Quoted from dudah:Somebody fabricated an elegant curved metal bracket, then held it in place with a L bracket.
Excellent fix, but what did they do with the backglass that bracket was holding up?
Quoted from dudah:Somebody fabricated an elegant curved metal bracket, then held it in place with a L bracket.
Excellent fix, but what did they do with the backglass that bracket was holding up?
Quoted from balzofsteel:Seller says pry bar "sounds good".
Ding, ding ding!!! We have a winner! LOL
The brand new Twilight Zone slot machine kickout plunger the operator installed failed in a couple of days. I was at the venue and wanted to play it between tourney games.
Had to improvise a field solution with kneadable wood putty and a flipper pawl bolt. I cured the putty under the men's room hand dryer. I used a flipper sleeve to get the diameter right with the putty so it wouldn't foul when fired.
Was still working until it was changed out with the replacement.
Bottom feed .156 connectors must have been rare. An enterprising hacker crimped stiff copper wire into .156 edge connector pins, fed the copper wire through the header connection and then jammed the pins into the original housing. Lot of work.
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Quoted from matt_adams:A nice pair of coils I just took off a Guns N Roses
Did they solder that with a blowtorch?
Quoted from snakesnsparklers:That's not horrible. Here is a factory bulb socket used on 6803 games:
Supposed to have one of those old school round screw in florescents I believe...but never see them with it...prob hard to find.
Quoted from matt_adams:A nice pair of coils I just took off a Guns N Roses
Holy mother of God!!!!
Quoted from pacmanretro:Supposed to have one of those old school round screw in florescents I believe...but never see them with it...prob hard to find
You just use an LED bulb. Works great and no heat. I have one in my Strange Science.
Quoted from SUPERBEE:You just use an LED bulb. Works great and no heat. I have one in my Strange Science.
I found an old source and bought several florescents once...lol. prob better for glass to use the led for sure!
Quoted from pacmanretro:Supposed to have one of those old school round screw in florescents I believe...but never see them with it...prob hard to find.
Except for Strange Science (which is what this game is - you can tell by the small solid state relay board). SS flashes the bulb rapidly with the neon topper. It would destroy a fluorescent bulb.
Quoted from dothedoo:Except for Strange Science (which is what this game is - you can tell by the small solid state relay board). SS flashes the bulb rapidly with the neon topper. It would destroy a fluorescent bulb.
Interesting. Never considered that. The manual for Strange Science specifically calls out the florescent.
Generic manual page?
On my motordome I went with a bright warm led bulb. Tried a color changer but too dim. The effect was kind of cool.
Quoted from pacmanretro:Supposed to have one of those old school round screw in florescents I believe...but never see them with it...prob hard to find.
I thought I read in the manual it's actually a 130v incandescent commercial sign bulb? A 6803 I found in a warehouse had one of these but it was an amber color.
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Quoted from Crash:I thought I read in the manual it's actually a 130v incandescent commercial sign bulb? A 6803 I found in a warehouse had one of these but it was an amber color.
From what I've observed, the earlier games used an incandescent bulb, but later games used that round florescent bulb.
Quoted from Ashwood486:Opened up the back box on a Gottlieb system 1 pinball pool. It looks like it came from a VCR and used car speaker wiring.
What is that extra board doing in there?
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Found this gem in my Whirlwind. I'm diagnosing an issue where the rear playfield GI is locked on. Found this:
Looks like instead of previous owner/operator fixing the dead transistor (which is what I presume to be wrong), he wired in some relay backwards so that the locked on transistor would keep the GI on and not permanently off.
Quoted from superJackpot:Not the worst but a hack nonetheless... with coil backwards, shoddy wiring...
I... umm... just... aah.... rip it all out and start from scratch. That's my solution.
Quoted from ChrisHibler:What is that extra board doing in there?
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Acting as a power supply, maybe?
Quoted from dudah:Another creative hack on my Pinbot project.
Taking apart the shooter assembly, the e-clip was a bit difficult to remove.
OP popped on some washer to hold it on. Surprisingly worked very well. Look at the shooter tip to get an idea how old this setup is.
I've seen that many times. So often in fact, that I wonder if that is original equipment.
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Quoted from ChrisHibler:I've seen that many times. So often in fact, that I wonder if that is original equipment.
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I believe the "C" clip is original for Williams games.
Quoted from Zippyy:Did the bracket for the laser kick on your Data East game break?
Just tighten that bad boy down with some screws!
Quoted from pacmanretro:Supposed to have one of those old school round screw in florescents I believe...but never see them with it...prob hard to find.
They're called circlines and came in 15 and 27 watt sizes (15 used in Bally pins). Have not seen them in stores in years.
Quoted from girloveswaffles:They're called circlines and came in 15 and 27 watt sizes (15 used in Bally pins). Have not seen them in stores in years.
Always scared me that, since its a normal socket, someone could screw any wattage incandescent in that they wanted.
Quoted from pacmanretro:Always scared me that, since its a normal socket, someone could screw any wattage incandescent in that they wanted.
And replacing that ring shaped lamp with an low wattage incandescent or even a CFL doesn't disperse the light the same way so it's bright in the middle and not spread more evenly.
Quoted from dudah:Another creative hack on my Pinbot project.
Taking apart the shooter assembly, the e-clip was a bit difficult to remove.
OP popped on some washer to hold it on. Surprisingly worked very well. Look at the shooter tip to get an idea how old this setup is.
This is factory!! It's called a c-ring. Read the manual
Here is my contribution. This fuse holder is from a 1958 Bally Golf Champ. Fuse holder fails and you lose some pieces well then just find an extra switch blade and cut it up and solder in place. They made sure to make good use of that blade throughout the holder. I appreciate the fact they used the portion with the contact point to assist in unraveling the hack.
Mike V
Quoted from RacingPin:Here is my contribution. This fuse holder is from a 1958 Bally Golf Champ. Fuse holder fails and you lose some pieces well then just find an extra switch blade and cut it up and solder in place. They made sure to make good use of that blade throughout the holder. I appreciate the fact they used the portion with the contact point to assist in unraveling the hack.
Mike V
Bally fuse holders have always been crap. That isn't a hack, it's an upgrade.
Speaking of fuse holders, this isn't the worst hack I've seen but it did make me think, "what da hey"?
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Quoted from phillyfan64:This is my World Fair machine. No idea why somebody cut the harness in half when all they had to do was unplug the jones plugs. The wire colors don't even match but it actually works fine.
Looks sorta like the Paddock that came home recently.
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