebody tell me what I use?
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Quoted from allsportdvd:It was working fine before I changed the plastic but probably worth doing anyway
Same here, my defender was half off and I reattached him and then I had problems and said defender mech broken. I took off the gearbox and took it apart and the old lube on there was like taffy. I scraped it all off and used some goo gone and then relubricated and works great now. It was not very hard to do, take pic when you open gearbox.
I took the shoot button off because the light was burned out and now after I press it a few times in a game it pushes the piece down a little and it does not hit the little switch button. Is there a way to secure the light insert piece that holds it firmly in place?
Quoted from Don44:I took the shoot button off because the light was burned out and now after I press it a few times in a game it pushes the piece down a little and it does not hit the little switch button. Is there a way to secure the light insert piece that holds it firmly in place?
Anybody?
The switch part with the light attached is easily pulled from the shoot button part. If I press down on that with my finger the button part clicks the switch otherwise it does not reach quite far enough to click it every time. I’m pretty sure I have it hooked up right
4BAE3557-A778-4DEE-9347-8312B09A520E (resized).jpegThere was not any issues previously. The shoot button moves freely up and down as well. Is something supposed to hold the switch assembly in place?
Thanks guys, the picture really helped. I didn’t have the light bulb piece snapped down into the shoot button. I really had to push hard with a screwdriver but it does snap into place.
Try having the left side a little higher than the right side even if it’s not perfectly level. That’s what worked for me and it doesn’t seem to affect anything else in the game by not being perfectly leveled.
Quoted from GroundControl:I was to grease the defender gearbox because of "defender mech is broken" error - at ball search it went to the far right beyond 4 and got stuck, trapping a ball in the lane above. No ball search moved the defender at all. Had to power cycle. Removed the defender altogether, and guess what... the game is better without it. The defender isn't any challenge anyway.
Other thing. Right loop diverter gets stuck in raised position. It feels like it attaches magnetically. A light tap on the cabinet drops it. Suggestions?
Its relatively easy to take apart the defender and re lubricate. I would think the game is not the same at all without the defender. It's one of the better functions of the game to pass with the flippers and hurry up and take the shot before the defender gets there.
You need a rivet gun to replace rivets. I had never done any rivets but purchased a cheap rivet gun and rivets from harbor freight recently, and it's actually pretty easy. To remove the rivets, the only way I know is to drill through them but perhaps somebody else knows a better way.
Quoted from KozMckPinball:Did you use hardware store rivets, just wondering Bally had a special rivet size like some of their washers did. Sorry I know I can get this from the parts list for NBAFB, and I will when I get to that restore work, but I am just throwing it out there now to someone who's already done it.
I have never done the ramps on my nbafb but I have done some ramp riveting and other plastics where a lamp or plastic is riveted on. I purchased a kit at harbor freight for around $30. The kit had different sized rivets and is easy to use. While it is not a brass or nickel plated rivet, it looks pretty good although there is a small dimple in the middle of the rivet, good enough for me although not for if you are doing a high end restore. If you want I will post a pic later of what the rivets look like on a ramp or plastic.
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