I never thought I'd see one of these cabinets in person, let alone own one. Been hunting for a Williams wood rail and end up with this instead!

Home owned since the late 60's at least with two wiring diagrams, actually plays well! I need to fix the bells and we will go from there.

I will scan in the instruction cards and forward to our resident card guru of course.

Gary

2017-07-20 14.07.12 (resized).jpg
2017-07-20 14.07.25 (resized).jpg
2017-07-20 14.08.45 (resized).jpg
2017-07-20 14.09.58 (resized).jpg
2017-07-20 14.10.04 (resized).jpg
2017-07-20 14.11.02 (resized).jpg
2017-07-20 14.11.08 (resized).jpg

Yes it is the same machine.

No it does not, have to see how the game plays with fresh elastics, cleaning and waxing and a good tune up and the bells working. I had a spare 5" bell assembly I hooked up with jumper wires last night and the Mrs. played a few games, made the game a bit more lively.

The gobble hole cracks me up for some reason.

Were rapidly getting to the point where we have room for a fixed number of games and figuring out what we like and what we do not. Going to start paring down the collection soon as we have overflow into the garage, already decided the two SS (Ice Fever and Big Guns) we have.. are not making the cut and I'd rather have EM in their places.

The Mrs. and I really only like EM though there maybe a Walking Dead in our future as both of us found that really, really fun at Pintastic.

Keepers for sure are Domino, Ding Dong, Heat Wave, Moon Shot, Hi-Flyer (my wife loves this one, I find it a little boring and can roll over the score like no ones business but happy wife..) She says we have to keep Night Rider too which is ok as it is fun and we are short of 4 player pins. Williams Hockey is another keeper but the example we have is so worn and prone to breaking down it might have to be retired and find a replacement. Backglass is shot, playfield worn, cab weathered.. awesome player though. Anyone have a nice example for sale?

On the fence is Touchdown which I have to repaint over the winter, fun but were not playing it as much I noticed! and Ship Ahoy.

Stuff in the que for game testing/repair- Bus Stop, Spirit of '76, Grand Tour (if the playfield ever comes back from being cleared) Orbit, Full House, Star Action, Big Ben and Darts of course. Bus Stop looks like a keeper but its in the shop and not at 100% yet. Orbit more fun than Spirit of '76 but has a persistent issue I'm still beating on when I have free time. Full House is actually a 100% but the Mrs. does not like it one bit which is too bad as I like the funky cabinet design and its in real nice shape. Getting those 9's are tougher than it looks!

As you might have already guessed I love the challenge of getting them working and my wife loves playing them so we make a good team. I enjoy playing as well but the creative process is more fun I think.

Gary

You know me.. can't leave enough alone.

Played a game or two and then started picking at things. Fixed the game over and match unit not functioning. Changed a few bulbs. Cleaned one of the stepper units and lubed so the scoring stopped being erratic.. lubed the other stepper unit. Scanned in the cards.

Gary

darts_1 (resized).jpg

darts_2 (resized).jpg

Added "Jockey Club" to linked games as it had these cards in with the Darts. Anyone have a game missing some really nice cards?

jockey club 1 (resized).jpg

jockey club 2 (resized).jpg

Doubtful, rather move them along to someone looking for a nice set.

I would not mind mailing you one original for your game

I have a friend interested already, sorry.

Last night while the Mrs. was practicing on the newly arrived space odyssey I had a few minutes between turns to rebuild the Darts bell units. The machine sounds lovely! Much better sounding bells than what Williams was using in the late 60's.

After work stripped the playfield, buffed it out, waxed, polished the plastics and installed new elastics.

What a delightful game, doubled my previous best score!

DSCN8172 (resized).JPG

DSCN8173 (resized).JPG

DSCN8174 (resized).JPG

DSCN8175 (resized).JPG

Found 2 more Jockey Club cards, uploaded scans to game section of Pinside as well.

jockey club 3 (resized).jpg

Took some time out on my over endeavors to install the correct flippers on Darts. Of course that turned into tuning up the ball loader and plunger so they worked smoothly while I was there. Screwed down the playfield and put everything back together.

All I have to do now is seal the back glass, give the cabinet a good cleaning and replace the missing aluminum on the shelf.

DSCN8231 (resized).JPG

Question for you O-din as I'm coming to a close on my work here- I assumed for some reason that aluminum in front of the coin door had been removed/vandalized but now I'm not so sure. Looking at yours I see an odd cigarette holder that I'd wager matches the pattern on my machine.

Does yours have paint or aluminum there? There is no evidence of nails on mine holding down a sheet of aluminum but someone could have filled the holes and painted the shelf which makes no sense as you can see where the cigarette holder was painted around.

Picture one is from Williams flyer (which shows 2 woodrail style holders) Picture two is mine, picture three from a different machine off the IPBD and the forth is yours.

odin_darts (resized).jpg

image-A4 (resized).jpg

DSCN8236 (resized).JPG

641f1 (resized).jpg

Pulled the back glass, very gently cleaned it, touched up a few blue and purple areas and then applied three heavy coats of triple thick. Replaced the "always on" bulbs behind the backglass with frosted LED's. Scrubbed down the cabinet. Removed the duct tape remnants off the back door and surrounding areas and installed a new lock. Cleaned the contacts on the scoring steeper (millions lights would flicker at times) cleaned all the remaining light bulbs behind the back glass.

Played a few games and hit a new high score, 6,700,000 points.

DSCN8238 (resized).JPG

Any chance you can fire off a few pics in your spare time please?

The butt holder on your Darts looks like it would match the pattern on my shelf. No holes for aluminum sheet though.

I'm surprised Peter you had not noticed, I had not e-mailed you as I usually do since you are very fast to catch them most of the time.

Glad to be of service again.