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Space Shuttle crew members' club - prepare for liftoff!

By E_N_3

10 years ago


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#1299 7 years ago

Just joined. I have owned SS twice before, over the last 20 years. I'm on my 3rd one, and this time, I'm keeping it. Added Cointaker's LED kit to it. Back glass is near perfect; cabinet is typical; play field is good, but does have a little bit of wear. It has the mylar on the play field. I remember when this game came out; I was at the arcade constantly playing it.

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#2971 3 years ago

New CPR playfield. Will make this my Winter project.

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#3062 3 years ago

I recently assembled these white displays from Pinitech (not Pintech). They came with colored acetate to make the pinkish-purple. They are dimmable, which I like a lot. Easy to solder, just time-consuming. This is my 3rd set and I like them.

https://www.pinitech.com/products/ballystern_display_traditional.php

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#3208 3 years ago

Is there a source for replacement speaker grill material? Or a suitable substitute? Thanks. Mine looks like someone took a bic lighter to it.

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#3229 3 years ago
Quoted from dzorbas:

Mine was in crappy shape as well. Call me crazy but I had a roll of landscaping fabric sitting in my basement. I peeled off the original fabric, took off all the edge trim and the speaker, cut a piece of landscape fabric, wrapped and stapled it in place and reassembled. It's decent but not perfect. Much better than what was there. I might redo it and spray some adhesive on the panel before i put the fabric back on so it is smooth. I completely forgot I had 2 cans sitting on my work bench. That's what tends to happen when you start something at 2am...
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Looks great! Looks like I'm off to Lowe's lol.

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#3430 3 years ago
Quoted from Kard:

The ipdb states that the "date of manufacture" for Space Shuttle is December, 1984. This date is supposed to be

However, the game I own has a label showing a date of manufacture of 84024, which I understand to mean the 24th day of 1984 - 01/24/1984. Furthermore, based on my serial number and other numbers in the ipsnd, over a thousand Space Shuttles were manufactured before mine.
I would have thought that the ipdb date would be based on well-established fact, but it seems like the ipdb date is wrong and the game was being manufactured and, presumably, installed out in the world in 1983, at least. Or am I missing something?
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One thing that looks suspect to me is, how clean and clear those two labels are. The typeset looks too new and crisp, like they are repos. Compare to mine, which are more aged looking, especially the font and how deep it was printed. Also, the actual date of manufacture numbers are a different font and color.

Mine:
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#3433 3 years ago

The 540 model is Comet, a game that 1st came out in in June of 1985.

As for your date of manufacture, my guess is that the 4 should be a 5, which would make your's January 24th, 1985. Since it appears to be a reproduction sticker, someone maybe misread that digit.

That would make roughly 2 months of production before yours was made.
Which would equate to 24 machines built per day for a 5 day work week.
I'm totally shooting from the hip here, so I have no idea how many machines Williams made per day, or how.many days a week they operated.

Regardless of all of this, your machine looks minty! Congrats! I'm on my 3rd one. I kicked myself twice before for selling, so this one I have is a keeper. It's still my kids' fav game and they are nearly 30 years old now.

As for the serial number groupings, it looks like they skipped between 23k and 30k; why I don't know. I don't think it's a matter of incomplete data.
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