Fan-Tas-Tic
Williams, 1972Greetings all. I'm new to the forum and to pinball ownership. I just picked up a 1972 Williams Fan-Tas-Tic, grabbed the manuals etc. of IPDB, etc. Looking through those I realized "I don't know squat".
The problem I am having is that none of the player score #3 digits are rotating. Facing the back glass, where there are 5 digits - going 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 - with 1 being a 'fixed' zero, the #3 doesn't turn at all, in any of the player slots. Otherwise all scoring seems to work as expected.
Help?
Probably in the backbox. Take it slow, but it's fairly hard to really mess up an EM machine unless you really work at it.
There's a good chance that @curriedog is right, but a novice EM owner should diagnose the problem before adjusting switches.
A better way to start is to temporarily jumper the relevant contacts on the 100 pt relay. If that advances the score reel then clean and adjust the contacts.
Also, here's a picture of the 100 pt relay with the relevant switch circled.
Hi
great - ipdb has http://www.ipdb.org/machine.cgi?id=820 the schematics and the manual --- http://mirror2.ipdb.org/files/820/Williams_1972_Fan_Tas_Tic_Operator_Manual.pdf on page-6 (ori-5) are all coils listed - Mech. Panel is Cabinet, Insert is Backbox, Playfield is playfield, Cabinet is side-wall or back-wall of Cabinet, Front-Door is Coin-Door. Greetings Rolf
Howard is correct; learn to use your schematic right off the bat, on a problem that is hopefully simple.
Once again, thank you to all for your guidance on this. After staring at a wiring diagram nearly as old as me for about an hour trying to figure out which relay was where, I finally figured it out. Once I did, I was able to determine that one of the wires for that relay had come loose, but was still positioned in a way that made it look attached.
Once I found it, I test to ensure that was the root cause & voila! Working scoring. Now to get out my soldering iron...
Quoted from TanFasTic:Once again, thank you to all for your guidance on this. After staring at a wiring diagram nearly as old as me for about an hour trying to figure out which relay was where, I finally figured it out. Once I did, I was able to determine that one of the wires for that relay had come loose, but was still positioned in a way that made it look attached.
Once I found it, I test to ensure that was the root cause & voila! Working scoring. Now to get out my soldering iron...
Well done!
I've got to finish getting my Fan-Tas-Tic going.
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