The Pinball Diaries

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:

• Checked all the switches attached to the playfield. Note to self: 54, 55, 65, 66 and 68 need a little adjustment. 61-64, and 67 couldn’t be tested ‘cause I have to reassemble the things they’re attached to. 75 appears busted.

• Checked flashers, replaced a couple. Still need to check 17, 19, 21 and 23 on the ramps when they get reassembled.

• Adjusted the drawbridge. In its upright position it was leaning pretty far forward, as you can see in this pre-disassembly photo:

So we loosened the set-screw and adjusted it back a bit. Now it’s good (although this picture is not):

• Removed the old Troll flap decals and applied new ones. The old ones were getting pretty beat up as you can see here. Peeling them off left a fair amount of gunk behind, so I used a chisel to scrap it off, which actually worked really well. The little man took this action photo:

All scraped:

Decals applied:

Reassembled:

Much better. Compare that to the old versions: