Finally unburied the pin, picked up some Mean Green and got to work cleaning my dirty Swinger. Ordered the Rubbers (always use new rubbers with a Swinger), bulbs, ball saver post, new balls (a good Swinger will always get your balls dirty). I also bought new flippers for my BK2K so I'm going to use my old BK2K flippers on swinger, if I can.

I'm pretty much just cleaning it up, refurbishing worn components and attempting to prevent further wear. A Nice pinsider has a playfield he is going to ship me that's in a little better shape than the one I have.

Believe it or not, I have not taken the glass off yet, ever. I'm not sure what's up with the area around the bumpers, it looks pretty bad, I'll know more when I get the glass off.

I still need to clean the backbox and the inside, I hope to get to it this weekend.

It's hard to tell, but the pics where it's standing up are the before pictures.

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Wait, are you saying to pull the guts out, drench them in cleaner and spray them off? like with a hose? That sounds insane.

I got some stuff called Zorbx that was recommended for getting the odors out. I've also heard people say to spray off with brake cleaner. Since that part appears easy to remove, I'll likely just put it on the workbench and clean it by hand.

I read another post with some bingo machines where they hosed them off and let them air dry. Seems crazy but so does bathing circuit boards in alcohol, but it's fine.

As a last resort I would give it a try. Maybe I'll try it on my Big Ben, that thing is a mess anyway.

So what's up with the circles around the pop bumpers?

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https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/how-do-you-clean-cloth-covered-wire-harnesses

ahh, it looks like the wood grain is underneath, do you think the playfield might still be good under there?

Cool, I can't wait. Just got all my parts from Marco already! Ready to tear into this Swinger..yea baby yea!

Yes, It's mine, I also have a dune buggy on a 59 chassis. I know about the decklid, I have 2 1970 decklids, that one in the pic is from a super, it was on it when I got it.

That's good news, I'll try it. Does freeze spray work on this kind of mylar?

Thanks. My son and I got to play it at PAPA 17. Can't wait to play it again.

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Didn't get to work on it this weekend like I planned, but all my parts came in so I'm ready to go once I have the time.

WilliamsFan shipped out that playfield today!!

So now the question is, do I get it up and playing with the current playfield while I restore the replacement or do I restore the replacement and then get it up and running?

Oh, and another thing I discovered, While this pin looks like it would totally glow under a blacklight, it unfortunately does not. Only the paint on the bumper caps, the pink on the playfield and the orange on the apron glow.

Kinda disappointing...

Seems to be in pretty good shape for 90,000 games. That seems like a lot, no wonder the playfield is trashed.

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What's this?

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It almost seems like solid metal.

I did the math, this game, at a quarter a game brought in $25,500.

The new old playfield arrived today, but I suppose I'm just going to clean the old one, put new rubbers on it and see if it plays. Swapping the playfield looks like it's going to be pretty involved. I'm going to try my hand at restoring the new old one and do the swap down the line.

Today I plan to pull out the bottom board (what's the name for it?) and get the inside cleaned up and move it into the basement. Might clean the legs up and bolt them on so I don't have to bend over as much. Then on to the head and cleaning the bottom board.

The chime box is shot, I'll need new coils and some chimes and bits I don't even know about yet. I might try to make some out of aluminum bar stock.

Could I use tubing? like a wind chime? Like 1 inch aluminum cut to different lengths? I would have to isolate them with rubber grommets like the current ones are, but it seems like it would work.

I've already planned to swap out the cord, that canister thing bugs me that nobody knows what it is, I'm going to leave it there until I know what it is.

Where do I connect the earth ground on the pinball machine?

Man, it's amazing how much it got played and how relatively good shape it's in. Got some other projects to work on tomorrow, but I hope to get to it some this week.

My math was wrong. The game was set to 2 plays per quarter. Still, not to shabby.

From the best I can figure from what the previous owner told me, It was in a bowling alley until about 1995-2000, I'm the first home user of this machine (as far as I know) as his father never fixed it after he bought it from the bowling alley after the fire.

The more I look at it and talk to other people about numbers they have seen on games, I think it may have flipped and it's 190k plays.

Just started reading this, Thanks Vid!
https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/replacing-line-cords-plugs-wall-sockets-vids-guide

This is a stepper under the playfield, I don't have the diagram so I'm not sure which one. It appears out of alignment. It looks like it has a lot of wear on it.

Is there an adjustment or is it wore out?

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So, My sister, who know nothing about pinball but is fairly mechanically inclined stopped by and we are in the garage chatting and I'm showing her this stepper because I have the playfield out leaning against the workbench and she says that the board looks crooked. I hadn't noticed because I hadn't stepped back to look at it from a distance. She said why don't you try and turn it, so I did and everything lines up now and it steps properly now, Thanks sis!

