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What am I looking at here? I can’t make sense of this.
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Quoted from goingincirclez:I'm amazed it lasted at all and isn't burnt to a crisp without a hold winding. What game is that on? Must not be much reason or opportunity to hold or cradle the ball.
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image (resized).jpgimage (resized).jpgimage (resized).jpgimage (resized).jpgQuoted from maffewl:What am I looking at here? I can’t make sense of this.
Supposed to look like this. Old Gottliebs flipper buttons pushed the hard wire form into the flipper switch mounted to the playfield.
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Very cool. I’ve not seen that before. Nor have I seen it hacked with a nail.
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The wire nut to splice is genious. 
Regina, SK
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Ha! I told you I could fix it without a soldering iron. 
Wichita, KS
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In the automotive world those crimp connectors are a normal and accepted way to repair wiring or make mods to your sound system. If you are working under a dash, using a soldering iron is not practical.
Granted, this is pinball machine and crimp connectors get laughed at. But I can understand the logic of using crimps. However, the wire nuts are a little over the top and a complete waste.
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Now do I cut the RED wire or the BLUE wire???
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Quoted from pinball4ever:Why spend 20 cents on new flipper rubber when you can just take an old crusty piece that broke off and a tube of super glue and fix it? You don't use the back side of the flipper, so you don't need anything there anyway, right?[quoted image]
Great, now Clay is going to have us do that going forward. Even though there are 10,000 new ones in the parts department.
Quoted from pinball4ever:Why spend 20 cents on new flipper rubber when you can just take an old crusty piece that broke off and a tube of super glue and fix it? You don't use the back side of the flipper, so you don't need anything there anyway, right?[quoted image]
When I first saw that picture I thought you were going to say they glued on a strip of bacon. They must have been really desperate or too lazy to look for the right part. They would have been better off just sticking on a piece of foam weatherstripping.
Quoted from pinball4ever:Why spend 20 cents on new flipper rubber when you can just take an old crusty piece that broke off and a tube of super glue and fix it? You don't use the back side of the flipper, so you don't need anything there anyway, right?[quoted image]
Delete this before Stern sees it!
Quoted from pinball4ever:Why spend 20 cents on new flipper rubber when you can just take an old crusty piece that broke off and a tube of super glue and fix it? You don't use the back side of the flipper, so you don't need anything there anyway, right?[quoted image]
From the looks of the glue, looks like liquid nails.
As bad as hacks like that glued flipper rubber are, I always wonder if / which ethos they sprung from:
1) The Operator Era: "Ah shit I just used my last spare flipper band yesterday and new ones aren't in yet, but I'm getting screamed at to get this running right damn now, so lemme glue this on and I'll fix it properly next time..." [Narrator: and life took that personally, so there was no next time...]
OR
2) The post-operator, pre-internet era: "Cool I just got this pin from that place that closed up the street and.... just where the hell am I supposed to find a rubber band this size?!? Oooh, I have an idea...."
Quoted from pinball4ever:Why spend 20 cents on new flipper rubber when you can just take an old crusty piece that broke off and a tube of super glue and fix it?
I like that idea so much I think I'm going to take a new rubber, cut it in half so I'll have two identical pieces. Get out the superglue, or maybe hot glue gun, and attach to the flipper. When it wears out I'll have the replacement ready. Or even thinking I could cut strips of different colored bands and glue them on for a Zebra look. Here's my idea. The possibilities!
IMG_8099 (resized).JPGQuoted from JethroP:I like that idea so much I think I'm going to take a new rubber, cut it in half so I'll have two identical pieces. Get out the superglue, or maybe hot glue gun, and attach to the flipper. When it wears out I'll have the replacement ready. Or even thinking I could cut strips of different colored bands and glue them on for a Zebra look. Here's my idea. The possibilities![quoted image]
Are you the same guy that was making LED bulbs by hand?
Quoted from chad:Floors slopes bad!
