Working on a Miss-O, going to get the full treatment, repair/repaint cabinet, playfield touchup and clear, redo every single contact, switch and coil. Gots lots of time while isolating, might as well do a full job.

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I like this game.love the cheezy artwork.

Abra Ca Dabra is getting a cabinet redo with some extra time I can devote to this project.

I had to replace the back panel of the cabinet as the original one was pressed wood and the bottom was flaking badly, it's prepped and getting primed, will post some after shots when it's done.

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Lol, I am still trying to figure out how that guy on the right is bending that way

Pointy people. Must be Christian Marche

Thanks
Blake

Guy on the left, appears to be sexually assaulting the gal next to him.
Looks like a brawl is about to break out.

Shoulders are off limits now?

Actually, there is so much wrong in that backglass that it doesn't even make sense to criticize it. It's abstract. A floating, irregular, semi-transparent pool table with no pockets, its color interacting with the shape behind the game title? Whatever.

She blocked him with her shoulder from his grabby hands, also see that she is rolling up
her sleeve and about to clobber him with her cue stick,
The gal in the bottom left is shaking her finger no-no, I assume at the drunk dudes.
Or maybe the finger wagging is directed at the babe trying to distract her boyfriend, with her curves and ba-dunkadunk
thus breaking his cue stick.

Yeah, I'm sure Mr. Marche had all that in mind while creating this pointy people bg...

The dope is so distracted, he mis-cued the 12 ball.

I prefer the BBG. (Buxom Beauties of Gottlieb)

They got nothing on mid 70s Ballys. See Night Rider, Old Chicago etc...

I've started on the motor board of my Gigi I'm restoring. Cleaned up the extremely grimy score motor. I love the brass plating. So classy looking.

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Listen to Rod
Every picture tells a Story

This-

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There's going to be a lot of nice EMs up and running after this quarantine is over. Next up for me in the double wide shop spot is Fun Land. This one should be a pretty simple shop out and tweak. For the sake of all that's good in this world I will also swap out the cool white LEDs that are in there right now for something a little bit more tasteful.

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+1
Jumping jack for the win.

Either a Gottlieb 1976 Royal Flush or Card Whiz.

That stogie you're sporting must be spiked with something else besides tobacco. Look again.

Yes indeed! Smokin! Gottlieb Blue Note/ Rock Star!

Continuing to work on Jacks Open. Touched up the black circles around the inserts today.

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Good luck John. I should have left a few of my EM's down with you.

I have never seem someone touch up the circles so prefect before. I have tremors so I need a circle guide and they still don't come out that good.

Free hand? I'm impressed! Nice work.

What was the Sharpie for?

I use a paint pen and circle template from Hobby Lobby. Your free hand skills are way beyond mine. Those look awesome!!

goldenboy232 what kind of paint are you using?

FINALLY got my Space Mission to the point where I can start, and finish a game without the system having a freak out. A number of the feature lights the involve the swinging target are out so I'm not sure if the system is counting up the values correctly but that's for later on. I'm just happy to get the thing "playable". Next I'll relax and clean up this filthy thing that's been hiding in a basement for decades before I liberated it to my home last December.

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proceeding with the takeapart of my Miss-O, holy cow I don't see how guys do it with the complex machines, just trying to document things like the change-relay.. is that dirty white with dark blue or tan with black, is that black with yellow or is that dark blue with dirty white...... I am freaking out that when the time comes to put it all back together I won't get it right.

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Those wire colors look new compared to my high hand

Hi guys thanks for your compliments. Yes, I did those freehand. I just use black Testor’s paint. I go really slowly, and use eyeglasses that magnify what I’m looking at significantly. If I mess up, I just clean it off quickly with rubbing alcohol and a Q-tip.

The sharpie was for some pinhole playfield touchups using the sharpie and polishing compound method that Tim Meigan has posted about here on Pinside. Works great for a very small blemishes on the playfield.

Would artist acrylic paint be ok to use?

Love the pneumatic stapler.

Thanks
Blake

Working on my Bronco is finished, with a new feature :

The bonus value is scored and targets reset when the 3 targets are hit and A-B-C rollovers are complete.

https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/upgrade-your-bronco-

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Beautiful! Bronco was the very first EM I owned. I love the Western art and especially the back-glass.

