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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Just came up from working on my Stern Rawhide.

When you hit the captive ball's target it would still trigger the relay but not everything was closing correctly to advance to the 2nd or 3rd level. Not so bad when 500 or special is lit but hate missing out on that 5,000 shot. So I got that adjusted so your odds of stepping up are almost 100%.

I also had some dirty wipers on my ball count so even though I had it set to 3 balls I was still getting 5 balls per game. Got that fixed too.

The 1000's unit was really sticky on player 2 so sometimes you'd miss out on a couple K every now and then, so I got that fixed.

For future tournament play I also cut the wire on extra ball relay to disable extra ball. Don't worry it's right at the coil lug and easily reversible.

I have a few other minor things to adjust and player 3 and 4 should have their reels cleaned but they don't stick incredibly bad and we usually don't have 3 or 4 player games running here on a regular basis. I think the 3rd player 100,000 light is out but I'm too tired to play around with backglasses this late at night.

Had an issue with GTB Vulcan player 4 and 10,000 unit would not advance during reset turns out my 1,000 unit was poorly adjusted on the edge of being closed on the rightmost switch....not sure what the correct terminology is but that was my fix for the evening.

Wasn't high on the list since player 4 hardly gets used but it's nice to have this game working 100% now.

Got my Dimension all shopped out now with repro backglass and new drop targets. I wasn't in the mood to rebuild the pops (yet) and the original flippers are in good shape so I'm holding off on rebuilding those too. I have the flipper rebuild kit for it now but maybe they will go in a game down the road that has worse flippers.

Today I'm going to start shopping the Kings and Queens. To get inspired I just ordered a backglass from Shay.

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*sigh* yeah, I'm sure some people will notice. At some point I may try to correct that. Right now I have more invested in the glass and drop targets than what I paid for the machine so I'm reaching my limit for what I want to put into it. The coin door has 3 holes along with the cabinet to hold a larger sized padlock too :/

The wood on the wedge part of the backbox was coming apart it almost looked like it had wings. Some wood glue brought that back to an acceptable appearance.

Would now be a good time to debut my Space Mission link and plunger? I've never seen a plunger worn so much.

I've also been picking up some more power with the cabinet switches too. I don't replace them all the time but Space Mission benefited with some EOS switches in the cabinet (I made them normally open).

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Alright my friend is sick of coming over to play Big Shot only to have no sound when scoring 1,000

I've been lazy about getting around to this but the plunger sticks big time so I gave it a sanding and cleaning. I'm hoping I don't have to change out the sleeve in the coil too. Will find out soon enough.

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Well it's August and Kings and Queens still isn't done. Today I make a push and get the pop bumpers and flippers rebuilt.

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This little stinker (mildew mostly) is ready for a waxing! DavidLee has been helping me with fitting some Backglass artwork which is coming along nicely!

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*double checks*

Nope, that's the right one. Worked on the playfield last night don't have the art yet.

It hasn’t been cleaned yet. Just stripped it down last night and got playfield parts cleaned. Playfield is tonight.

Time to clean up some crusty old star posts on Wild Wild West

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WWW well on its way now. Just needs flippers done and score reels are super dirty.

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This afternoon I have to get organized and make a “good machine” and “bad machine out of these two captains. The good one will get cleaned up with some new parts etc and the bad one will get attacked with stuff from CPR.

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Still have a little more GTB em stuff to work on but this will be my project for November.

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Once my playfield swap is done I’ll be selling the one with the better original playfield if you are looking for a road trip. Haven’t decided if I’ll sell unshopped or not. They are both working 100% right now.

Target pool almost done. Need new flipper bats for sure.

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Wow that looks just like a WMS World Cup they must have dug out these playfield drawings to design it.

Target pool done for now. Have some contacts that need cleaning but I’ll get to that later. Going to take a break this weekend and start Card Whiz Sunday night.

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The leads are actually soldered at the bottom. Take the ring and rod out then the pop bumper assembly and then the connections will reveal themselves.

You got it!

If you have a pending order with anyone it is probably worth replacing the socket. Not a first choice but new leads could be soldered directly to the bulb if needed.

Playfield swap on captain started yesterday

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How do you like your superstar? I’m hot and cold about mine but it’s a fast player for the era so I’m leaning towards keeping mine.

