I’ve started putting everything back together on top of the playfield. This involves going through all my little ziplock baggies in reverse order and using all the photos I took to help me remember where everything should go.
Archive for September, 2003
Playfield Surface Reassembly Begun
Tuesday, September 30th, 2003Wiring Transfer, Complete!
Sunday, September 28th, 2003Tah-dah!
Took a little while but went pretty smoothly. The funny thing is the wires were stiff enough that they pretty much fell into their old positions on their own.
Next, I plopped it into the machine:
Then I realized I missed one solenoid:
Office Photo
Saturday, September 27th, 2003Say cheeze!
ST:TNG Status
Saturday, September 27th, 2003Star Trek is up in the game room at my office. Good shape.
MB Status
Friday, September 26th, 2003Monster Bash is now up in the game room at my office.
- Left outlane switch doesn’t work
- Left wolf-man loop switches don’t work
- Scoop needs replacement. Some of the welding separated and it messes up the ball trajectory. Tends to drain down the middle. Everyone at the office bitches about this.
Test Report:
CHECK SWITCH 16 LEFT OUTLANE
CHECK SWITCH 27 RIGHT OUTLANE
CHECK SWITCH 61 LEFT LOOP LOW
CHECK SWITCH 64 RIGHT LOOP HI
None of the switches fire when a ball rolls over, but they fire when I run my finger over.
Replaced the scoop with a re-designed replacement[1]. That’s the old one on the left.
- Replaced right outlane switch (FIXME – #) and left loop low switch (FIXME – #).
- Adjusted left outlane switch wire-form.
- Replaced right flipper rubber. Need to replace left.
- Cleaned playfield with Millwax.
- Cleaned glass.
[1] Didn’t write down where I got this from. Need to find out. – 12/29/2006
MM Status
Wednesday, September 24th, 2003Medieval Madness is now up in the game room at my office.
Test Report:
CHECK SWITCH 45 LEFT TROLL (UNDER PLAYFIELD)
CHECK SWITCH 52 RIGHT SLINGSHOT
CHECK SWITCH F4 LEFT FLIPPER BUTTON
CHECK SWITCH LEFT TROLL UP SWITCH BAD
CHECK SWITCH RIGHT TROLL UP SWITCH BAD
ToTAN Status
Wednesday, September 24th, 2003ToTAN is up in the game room at my office.
Test report is all good.
Gave it some fresh batteries.
New Office Space
Wednesday, September 24th, 2003My company moved offices and it’s time to get the machines set up in the new company game room.
Wiring Transfer
Tuesday, September 16th, 2003This is what the old playfield looked like at this point:
One giant interconnected mass of stuff. Unless I wanted to and re-wire an re-solder everything (which I didn’t) it needed to all get transferred at once. So, I went over the entire thing, and whenever I encountered something that was screwed to the playfield (a switch, a lamp socket, a cable harness) I wrote a number on it, and then wrote the same number on the corresponding dimple(s) on the new playfield.
Here’s the new playfield with the numbers:
Next I unscrewed everything from the old playfield. It looks much worse than it is:
Solenoids Transfer
Monday, September 15th, 2003Next I cleaned and transferred the rest of the solenoids and their assemblies. Here you can see where I awesomely broke one of the pop-bumper nail/screw things. I rule!
Here’s the new playfield with all the solenoid stuff mounted:
