Williamsburg, KY
Plan on doing my Pinbot the exact same way. Probably gonna pick up those xpin red and blue display as well. I could not care less how color is produced it looks awesome. Lol
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Wait.... So if I put blue lights behind the all blue plastics it is going to mess up the blue? I don't completely follow this but ok. Lol
To each their own on color LEDs. I like them. Some don't. I don't like them on every single game. But sometimes the color adds to the art.
Quoted from dung:This is the ball trough on my BF. Found it saturday while rebuilding the flippers. Funny thing is it works perfectly.
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If it ain't broke don't fix it. Lol.
Quoted from dung:I prefer my games hack free. Besides it is much more fun to work on them then play them. Kinda wishing I had bought a bigger project to be honest.
It was sarcasm lol. I agree completely however. I also enjoy fixing them. I have only purchased one fully working game in my life (and still managed to find five or six things to fix lol). It is half the fun.
Quoted from harbngr:Hard to see in this pick, but just above the right flipper, they drilled in a new hole and used a round head bolt to replace a stripped out screw that fastened the right flipper down.
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I personally love the almost color match on the touch up paint on the playfield lol.
I love how both of those hacked up playfields with drywall screws and nails in them are sporting some nice LED lights lol.
Quoted from stangbat:Awww...jeez. I'm not even going to bother. I'll leave it to Pinsiders to read about Ohm's law and educate themselves.
What's next, Newton's universal law of gravitation? I hear it isn't true either.
Either way they should just go buy a some new fuses. They probably would but, the only place to get them is at radio shack and since they bad mouthed radio shack on pinside they are not allowed in there and had to make this contraption.
Quoted from schudel5:Star Gazer. Not even joking...that wooden flipper was in the coinbox of my Star Gazer when I bought it. If you look at the shaft you can see where the wood is compressed. So there is evidence that it was actually installed in a game! Crazy.
The SG came from Kentucky; so I wasn't even surprised in the slightest.
That cuts deep man. We now have shoes and telephones but still must use hand carved flipper bats. lol!
But in all honesty, I am scoring some sweet games that are broken and getting them for next to nothing because of crap like this so I actually cant even argue with you.
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Quoted from TecumsehPlissken:batteries joined together by soldered wires , all of this mess was wrapped up in a bundle of black electrical tape hanging inside of the back box on a piece of string , at least they got em relocated off of the board / from a reimported Black Rose
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I had an Op tell me once that he did this to all of his games. My response was the same as your. At least they were off the board.
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To me that Addams mpu is the single greatest cluster of all time. That is a beautiful disaster. Like a train wreck man. It makes you sick, butter yet you continue to stare directly into it. Kudos on your patience.
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Quoted from balzofsteel:Some pix of that board with the junk stripped off.
X-ray view.
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No plated holes left at U14, a couple left at U19.
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Kind of messy around U15 and U16.
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More traces and plated holes missing.
FrankenStern has a twin.
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Doodle-a-Circuit pen says the stuff can be soldered - quickly at low temp.
Low temp solder ordered.
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I have tried that circuit writer pen on a board before and had absolutely no luck. I hope that it works better for you. I do know there is a video on YouTube about putting in new eyelets. you could order a bunch and do that if the circuit writer doesn't do it
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Quoted from kursiv:– and didnt see post #462 in this thread 3 months ago.
I was waiting for someone to call it. Lol
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I have had a lot of good luck with reimport games. My Flintstones is super nice and clean. However, this corvette I picked up has so many hacks. I just started laughing with each one I found.
Most are your normal run of the mill crap wiring jobs (I have no idea where that super long wore goes). Then there is the classic replace the translite glass with Plexiglass and why bother with trim. Just throw some tape on there lol. That's $100 flushed down the toilet. Not to mention all the sound ROMs. were in backwards. Lol
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Quoted from barakandl:I did okay until the last picture...
Amazingly, once I turned all of the sound ROMs around the proper way that board worked.
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Quoted from Chrizg:I see that washer used on the rods alot. I always replace with an E clip. Next time you have a mushroomed plunger, just file/grind off the mushroomed part and it will come out.
I'll second this. I find the cut washer on half the games I get lol.
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Quoted from ForceFlow:An experienced tech can crimp pins pretty quickly.
It's mainly about not having the right components on-hand.
I know I can redo a connector with a whole lot less aggravation and quicker than soldering to the board. I think the only reasoning for that would be lack of supplies in the moment. If you need the game running and don't have connectors or pins you would do that to keep making coin.
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Quoted from sohchx:Why round these off or even grind on these at all?? Not to mention covering the entire assembly in WD40 and grease??
I'd say those were mushroomed out pretty bad. I've filed them down before several times. Typically always polish it back out though.
As far the WD40... I believe spraying that crap in a pinball machine is like blowing in your NES cartridges. No one knows why they do it or where they learned it. Not only does it not help but it actually hurts. Yet everyone does it lol.
I just picked up a pinbot that had been lubed every 3000 miles I believe. It was a mess lol. I just got the last mech cleaned this afternoon lol. Thank God for my ultrasonic
Quoted from CNKay:Damn I haven't had a hack in so long, I am missing out.
Where are you guys getting these gems from?
I need to fix something! Every single day I get teased with this topic. And pretty soon all the hacks will be fixed. Fun that I am missing out on.
Well, you can still always count on just about every single interconnect board on every system 11 to have toasted GI connectors.... So we will always have that.
Quoted from L_satan:That tin is the best!
If I were you, I would install it Pooh-side up!
I'm telling you it is the funniest thing. I bought it directly from the op himself. I am sure that he is the one that put both the tin and the beer can on the playfield. The rest of the game though was in decent shape. He even added an external battery holder and did it properly lol. He just didn't give a crap what the game looked like as long as it ran right and made money. He threw in a completely populated pinbot playfield with the game so I am going to end up with a nice one when finished.
I just laughed when I turned that thing over. I thought it was just a sheet of tin he had cut. I'm keeping the tin for sure though
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Quoted from j_m_:bonus points if the key is cut so that it can open the backbox
it would be a key you would never accidentally lose
Almost every key hack I have pulled opened the backbox. Lol.
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Quoted from mgpasman:Guys, back to on topic please
I’ll second that. I keep checking back to find out if someone has tracked down the smoking hot blonde and.... nothing lol.
Seriously. I’m buying one of those crimpers. I knownit was all off topic but I was just thinking I needed a new one
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Quoted from Mk1Mod0:New in the shop, get 'em while they're hot! You know you want one...
I am just trying to justify your reasoning in leaving out the classic “JD is a $1400 game folks”. Lol
Quoted from Mk1Mod0:Working on ver 2.0
Lol. I love it. I’d upvote twice if it would let me
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Quoted from uncivil_engineer:I saw this today on ebay.. someone put a lot of work into this.
Oh ok I see the problem now. There is clearly a PIA error at u41.
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Quoted from Grandnational007:Damn! I'm actually kind of impressed!
No joke!
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Quoted from ForceFlow:I thought plan B was using a rubber band
I thought plan b was a pill for when your rubber broke not a zip tie
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