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I'd never played JP before so I didn't notice the T-rex not working.
The left slingshot plastic on hook was hanging off. I wanted to get the Novus 2 out of my car and take the glass off but it actually didn't play half bad.
Was really surprised at the amount of arcade games at the Hook location, it's like an arcade with washing machines! Although I don't think I'd be visiting either places after dark anytime soon.
Hopefully my $3-$5 contribution helped a little. If my main office was near there I'd be playing them on my lunch hour but I'd have to help you clean them up first. Let me know if you ever want to sell that Hook.
C'mon Crash, I gotta start my pirate theme and GG wants too much for the Black Rose! I mean look at my wishlist! I'll trade you my working Mystic for it...
Haven't been to GG in a few weeks. Was thinking about going to that "museum" monthly thing they had back on Oct 29th but I didn't get around to it. Might try and swing by the regular arcade this weekend sometime.
Going to Knoxville this weekend to the UT/Vandy game. Leaving Friday around noon so I'm out guys. Would love to meet up with you guys at some point but also note, I'm a banker, so I keep banker's hours...
That Louisville expo sounds great. I can see a second SS right beside my first...
Let me know how GG is looking and what games they have up and running. I got a line on a cocktail arcade cabinet I may be picking up in Knoxville..
Sorry I couldn't make it. It's too nice outside today. I'll probably end up there sometime tomorrow as it's supposed to rain all day.
Saw that Dave & Busters opened back up in Opryland Mall last week.. anyone know if they have any pins? Nothing listed on the website.
Well I haven't played your IJ yet, so at least I have that to look forward to today. It is still there, right? I guess I'll find out in a few hours.
Quoted from DreamTR:No way LOTR is coming in there ever... = P
So when is your LOTR open house?
Is this what you're looking for? A .01uF 100v ceramic capacitor? Part # 125-5029-00 on the I/O Power Driver Board?
If so, great plains elec has them for 10 cents.
Product ID: CCA-0.01uF-100V
Capacitor, Ceramic Axial, 0.01uF, 100V
Discounts Apply !
20% Discount for purchase of 10 or more
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Capacitor, 0.01uF, 100V, Axial Ceramic
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And the Hickory Hollow mall falls farther into despair..
First Sears, Kmart closings revealed
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/florida-hit-hardest-sears-store-220653249.html
— Tennessee (4): Sears in Antioch, Cleveland, Oak Ridge;
Haven't heard anything about Mike although I saw him a few weeks back. Hope he's okay, bike wrecks can be nasty.
I will say that if there was a bar/restaurant in town with a pinball machine, (ANY pinball machine) I would convince my wife to go out to eat there whenever we went out to eat.
I realize this is a much more expensive endeavour than we're talking about here, but making a point that I don't believe there's one place in Nashville I can go have a beer, a bite to eat, and a round of silverball (other than my game room).
Whitewater played great today. So did everything else, wasn't quite expecting the INSANELY large crowd of people for the video game tournament you were having though.. wow.
I have one bit of advice and I hope you take it constructively. You need a new change machine. The one you have takes 1s and 5s and most of the time it rejects the 5s. I walk in with a $20 bill, and seven 1s. I get $7 changed and play for a while. Go to get some change from the attendant, "nah, you need to go to the food court" Okay, so I go to the food court and buy a cookie and get three 5s and three 1s. I change the three 1s. The machine won't take the 5s after repeated attempts. You lose $15. I go home.
I bet we were playing right beside each other crash and never knew it. I was the guy with the little kid and the Rogue Ale ballcap.
Quoted from Crash:Did you play Guns N' Roses and get multiball? I saw that kid watching.
Yep, that was me. Was doing pretty well that game. If you were playing fishtales, then I think you were also playing Elvira next to me when I was on Whitewater? Freaky that we were standing right next to each other and never knew it. Well, nice to have sort of met you today.
I wish it just took 20s and I'd just bring two 20s and know I was good to go. As it stands now, I just may be that guy with a bag of quarters next time though, apparently he's got the right idea.
