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Robo-War Fan Club (all welcome)

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7 years ago


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#382 3 years ago

Got mine today, great game. Playfield near enough perfect and cab pretty good. Just needs better lighting in backbox as someone took the tube fitting out and fitted a light bulb either side. No leds and looks great, think I will leave it like that.

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#385 3 years ago

Touched the cab paintwork up today and had a few games.

#386 3 years ago

Just had a great game

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#388 3 years ago
Quoted from rollitover:

Wow! Nice one.
And I thought my 6mil+ was stout.

Thanks, the guy I picked it up from had 8mil to 10mil scores on there and was pleased with that and gave me something to aim for.
Now what do I do ☺️

#391 3 years ago

It’s tough here in lockdown!
Loving the hypnotic tribal sound, only beer no disco biscuits.

I’m having an odd reset, I have ordered a new 5v pcb from Boston pinball so will see what happens after that but it will only reset once in a while-while going through the spinner. No other time. I have checked underneath and all good, also tapped connectors and chips with no reset. Ground mod has been done.

2 weeks later
#394 3 years ago
Quoted from Toby:

I'm contemplating list my extremely nice example up forsale someone talk some sense into me
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You will miss it and would be hard to replace, my grandsons favourite pin even with the spinner disconnected (causes random resets). Waiting on a new mpu.
Looks a nice one like mine.

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#402 3 years ago

So I had a problem with mine, it was resetting. Previous owner had done some repairs on the mpu including new riot chips.
I worked out that it would only reset when going through the spinner randomly, could 2 mins or 20 mins which was weird. Pulled the spinner out and never reset again.
I disconnected most of the boards and would still reset. I put it down to a problem with the riot chip on the switch matrix and maybe reset circuit.
Luckily myPinballs built a new MPU board for me and fixed a new Boston Pinball’s 5v board that was faulty.
Fitted them in yesterday and now working perfectly.

If you are having issues with the MPU I can highly recommend one, he is applejuice on here or search myPinballs.

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#416 2 years ago
Quoted from FTN_Ferry:

Trying to restore the translite of my RW. It has a very faded translite.
So i removed is and sticked it to the kitchen window.. so the light could come trough and i make a high quality picture.
But disaster.. the translite fell off, to the ground. And because of its age the plastic is not as bendable anymore... it broke in 10 pieces
So i taped it all together, and gently put it back where it belongs.
The pictures i had made where not suitable to print out.
Looking on the internet i found a copy being printed bij a company advertising via Etsy.
I received it today.... and see for yourself..
not suitable to use...
My question , has anyone a translite for sale, or is there a high quality picture that i can use to print out??
please PM.
happy Easter and regards
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Man that’s bad luck.
The guy I bought mine from sent my translite to https://www.retrorefurbs.com/ who did a high quality scan and was supposed to be making these but I tried to contact him with no luck through his website and pinballinfo UK forum. Maybe if you try it might help him to reproduce them. A few people have had no luck with him replying. His name is Pete I think.

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#428 2 years ago

My new translite arrived today from Mayfair, very nice.

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#431 2 years ago
Quoted from DuffysArcade:

Been thinking about parting with my RW. What's a good asking price nowadays for a clean machine?

A nice one has to be around €2500 but who knows these days. I bought mine last year for £1500 but had to fit a new mpu (myPinballs), 5v-12v board and a new translite and is a very nice one. They rarely come up.

#432 2 years ago
Quoted from FTN_Ferry:

Lostcause.. she will be so much prettier
Tip .. also change the fluorescent light for a led . Than the coulours will stay
FTN_Ferry

Do you also think fluorescent tube emits uv to fade translite, I was saying this to someone who had a new translite and no sunlight in room but it looked not as vivid as my new one. Mine has 2 led lamps in the centre on the left and right, I need to fit an led tube for better light coverage.

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#434 2 years ago

Nicely lit, love a bad girl!

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#444 2 years ago

Fitted an LED batten the other day, unclips for quick removal.

