Soldering is my favorite part of repairing. It's not as hard to learn as you may think.

Basically, if you want to lear how to solder, just buy a few bread boxes at Radio Shack and practice your skills on them before you start working on your machine.

Just practice soldering and desoldering wires or capacitors into place. Then move up gradually, the more you get comfortable with your skills. Desoldering actually takes a bit more skill than soldering. But if you have a solder sucker vaccum or pump, it takes almost all the effort out of it.

Just giving you guys a heads up, no Rob today, so bring all your tools if you want to see stuff working tomorrow =P FREE GAMES ON XMEN MONSTER and TWILIGHT FOR THOSE WHO DO

You must get a switch adjustment tool. That and a fuse puller should be mandatory with any first pin purchase.

http://www.pinballlife.com/index.php?p=product&id=425
http://www.pinballlife.com/index.php?p=product&id=1518

love some deep fried oreos..

Elvira just about done... waiting on that PCB for the ramp entrance plastic, put it back in the cabinet, couple little extras I'm working on still.. then lots of playtesting this time! No burning flippers or non-functioning faults!

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any of you guys ever try flame polishing?

Way to concentrate on the negative. it's got a small crack on the right post hole but you probably can't see it in that picture. But yes, it appears the teeth have fallen off, but since they're ALL gone unless you knew they were supposed to be there you wouldn't notice.

I bought a torch but haven't tried it yet. So far the ramps I've worked on have cleaned up really well with a little novus.

That settles it, I'm not playing this slop!

Busch league!!!

Crash, find me a replacement and we'll put her in there:

Marco: out of stock
Mad amusements: out of stock
Some company in Australia: out of stock
eBay: nothing

This reminded me of your meme

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btw the massive yellow post sleeve on T2 kept wanting to creep up off the post when I played it. Not sure if you can figure a way to keep it still

Ok updates:

White Water Outhole Coil Replaced, still not working. Transistors and Diodes from pin 1 on J130 test fine so...uh...I need help.

Tron works, yay!

Monster Bash will be the replacement for White Water this evening.

Dr. Who needs a right flipper coil. I need coils if anyone wants to bring parts for me to purchase =P

WHite Water works now but we're still doing Monster Bash, Dr. who works now. everything works!

Awesome! Someone got on it today! Disko and I can concentrate on earthshaker, unless you fixed that too..

No idea.

But the earthshaker ball hop on the left flipper and the fault is fixed. But it needs a screw and nut to hold the wireform down.

Wasn't the coil, we replaced that anyway....(White Water) but it looks like after checking everything on the board and putting it back in the cabinet the game is fine, but one of the fuses keeps blowing affecting the entire GI lamps on the playfield.....

Congrats to Jamie for winning this week again...

Right now Jamie is in the first and Aaron (Williams) and Rob (Ooze) are tied for 2nd both are 10 points behind.

Mystic, I'm beginning to think that Earthshaker needs to be put on a rotisserie again so we can get a good look at the entire fault mechanism.

I've been looking at all the pictures I could find of the fault, and that locking screw I had looks like the one that goes into that wireform. I don't understand why it's not staying in there for the life of me. Maybe either the screw threads are stripped, or that little slot it goes in is.

I didn't pull the play field out on earthshaker. Everything was done in cabinet using an angled screwdriver.

Jamie is playing really well and it's going to take him spraining an index finger to lose next week. I think he took over first place on WH20 last night on his first ball.

3 games for sale now, Guns N Roses, Bugs Bunny, and MLB Slugfest (Williams has first rights refusal, waiting on him)

Going to have get Bugs on ebay soon me thinks

Do we have a breakdown on all the machines we've played so far? I'm curious as to see the rankings on all the games.

She's alive! Back in the cabinet. Everything works, I'd say better than before. Have a few minor aesthetic things I need to take care of and she'll be done. Probably back at the GG by this weekend. Oh, and yes, the skull plastic is still cracked.

And I'm still waiting on a lamp PCB for the monster slide plastic, hopefully here tomorrow. So...

Lamp PCB
Adjust the flippers a little
New custom instruction card
Wax
One more slight mod.. and she's done. And then on to Whirlwind.

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Are you talking about the league? I'll have a final standings with the overall placers in each game after next week's league.

The new league is probably going to be on a Saturday evening...I'll figure out the games soon as well.

That Elvira looks WAYYYYYYYY nicer, holy wowowowo

Super nice work on that Elvira. Looking forward to playing it again.

Just an unsolicited opinion, but is there any consideration to having the next league on a weekend afternoon? Not sure how this would interfere with regular business, and like you said in an earlier post there's always going to be a conflict with somebody. Just thinking that might be a little easier on some of the weekend warriors or out of towners like myself.

The league has been a blast though. If you didn't make it out to this one it's well worth it to try for the next one.

I hope to join the next one if it's on a night I'm free and if we can find Jeff Gillooly to take care of Jamie's fingers!

Hey Crash, I can start bringing a game a week up for you to "have fun" with once the tourneys move to Sat.

crash: Some are direct feed some are camera shot but we'll be using converters that change HDMI to Component so we can split from some ASUS monitors.

Williams: I want to have the tourney when the "sun" is not out =P evenings just seem to work better.....

I agree. Most of us are usually there playing pinball on weekends anyway. We might be able to get more people for the next one if we don't have them scheduled for on a work/school night.

And Jason, I emailed the guy about the Cyclone and Hurricane, and I'm waiting to hear back from him. I asked him to send me some pictures of the playfields on both machines. The Hurricane will probably be in better shape, since I think it's a Diamond Plated playfield. Thought my main concern is the ramps on Cyclone.

crash: Some are direct feed some are camera shot but we'll be using converters that change HDMI to Component so we can split from some ASUS monitors.

Williams: I want to have the tourney when the "sun" is not out =P evenings just seem to work better.....

So what you're saying is I need to open up another arcade in Nashville to get free labor on my games? No problem.

Well the only thing still left at the arcade is the "screw" for Earthshaker whoever wants to tackle that....

Were there any pictures taken of the old Game Galaxy at the mall after everything was moved out? I imagine the space looked pretty big sitting empty. What happened to the neon?

Some of the neon is still there...some was taken..

we have old pics of the location on the website and a whole youtube walkthrough from awhile ago

Still haven't heard from the guy selling the Cyclone and Hurricane. And now a Sorcerer machine pops up on Knoxville Craigslist, even though it looks fairly dirty and the owner did set an asking price.

knoxville.craigslist.org link

It's still a somewhat rare machine.

This is pinball related - promise.

I just saw the latest music video for one of my favorite bands, Glossary. They're local - from Murfreesboro. Lots of pinballs in this one and a great song.

Also, finally got the top side of SW put back together. Was pretty happy with myself. I left out one important detail.

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I see you installed the new loose rubber ring challenge mod. Nice.

New hours for Game Galaxy as of today:

Fri/sat Noon-8pm
Sunday/Monday Noon-6pm
Tuesday Noon-10pm
Wed/Thurs-CLOSED

Also, the NEW pinball league starts Sunday September 9 at 4pm. Richard will update Facebook and the website with the new games....

Let's see if the same guys come and some new faces now that we are changing it to Sunday...