Documenting a Joker Poker SS Joker Poker playfield swap with another beautiful kruzman example. This is my second JP and ironically it was also another one of Ron’s.

This one is in excellent condition but they wanted it as nice as possible. So it will be getting new rails from TaylorVA with nearly everything else new. Huge thanks to my friend Turtle who was kind enough to share his PR order list. Thankfully Jimmy wasn’t too hard on me on some mistakes on my order. I’ll be using Ron’s kit to prep the holes as usual.

I won’t spend as much time documenting all the playfield prep as it slows me down and I think I’ve shared much of it already in turtles’s swap. If anyone has anything I should document, please ask.

Here’s the beauty about to go in:

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Some parts on the bottom that come off for the rotisserie...

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Supervisor is guarding under rotisserie.

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The top side is stripped by most everything.

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Bottom side is stripped. I’ll be running new lamp holders and ground braid so the old will be staying. Same with the rails.

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Waxed the playfield and got the new rails on. The holes need opened up so I used Rons Dremel bits to open them up, countersunk hand tool, blow out and glue to cinch in.

I try and get rails on first to help keep playfield straight and will give it some rigidity.

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It had red lane change plastics but going with yellow originals.

Top side pieces getting installed.

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Top side done other than plastics.

Going with a red titan ring at the special lane. First pic showing the white ring there.

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Coil labels on new coils. Karolina was happy to have Pinside back so she was rolling.

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Mechs disassembled. Lower flipper will get rebuilt. As you can see the one is in need or rebuild.

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Pops ready. Flippers waiting for new parts. New flipper bats...

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Mounted mechanisms and rebuilt lower flippers.

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Top side showing flipper bats in place.

Starting tear down of the drop target assemblies. These have been the only real dirty pieces so far.

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Not much to show today. The drop targets are dissembled and were cleaned today in ultrasonic.

The lamp wire was laid out and soldered in.

Next step is to lay in the harness and assemble the drop targets with new drops.

Quality control checking the old playfield.
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I’ve started to lay the harness in. Everything is mostly close but some of the switch dimples are off or crooked. So I’m cleaning them as they get cinched down.

About 2/3 of the switches are in. I’ll have a long road of soldering ahead of me however.

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Switches are all installed other than the ones for the drop target assemblies. They’re all adjusted and ready to go.

Soldered most everything other than the flippers and drop targets. Making progress with the supervisor checking my work.

I did catch her sleeping on the job...
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New joker target riveted on.

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Getting back to it... My father in law went with me to my clubs cruise down to Gettysburg for National Mustang Day yesterday.

The Titan rings I needed came and liking the yellow. If rodcom doesn’t like we’ll go back to white.

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The drop targets are assembled, adjusted and installed. I have to solder them all in but otherwise it’s done after lamp and switch testing.

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The last of the soldering is done!!! Installed the last of the plastics and buttoning most of it up.

Also got the GI tested and all is well.

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Inserts all good to go. There’s not as many as what I’m used to especially 80spit Banzai. I needed a break from that much work lol.

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Pulled off the rotisserie to install the end pieces. Did a triple check and hoping for a Friday or Saturday install and test.

Quality control supervisor cleared it for install so it’s officially a wrap!

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We had a successful install this morning but not without issues. Thankfully the two issues were simple. The first was the out hole kicker needed moved off to the left slightly. It was too close to the right and wasn’t able to kick the ball onto the rail. So something to check and the only thing the dimples weren’t right on.

The other issue really kicked my ass. The 10 point switches (there’s 11 and they’re all the same switch number) weren’t reading at all. We checked all of them and they were all showing closed yet none were actually closed. My next thought was the diode bank but I never touched them other than to clean. Tested those and they were all reading the same so wasn’t that.

Finally I figured it best course is to disconnect one at a time until I find the issue. On the second switch I found the issue. There must’ve been some solder that was closing the switch. After adjusting the switch it was all working!

So here’s some pics of the playfield up and running.

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rodcom you have a beautiful game to start with. Thanks for trusting me with the swap. Looking forward to video. Didn’t even think about any when we were finished!

That playfield color with the clear is like art.

I can attest that it is very smooth. Ron does such a nice job and huge reason why. A hard game just got harder!