Caveman
Gottlieb, 1982Can anyone tell me how the head is attached to a Gottlieb Caveman machine? I’m going to pick one up the weekend, and it’s too tall to fit in my Suburban with the head on. Is it just held on by bolts like most pinball machines of this era?
Quoted from uncivil_engineer:Can anyone tell me how the head is attached to a Gottlieb Caveman machine? I’m going to pick one up the weekend, and it’s too tall to fit in my Suburban with the head on. Is it just held on by bolts like most pinball machines of this era?
It’s just bolted on. Make sure you removed ALL the connectors. There a tricky one for the lights that is a bit annoying to get to and you can accidently yank it right off. Caveman is obscenely heavy and I hope to never have to move mine up or down stairs again.
That being said, it’s an awesome game that gets waaaay too much hate!!
684220F1-9F1A-4836-9183-4623203CAF3C.jpegAED30D13-7BA0-400B-8763-E231E11D7AE2.jpegBe careful with the backbox. It's top heavy and can topple forward when unbolting it. It's usually a good idea to have someone else hang on to it so that it doesn't go anywhere.
It's actually so top heavy that sometimes the wood seams in the bottom corners split.
And yes, this game is a pretty heavy one.
The Caveman and the Haunted House are truly back killers 
. In the Caveman there are several elements that weigh down the machine:the backbox, the monitor and the video block.
A trick to easily save a few pounds during transport is to remove the video block (provided you have tested the pinball before and be sure that it works before unplugging it). There are just three connectors to disconnect and the block is fixed by only 4 screws on the bottom of the case. It's quite easy and quick to disassemble, the weight of this "armored Gottlieb-style" block is far from negligible!
For the CRT video monitor, we still plan to replace it with a lighter VGA screen, but for the moment this project is postponed for lack of time.
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