Quoted from Dono:Mata Hari EM playfield...Ive seen a bunch of post additions between the flippers but never one in the middle of a playfield...geez...
Looks like an improvement to me....
Quoted from Dono:Mata Hari EM playfield...Ive seen a bunch of post additions between the flippers but never one in the middle of a playfield...geez...
Looks like an improvement to me....
Quoted from Dono:Mata Hari EM playfield...Ive seen a bunch of post additions between the flippers but never one in the middle of a playfield...geez...
They didn't want to hack the kick out hole arm by bending the tip to prevent sdtm drains from it. Well done....
Really???? They couldn’t have found nails with bigger heads and maybe a file pattern on top? No wonder the ball was rusty and pitted and the pf has deep swirls everywhere. And please don’t tell me this is factory original. OMG pulled one and shame on me. It is factory coil assembly mounting screws but installed on top of the Mylar bumper protectors. So what the heck to do about this????
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Looks factory to me. Three to mount the coil bracket.
Oh your saying the mylar is down frist then nail? Take a Dremel and or with hand finishing, polish as best you can and put a 1'' mylar circle over them. I don't think the ball should really ever touch if pops working correctly.
Yes looks like someone carefully pulled them out, put down adhesive mount Mylar, then put them back over the Mylar. Ball hits all 9 of them. Don’t want to take a chance on pulling up Mylar. So will take your advice and grind smooth (they come out pretty easily) polish, then cover w 1” Mylar and replace bumper skirts.
LOTR has a plastic ramp at the tip of the center ramp that will bring the ball to the right whenever it does not lock in the magnets center shot. The plastic ramp is known to break and is easily available in a 2 set for 10dollars.
I surprisingly didn't notice at first until a ball actually got stuck in the middle of the rubber loop in the second week of owning it. While I can not get the red v piece for underneath the plastic ramp without buying the whole plastics set, I was able to take out the screw and rubber mod that was in place instead of the readily available ramp.
The game now plays as intended and hopefully I can replace the last plastic piece soon to cover the screw hole still remaining.
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Quoted from mal7887:Found this on a MM I picked up today.
Why change the settings and put the game in free play when you can just drill a hole in the coin door and hot wire a button to "add quarters" on demand.
I serviced someone's TZ not too long ago and they had the coin switch fed through the coin return slot just hanging out there. Another case of not changing the game setting
Quoted from ForceFlow:I serviced someone's TZ not too long ago and they had the coin switch fed through the coin return slot just hanging out there. Another case of not changing the game setting
Although it was a push button switch, like the one drilled through the door above, That's the way all distributors (real distributors, for route operators, with a building, parts department, service department, machines in inventory, ready for immediate delivery, buyback of used equipment, even for $50.00 a machine, multiple employees) would set the equipment on "free play" so you can simulate inserting a coin or bill to get a play/vend.
Quoted from MrBally:Although it was a push button switch, like the one drilled through the door above, That's the way all distributors (real distributors, for route operators, with a building, parts department, service department, machines in inventory, ready for immediate delivery, buyback of used equipment, even for $50.00 a machine, multiple employees) would set the equipment on "free play" so you can simulate inserting a coin or bill to get a play/vend.
Doesn't require a manual. Doesn't require walking the home customer through the game menu to reset free play when the battery is replaced. Still works even if the battery is dead. I can see where it would be preferable to setting the free play option, especially 10-15 years ago.
At least they punched it through the bill validator insert blank, so it can be restored just by finding another blanking plate.
In the past I had a couple arcade games with no free play. I would put a micro switch inside the coin return flap so you could just push the flap to add credits. When I got rid of them I just popped in a little black plastic hole plug thing and you couldn't even tell.
Take it to the next level. Install a long flat lever style submicro and two small zip-ties...presto, pushing the coin reject button adds a credit. I did this trick on many older classic vids where no free play option existed.
(disclaimer: well, there's actually THREE zip ties in there because I used two short ones looped on the long side. Don't overlook the third one which goes through the hole in the switch body and holds it down against the coin mech.)
Richard
Quoted from someotherguy:Take it to the next level. Install a long flat lever style submicro and two small zip-ties...presto, pushing the coin reject button adds a credit. I did this trick on many older classic vids where no free play option existed.
(disclaimer: well, there's actually THREE zip ties in there because I used two short ones looped on the long side. Don't overlook the third one which goes through the hole in the switch body and holds it down against the coin mech.)
Richard
Huh, that's clever. I haven't seen that one before.
I've seen switches mounted in front of coin reject buttons before, but usually without the coin mech.
Quoted from ForceFlow:Huh, that's clever. I haven't seen that one before.
I've seen switches mounted in front of coin reject buttons before, but usually without the coin mech.
I've been doing that for years, especially on arcade games that have a static screen when you turn on freeplay
Quoted from mal7887:Found this on a MM I picked up today.
