I just picked up a WCS today!

Having a little minor trough issue, which I know is very common on this machine, but when it detects the trough issue in game, it immediately shuts down, and reboots. Is this normal? Previous owner just replaced the trough opto boards, we fiddled a little bit with some wires and had it working 100% before I moved it. Where should I go looking first?

Certainly will check the trough optos and the opto board on the playfield. Could this be causing the power down too? Or does that seem like a different problem (power supply? fuse?)

It immediately fires back up, but yeah, don't want to recreate this over and over if I'm doing harm to it

Looks like I can also recreate the shutdown with a magna save activation.... maybe there's a power issue and not just an opto issue

Sweet, bought the daughter board. hoping for some easy installation since I'm pretty terrible with a soldering iron. Of course naturally the problem seems to have gone away and I think I can isolate it to one of three things:

1) I checked all the wires everywhere and disconnected and reconnected everything to make sure it was snug.
2) Asked the previous owner when the last time he swapped out those AAs were, he said "what AAs?" changed those and scrubed off some VERY minor corrosion. Here's to hoping my settings save.
3) Plugged the machine straight into the wall instead of the power strip it is on. Sadly, it has no wall outlet where it's going so it'll be on an industrial power strip when I move it back, I'm hoping it's not #3

Now that I've had my WCS for about a month, I've had a lot of fun playing and wrenching on it. I come from a reasonable arcade tech background, but I'm relatively new to working on pins. A couple things I've noticed now that I'm a little stumped to approach with my skill set:

-I'm not sure how to stop my TV Award from shooting straight down the middle. Not sure if the strength of the coil is still there? needs to be cleaned? adjust the angle or something? A little lost here.
-Considering adding some spotlights, but concerned about overdrawing from the GI circuit. I'm using comet optimus GI LEDs currently, but it's in a dark room.
-I can't figure out the best way to move the right post to a different position. Access to it seems miserable.

Any pointers for a rookie?

Got one of these about 14 months ago, hadn't really done much to it and was gonna start prepping to clean it up myself. Noticed during tests that none of my flashers work (nor ever have since I got it! Whoops!).

Found this thread in some googling https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/rec.games.pinball/sNNqRIy7HkU, but it might be a little bit above my ability level. What other things should I be checking first, and what's the how-to on checking fuses, testing the 20v, etc. I have a multimeter, but not a good operator

We got power to LED 5, but still no luck on flashers.

It was nearly all bulb related (Thanks for the Dr Dude tip!). I guess they were never replaced since they're hard to reach. Time to LED these flashers ^_^

In the process of my mini shop job (clean and install all cliffys) I goofed up my travel gate. It doesn't open now, and just always sends balls into the jets even if I have all the ticket stubs. Anything is likely to be that I could fix without disassembling the whole thing? It's a hard place to reach/take pictures of, but I can certainly try later.

I'm sure I just did something stupid putting it back together. Guess we better throw on a movie for tonight!

It does

While I'm taking this thing apart to fix the gate, I might as well swap the rubbers too. I PMed tomdotcom but never heard back. Anyone got a list?

I'm thinking of trying the white super-bands, anyone have any experience with those? I've only used their flipper rubber (and was a fan)

Do you guys remember what quantities of each size you needed?

Great idea! Especially since I plan on using white for both WCS and Dude. I found some kits that users submitted, so I'll just add the kits together and throw in some extras of each.

Anyone need an original fully working DMD?
Upgraded to color and don't need the old one.

Added over 6 years ago: EDIT: SOLD

In search of the triangle/L shaped plastic that goes near the soccer ball/right ramp. Can't find it anywhere without a bunch of ones I don't need

Have you reached out to Marco? They're pretty knowledgeable in my experience

Also, they're cheap enough that I'd probably just buy them both anyhow since they probably don't match the old one perfectly in color, take note of which one was which, and save the old working one in case of emergency. Shipping from Marco is kind of ridiculous so I try to buy as much as I could possibly use with each purchase.

What thickness lexan did you use? Mine is cracked and wrapped in clear packing tape for now.