After setting up ToTAN, I remembered that the left flipper wasn’t working when I had packed it up. Took a look at it, and it turns out the bolt in the hinge part of the flipper crank link assembly (A-15848-L) had broken in two (!).
The hole in the armature link that the bolt passes through had become very elongated too.
Yay! My bro came over last Friday and helped me set up a bunch more machines in my basement. Now up on their feet in various states of running:
I wheeled Shadow over to the newly-designated shop area for some upcoming shopping. Also note that Banzai Run is totally non-functional.
Here’s a highly distorted 180 degree panorama put together with Canon’s photo-stitch software:
Issues:
The yellow standup target was easy enough to replace. Ordered a new one from Marco Specialties and hooked it up. Part number in the manual is A-18017-6, Marco Spec. has it listed as A-15658-6, but the parts are identical. Works and looks great.
For the shooting star cage, I used my trusty Radio Shack infrared sensor card (part number 276-1099[1]) to verify that the transmitter that I had replaced a back in February 2002 was still working. It was. Next I checked the voltage across the receiver with the infrared beam blocked and unblocked. Blocked, the receiver read 13V, unblocked it read 7V. The manual says it should read between 11 and 13 volts blocked, and between 0.1 and 0.7 unblocked, so it’s conceivable a reading of 7V indicates a bogus receiver. I checked the receiver on the left-hand cage for comparison. It read 13V blocked and 4V unblocked. Not really 0.1-0.7V, but better than 7V (well, and it works).
Witness page 3-15 in the ToTAN manual:
I removed that star cage and replaced the receiver. After putting the star cage back in place, the new receiver read 13V blocked and 2V unblocked. Much better. Tested it out, works perfectly.
Cleaned the machine. Now it’s happy and doesn’t give a Test Report.
[1] Looks like Radio Shack does not sell these anymore – 12/14/2006
The oblong stationary target to the right of the magic carpet ramp is really loose. Looks like the mounting holes under the playfield need to be filled with toothpicks.
Everything else is great.
Gave the playfield a good Millwaxin’.
Test Report:
CHECK SWITCH 28 LEFT WIRE RAMP MAKE
Checked the switch, and it’s missing the wire-form doo-dad.
Say cheeze!
ToTAN is up in the game room at my office.
Test report is all good.
Gave it some fresh batteries.
My company moved offices and it’s time to get the machines set up in the new company game room.