Quoted from Crash:By the way did you also see my friend and I playing some 2 player pinball?
Nope, the only people I really remember playing were you and an older gentleman who was by himself on the IJ for a while.
I wanna hear what was at the Kingsport auction and what they went for.. always nice knowing what I missed out on.
That's okay, not a huge deal and you guys were super busy, which is always nice to see, even if it's not for pinball.
I saw your post on Facebook about the guy wanting to punch you.. I don't understand some people.
Did you end up going to the Kingsport auction? If so, how did that Black Rose look? Just curious what I missed, someone else already posted the hammer prices. Thanks!
p.s. I vote for Freddy since I've never played it.
The Space Shuttle and Baywatch are mine.
Keep in mind those are the CL prices, not the pinside prices. I gotta keep the tire-kickers and riff-raff at bay.
I like the Dr. Who. Played great today. Took about 2 balls to figure out how to start multiball. I always end up gravitating back to the GnR for some reason though..
If I show up with a 20, I'm the guy who wants it all changed (and maybe more) and it all goes into the machines.
Although lately, I try to get change beforehand so I have more time playing the machines than playing the new changer game you have. Although I always win with the changer game, and the game times are great.. 4 quarters every time (or my dollar back).
Quoted from Storyteller:If you need $20 in quarters, just ask. I wish I could read minds.
As long as you don't tell me to go to the food court.
Look man, we're your customers, and we're just trying to give you some feedback. Take it positively. We're not bashing your business (or place of work), we're just giving our insight into how you could improve through our experiences (and increase your own revenue) at your establishment.
I'm not the jerk who wants his 50 cents back.
Quoted from DreamTR:Nope, no museum this month
argh and my wife is out of town this weekend. Was hoping to take the kid up for the first trip to the museum.. oh well, maybe we'll go to your "regular" arcade instead.
Awesome.
I might be heading up to Louisville this weekend to that expo and may have to back out on you guys. Nothing firm yet, still a maybe.
Come over to my place on Sunday and buy my Baywatch Crash, then we'll go to GG and I won't have to drive up to Louisville.
Nice meeting you as well.
No Fear may be in the house before the week is out.. had to do some "research" on it today. Jason, you may have to empty the coinbox on that one.
And apparently I have the pleasure of being the cursed Dr. Who player this time. First game no less. Oh well. Sometimes these things are temperamental. Hopefully the flipper just needs to be tightened down to stop the upward creep.
Edit: Forgot the minor punch list: GnR left slingshot switches need adjusting, it fires 4-5 times when there's too much vibration anywhere in the game.
Other than that (and Dr. Who obviously) everything worked perfectly.
Other than a cleaning, new rubbers, LEDs, plated ramps.. not that much work really. Of course, maybe I'm comparing it to my other projects, which have all been much more involved.
Aww bring the Baywatch in the tourney. I need an unfair advantage over Williams. He's better than me. I think I can take him on this mysterious Baywatch game you speak of.
Quoted from williams:He's going to throw us all for a loop and put Bad Cats in the tournament
That may be the one game there I've never played...
I think Williams said there used to be an SM at toots in the boro and that's what I was hoping to find today. Op must switch em out to keep it fresh. I like me some POTC though so it was still a pleasant surprise.
I haven't played a RBION yet and I'm actually going to be in Lebanon for a few days this week for work. I'll probably end up there at some point.
It was having some coin mech issues when we were there too but with some perseverance we got 1 game in.
Sweet Pam. I wouldn't worry too much, I spend more time fixing and restoring than playing. My skills are limited and I'm not scared to admit it. That said, I do know the ins and out, but can I execute?
The right flipper on the one in that video is weak. All three of his initial tower shots rolled back. Much easier to get in the tower to light up the Mitch lane in my old one, which is important to get early because.. ah crap.. I've revealed too much.
Got to play my old Baywatch today... just a heads up. Early practice session. See you guys Saturday.
