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RFM: Light resto.

By Milton187

10 years ago


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#1 10 years ago

Here is a RFM a purchased from a router in my area.
CRT to LCD conversion.
A little powder coating.
A few coils.
All new stops, sleeves and springs.
Complete new bumpers. Went with red instead of black. Waiting on red translucent bodies.
All new switches for slings, flippers, bumpers, ball launch.
New flipper bushings, coils, springs, EOS switches, plungers, links.
New NOS plastic set.
All (original) hardware tumbled or powder coated. Including VUK up trough.
Ball launch side rail red enameled.
New green flippers with red gummis.
New "signed by the artist NOS translight" (Thanks Jens!)
All new cointaker super premiums throughout.
Stripped,Treasure Coved, Blitzed.
New "skip ramp".
New martians.

And more crap I can't think of!

Milton

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#2 10 years ago

First pic is where I found it on route!

Milty

#3 10 years ago

As we go along;

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#4 10 years ago

Looks awesome. I'm desperate searching for a couple plastics. If your old ones aren't broken, I could REALLY use them
I'm having uploading difficulties, but I have pic in the middle of this thread: http://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/fs-project-revenge-from-mars-1575-expo-delivery

#5 10 years ago

That piece was broken on my machine too! I did not have both pieces.
Pbr has a partial plastic set on the "special when lit" section. See if the piece is
in that.

<Milton

#6 10 years ago

I also updated the code from 1.0 to 1.6.
Love this machine!

Milton

#7 10 years ago

Looks nice. Working on one myself. Did you do LCD or LED?

#8 10 years ago
Quoted from grbgemen:

Looks nice. Working on one myself. Did you do LCD or LED?

My LCD was not led. An older Dell 4:3 aspect ratio. 2007 vintage but mint.
I don't even have the LCD tweaked. Looked great right at factory settings.

Milton

#9 10 years ago

Milton187:
did you use a 19" or 20" dell? I just picked up a Dell P190S (19") 4:3 panel to swap out my cathode ray ducksan along with the convertor and bracket kit from lockwhenlit.com

#10 10 years ago

I am also creating some custom blades depicting the Martian "war". They should be done next week as well.
I will try to flatten the raised inserts then too.

Milton

#11 10 years ago
Quoted from j_m_:

Milton187:
did you use a 19" or 20" dell? I just picked up a Dell P190S (19") 4:3 panel to swap out my cathode ray ducksan along with the convertor and bracket kit from lockwhenlit.com

I used a Dell UltraSharp 2007FPB 20" LCD Monitor. Used the "Great Lakes Mfg" bracket from Rob.
I cut the power connector off the Wells-Gardener and spliced it on the Dell cord so I use the original power cable.
I did have to router off an 1/8" of the cab to get it to fit perfect.

I have a copy of the "NuCore bootleg" software. But until my Prism card fails I will not infringe on their work!

Good luck!

Milton

#12 10 years ago

how is the alignment of the images on the playfield glass with the 20" panel compared to the original tube monitor?

the reason that I went with the 19" was that I figured that the original cathode ray was a 19" monitor so I'm hoping that everything projected onto the glass lines up pretty close

#13 10 years ago
Quoted from j_m_:

how is the alignment of the images on the playfield glass with the 20" panel compared to the original tube monitor?
the reason that I went with the 19" was that I figured that the original cathode ray was a 19" monitor so I'm hoping that everything projected onto the glass lines up pretty close

Lines up perfectly. I did not have to use the Dell's "picture shift" at all!

Milton

#14 10 years ago

hmm... that might mean that I will need to source a different monitor

#15 10 years ago
Quoted from j_m_:

hmm... that might mean that I will need to source a different monitor

I think a 19" will work just fine! Others have used them.

Milton

2 months later
#16 10 years ago

Custom blades done and finally installed!
The Pin2K machines are sooo nice to work on.
Easiest blade install ever!

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#17 10 years ago

Thanks for posting your progress. Looking good. This machine will be my second project I believe after Tftc. Just need to finish the game room first... So close

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