This title is gaining a lot of popularity lately so its time has come to recognize this great game. Shay is currently making a reproduction backglass for it and Pinball Rescue has playfield plastics in the works to be made as well. I even talked to Wade Krauss about possibly doing a reproduction playfield down the road which sparked his interest.

This thread is for folks who want one, have one, or have had one and you can talk about anything relating to this game and hopefully post lots of pictures.

Living in Texas makes this theme a must IMO with its great artwork, mechanical backglass, and great gameplay/ruleset.

I currently own a project one that I intend to get a new Shay backglass for, luckily my playfield plastics and pop bumper caps are in great shape. The playfield itself is in great shape and I plan to clear it and have the cabinet repainted as well. Keep in mind that these pictures are how I bought the machine, so I have not cleaned the playfield yet or done anything to it for that matter.

OK, here we go, I'll start first........................

Ha!

Didn't see that one.

Apparently it is a "very" popular title now.

http://www.pinballrescue.net/Playfield_Plastics_Schedule.html

Interesting is that I have a different style target face on mine but it looks original. I wonder if the early and later production models had different target faces?

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Just sent an email to see if Lee at Pinball Rescue would be interested in doing a Drop Target Decal for this title.

Stay tuned.

Some like it hot!

What a great fun film!

Just had to throw this in here.

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Lee and Gordon at Pinball Rescue are Awesome as usual.

Here is a reply from my email I sent Lee regarding making the Heat Wave Decal for the Drop Target:

"Good to hear from you and I am sure we can do something there leave it
with me for a couple of weeks."

Problem Solved!

Thanks to DR_NYBBLE for the lead to the "sun" pictures I sent them as well.

As a side note the Heat Wave Plastics are still in the Que for reproduction.

It's all good in the hood.............

Ken

Just finished the restore on my Heat Wave Playfield tonight. Last thing I had to do was to install the 7 White Playfield Inserts. Just need to fire it up tomorrow and work out the mechanical gremlins as I have never turned it on since I bought it over a year ago and it has now been fully gone through. Pretty happy with how it turned out, not perfect, but super nice IMO. New Shay Backglass installed so all it really needs now is the Cabinet painted.

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Can anyone take a good picture/scan of your Heat Wave "replay/point adjustment jack/plug wire color chart" in the back of the Head? Mine is missing and need to create another one.

TIA.

Ken

Thanks dr_nybble, that should work just fine with the pic. My Heat Wave will be 100% by tomorrow once i get the replay score card and jacks set. Just finishing up yet another repaint of the temperature tape as I needed the red line to extend another 1/4 inch.

Game plays very fast with just a regular rebuild of flippers and pop bumpers.

Ken

I used RUST-OLEUM "Gloss Cherry" Item #248568 available at Home Depot. Almost a perfect match in color.

So was your tape destroyed?

The tape on mine is fine but the paint keeps wanting to crack off in places even though I sanded. cleaned, and primed. Thinking if it does not hold to use a cherry nylon ribbon tape like you would use to wrap a gift, would most likely work great and just glue it to the metal tape, no more paint cracking when the tape bends. Most likely it should be good for a while so I will consider it maybe next time if the paint cracks off.

Just created a new Replay Card tonight from Card Stock, easy peesy, and I changed the scores to my liking of difficulty 2600, 3200, 3800, and 4200. If that gets too easy i'll change them again.

Ken

I'm a bit confused with the color of the wires verses the jacks. Is your Heat Wave this way? THe chart only lists blue, red, green, yellow, and brown wires, and mine has various coloration's. see pic

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Bump for anyone who has a "replay/point adjustment jack/plug wire color chart" that matches the wiring colors in the picture on post #39 for Heat Wave.

The previous picture in post #35 is for a Five (5) wire "replay/point adjustment jack/plug wire color chart". I need the one for a six (6) wire as shown in post #39.

Thanks again dr_nybble,

The full scan definitely helps. You look to have the same colored wires as me and that chart does not really clarify the plug wire colors at all. Not sure what Williams was thinking on this one but it is going to be a challenge to get the replay scores right, as you said, trial and error.

Finally after some trial and error I figured out how to set the replay scores correctly that dr_nybble thankfully supplied. Williams did Not set this up intuitively. Williams should have just used the basic solid wire colors as they had done in previous years.

Just a note for folks trying to figure out how to set the plug jacks for the point score adjustment:

1) Only the end tail wires are the true colors to go by, so the last wire on the 2nd jack.

2) The end wires with the most (solid) color are the correct ones to go by, do not pay attention to the stripes on the wires as they mean absolutely nothing.

Just sent Lee a reminder of this as I was not on top of this as I got out of the hospital over 10 weeks ago from open heart surgery, so I apologize for not being able to follow up on this in a timely matter. I'll let you guys know when hear back from Lee at Pinball Rescue about the Heat Wave Target Decal.

Got word back from Lee today at Pinball Rescue, here is what he had to say;

"I will have a look into that tomorrow (Target Decal) as we have done a special run of plastics for
Heat Wave but due to low demand we have not screen printed them but high
digital direct printing and they will be available in the coming weeks"

I'll post again when I hear back from Lee.