Quoted from hassellcastle:

Just finished the restoration on mine over the last couple of weeks. It's dialed in and playing like a champ.
Looks about as close to NIB as you could get.
- NOS backglass
- New playfield
- New plastics
- Repainted Cabinet
- Buffed and polished metal
- LED's throughout playfield and backbox
- New Shuttle
- New Ramp
Love it!

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Quoted from ExitWound:

Why were there two playfields for this machine? Any idea?
Thanks for clarifying the difference! I'll buy some 63's and try them. (Both of my other machines use 89's.)

Quoted from SUPERBEE:

Can i trouble someone to look inside their cabinet and tell me whats supposed to on the bracket in these photos ? Cant for the life of me figure it out.

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Quoted from ExitWound:

I think I have the only Space Shuttle in like 300 miles. This town is so isolated it sucks.
The original speech board says "garbled" on the back, so I had little hope it works. Why? I don't know. Could just be ROMs. The power board was probably fine. However, there's a significant change in -12V at U48 when the game is on - it drops to -20V. To eliminate the possibility of it being power, I bought a Rottendog board and installed it, but no change. I feel better doing that anyway on such an old game, one that is in meh condition. The main CPU board I had was furnished by Ed Cheung and it works great as far as booting, playing, and operation - other than sound. I don't know if he actually checked it or not.
So I'm willing to re-sell the working boards to others if needed. I figure that I'd want that same courtesy if needing a hard to find board. I only paid $500 for the machine, so putting in a few hundred isn't terrible in my opinion to get it working.
Want to drive yours to PA?
On the bright side of things, the backbox looks good.

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Quoted from SUPERBEE:

I also think im missing something on the upper ramp switch as mine just doesnt look right . If someone had a photo of theirs i would really appreciate it. Here is mine .

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Quoted from winteriscoming:

Check out my troubleshooting thread. Exitwound helped me with dimensions of the wireform. I ordered straight wire from Marco Specialties and bent my own.
https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/space-shuttle-system-9-general-troubleshooting-help-needed#post-1898711
I bought a repro shuttle that I haven't installed. It looks like yours could be a repro since it's so clean, but not sure. Anyway, the repro doesn't have any hardware installed, nor does it have the holes needed for the rivets to be installed for the small bracket around the wireform. I was kind of wondering if it was a thick enough plastic that the wireform could just be installed without the bracket. Even if you had one, installing it in the repro seems like a pretty big hassle.

Quoted from bobbyt:

hey guys, I was playing a game last night and when I started a new game and the ball dropped in the A the machine shuts down the game and goes right back into attract mode, if it goes down the U or the S it will start going haywire all kinds of different sounds and then it tilts on me, game over, the attract mode works fine, I have all power and lights, I can start a game with no problem, flippers work and it will stay that way until it goes down one of the letters and then it shuts down, I have no clue what is wrong, hoping maybe someone had the same problem and a fix, thanks

Quoted from bobbyt:

all diodes on the USA and the left outlane switch are good

Quoted from SUPERBEE:

I think your talki9ng about the flasher circuits. You need to remove one leg of the warming resistors under the playfield and the backbox for them to properly work with leds as they normally provide a small constant current to the circuit to keep the normally incandecent bulbs warm in order to be ready to flash quickly but with leds that little current will keep them constanly lit. I dont think thats what his problem is but im not sure what is.

Quoted from SUPERBEE:

Im considering doing red ,white and blue leds in the spinner value inserts. Has anyone tried this? Any photos ?

Quoted from ExitWound:

I did red, white, and blue pop bumper skirts. Just the skirts. It's subtle and doesn't really add much, but I like it.
I paid $500 for mine and put about $500 into it having the main board fixed, pop bumpers, pinballs, lights, bands, leaf switches, plunger, legs, flippers.... the playfield is terrible though and the true eyesore of it all. The ramps are cracked, but at the price for a 'new' one, I'm staying away.

Quoted from SUPERBEE:

I put a new ramp in mine and didnt router it out. Fits fine with no issues.

Quoted from SUPERBEE:

Ok, all i can say is mine plays perfectly with no issues at all. No ball hopping etc. The new ramp did come with a metal transition plate that works perfectly.