Making steady progress clearing the playfield.
Archive for October, 2006
Disassembly Progressing…
Tuesday, October 31st, 2006I Love Parts
Monday, October 30th, 2006Ordered a new ball trough from Marco Specialties.
From Bay Area Amusements I ordered a bunch of stuff:
For Medieval Madness:
- Troll Decals
- Troll Mylar Set
- Rubber Ring Kit (default colors)
- Replacement flippers
For Shadow:
- Some 11 pin .156 connectors, beacause I was too lazy to look up the part at Digi-Key. This is for burnt G.I. connector on J120.
- Replacement springs for the divertor mechanisms. Williams part #10-320.
Disassembly Started…
Sunday, October 29th, 2006Started disassembling playfield of Medieval Madness for some major cleaning/shopping.
Shopping Medieval Madness
Saturday, October 28th, 2006Now that Shadow is good to go, I moved Medieval Madness to the “shop” area for some much needed work.
Shop goals:
- A bunch of switches don’t work, fix ‘em.
- Rubber is old and cracked, replace it all.
- Bunch of bulbs are out, replace ‘em.
- Everything is really dirty. I mean, even for a pinball machine. Clean it.
- The red plastic star posts are all covered with Millwax and look crappy. Clean or replace.
- Left flipper is weak. I think the bushing is broken. Fix it.
- DMD has major burn-in. Replace.
- Left troll doesn’t pop up. Bracket is broken. Replace or fix.
- Balls get stuck in ball trough (divots?). Replace or fix.
Shadow Repairs Finished
Saturday, October 28th, 2006Shadow is all back together and works super-awesome (er, except for the upper half of the backbox G.I. lights, which I still need to fix). The sanctum lock works flawlessly. Yay!
Backbox Decals Arrive
Wednesday, October 25th, 2006The backbox decals I ordered from The Pinball Heaven arrived via Royal Mail, via my local USPS mailman.
I peeked inside the tube to make sure they were there and then put them away for safekeeping. Don’t feel like replacing them right now.
Sanctum Photos
Wednesday, October 25th, 2006Here are some photos of the repaired sanctum with the surrounding parts back in place. Not bad I think.
Here are the closest before and after shots:
I’d say the lettering is a little thick and the ‘U’ is too narrow and the ‘M’ too wide. But I’m not complaining.
Reassembly Continued…
Wednesday, October 25th, 2006Almost finished with the reassembly. Replaced the left-hand ramp with a reproduction that I ordered from Bay Area Amusements a few years ago. The old one had a metal strap on the left that broke:
It doesn’t look like much, but it totally screwed up the way the ball exited the ramp.
As I was putting stuff together, I noticed two spots where I think there might have been Mongol figures. One above the upper-right flipper, and another to the left of the left ramp. Each spot features two perfectly placed hex screws just sitting there doing nothing.
I wonder if they were separated from my machine sometime in its past by a previous owner. Must investigate.
Another oddity… After putting in the new plastics I had two extra pieces that didn’t match anything on the playfield. They seemed to fit perfectly over each ramp though. Here they are placed over where they seem to fit. Note the right-hand ramp piece is green because it still has the protective sheeting on it.
Again, must investigate.
Parts
Wednesday, October 25th, 2006Ordered a bunch of stuff from Bay Area Amusements:
- WMS part #20-9247 magnet coil. Used on Shadow, Twilight Zone, and Theatre of Magic so it doesn’t hurt to have a spare. FIXME – is it also used on CV?
- Replacement troll brackets for Medieval Madness
- Cirqus Voltaire “WOW” decal replacement
- PinLED replacement display for Taxi
- 2 more PinLED replacement power driver boards (Replaces WMS part #A-12697). One of these is gonna be for T2 eventually.
- This Old Pinball DVD’s number 3 and 4. Should be interesting.
Reassembley Started
Saturday, October 21st, 2006Started to put everything back onto the playfield. The new plastics are absolutely beautiful and worth every penny. I took pictures of the old and new side by side but they sucked and you really couldn’t see how awesome the new plastics are.