Carol Stream, IL
Quoted from canea:...while everyone waits patiently (or not!) for your boxes from Ingo.
I was waiting patiently. But seeing others receive and enjoy them makes me wish mine comes soon.
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4 months later
Ingo's board is great. But since you have to pass the wires through everything, might as well bulletproof the trunk by replacing the gearbox (available with oversized motor from Pinball Resource) and opto interrupter (aluminum interrupter available from Marco) at the same time. If (when) the plastic interrupter cracks then the setscrew won't hold it in the correct position.
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new board + gearbox with oversized motor + aluminum opto interruptor
lower playfield area of ToM proto with full LEDs added
backbox with ColorDMD and 1-5/8" diameter hole drilled for LED added behind clock face on speaker panel
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Quoted from EvanDickson:You'd have to have pretty deep pockets to spend $325 on parts that don't need replacing.
There is an entire thread on dealing with noisy ToM trunk motors and the games are over twenty years old now.
Quoted from bhwolf:I definitely like the aluminum opto interruptor. When I got my ToM, the guy who owned it had the damn thing glued on. Probably took more effort to glue the thing on and hold it in place than to just buy a new one.
A lot of the plastic interrupters have cracked. When you take things apart to install the new board (which is a pain to do because of the wiring) it's easy to replace the interrupter at the same time.
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