Unexpectedly joined the Pharaoh club today. Long story short this older fellow had one in his basement, and he just wanted it gone. I went in blind expecting a pretty worn out table, and wow, it is actually in pretty good shape. Electronically it needs a lot of work, leaky batteries, botched wiring fix on the GI power, but damn, the backglass is almost flawless. Playfield is okay, no raw spots but the inserts are sort of raised in a lot of places.

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lol, no I have not. Will have to take a closer look! I'm wondering if there is some measure I could take to ensure the backglass stays this nice. I think it's usually excessive heat that causes flaking, I plan on switching to led's not sure if that will be enough though.

Thanks for the advice! I was leaning that way just because I'd hate to mess it up. Also I can't seem to find any hidden tiddies on the backglass

haha okay, I did notice that the horses nose looked a bit like a butt, but I didn't get the full image!

So, I ordered a bunch of parts for the circuit boards and in the meantime I've been examining the playfield. Damn near all of the inserts are cupped or sunken pretty dramatically. My plan is to use one of the several methods listed on this site to level out the inserts, and then afterwards use a playfield protector. Does this make sense? Does it pay to level out the inserts if I'm going to use a playfield protector?

hey did you end up selling that playfield protector?

Pharaoh lives! After several weeks of toying with it I finally decided to turn on my Pharaoh. Still some switch issues and GI issues on the upper portion. I'll get to them but I wanted to get it up and running because my sisters kids came over for a while today. They liked it a little better than Fire! because they can actually get the multiball pretty easily. The question I have for you all, is what is the sound supposed to be when the stop and score is counting down? Mine kind of just sounds like this stacticy almost white noisey sound. All the other sounds appear to be working. IDK, it might be right.

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Thanks man, but I think there's a handful of gameplay videos I can look at when I have time. Seems weird to me that one sound effect would be off, and the SE here seem pretty primative as it is.

The sound is correct, was able to confirm with some different videos I found on youtube. I did find one more naked lady in the backglass too

I had issues all around when I rebuilt the flippers. What I found is that the new return springs were much stronger than the originals, when I put the old springs back on they worked like a charm.

Yeah, the problem I had was that when the eos would open the coil didn't have the strength to keep the plunger down under pressure of the new springs, which would cause it to kind of machine gun the flipper. Is that whats happening for you?

Have you checked that the hold voltage is present to the coil?

Which one has a resistor? the top one, I can't really see.

ya know, looking at the pictures above I think I was wrong about there being a separate hold voltage. It looks like it's still 50v but when the EOS opens it is only powering half the coil.

Hi, would one of you be willing to take a picture of the upper playfield light relay? I finally got a replacement for mine which was broken internally. In the meantime I capped the wires together so that the upper playfield gi is always on, and now I can't remember which wires go where.

Here is a picture of where the relay I'm looking for a picture of belongs. When I first got the pharaoh I removed the relay and shorted together the wires so that the lights would always stay on. Pretty sure I took a picture of it at the time, but I've switched phones and don't think the picture got saved! If anyone could help me out I'd appreciate it, but I have a bunch of other work to do in the meantime, so no hurry!

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got pictures from @topkat. Thanks again!