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#446 2 years ago

This is the best option I think, was fitted with the original screws and gets rid of all that old fluorescent running gear. Clips on so easily taken off.
Very easy to fit and cheap.

https://www.screwfix.com/p/sylvania-single-2ft-led-batten-white-8w-920lm/6704x

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#476 2 years ago
Quoted from Grandnational007:

I stumbled upon mine by sheer, dumb, luck. The gentleman that owned it prior to me, bought it in 1994 from the original operator. In the nearly 30 years he owned it, it was played a bit in the first year, then his kids lost interest. He told me it was basically powered on twice a year from then on there, on Xmas, and the 4th of July for his grandkids and guests to play.
I got it in late Spring of 2021 when he decided to retire and move to Florida.
Game was, as far as I could tell, all original. Including the rubber. I shopped it out, adjusted some switches, touched up some cabinet defects, and put what has to be one of the last remaining NOS translights in it to replace the UV faded original. It's a solid player's game, and one I doubt I'll ever get rid of. It has a tiny bit of playfield wear down by the flippers that I can only surmise was from a lack of wax and cleaning in its first 33 years (not completely worn to wood, but the black dots on the yellow coloring are gone in a small area that I'll eventually retouch). It ran mostly flawless all weekend at Pintastic, aside from a trough switch that needed an adjustment.
I'm planning on finally doing the ground mods at the transformer this week, and would like to replace the fluorescent tube with an led. Is there a straight plug in replacement for the tube? I'd rather not cut anything out of the game to accommodate the swap. I'm pretty sure they have modern tubes that have on-board circuitry that bypass the initial startup voltage from the transformer and starter, and just run off the low voltage run current. Ideally, I'd like to just swap the tube out, and remove the starter. Does such a tube exist?

I replaced my tube with an led batten that fitted in perfect and clips in place so removed easily, these original tubes fade the translite light so do it as soon as possible. Also replaced my translite last year with a new one from Mayfair.
You might be able to get a similar led fitting there.

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#483 2 years ago
Quoted from Grandnational007:

Other than swapping in the clips, nothing had to be cut out electrically-wise?

I removed the running gear and starter to tidy up but could be left in if you wanted. You can see the dark connector block on the right just below the light, that was there already so just kept it. That went to the ballast.
I did my gold wings too.

1 week later
#495 2 years ago
Quoted from Prospekteur:

You are right Today Ive had time to play an hour and test the game more into detail. First of all, it is possible to get up the Ramp when ball is trapped on the flipperfinger on a standard unmodded playfield. Its really hard and as you said it has to be more than perfect. But out of lets say 30 shots one goes up the ramp also after trapped on the flipper. I played my robo war nearly every day before I decide to add this protector......and as you said this hard to achieve ramp is one thing what makes the gameplay of this machine so great I did this protector addon because Im scared playing my nice playfield to death
But now to my detailed tests today. Its definitely true! The Rampshot is a lot too easy now. And after playing an hour I had one highscore after another. Strange thing is, that everything else doesnt feel any different as before. But the ramp isnt challenging anymore..... And thats exactly one of the reasons why I love this old fast machines so much, because they are really challenging. My friend has some new stern pinballs.....but for me they are not such satisfying as some of this great short playing old machines. I cant get enough playing them. This new machines are getting boring very fast for me. Its only my personal preference and I dont say that this new machines are bad.....But for me they are not as satisfying. Next machine for me will definitely a rock encore! Machines like this keep me playing all the time and I would never exchange them with a thousands of dollars new highend pinball
Back to my actual problem....... It was a few hours to install this protector. I like how shiny the playfield looks now and I dont want to damage the playfield over time, because its my most played pinball. So Im searching for a solution to make the ramp hard to achieve as it was before. If someone has an idea, would be nice to know it. Otherwise I have to reinstall everything again. Will place the pinball a bit steeper later and will check if this helps.
So be warned....everyone who thinks protectors on robo war are a good idea....DONT DO IT if you dont want to loose the challenging fun of this machine. If I dont find a solution to get my old original gameplay back the protector has to go again very soon

Making it steeper should help but if it doesn’t you could make some adjustments on the flipper, stronger spring might do it or tighter on the bushing maybe.

#498 2 years ago

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Would be great to hear from others how their experience is with protectors over time......does the ballspeed decrease over time when the protector has been played a lot?

I have not noticed any slow down with protectors, my FT has been on there a while now.

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