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The links are the right dude. He started using wider necked fittings, which is nice.
I’m pretty sure I have like 10 of these f’ers
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why is that bulb purple? you have a gel on it? Is it an LED version? I turned mine off because florescence make ink crack and fade. Thinking about going white LED tube, but I'd have to be able to reduce the brightness to minimize glare.
Quoted from CaptainNeo:why is that bulb purple? you have a gel on it? Is it an LED version? I turned mine off because florescence make ink crack and fade. Thinking about going white LED tube, but I'd have to be able to reduce the brightness to minimize glare.
That is the way it came to me . It is actually a plastic sheet wrapped around the bulb. I think it might be from a plastic folder , it's pretty thick .The other game has something similar but it is red .
I don't remember what it is, but it's basically just a gel I put on there to tone down the bright florescent light enough for it to not overpower the backglass. Without it, it washed out the colors on the glass and was way too bright. I don't know if the red was original, but that's what came in the other game when I got it.
I used this amber one on my jukebox, to make the florescent look more natural. Worked really good and softened the light and provided a UV block.
I recall my robot had the purple plastic wrap around the fluorescent bulb. I think
that’s factory
Quoted from trilogybeer:That is the way it came to me . It is actually a plastic sheet wrapped around the bulb. I think it might be from a plastic folder , it's pretty thick .The other game has something similar but it is red .
Ok so I got the other backbox lamp board out ,I had put it in a cabinet when I took these games apart . I’m going to need to clean and repaint this one soon as well, so I thought I’d take a look at it. On this one the fluorescent tube is painted red , so if that becomes a problem I will just replace it and do something like the other one .
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How about the led neon tube that I used on my farfalla?
will that work?
Not sure about that , I thought Farfalla has a neon light that wraps the sides and top of the backglass? I think just keeping a fluorescent light in the robots will be fine .
Quoted from pinballinreno:How about the led neon tube that I used on my farfalla?
will that work?
robot doesn't have the neon that goes around the glass like Magic castle, clown, time machine, farfalla, devil riders all have. It has couple standard bulbs and a florescent tube to light up the word robot.
Since I am removing the moddity that involved the Gottlieb relay , I am replacing the drop target reset coil with the proper one from the other robot ( I will get another proper coil for that robot as well , but taking this one for now as the first game is much further along ).
So I got the coil off the other game and I thought this was interesting, the coil Zaccaria used for the drop target reset does not use a coil sleeve and the bobbin is extended.
It seems as though this coil is unique to this game . Neo looked at Spare drop target banks he has for Zaccarias and none he had used a coil like this .
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Quoted from CaptainNeo:just use some novus 2, spiral a paper towel and spin it through several times and follow up with a clean one.
Exactly what I used to do back in the day to reuse coil sleeves when I ran out and didn't have quick access to new ones.
Somewhere I have a stash of Zac parts including coils. I should check to see if I have any of those.
Quoted from CaptainNeo:untrue, most of the bigger coils I have for zac have the sleeve molded in as part of the coil.
Ah ok , it’s the only coil in this game I’m working on like this . Seems like most coils for the drop reset you had were D50-S1600 (this appears to be the coil used for the drop resets on a decent amount of Zaccaria games )and the coil on robot is D56-S1500 . I’m wondering if there is other games that they also used that coil on , or if it is unique to robot .
Quoted from bangerjay:The drop bank in my zankor has one of those extended bobbin coils, and the damn thing is cracked
Is it a 50-1600 coil ? Or 56-1500 ? If it’s 50-1600 you can have the one I removed .
and if doug doesn't have it, i may have it. But I didn't have the one doug needed. but tons of the common drop bank coils. I think they changed robots because it's a 5 bank. Most zac banks are 3 or 4.
The one playfield is mostly done , just needs flipper bats put in (and obviously switch adjustments and tweaks once it’s up and running) I wanted to see how it’s going to look in the cabinet so I put it in and took some pictures.
0FBEBBCB-772D-4EA3-ACEF-A9892C93EEA9 (resized).jpegB7920B99-F5D5-494C-9E69-7484C7947ED4 (resized).jpegSide rails , let’s get them looking better . I picked the 2 best to make a set for the first game but they did still have some scratches and dings .
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image (resized).jpgQuoted from bangerjay:Yore the man Doug, sorry I didn’t get back to y’all in the coil thing, but you should know by now idg af
No problem, if it’s the size you need you can have it . It doesn’t have the extended bobbin but it’s got a coil sleeve that is extra long .
Quoted from trilogybeer:No problem, if it’s the size you need you can have it . It doesn’t have the extended bobbin but it’s got a coil sleeve that is extra long .
Mmm, extra long
Quoted from spfxted:Is one of these going to be for sale when your finished?
No , sorry . One of these belongs to my friend ( the one that is further along and will be finished first ) and the other one is mine . Neither of us are planning to sell when these are completed .
Quoted from Jeewiz13:Doug, your my hero. Keep up the good work.
As far as the coil goes, does it use a standard thickness plunger or a thicker one like Bally?
And you are my hero , 3x champion !
That plunger is standard thickness for the drop reset coil .
terry sells these rails. They are almost spot on. Only difference is the holes for the original nails are a little small, and the bolt holes on each end are in a slightly different spot. I used different nails than the ones it came with, to put the rails back on. used the new ones I bought from terry.
Thanks Neo , I was wondering if any of the sets pinballlife carried would work . I would have thought maybe the Williams style , but sounds like the Bally style is real close . I may end up getting those for my game , the 2 original side rails I have left are in pretty rough shape .
if you want to come see how they look, i can show you the ones I put on mine and I have another set that is still new sitting here so you can check them over.
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