Why change the settings and put the game in free play when you can just drill a hole in the coin door and hot wire a button to "add quarters" on demand.
Any chance it was just an arcade door they re-used? That's typical of arcades that didn't have free-play options in their ROMs.
Quoted from someotherguy:Picked up a Zaccaria Time Machine a few years back. Seller obviously had problems with the backbox lock, so he had "his guys" take care of it...which was a damn shame because otherwise the cabinet was very nice. Nice machine overall.
I have no doubt they are the ones that did it, too, as the van it was sitting in the back of had fresh sawdust everywhere around the immediate area.
I'm betting this machine ended up in the collection of someone here, though I can't recall who I sold it to. It's been a while. Kinda hard to miss this identifying mark, though!!!
Richard
I actually bought this machine. It's still in the exact same condition unfortunately. I'd gotten out of the hobby sort of (hadn't played or worked on any of my games) for awhile. Starting to get back into things but this one is down the list in what to get up and running. Hopefully it won't be too much longer but I still have no idea how i'm going to fix what was done to the poor head. Sucks because the rest of the cabinet is almost pristine.
Quoted from j_m_:is that the extra, extra, extra slow blow variety?
I'm thinking that's the no-blo style. The machine blows instead of the fuse.
Richard
Quoted from Vreuls:Nice fuse
Whoever did that couldn't even get it right! Everyone knows that a #8-32 X 1-1/4 is the universal fuse substitute!
Quoted from pinball_faz:I can see why it's not working; that screw is a little short
faz
Quoted from gregh:Does this count? Holy hell
Counts times 10. Perhaps someone convinced him the red spade connectors are fuses? Just a thought...
Quoted from Mk1Mod0:Counts times 10. Perhaps someone convinced him the red spade connectors are fuses? Just a thought...
Hahaha it's very possible. I'm just lucky he left enough original wire I can get it all back together properly.
Poor System 9 board. I guess it could be a rainy day project when there is nothing else to work on. Honestly I don't know what someone was/wasn't thinking as they hacked this board. Just about everything that was touched ruined a trace. Still trying to figure out just how the top of the board is so hacked up for U49. Just sad. Some people just aren't up to desoldering/soldering on PCB's
Quoted from Robotworkshop:Honestly I don't know what someone was/wasn't thinking as they hacked this board.
It looks like they were steeling parts from this board and didn't care about the damage they were causing.
If that's the case, lets hope the parts they pulled off the board to repair were removed nicer. I mean, WOW.
Quoted from Robotworkshop:Still trying to figure out just how the top of the board is so hacked up for U49.
Let me help you...
I totally forgot to take a picture, so sorry.
But in your mind picture a gottlieb driver board with one on the large TO3 case transistors flapping in the breeze and connected with appliance cord. And smaller transistor with enamel coil wire wrapped around the board from front to back as a fix for heat (desoldering) damage to traces and mounting pads.
Quoted from GRUMPY:It looks like they were steeling parts from this board and didn't care about the damage they were causing.
Agreed. Somebody went shopping on that board.
I'd say it could definitely be fixed, but "rainy day" for sure, and it's gonna be a rats' nest of jumper wires! When it's all said and done, an "after" picture could probably still qualify in this thread, but at least it would be working again.
Richard
Quoted from someotherguy:I'd say it could definitely be fixed, but "rainy day" for sure
I'm thinking a couple rainy days for sure.
Quoted from someotherguy:Agreed. Somebody went shopping on that board.
I'd say it could definitely be fixed, but "rainy day" for sure, and it's gonna be a rats' nest of jumper wires! When it's all said and done, an "after" picture could probably still qualify in this thread, but at least it would be working again.
Well, I suppose it depends just on how much time I wanted to kill. Since that board isn't particularly rare I don't think I am going to mess with it. I'll focus on more important projects for now. If I did need that board then I would probably use the wirewrap wire to bend up new traces like I did on this WPC board. It had a small hole (filled with epoxy) in the board where the three green jumpers are. All the jumpers that I made are on the component side of the board.
I've worked on boards with the rats nest of wires dangling off the back and if I ever get a machine like that then I'll redo the work and make it more like the attached picture.
What's happening to this thread!? That looks like a sweet repair job, I'm here for the total shit show not clean work.
Quoted from Robotworkshop:Well, I suppose it depends just on how much time I wanted to kill. Since that board isn't particularly rare I don't think I am going to mess with it. I'll focus on more important projects for now. If I did need that board then I would probably use the wirewrap wire to bend up new traces like I did on this WPC board. It had a small hole (filled with epoxy) in the board where the three green jumpers are. All the jumpers that I made are on the component side of the board.
I've worked on boards with the rats nest of wires dangling off the back and if I ever get a machine like that then I'll redo the work and make it more like the attached picture.
Holy crap, that looks amazing!
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