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Must be high tide season
Just stumbled on this thread. Brought back memories lol. Here's a few pics I found of a Batman Forever I got from an indoor kid play place (Bouncy balls etc) in 2006. Got an awesome deal at the time. Paid 350$ CAD (about 250$ USD at the time). Don't think it had ever been wiped down. Loved the flipper rubber repair. Didn't appreciate the outlane solution as much though 
Cleaned it up and played it a bit but it never made the basement lineup only the garage. It was gone after a few months.
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Yeah, thad be me. 
Quoted from chad:Floors slopes bad!
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Those are for tall players.
Quoted from shirkle:If the front are that high, what do the back look like?!
Back are normal, play is a bit slow. I was afraid to shake it too much.
Quoted from RichWolfson:I'd love to see the "after' pics when you are done!
///Rich
We streamed that Pinbot before it left it turned out really nice. Towards the beginning 
pinballplusMN nailed the skill shot for 1 million too!
Just catching up on this thread now didn’t know there were these pics until now.
Quoted from truemagoo102:Boy, did this operator get lucky...
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No shirt
No shoes
No dice
Quoted from bssbllr:No shirt
No shoes
No dice
Talk about letting the good times roll!
Quoted from bssbllr:No shirt
No shoes
No dice
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Home made bridge rectifiers. Awesome! No heat sink, add a fan! Genius!
Quoted from Robotworkshop:Hair. Impressive or scary. You decide!
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Yikes.
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Holy crap. I've done a lot of board stitching, but that is something!
Worst one I had was a Gottlieb Jet Spin where things were just working strange. Narrowed it down to that somebody had 'fixed' something by moving and resoldering a bunch of wires onto the wrong lugs on a relay. This was before the days I could go on the internet and get schematics plus I was a real greenie back then, it was all by eyeballing so now I dunno how I ever figured that damn puzzle out and got it running correctly!
Quoted from pinballplusMN:Previous owner used blowtorch to solder on a couple loose wires.
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Dude must have been a plumber.
Quoted from Grauwulf:Dude must have been a plumber.
Well now let's not assume the poor fella used a blowtorch. Maybe it was a can of hairspray and a lighter. 
This is my BTTF that I am working on slowly. I had to rebuild the flippers because the coils were backwards and one was held up by a blue wire tied around the coil and baseplate. (Picture) To try and keep the coil snug there was electrical tape around the end with a part of a clothespin on one coil and the other was crammed with post it notes. Some screws in the baseplate were missing and some were completely the wrong size. The screws on the posts behind the drop targets had broken off so someone decided it was a good idea to drill new posts rather than remove the broken screws and use those. The main ramp was held together by old yellow epoxy, some tape, and the screw was hot glued on to make it look like it was attached. Of course, it has been fun fixing it up.
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Quoted from pinballplusMN:This is a Space Shuttle. Now I know why a transistor is blown on the switch matrix.
Wow - I've never seen that before!
Quoted from pinballplusMN:This is a Space Shuttle. Now I know why a transistor is blown on the switch matrix.
But there are insulators on each side!
///Rich
Quoted from truemagoo102:Boy, did this operator get lucky...
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I spy with my little eye... a RoadShow ?
Quoted from Hadojae:This is my BTTF that I am working on slowly. I had to rebuild the flippers because the coils were backwards and one was held up by a blue wire tied around the coil and baseplate. (Picture) To try and keep the coil snug there was electrical tape around the end with a part of a clothespin on one coil and the other was crammed with post it notes. Some screws in the baseplate were missing and some were completely the wrong size. The screws on the posts behind the drop targets had broken off so someone decided it was a good idea to drill new posts rather than remove the broken screws and use those. The main ramp was held together by old yellow epoxy, some tape, and the screw was hot glued on to make it look like it was attached. Of course, it has been fun fixing it up.
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Wow, just wow. So much easier than doing it the right way.
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Forgot I had these photos . Stern HRC. Surprisingly it worked but there was a literal hole burnt through the board and there are patch wires going through it. Oh and the zip tie, no clue.
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Quoted from Boat:Forgot I had these photos . Stern HRC. Surprisingly it worked but there was a literal hole burnt through the board and there are patch wires going through it. Oh and the zip tie, no clue.
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The tie wrap must be there to hold the transistor in place since there’s a huge hole where it’s supposed to be mounted, ingenious!
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