Have no fear, it's not the No Fear from GG. (see what I did there?)
But I did pick this one up last night to feed my addiction.
Quoted from Erik:I think we're fortunate "ROB" and "JEW" weren't in the tournament
Rob was, he was in my group. JEW is Jason. I only know because their initials and scores still plague my No Fear game and taunt me.
And some gas money for the trip is always nice! Thanks for making the trip and thank for hosting this Jason.
The Avenue in Murfreesboro and the new shopping areas in Smyrna on Sam Ridley have also taken away a lot of business from the Antioch area in the past few years. Less people get shot in those two areas as well.
Jan
http://www.wtvf.com/story/16568382/one-person-shot-at-hickory-hollow-mall
Dec
http://www.wsmv.com/story/16079916/1-injured-in-shooting-at-hickory-hollow-mall
Nov
http://www.wkrn.com/story/16080264/barber-shot-outside-hickory-hollow-mall
Better question, how come my iphone Craigslist app didn't notify me.. I need a new app, this one sucks. The one I used to have on my Android was instantaneous, this is hit or miss at best. Once I manually updated it after I saw this post, yep, there it is, posted 6 hours ago.. *sigh*.
This is like the third pin in 2 months I've been late to the party on.
Anyone have any suggestions?
Quoted from diskoboy:Actually, I just realized that Jason posted the CL ad I was referring to. I didn't notice the date on the pics until a few minutes ago. If it is legit, I'm willing to bet he used pics from when he bought the machine. It's probably got some wear on it now
I talked to him for a good 5-10 minutes. He sounded pretty legit. He was blown away by the amount of phone calls he got. Then he said his wife had made a mistake when she posted it and he actually meant to list it for $550.. ha. Said he had people call him from all over but he was holding it for a guy who jumped in his car and started driving "a few hours ago."
Quoted from williams:but Angelos Pizza is right down the street
this I need to check out...
Make sure the shooter on Baywatch is striking the ball dead center. It started hitting it off to the left when i had it which reduces the velocity and puts a spin on the ball not allowing it to make it all the way up the first wireform. You can just unscrew it and adjust it to center when you rescrew.
Switch on the vuk probably just needs adjustment.
Credit dot on my no fear is finally gone after some connector corrections.
Was at Dave and busters this weekend. No pins. Lots of shooters and drivers and ticket games and that's it.
So yesterday Williams and I ended up spending all of 50 cents each, playing for 30 minutes and walking away with 3 credits on POTC (sorry.. 2006 Stern PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN ) at Toots. And now we know why other places have their games set a little harder.. the replay settings were just set way too low.
Toots in Murfreesboro. And yeah, it seems slowwwwww after playing no fear at the house.
I'm still on the fence about Kingsport. Hoping someone goes Friday night and sends me a for sale list. Hate to drive all the way there and have a crap selection.
The lethal weapon in kingsport yesterday went for more than I'd pay. I did pick up a project though. No pic til Monday or Tuesday though.
Good time. I flailed on Baywatch but at least I got the highest on no fear. I like the LEDs in Addams family, I can see what's going on. Look good in Pinbot too.
I have that fuse and a bunch of sleeves if you want to swing by. 3/8 amp sb, right? The bone busters will be covered. You can't see it until its done.
Shadow or twilight zone
I'm usually working out in the garage until 10:30 or 11. Swing on by. Or you can invite me over to play that attack from mars and lord of the rings!
It's not. Gone. So is the roller coaster tycoon at chuck e cheese in the mall. Only pin in Murfreesboro that I know of is pirates at toots.
Ha. I surf from the phone mostly. I'll be sure to update next time I'm on a big computer. That CEC used to have a roller coaster tycoon. As of last week, gone.
Not sure what it said. Didn't read it. Looks like I can add/remove pins at locations others have created though.
No problem. Wish it was still there. I hit up that radio shack at lunch usually once a month or so and always hope it's made a reappearance.. I'll let you know if it does.
Is that guns and roses left sling still machine-gunning? Put that on the punch list (adjust switch).
