I recently picked up this title, but unfortunately ended up returning it after discovering termite activity.

For the 10 days I owned it I really enjoyed it and was BLOWN AWAY by the audio. It's in stereo and the speakers in the upper cabinet are 2-way speakers with a mid and a tweeter, so it's essentially a 5 speaker system! Bottom line, it was the best-sounding pin I ever owned, even better than all of my modern Sterns. No bullshit. Very catchy soundtrack too.

Simple and fun scoring-based rules. One of the best art packages I've ever seen. Helluva pin IMO.

I'm filling it's departed slot with GOT, but once I have more room I will be on the look out for an HUO or restored example.

I would like to know as well, in PM if you prefer. I have a POTO that we love but I want to get it refurbed and cleared before any more damage occurs at the outlanes or around the trails.

I guess my question would be is what was the original wiring? Was that braid added? Where did those cut wires go? In my corvette, they must have had a problem with one side and took the fuse out. Of course I didn't know this when I fixed the driver board. So when I replaced the fuses, one kept blowing. I started testing each GI line individually and two different lines lit up both GI strings. I finally started looking at the wiring under the playfield and I noticed that they added wiring to hook the two strings together. Once I removed that wiring, I was able to hook everything up like it should be.

If they hooked more lights up to one line then you might be overloading that string

Damn. Great Project.
I own 2 and yours is in better shape than the first on I bought. The second has some touchups that are not 100% but it's playable.

I like everything but the scream - after a while it gets on my nerves.

Good luck with it. I'm following along and getting inspired.

here are the before pics.

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that's horrible. How did the rest go? And you flooded it with freeze? as it pops itself off? Should never have pulled this bad.

Wow. I hate to see that. I did a BTTF and only had one insert lift.

You got exactly what you deserved. Why did you pull the mylar? It looked fine. The parts of your PF that look like crap were the areas with no mylar.

I've been analyzing POTO's and why they wear and flake why they do. Seems they fall victim to the same fate that gottlieb system 3's do. With gottlieb they used this metallic silver primer, which can't hold ink for shit. With POTO, it's all the metallic gold letting go of the black printing. Thats why it wears where it does and makes pulling mylar, very fragile. just use a crap ton of spray and go back and forth along the pull line. Pour it on and let it pool on there. Use light pressure and pull straight up or even pull back towards where you are going. keep it as one sheet and work your way down.

Anyone know where I can get a new flap and sticker for the mirror, mine has a bad repair job. image.jpg

I have sent a magic mirror flap and side posts to cliffy. So hopefully some time you will see magic mirror flap at least. The side post I don't know. Cliffy said it would be a lot of work.
Magicchiz

Heat is going to yield the same results as freeze. I use heat religiously and had similar results. Neo is spot on- its that gold paint that is the issue. My POTO was fairly nice, but like yours, the mask insert was bubbled and caused a huge air pocket in the mylar across the middle of the field. I have already vectorized the top mask (big insert), so I can send that to you in photoshop if you want it. I am in the home stretch on my restore, just have some black outlining to do and final clearcoat work and re-assembly.

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Email Steve at Pinball Resource. He had quite a few parts for this machine (not listed on his website) when I was in need of some asseblies last year.

Man, You guys are going to make me tear apart my POTO Nice to see so many in Wisconsin!

I love this game. My POTO was similarly dirty and imperfect when I got it, so I tore most of it down and cleaned things as best as I could. Cleaned the playfield real well, but didn't do any touch ups etc (and mine has plenty of flaking gold paint and wear). Fixed flippers, switches, so that everything works right. So now I have a game that plays really well (fast!), and that's what matters most to me. There are plenty of times when I look at the playfield and think how nice it would be to have all the artwork perfect, but it's just not worth the time and money at this point. Fun game, great artwork, one-of-a-kind music, and a personal favorite theme.

Enjoy your game and don't stress out too much about the details.

Mine has a couple playfield issues, you can see one in the pic I posted, right next to the mirror. Looks like it was cut trying to install or trim the mylar. There is another spot near the left sling other than that its decent, couple inserts the mylar is cloudy but they are not lifted enough to effect the ball. I've considered trying to pull the mylar because I would love to clear coat it, this thread makes it obvious I would be in way over my head. I did pull it apart sand, fill and paint the cabinet black then decal it. Have to say if your cabinet is showing its age this is the way to go. It came out awesome with the detail on PotO repainting would be a lot of skilled work and with the decals it looks brand new. Mine plays lightning fast I considered maybe putting weaker coils in because the ball does bounce around on occasion but with the Organ is so steep you kinda need the power. One other little thing, I found a batch of like bad acorn nuts at Home Depot they are like an off color, in the bin there was the super chrome ones and then a few that had slightly discolored and gone a little bronze. You can see the off color ones really well on the left side of the pic above the brown plastic. I was super happy to find them the look just a little old and fit the theme well.

Glad to see you started a thread James!!! Favorited and I'll be watching the progress. Like ralphwiggum said, Call Steve!!

those black line redos look amazing. Beats having to freehand it like I usually do.

Painting the details of the gold was just out of the question for me. My cabinet was rough it had a game of X and O carved in one side, it had been touched up and in a row of pins you would never see it. That side showed in my set up and the light caught the depth and it drove me crazy. For the quality your doing totally agree paint is the way to go. If you an average guy the decals give you a very nice players pin.

Just found this thread. Another PotO fan here. Paul Farris' best work, IMO. I'll be following along. Good luck!

Ryan

You are serious about the dishwasher? I had no idea you could do that, please post an after picture.

Since I mentioned the decal I figured I'ld post a couple pics. Sorry to invade you restore thread but it's kinda becoming the PotO club
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