I had completely forgotten about my adventure with the rectifier in Seven Up/WS43. Forgot why I made a bridge out of diodes, must have had the pieces. Anyway, here's a few pix...

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The wires from the transformer are really stiff and I didn't want to mess with them. What I did was to take the large through-bolt out of the old selenium rectifier, and replaced some of the metal washers in the stack with fiber insulators. This allowed me to use the old bridge as a terminal strip and not disturb the transformer wiring.

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Hmm.. Rectifier bridge made from diodes does look slightly less newfangled than packaged unit - maybe that's why. It looks like I used a terminal strip scrounged from '70s Williams, some wire from same, fuse and clips, and 6A05 diodes.

The green wires are AC and the red is DC+

Other questions....

Voltages - I'm pretty sure Genco solenoids run around 18 volts. The lights are 6V. #40 bulbs will run cooler than #46

The timer is probably a holdover from a few years earlier when pins ran on batteries. This seems more likely than the hurry-up thing that keeps getting repeated. The timer runs for five minutes or so - who couldn't finish a game in that time?? Seven Up only has one GI lamp in the whole game - another likely holdover from the battery era.

Taco-shaped bumper skirts - plastic warped but paint not faded.. How does baked in a hot dark attic sound?

D-shaped rubber - that black stuff looks ghastly. There is some D-shaped white rubber weatherstrip at the hardware store. It looks pretty good but has nearly no bounce(it's hollow). Watch the youtube video of Seven Up for a look at some.

Here's some I made from GE bathroom silicone. Good bounce and looks like the real thing.

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Sounds about right.

I think it needs that connection. See second pic in above post.

That would be it. There's a button-like thing under the cabinet that you push to zero the credit counter.

Almost everything scores 100 except for the stuff that scores 1000 when lit.

Added over 8 years ago: oops.