I'll take whatever you need work on. I'm in a parts holding pattern on bone busters. Got the final connector yesterday but it was too short by an inch so I had to ship it back. Waiting waiting...
Wow this sucks.
There's tons of new retail space in Smyrna but its all on Sam Ridley and would likely rent for some serious coin. I'd imagine any good spot in Franklin would be similar.
Oh and you can probably dump two in my garage later this month if you help me move bone busters inside. Might even clean em up a little bit if I get bored.
Crash if you stop by Jason's sometime drop me a line, I'm literally a 2 minute walk down the street.
Pick up the phone and call ole Jeff. I can't imagine they're overflowing with applications since The Avenue opened up.
Didn't think about college locations, unfortnately I don't know much about vandy or MTSU campuses but I'd think there'd be a lot of foot traffic at a location like that, not so much in the summer though. Lots of young bored kids though.
Ahhh.. Ground Kontrol. That place was sweet. I like how the entire upstairs is all pins. Awesome downtown location with beer. Of course that's Portland, where pins grow on trees. There's one in nearly every retail establishment, I even saw one in a doc marteens retail store. Crazy.
We'll just have to change it to the Nashiville/Huntsville thread. It's only 90 mins from my house! When's the first tourney?
Awesome news about the possible new location.
Williams - you know I'm picking No Fear if I have the option.. it's just a given.
On a side note, may be bringing my kid, so you'd best get your skills up so you don't get shown up by a 6 year old.. he ain't half bad. He was doing alright on Jason's AFM yesterday, which he has told me has to be my next purchase... he's got good taste but I don't see it happening.
See you guys Saturday.
I'll bring some diodes, think i have a roll of 100 in the garage. That Harley game played pretty well today.
There's always retro LEDs... I've used them on some older late 70s games and they look great and aren't too overpowering.
Not much. Be all back together by tomorrow night. Still need to replace some coil sleeves and clean the inside.
They didn't need it. Just new coil sleeves.
Adjusted the drop target, fixed the random multiball issue, new Posts, rubbers, foam standup target backers, LEDs, new start button, replaced some of the hardware I couldn't shine up or was mismatched. Lots of mothers polish, wax and novus.
Earthshaker pop bumpers and shaker motor work again. Part of the wiring harness was starting to wrap around the shaker motor in the cabinet. Which I think was yanking some things around causing it to short the 5a fuse which control the 25v special solenoids. I just added another wire clamp to keep it away from the motor and replaced the fuse.
The coil that seems to fire a lot is (was) the drop target solenoid. I took it apart last night and cleaned it and reassembled. now it resets just fine and doesn't continually fire but at least one of the optos isn't registering when it's down so it only resets after each ball or end of game.
I'm going to look at it again today as it was late when I got it reassembled last night. Optos are cheap though ($3 each).
Im thinking warm whites and retro LEDs on this one. The cool white just doesn't look right.
Agreed -- T2 sneeze-guard: Absolutely necessary. 868dbf2589e1127c26fd6b75da2064c4.jpg
Just started on it last night. Drop targets work now. I think it's at 100%. I haven't cleaned anything other than the subway yet. I like to get the issues worked out before tear down.
Look like cointaker supers. The times I've used them in GI I've just used a pair of needle nose pliers to install them. Usually there's a square part on top that's slightly raised that you can get a grip on.
The pcb comment was towards crash and his question about installing resistors.
I have an angled ratched screwdriver I use. 2.99 at home depot. Worked on t2. It looks like a mini ratchet with interchangeable screwdriver bits.
Quoted from diskoboy:You know they sell Novus at the Container Store at Green Hills.
I was absolutely shocked to find a local place that carried it.
I did not know that. Easier to have it delivered to my door though since I order parts so often. I don't get to green hills much.
Top flipper rebuilt and STRONG. LEDs are all in except GI. Going to finish the other two flipper rebuilds, replace all the coil sleeves, get the center flasher working, finish cleaning the underside and THEN we start the play field teardown.