I replaced the cord, per Vid's guide, It was a 2 prong, but there was an earth ground terminal that was not being used. I traced it and it was attached to the transformer base like in Vid's guide so I connected it and used a 3 prong plug.

I fired the game up, for the first time. I never powered it up when I bought it or when I got it home. It turned on, no lights, but the coin door coil was hummin, so at least I didn't trip a breaker or blow something up. but other than that, it seemed dead.

I checked the fuses (should have done that first) and the 24v 15a (I think) fuse was blown. I didn't have any so I used the one above it, just to see what it would do. I turned it on and some of the player 1 reels reset, I pressed start, it reset and I think it would have launched a ball into the shooter if there was one in the machine..all good signs of life.

I'm going to try to get some fuses tonight at Radio Shack and give it another try tonite.

If anyone has a Swinger of FF, can you please take a pic of the moving target from under the playfield? Mine looks like it's been "lovingly altered" and I need to see what it's supposed to look like.

Thanks for all the help so far, I'll take some more pics tonight.

Looking at the schematics here: http://mirror2.ipdb.org/files/972/Williams_Fun_Fest_EM_schematics.pdf it looks like I need the following fuses.

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But that's all I know. I can't find a manual for Swinger or Funfest, only the above schematic. I don't think I have enough information to buy the fuses, how many volts, what type, normal or slo-blow?

Thanks, any help would be appreciated.

This is what I picked up at RadioShack on my break

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The more I look into it, and the wear in some places, I'm going to agree. If so, that's pretty amazing.

I pretty much saved it from the dumpster, I hope I get to flip it again at 200k someday, but 10k plays at home will take a LONG time

I was just thinking, even at 90k, this machine has played more games since 1972 than I have, and I'm including board games, video games, tag, Hide and seek, duck duck goose and twister.

Swapped out the fuses and it's playing. Ball count unit appears to be seized, bonus swipe thing is stuck Replay unit is missing some peices. Left flipper is broke.

It resets, takes credits, ejects the ball, plays, scores, slings work, kickout, gate, kickback, moving target works, center post goes up and down, switches all seem to work.

OMG it really was just a fuse.

Need to fix the broken stuff, shop. Play.

I might make a playfield protector just to have a smooth surface, since I need to strip most of it off anyway.

Got it moved into the house. Still a little hint of bowling alley smell, but I think it's the playfield mostly now.
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My friend convinced me that a playfield protector is too much work for something I don't plan on keeping so I'm just going to clearcoat the current playfield and hope it fills in the cupped inserts and makes it playable. I'll have the replacement playfield touched up and cleared and replace it sometime down the road.

Rather than make a new thread, I'll try here first.

I need pop bumper bodies and skirts for Swinger (William's 1972). Can anyone tell me what the part numbers are, I don't have a manual for this game.

Thanks.

Crap, I can't remember if it's AC or DC bumpers, I think it's DC. That's a great link, I didn't know those manuals were there, it's got the moving target assembly in there also. Thanks W2W!

Thanks CJ, I was petty sure it was DC.

Does anyone know of a place that sells the mylar rings for the bumpers in colors?

So I'm cleaning up and the playfield that WilliamsFan sent me was in the way, so I started to move it. I haven't opened it, I just know what I saw from the pics earlier in this thread. I decided to open it. It's SOOOOOOO much better than what's in there now. I already need to replace the pops and flippers and fasten the stand up targets etc etc that I'll have a good 75% of the playfield removed so the swap will come sooner than I thought.

I'm putting it back together, broken bits and all so that we can play it over the holiday's, then I'm going to do the swap after new years.

I'll snap a pic of the playfield next time I have it out.

You did see the 1970 beetle in the pics, right?

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It's up and flipping!

Over the holiday I had my nephew over for a few days and he was helping me clean up the machine. He cleaned the playfield and plastics, took out all the rollovers and cleaned them and polished it all up with some Novus and waxed the playfield. This is still the original playfield, Down the road I'll do a playfield swap once I get it touched up and clear coated.

The game is currently stuck on ball 2 so I'm not sure yet if player2 is working yet, but it's keeping score on player 1 and all the features are working, the moving target, the gate, kickback etc etc.

There are 4 lights on the top of the playfield above the saucer, I have no idea what they do or how they are advanced, currently only the 3rd light is lit. I also haven't figured out how to light triple bonus.

Here's a couple pics I took last night. Thanks to everyone who helped with questions.

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