OMFGWTFBBQ! Reassembly of Medieval Madness is complete! I still have to adjust a couple roll-over switches that don’t always trigger, but everything is put back together, sparkly clean, with new rubber, new troll flaps, shiny star-posts, new flippers, all lamps/flashers/solenoids in working order, a new dot matrix display, and new ball trough! Huzzah! Need to post some before/after pictures when I get a chance.
It’s back in the line-up!
And it only took two years.
Medieval Maddness reassembly is actually progressing nicely, a little bit each day.
Poor Medieval Madness has been sitting in the basement 22 months, waiting for some reassembly love.
I mentioned a while back that I was starting to put it back together, but then I got distracted. So over the last few days the little man and I started to get back on it. We:
So we loosened the set-screw and adjusted it back a bit. Now it’s good (although this picture is not):
All scraped:
Decals applied:
Reassembled:
Much better. Compare that to the old versions:
Somebody made a see through pinball machine. That’s clever. Check out the photoset.
Thanks for the link Señor Terk
A friend of mine pointed me to this article about pinball in Portland.
Moved Monster Bash into place and got it running.
Some issues:
The old fashioned way. We both grabbed hold of it and put our backs into it.
I’ve been wanting to get Monster Bash up and running in my (relatively) new house so I decided to give The Plan a try.
I drilled a little hole in the joist above the main support beam so I could feed through a little steel cable from Home Depot (which claimed that it could support 841 pounds) and wrap it around the beam. Here is an expertly framed photograph of me drilling the hole, taken by my 2 1/2 year-old son:
With the rope-hoist hooked up to the cable I figured I’d give it an easy test, so I grabbed one of my summer tires from the garage and hooked it on (using another steel cable wrapped around the tire).
That was pretty straight forward. So I took out the tire and put Monster Bash in position.
Sadly, the pulleys in the hoist did not provide nearly enough mechanical advantage. Which is a nice way of saying that I wasn’t strong enough to lift it for squat. Perhaps I should seek the mechanical engineering expertise of my father (and read the Wikipedia pages I just linked to). Although an easier solution would be to just throw my brother’s back out again.
My wife officially declared the entire operation a joke. She used the words “Mickey Mouse” and “Three Stooges” several times.
Here are some pictures of the Troll flap decals. Pretty bad shape. They don’t really affect game play but are rather unsightly.
I ordered some replacement decals which I need to put on.