Yeah it's done but I just realized it has the wrong legs on it. 30.5 instead of 27s. Other than that she's done.
For twice the price I want an r2d2 hologram to pop out or something...
Thanks for the extra muscle.. The bonebusters is definitely playing faster with the 27s on the front. I like it.
don't want to double post but here's the status of earthshaker.. finally got some relief from the heat so I could work on it tonight.. damn it's been hot..
She's getting there. Still have the upper play field and ramps to work on before she's finished but it is coming along nicely.
If it was mine, I'd get new plastics, ramps, play field touch up, clearcoat, institute proto mod. As its going back out on location, I think she's happy the way she is.
Yeah pretty sure it starts a tourney mode. There are quite a few options on how you can play. 2 teams of 3. 3 teams of two, etc
Great news on the opening. Guess I need to finish up earthshaker now that I'm back from
the beach.
Crash, I always had it on free play and it gave the option to "buy-in" after the last ball. You just hit the button and it starts another ball. Just like no fear.
All done except some minor issues:
Yellow pop bumper light no lighty
Red pop bumper needs to be adjusted
Blue rubber square at the top metal wireform needs replaced
Sun flasher still doesn't work
Upper GI is blowing a fuse I need to track down the short
"30" light is intermittent due to an under pf board connector
Need to wax it and put the glass on
You cant have all our Nashville games Porkchop!
Hey congrats on getting an arcade down there though, I'll miss the black rose...
I'd take em both. Never had an EM. Good project. At this point I bet they're spoken for. No reply, no call.
Twilight zone confuses me. I'm never quite sure what I'm supposed to be doing.
Welcome to the forum!
Quoted from DreamTR:Now the games that will be running at the arcade for the pinball free play:
Dr. Who
Terminator 2 (Just shopped)
Earthshaker (Just shopped)
Fish Tales (not the same one as before, LEDs and plays better)
Rollergames (not the same one as before)
Whirlwind (coming soon after shopout)
Elvira and the Party Monsters (coming soon after shopout)
Dracula
Baywatch (we have the board for repair, just need to test the ohms for coils and VUK coil)
Sopranos
Creature from the Black Lagoon
Phantom of the Opera
Back to the Future
X-files
Twilight Zone (coming in around August 17, I let Rob borrow it)
Radical (left flipper fixed courtesy of Erik)
White Water
Black Knight 2000
Guns n Roses
No Fear
Pinball Magic
Tron
We'll open as soon as we can, I'll keep everyone posted.
Ramps are all done. Waiting on parts before I tear apart the rest. Posts, hardware, cliffys, target decals, flipper rebuild, header pins, connectors... Etc
About $60. I took my basic plans from Ed cheungs site. But if I build another I like this setup a little better.
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ItltozdQcGE/TIFPi_lU-WI/AAAAAAAAApY/sxwtQUXeqNo/s1600/DSC03134.JPG
Same basic spinning hardware using plumbing unions and floor flanges but the tabletop setup using two wood A frames is a little different. Would save me some space.
The tap/die so you can use the faucet like locking mechanism is highly recommended. So much easier to lock and unlock. But a bit more work.
Nice work crash.
Yeah I've seen the black pipe design. It just doesn't look that stable to me. I think there's a recent thread where someone added some additional supports to it. But then you're getting up there in parts and defeating the purpose I'd think.
Here's one for you crash as I didn't have time to get back to earth shaker again after I thought I had it fixed but it wasn't.
When I got there it was only providing low power from the coil because the eos was open at rest. Gapped it properly and now it has high power but ONLY high power as its getting hot. The eos does open at full extension.
My next step was going to be to gap it always open again to see if I could get it back to only low power to make sure the hold wire didnt coincidentally break right after i gapped it (unlikely) and go from there but as I said, I had to leave.
The copter is just a wall wort that plugs into the aux outlet.
There's most likely a play field short somewhere. Some high power touching a switch.
