Theatre of Magic
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Quoted from meSz:I assume you have the lighted mirror on your game? That's the board that drives the lights in the mirror. . . http://pinballpro.net/shop/theatre-of-magic-motorized-gold-tiger-saw-blade-w-lighted-marquee-mirror/
Ha ha, thanks.
Here it is! To be honest this was the wife’s deal. Turns out she’s a member of a work pinball club behind my back!
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The game is really nice, and has all the mods that I’d assume you’d need reading through your thread here... pinbits auto eddy boards, Leon trunk fix, GLM opto boards and it also has the previously mentioned Tiger Saw mod!
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Anyways, I feel like she did really well for her first solo pin purchase (I was just driving the truck) and it was a hell of a 13th anniversary gift to ourselves! She sure don’t work cheap tho, lol.
Quoted from pintechev:Welcome to the club. That’s a great TOM that I owned for a few years and really enjoyed it while I had it.
You had this one specifically?? Small world!
Quoted from andre060:Haha we’re all on here! enjoy it!
I'm not used to having a game this ready to play. Very strange! Thanks again.
Jamie's extremely excited tho, she was playing it last night at midnight, lol.
Quoted from pintechev:A lot of love and effort went into that pin over the last few years - such a great flowing pin.
I was telling Jamie as I went over it last night someone really put alot of care into it, it has alot of great upgrades. I'd love to hear the story sometime.
Pretty sure I have a a Rottendog power board in mine and it works fine. I guess some folks have had bad experiences but I also have a couple of their CPU boards as well and they’ve always been good.
Nothing will COMPLETELY solve trunk issues but between the upgraded boards and updated rom your trunk should be as good as it can possibly be.
I run 1.4H and the Leon board and have never had to open my coin door for a trunk issue. It can get wedged in but sorts itself out.
Quoted from soren:That can't be. Eliminating those hits are the essence of the Leon solution.
Balls going into the Trunk, yes. Ball "hits" to the proximity sensor in front of it, no.
Hmm, interesting. I’ll do some “glass off” research and report back. I’ll admit that there is a good chance I could be wrong.
Quoted from cosmokramer:Working on my restoration and populating the new (Mirco) playfield with T-nuts. I am concerned with the T-nut on top of the playfield next to the trunk. The original playfield has a deep recession from where the T-nut was drawn into it, allowing it to sit fairly flush with the playfield...
Seems like it would be fairly easy to do on a non clearcoated original playfield but my concern is trying to get the new nut to sit flush without destroying the clear around it. I have the Kruzman kit to remove clear from post holes and such but not sure how to remove the clear from this area and have it look good as well....[quoted image][quoted image][quoted image]
Man that’s a shit design on Bally’s part. What does it hold on? Can it be skipped?
Quoted from Fairground:Hello everyone, may I please join your wonderful club? I have added TOM to my little collection. Cheers Allison
As the game says... "WELCOME, TO THE THEATER OF MAGIC!"... club. 
Quoted from MrCleanHead:Looking for same advice. Its getting time to shop out my ToM again, last time was 20+years ago. What would you guys recommend, here is my short list and if you have any comments/pics/suggestions just let me know :
Comet LED kit
Auto Eddy board for the trunk...and magnets?
Titan rubbers - color(s)? or just the standard regular rubber (black)
New "unbreakable" trunk. I still have new OEM ones somewhere.
LMK, Im not to big into mods and only have the spinning tiger saw on it but I'm open for anything cool.
Thanks
ColorDMD if you don’t already have one. It really does give pretty much any DMD game a huge update while at the same time staying totally faithful to what it should be.
LEDs are probably the single biggest upgrade you can do on the PF. I just use Comet sunlight 2 SMD frosted everywhere myself, some pinsider made that recommendation to me once and it’s a good one. Nice and bright but still pretty natural.
Titans are great too, the color wise it’s your call but I think in most situations clear looks pretty good. I don’t use titan posts tho as I prefer the action and color of Cliffy posts.
You don’t need to change your Eddy boards unless your old ones won’t stay adjusted.
Trunk wise if what you have is working you can save the money... I have an unbreakable I haven’t installed cause the original style is hanging on, so I can’t say if it plays different but as it’s softer I assume it will change the action at the trunk.
Quoted from ramegoom:Apparently, the slam tilt on the coin door, and the slam switch at the bottom of the cabinet are paralleled. Did some tracing, double-checked the wiring. The switch at the bottom of the cabinet was previously unplugged, and the door switch was tweaked so that it could never make contact.
Re-seated all connectors including the interconnect board, pulled it out and checked for cold solder joints, and tested all switches along with every diode I could find. One of the center ramp targets was intermittently shorted with a wire whisker, so I corrected that. The target bracket was bent back towards the ramp guard, which would cause airballs, so I bent it back to normal. Seems way too flimsy - I'm going to put in some sort of support to prevent that from bending back again. Those switches take a beating. Those switches are not on the slam tilt matrix, so it's unlikely that the short would be causing my issue.
Ran the machine with the glass off, hitting every possible ramp and switch combination I could think of (hit 4 billion on the display), and problem did not repeat itself. Going back into normal use. Hopefully, I stumbled across a reason it happened in the first place. We shall see.
EDIT: The Trough Jam is in place. The trough LED boards have a space for a 5th. detector, but it's not used in the machine, and there are no wires in the connector. All is well with the trough system, although I did have a flaky LED, so I replaced it with a different style IR led, and it works fine.
We recently went through a similar issue on a fish tales and after much gnashing of teeth and wringing of hands it ended up being failing voltage causing switch issues.
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