Firepower
Williams, 1980Scored a good deal on a Firepower this morning. It definately needs a good cleaning, left flipper inop, some raised inserts. The backglass was "touched-up" by a real artiste...LOL!
Any advice on how to correct the raised inserts would be appreciated. It shouldn't be to hard to fix the flipper issue.
Here's some pics...
Seller was a great guy, he had alot of calls but i got lucky and was the first to call. There are still good guys out there on CL.
Use a hairdryer if you haven't done it before. Heat gun leaves little room for error and the insert can get hot enough to permanently mark the plastic when you push on it with a socket or whatever you're pushing with.
How much did you pay for this? There is one in IA i'm eyeing, but he wants $500 and it doesn't work.
But Wes, I was 4 minutes away! Glad to see you get this one. Whewww. Hopefully you'll get it up and running without too many hickups. I have a few used boards laying around that may help your cause. But typically I just start out with a new power supply and MPU on the Williams after checking for hacks, bad coils, missing diodes, broken solder joints, burnt off switches, open loops, roms, grounds, and knomes living with gremlins inside the cabinet.
Thanks,
Right now i just need to fix the inop flipper and chase down a sicky switch somewhere "phantom" scoring. Then clean, clean , clean...and wax! Im planning on it being a player for awhile until I do the cosmetics.
Hopefully i wont need an MPU but you never know!
How's your SS coming along?
SS staus: Clean, clean, clean. Reseated all my connectors and everything works 83.6 % of the time (switches need a little TLC). Very happy the boards seem to be fully functional. All the lights are in working order now. Someone forgot to screw a row of lights back on to the board. Missing screws on the MPU causing speaker ground noice replaced. Backglass was cooked in that shed. Lots of cracking and bubbling but it will due for now. Over all worth it. The crew here is digg'n it. Out of space in the game room. Wifey says time to fix up the house now! (After a couple of games, bing, bing, ching, bing)
Bgresto.com can fix it. Of you ever hear from them. I am trying to get my doodle bug glass done haven't heard from them yet been a few weeks now
Quoted from lordloss:How much did you pay for this? There is one in IA i'm eyeing, but he wants $500 and it doesn't work.
I seen that too..not worth 500. the boards didn't look very good either.
Looks much more like dirt/mold than corrosion.
Corrosion starts as greying or dulling of the shiny solder then progresses to green fuzz.
If it was stored in a barn, I would bet anything that dirt from a mud wasp's nest. I had a game that had them on the boards and in the backbox.
Cleaned all of it off the board, hopfully its gtg. I have parts on the way. Left flipper coil bad...no continuity. New standups...etc. I'll post some pics of my progress.
SpitFire, looks like you opened up the Firepower coral around here. I've seen two more pop up on craigslist in the last couple of days. Strange. Decided to make a translite to replace the Space Shuttle backglass. Here's a SS backglass prototype, work in progress. Thoughts?
I know glut of Firepowers in Phoenix now! Mine is not as nice as the ones up now, but parts on the way! BG looks good! Have you checked out Ed Chueng's Site? He did a nice repro.
When will the glut of Space Shuttle's pop up!?!
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