I think it was looked over but nothing was found amiss and it was assumed it was a board issue to begin with.
Some repair notes:
That whitewater just keeps having issues. When I was there the left flipper pawl bolt had come out entirely and the dmd was showing garbled junk. Put the pawl bolt back in and reseated the display cables and fixed both of those issues. Now this ball trough issue.
Earthshaker left upper flipper works but never switches over to low power which makes me think maybe the wires going to the eos are touching causing it to never lose connectivity.
Tron is blowing f8. Put f8 back in. Open coin door. Turn on game. Go to coil test and cycle through them until it blows again. That should let you know which coil is shorting and narrow it down.
You're solo crash. I won't be there Saturday. . Probably Sunday. So get EM all fixed so I can just play! Ha
So all fixed but whitewater? Awesome. Glad you liked bone busters. You should have seen it when I first got it.
I didn't even notice the bumper skirt on bone busters but looking back at the pix I have I think it may be that way by design so you can shoot that left orbit up to the captive ball?
Need to bend that green 44 lock insert light back on earthshaker. I moved it out of the way when I was fiddling with the eos switch last week. Flipper works though! I did notice the fault wasn't staying open though.
Quoted from diskoboy:Earthshaker looks and plays amazing now. Mystic did a great job shopping it out. Most people aren't very fond of LED's. I haven't found one System 11 game that doesn't look amazing with them.
Thanks! I tried those warm whites to keep a little of the old school feel to it, a bit more on the yellow side than the cool whites.
Hopefully Elvira is all back together in a week or two. Down to rivets and electrical. Had to fabricate the small metal L brackets that hold on the new ramp entrance platics. Rivet and crimp, crimp and rivet. Whirlwind is still a ways out but I have fixed the annoying fan noise already.
Quoted from DreamTR:That is actually a start; him selling anything....
He did say "considering". Ha!
All those switches are controlled in the switch matrix except the test button and slam tilt. Sounds like a switch matrix issue.
From Pinrepair on Gottlieb Sys3:
In one game I worked on, the coin switches, start button, front door, and tournament buttons did not work. These are all in strobe0 (row0) of the switch matrix. The driver board Q33 mosFet tested fine too. This was a 400 color (yellow,black,black) wire. Even though it only services switches in the front door area of the game, the y/bk/bk wire went to the playfield. This is because the wire then goes to 8 lamps in the lamp matrix, all using strobe0. Now the wire daisy chains from the lamps to a small 2"x2" circuit board mounted under the playfield. This board contains all the 1N4148 (or 1N914) diodes for the switches. And the strobe0 line goes through a 220 ohm resistor mounted on this board. Finally the wire changes color (to grn/grn/grn for strobe0 in this example), and then goes out of the playfield, and to the coin door area (in this case).
The reason why none of the eight Strobe0 switches worked was because the small 1/4 watt 220 ohm switch matrix resistor mounted on the small 2"x2" diode board had burned up. Replacing the resistor fixed the switch matrix problem, and the game worked
Much better. For the longest time I pictured you as an older black man. You couldn't be farther from that.
Who's showing up tonight? What time does this start, 6? 7? I looked back a page or two but couldn't find it.
I played it once and was sad I got an extra ball on ball 3 because it meant I had to endure 1 more ball. But I can say I played it now.
Have rob or Brandon look at the right pop bumper on tron before you replace that transistor for any loose or touching wires. Q10 controls the right pop.
Quoted from DreamTR:Why does it sound like this game is going to not be fixed just by getting Q10 working? lol
It may, but there very well could be a shorted wire on or around that coil that initially caused Q10 to short, which in turn blows F8.. big chain of events. Of course, maybe Q10 just went out on it's own but always best to check first before you blow another transistor.
What you could do is remove Q10 from the board, put a good F8 fuse back in, remove J10 connector (near the bottom) and see if it still blows F8 (in which case you've got other transistors or problems with the board). If it doesn't, turn it off, plug in J10, turn it back on again. Now does it blow? If it does, you've got something ELSE shorted on the playfield somewhere as your transistor and connector to Q10 is totally removed from the mix at this point.
