So I previously had my nonfunctional RFM months back. I got it working and passed it to a fellow pinsider who REALLY wanted it. I never even had a chance to really play it.
So fast forward and this one came up (from a fellow pinsider) as a project. He was really good to deal with...held it for months until I could scrape everything together.

I already picked up a new monitor chassis for it and a NOS sheet of glass, so I just needed the game.

And NAVL picked up on Monday and, amazingly, it showed up today!

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2014-05-15 13.51.58.jpgYep, it's a RFM!

And rain clouds were brewing. And all by myself I knew there is no chance I'd be able to move this inside myself....

Did I mention how much I love Pin2k for some things? Head off, playfield out, moved it up my front steps, inside, and down into the basement myself. Man I'm beat!

Now it's just going to sit parked until I get Creature done. Then I need to figure out what's wrong with this and bring it back to life!

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Yep, this one was his most "project-y" one which is about my speed! Playfield looks pretty decent, just needs a cliffy. Monitor is questionable as well as CPU. But if both are cheap and easy fixes I may go and do decals on this and make it a nice one.

Can't wait to actually spend some time on this...it was a good deal for all and Pete was great to deal with!

Nah, I think you're safe there

The ramp flap usually needs to be replaced, and the scoop normally gets wear which you can cover with a cliffy.
Beyond that...were the ramps actually worn or dirty? There is definitely a difference. The wear on the playfield around the targets (if I read that correctly) is something that I haven't seen before though.

My own opinion is that there is no way anyone can represent a pin as being 9 or 9.5 if it's that filthy since they can never know what condition it is in and obviously they don't maintain it themselves.

Time for some action in this thread...

So game came to me as a nonworking project.

I scrounged a new monitor chassis for it (since it didn't have one) and was hoping to save the monitor, even though it was nonworking.

Using my patented radio shack alligator clips and jumper cables to patch the grounds back together...

I managed to almost kill myself the first time I powered it on since, genius me, managed to forget to put the flyback into the monitor. So powered on, the flyback started sparking and jumping around.

But once my heart got back to beating, plugged it in the right way and we had life on the monitor!

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The speaker connections were snipped, so I had to put them back together. I was going to just solder them back, but figured I'd do them nicey-nicey and put on some nice .93 connectors and they plugged in snug as a bug in a rug...

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NOS sheet of glass...check!

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My next challenge was that the game itself wasn't booting up.
I had another thread on this. Was driving me nuts. Weird voltage readings, switch matrix issues...
And the game was not verified to work aside from the prisim card, so I didn't know what I was dealing with.

Got some power to the board, but nothing else. Checked diodes, fuses, went through everything I could imagine.

Was preparing to send it to Rob...

Took it and gave it a good cleaning and stuff. Still nothing....

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I had previously installed a new CPU fan and power supply, but figured it was also time to replace the CMOS battery since I know the one in there was years past its prime. So popped it in and, well...

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2014-06-15 10.41.09.jpgSo I'm going to start on the playfield, but just wanted to share this lovely collection of flipper bats...

Yep...and now comes the fun part...mad parts ordering. Then I am going to decal the cabinet and make this one nicey nicey.

Funny, my daughter always is helping me with games and she came downstairs yesterday, looked at it, looked at me and said "Dad, I don't know if you can save this"

This is the first time I really had to work on a Pin2k machine. These guys were thrilled to get some love!

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Really digging working on this. Unreal how much improved the maintenance is compared to other machines. I put in maybe an HOUR last night. And see where that got me!

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Almost nekkid playfield

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Yay...who loves blurry pics!

OK, here we are!

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Learning a bit...
I assumed (silly me) that once I converted the voltage jumpers over to 120, everything would be good.
But no...scary fluorescent ballast needed to be replaced. And new 120v starter too...

So found a correct one, installed it, just waiting on a few connectors so I can make it look pretty....

Oh, and here's a picture of my final repair on the snipped speaker wires...

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Almost everything out...time to think about doing some cleaning!

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One of these things is not like the other....

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Thought I was getting the playfield nice and clean until I pulled up one of the pop bumper skirts...

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Success....florescent working!

Also, note to self...bare fluorescent tube does not photograph well with cell phone.

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More love...cleaned up the inserts, gave the lamp holders a nice bath.

Got the topside of the playfield nice and clean. Going to take it outside this afternoon with the DA polisher and see if I can make it shine!

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Yeah. I actually had an unsolicited buyer approach me, so it looks like this one is already going to a new home. Makes me wonder if I should replace it with another one or finally shut up and get my AC/DC...

Yeah...but I'm pretty sure it's going to be an AC/DC. I want one, and even if I hate it, I need to at least own one for a little while to get it out of my system....

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Cleaning day...gorgeous day outside!

Playfield outside (LOVE the built-in stands!).
Here is my cleaning process as well.
And here is what it looked like after the first round.

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OK...so after treasure cove #2, two runs of swirl remover, and three coats of wax...
Man is just amazes me how well these playfields clean up. Not just clean, but the shine is just unreal...

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Ball guides...cleaned and back in their homes!

This is starting to look like a pin again....

Methinks this is the quick part...reassembly goes quickly! But I will have to prepare for the challenge of making this thing work...remember this was a nonfunctional project, so I don't know what ever worked on it!

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