What failed today at Up-Down barcade

I really enjoy the thread created by Eddie about the breakdowns at modern pinball so I thought I would also share some of my machine failures for some additional info on what breaks on location. I have 8 pins that get a lot of plays each week.

10/31

TMNT - auto plunger snapped in half. This game was supposed to be in another barcade before I got it so I thought it would last a little bit longer but it only took 4 days for it to fail

TFTC - all 3 screws came out of the flipper bushing

FG - broken flipper linkage

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#2 9 years ago

SAS

gtown

Pinside member

Austin, TX

10y 63,150 610 4

Thanks for sharing your work like Eddie. Nice to see the work that goes on under these conditions.

#3 9 years ago

TOY

mario_1_up

Pinside member

Fairbank, IA

11y 80,800 2,350 24 8

Well get them up and going. I'm going there tomorrow. I the same thing happen to my tmnt when i had one.

#4 9 years ago

CWG

Chrizg

11-2

Addams - left flipper stuck. Plunger and crank nut backed all the way off the screw

WCS - Plunger rubber shredded and diode on goalie target broke. Cleaned up existing solder work on that target

TMNT - auto kicker pivot arm broke so the auto plunger is down again. Sigh. Luckily the game isn't down since the plunger in there is long enough to make contact with the ball

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#5 9 years ago

TOY

mario_1_up

Pinside member

Fairbank, IA

11y 80,800 2,350 24 8

I was down there Saturday and played some games. Nice to see some maintained machines on route. I couldn't play taf because some old guy and his wife were working in shifts never letting anyone else play so that sucked. I have one suggestion would to turn down the wcs a little bit when the fireworks go off it's ear piercing.

#6 9 years ago

ZZZ

inhomearcades

Midwest Gaming

11y 71,800 2,849 27

I ultimately pulled tmnt off route because of the turbo plunger on that game. Turbo my ass. It was always breaking, then balls would build up in the lane and it was impossible to clear them with out taking off the glass. Idk if you already keep an excel spreadsheet of your repairs or not but I have found it to be very useful.

#7 9 years ago

MOF

mof

Mof Pinball

San Francisco, CA

11y 149K 13,302 25 94

Quoted from inhomearcades:
Idk if you already keep an excel spreadsheet of your repairs or not but I have found it to be very useful.

+1
-mof

#8 9 years ago

CWG

Chrizg

11-8

Family Guy - Upper flipper not working. Wire came off coil

South Park - Balls jammed in entry to trough (reason for trip to bar and found all the rest of these issues)

World Cup - balls stuck by ball due to triangle plastic coming off

World Cup (return trip) - 89 led flasher in trough causing jam. I have no idea where it came from since I think all flashers on top of PF are 906

Tftc - balls stuck all over like usual

T2 - wire off middle target bank

Addams - multi switch errors and things hand was having issues going back down. Took box off and make sure nothing was loose or whatever and started working again. Ordering new thing motor

Tmnt - display stuck on slam tilt. Reseated ribbons cables so need to replace those.

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1 week later

#9 9 years ago

CWG

Chrizg