The front of this game has been bothering me for far too long. Someone white washed the entire front so I’m in the garage grinding off all the paint. The door bracket took longer than expected. Coin returns took longer than expected because of all the curves. Wearing all sorts of gear but I’m hoping the paint is lead free since this was likely painted many years later.

Now to do the coin door....

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El Dorado City of Gold is what you need

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Making good progress tonight with Buccaneer. Getting new plastic set in tonight.

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Tonight is Atlantis

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My ma just texted me this.

My Atlantis cabinet is at her house looks like she got the rails off for me to sand and polish.

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That Backglass gets me every time. Hey look, it’s a Count-Dow…..oops no different game.

Egghead finally going back together tonight…

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All the pops on egghead are now rebuilt. Just have some fine tuning to do and will be playable. I’m tempted to NOT rebuild flippers as the original are pretty good. I have a kit for it I’ll probably do later on.

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I love your EM lineup that also had SS games. Have you thought about doing the GTB variants too?

Been staring at my Dimension in the living room thinking that if it goes awhile without being played the ball counter is going to freeze up due to the old grease. Not anymore! Time to clean everything. Even new coil sleeves which probably aren’t even needed. But since I’m doing so much might as well do the rest.

Also adjusted the 10s relay on my Target pool. If it landed on 9 it would start giving out 100’s for 10 point shots. Or worse 500 for 50 points.

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Just finished cleaning this up. Still a long ways to go but it works and plays.

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It was done by the customers father. It looks really good but it doesn’t belong to any game I know of.

I wanted my tropic isle to completely light up after being triggered by a remote switch so I bypassed the hold relay (fiber actually cracked when I took the iron to it from the pressure) and shorted out the lights from the tilt relay. I made it obvious so I can easily go back and reverse it when/if needed.

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Hit the deck coming along well

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Hit the Deck is ready to go

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Doozie is on its way back together. Lot of new parts going in. Waiting on more parts from PBR.

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I forgot about this thread and haven’t been posting updates. Almost up to 40 EMs in the collection. Really digging into Super Soccer this week lots of new parts going in.

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Not looking forward to this one

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Alright got super straight MOSTLY working!!

Need to get feature lights up and running and add more than 1 player but much better off than it started. Here's a quick play by play of what it needed.

Making progress

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I’m not done with Atlantis yet but I want to get this repainted before it gets cold outside. I won’t be making a dedicated thread for Magic City but will post updates on my OT organization thread.

Yes that’s a Magic City. Someone made some poor decisions with a brush a few owners back.

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Thankfully I have an original source of red

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I’ve been all over the place recently.

Been working on 0-9’s on two Skylines and shopping out Magic City

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One of the dirtiest games I’ve worked on in awhile. Lot of empty cigarette packages inside the cabinet. Probably not from the people I bought it from but they smoked too. Also the rubber rings were actually hose/tubing that probably degraded.

The good news it’s cleaning up well.

The cabinet repaint was brutal but worth it.

This one is a keeper and yes very happy to be part of the middle pop club with this game.

I think this is the most famous game for insert popping

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The 2022 and (2 of) 2023 repaints are all lined up for next weeks get together. Should have 20 or so playable EMs set up this year.

Stencils have been ordered for 2024 repaint season.

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In the middle of documenting this fairway. Does anyone have much history on this game? I noticed the backglass count up to 9 million and change but there’s only 8 light sockets for the millions.

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Mechanically speaking 8,590,000 is the highest possible score for this machine. I made a video of my findings.

So they probably wanted it to be higher at one point ( WMS Twenty Grand?) but things fell apart? I don't know much about other games of this era and if they had similar score values? Here's what I gathered. It keeps me scratching my head.

The machine before Fairway was Times Square. The millions I assume are lit building windows and there are easily 10 windows that could become lit if we dismiss the 3 on the extreme edge of the backglass. Starlite before Times Square seems to be distinctively 9. Silver Skates before that also 9. Twenty Grand before that....9. Then Disk Jockey and Four Corners were only 7

The game after Fairway was Palisades and the millions are hidden in a palm tree so good luck figuring that out.

The game after Palisades, Grand Champion, has 9 distinct banners for millions.

THEN came C.O.D (Clothes on Display? Call of Duty?) and that only has 8 million.

Did they keep making these things short a bulb? I assume most of these were built with the same steppers.

The shopping mall theme threw me off