Regardless of what you do and even if you do nothing but replace the transistor, when you replace Q10, unplug J10 connector before you power it on the first time. If the fuse still blows you know you have another board issue. If it doesn't blow and then when you plug J10 back in again it blows, then you still have a short on the playfield somewhere.
Are you confused yet?
Let's just hope replacing Q10 produces unicorns and rainbows and we're all playing Tron again by next week.
Quoted from DreamTR:Jamie has one of those he is trying to sell...Nicest junkyard I have ever seen. Chromed out madness. Looks better than new.
And as of about an hour ago it has color matched LEDs in all the inserts. Along with the shadow and MM. lots of chrome in that room!
R102,103,104 are resistors for Q77 and R108,109,110 are for Q79. Q79 isnt used. Q77 is the lower pop bumper.
2.7k 1/4 watts for 102 & 108
560 1/4 watts for 103 & 109
68 1/2 watts for 104 & 110
sorry.. I get caught up in reading schematics.. <---dork
Funhouse playfield to keep me busy while I wait for Elvira parts in the mail next week..
http://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/little-funhouse-playfield-project
Space shuttles always have playfield wear but I really like that game and owned it for a few months. That said, 800 for one with wear seems high to me. I could see a minty space shuttle with a new playfield going for 1200-1300. Repro playfield is 600. 1200-600=600-100 for various other crap in sure is wrong with it and maybe I'd give 500... Maybe.
If q10 and the coil is all that's wrong you could replace q10, desolder a lug of the coil and get it going without that lower pop.
Earthshaker also has an annoying ball hop off the left lane guide to the flipper (easily fixed), the "10' insert light is out (it's that connector to the light board or the light board itself, it's finicky), the socket to the one of the green arrows near the upper left flipper needs to be adjusted so it shines on the insert, and of course the fault.
The fault opens and closes but doesn't stay open. Thinking we should also look at that fault open switch (#43) to make sure it's closing when the coil fires.
There's our earthshaker punch list for Tuesday diskoboy! I'll bring a sack of tools. I have an angled screwdriver.
I'm going to have to hold onto Elvira and whirlwind for a month to "play test" so this doesn't happen again. Hey, T2 works great!
There are still a lot of holes (generally the exact picture or section I'm looking for), but it's getting better and has some good info.
Quoted from MWC:THIS. I would love to learn how to repair my Black Hole. Right now it has a couple of slingshot kickers that need tweaking. Soldering 101 is probably really where I need to start.
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
Quoted from Crash:Is that skull lock plastic chipped?
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.
Quoted from Erik:any of you guys ever try flame polishing?
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.
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
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.
I didn't pull the play field out on earthshaker. Everything was done in cabinet using an angled screwdriver.
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.
Quoted from DreamTR:I thought there was an Attack from Mars in Crossville, but that's not Cookeville.
I seem to remember somebody telling me that as well. No idea where though.
Elvira is done. Back to the arcade tomorrow. Another project sliding in front of whirlwind, sorry guys.
I was joking. I wouldn't have that machine in my garage. No offense. . If you're dying of curiosity look at the latest post on my blog crash, you have the address.
The fault works though, the wireform is just hanging the ball up because it's not constrained by the screw. Did you try putting a nut on the underside to hold the machine screw?
certainly hacked.. here's a pic of the day I got it.
http://pinballrestore.wordpress.com/1989-williams-earthshaker/#jp-carousel-224
definitely a screw there that shouldn't be..
The Y-latch they're talking about in this post is UNDER the playfield and latches when the fault fully opens (near the coil). We tested that when we were there and it was catching correctly. Obviously the extra screw is weird but I still think a nut/machine screw to hold the wireform still could fix the ball getting caught up, the ramp just needs to be far enough to the right so that the ball doesnt get stuck between that screw and the wireform.
http://rgparchive-removed.com/rgpforum/showthread.php?p=982383
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