I moved to a new house. The new house happens to have a basement with room for lots of pinball machines. Here you can see the mover-guys taking Diner off the truck, making it appear as if it’s no big deal.
Now I just have to set them up.
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New House
Monday, December 27th, 2004Cirqus Voltaire Repairs (cont.)
Sunday, March 24th, 2002Cleaned all the bulbs, replaced a bunch of missing ones (acrobat & juggler in grid, slideshow, bottom jet bumper). Now the top bumper bulb is out.
More discoveries:
- Need mylar around the center “volt” switches and just below “WOW” targets.
- The right upper “volt” switch looks like it has been repaired before, and it’s too high now. Too much wiring in the way, I’ll check it out later.
- No plumb-bob on tilt sensor.
Boom Balloon:
Turns out there is a service bulletin from Williams which addresses the problem with the Boom Balloon not dropping. A bracket is mounted backwards on lots of machines, including mine. Went ahead and made the changes described in the bulletin and also:
- Replaced the bulb inside
- Tightened the bottom post
- Adjusted the stop bracket
- Put spacers in the bumper ‘cause the ring was too low
- Adjusted the height screw at the bottom of the assembly so that it rests flush with the playfield.
Works great!
The ball-popper on the right is weak sometimes, put a fresh coil sleeve in to start.
Rebuilt the flippers.
Adjusted outlane switches, switch 25 and the right spinner switch.
Creature Status Update
Tuesday, March 19th, 2002I’d like put Creature away and get another machine up in its place (very limited space in my basement at this time). Although I might as well get it in good shape before folding it up.
- All the flashers are out. Looks like fuse 11 is blown.
- The bottom cabinet speaker is busted.
- Both hologram motors are not working.
Creature Status
Sunday, February 10th, 2002Creature is in reasonable shape:
- Dot-matrix display makes nasty whining sound.
- Bottom cabinet speaker is damaged.
- Audio is scratchy and static-y
- One of the rubber posts at the ramp entrances is missing a screw so the rubber keeps sliding up.
Test Report:
CHECK SWITCH 44 – ICE CREAM
Played for a bit and test report is gone.
3 Machines Up
Friday, February 8th, 2002I finally motivated and started cleaning out the mess in my basement, making room for some pinball machines to be set up. First three machines going up are: Theatre of Magic, Indiana Jones, and Creature From The Black Lagoon.
Pack ‘em Up
Tuesday, February 20th, 2001Sadly, all of my machines had to be put into storage in my basement. My company moved offices and there was no room for them at the new one (and no room in my house!).
Pop-Bumper
Thursday, July 6th, 2000Looks like one of the pop-bumpers is not working properly.
Creature From The Black Lagoon
Thursday, July 6th, 2000Creature From the Black Lagoon (CFTBL) is here.
Replaced a bunch of parts on the Ball Shooter Assembly (B-12445-4):
- Tip (WMS #23-6327)
- Rod (WMS #20-9253-7)
- Rod Spring (WMS #10-149)
- Shooter Sleeve (WMS #03-7357)
Need washers and shooter spring (WMS #10-148-4, GREEN).
Bent down some of the ramp plastic displays that were scraping the glass.
Replaced flipper rubber.