I started working on a game for myself this weekend. The first two are before pictures. The last is an after picture. The worst part of the game was the backglass and it is done as you can see in the last photo. I sent the glass off to BGResto last summer and got it back last fall. This was the first time he had done this glass.

I've heard this is a challenging game to play and am looking forward to it when done.

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If you need any parts for Cosmos, I still have an extra bottom cabinet panel in my work shop. Let me know what parts you need. I had 2 of these at one point in life. One was sold to the Museum Of Pinball in Cali, and the other was missing the backglass and the cabinet was just about falling apart when you looked at it. This bottom panel is all that's left.

While not a pinball, I've had 4 Genco Davy Crockett rifle gallery games sitting around for about 5 years now. A few years back I sent the only good glass out of 5 that I had to bgresto and they did a glass restoration of it for me (which is also available on their site). I think it turned out great. I just pulled all of them out of storage this weekend and got one of them up and running in about 4 hours.

All 4 of the cabinets have been painted over, so I'll probably end up having to strip them all (a little test section was done on the one in the photo) to get enough good parts to put together for a full stencil set. They should look great when they are re-stenciled with the new back glasses from bgresto. There is also a good example of each cardboard part inside the "gallery" to create a whole set and have reproduced. I'll be looking in to getting that done some day as well.

Pretty simple EM game from 1956. 2 steppers (one for shots taken and one for hits made) and about 6 relays in the back box. 5 chicken drop down targets, 4 cow drop down targets, each with only a couple switches to clean and adjust, and a moving Indian head that drops back when you give a shot to the face. There are only a couple switches on this as well. Transformer with silenium rectifier, and 3 fuses. I think that's about it for the whole game!

I think it took more time to clean and shine up the Jones plugs than anything else! I like to use the dremel with one of the car wash looking wheels to shine them up real nice. It's like using sand cloth on a copper pipe to remove the oxidation before soldering.

I haven't worked on any EM games in quite some time and only have one EM pinball left, a Gotlieb Playball, that needs a little tweaking. There's about 15 pitch and bats, and 15 rifle games, along with an Air Ball, and Marksman shooting gallery and some other odd ball EM games to work on though. The pins got a little repetitive for me and I like the challenge in figuring out the different types of games. Gangbusters and Haunted House are giving me some trouble though.

Love the ball bowler I have, and have had several puck bowlers over the years, but went to a SS puck bowler to avoid all of those damn score reels. Ugh... the hours! Ohhh.... and recently did a trade for a United Comet Deluxe Shuffle Targette. Those are a good fun combo of a shuffle alley and skee ball in one. If any one needs photos of parts or labels from EM stuff let me know and I'll see if I have it to get you photos. For now, here's the first Davy Crockett up and running with a photo of the new and old back glass.
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Rocket.

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The benefits of quarantine : this SP76 had been in my garage for 10 years and could have spent another 10 years in it....

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Starting on Gottlieb Egg Head. Should I replace the balls? Thinking maybe just clean with WD 40. And the plunger probably doesn't need new rubber does it?

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Wow does the whole game look like that?

those slingshot plastics with suited up men, shows they were prepared and ahead of their time with the current pandemic.

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They are beautiful.

I think you might have played it when you were here. It doesn't play at the speed of an ordinary woodrail, that's for sure.

Those look similar to the balls Stern sends you with their NIB machines.

I'm looking for 2 coils for some of those Davy Crockett rifle games I'm getting up and running. The coil is used for the gun recoil effect. These coils have 2 numbers. One is a stock number of 05-2312, the other is a reference number of J-501. They may be identified either way. If you have one, or two, I'd be happy to purchase!

might check these out, another fellow pinsider posted these previously

https://www.pinballmedic.net/coilchart.html

https://www.flippers.com/coil-resistance.html

check with boilerman he had some custom made for a gun game

I wish those lists had anything Genco on them...... they will be super handy for other games in the future though!

Will do! I was also alerted to apb enterprises. They are actually about 15 min from me and make coils. Since I have a good working example to go off of, maybe it can be recreated as well. E-mail already sent.

Just started on the clean up and light restoration of a Williams Klondike. I'm starting a blog about the work and will post a link to it here as soon as I get it set up. Already found a file for the playfield reels that I need to get printed out on vinyl..

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