Gottlieb Egg Head 1961 - full restore to new for 50th birthday

[illawarra_steelers]

Have been quiet on the pinball front for several reasons since the meet here last October.

 

Anyways have been gathering all the necessary parts for a full restore on Gottlieb's Egg Head which was released in December 1961. Have been doing this over the past few months. Picked up this game off a collector and great mate Troy Meredith in Albury. Did as an straight swap for a AMI-Rowe 1962 juke. This was the juke picked up on eBay and in the shed for 6 days before it left. Once I got a sniff of the Egg Head the deal was done.

 

Designed by the legend Wayne Neyens with art by the master Roy Parker.

 

So she is has just turned 50. So what plans do I have instore?

 

How about the purchase of an impossible to find N.O.S. playfield from the US? Repro Shay Arcade backglass, Pinball Rescue are scheduled to make plastics for this game during 2012. The game is complete except the lockdown bar (available from PBR) and the instruction card. This may end up being the hardest to locate :unsure

 

The game is pulled down and in a thousand parts. Will start on the cab first. At present the game is painted in white house paint and the cab is a bit knocked about. The wedge head has a few splits in the timber along the front but good old Tony T from the Pinball Shed came up with a replacement. Have 2 boxes from PBR, parts such as all new front door, surround and hardware, coin entrance plates, all new pop bumpers, skirts and caps, flipper bats, flipper rebuild kit and excellent repro side rails made here in Oz by JPD see: http://www.aussiearcade.com/showthread.php/42996-GOTT-em-rails

 

Big call but know this will be a massive job but she will look awesome once done.

 

Have taken some photos and will post with a hangover News Years day ;)

 

Edit, new parts bought:

 

NOS playfield

Shay Arcade reproduction backglass

NOS Intruction card

Chrome leg bolts

Reproduction side rails

Paint for all of cab

5 Daisy domed pop bumper 10 points

4 Deco cap dome 10 points when lit

Reproduction lockdown bar

Pinball Rescue decal for score card tray

1x Lock 7/8”

4x Legs Tee - LEG-TEE

1x GTB Arch stick protector (manual ball lift)

1x GTB Arch ball deflector

1x Red metal door push button

1x Front door hole plug

1x Coin reject rod

1x Rubber set

2x 1” white rubber ring

1x Rubber lamp sleeve blue

1x Rubber lamp sleeve red

2x Leg levellers 2” stem

2x Leg levellers 3” stem

2x Hard plastic light sleeve red

2x Hard plastic light sleeve blue

1x Small chrome metal coin door shell single chute

1x Trapezoidal coin entrance plate 5 cents

1x Trapezoidal coin entrance plate blank

1x Gottlieb ball shooter rod

1x Beehouse plunger housing – red

2x Flipper retaining Clip

1x Old style rollover button red

1x Old style rollover button white

1x Trim ring for small coin door single chute

20 x 1” carriage bolt, washer and nut

9x Bayonet light sockets

20x Siderail nails

5x M/S pop bumper body

4x Advance bumper body

1x Gottlieb flipper rebuild kit

2x Flipper bushings

2x Rubber lamp sleeve blue

2x Rubber lamp sleeve red

1x Shooter spring inside

1x Shooter spring outside

2x Metal flipper buttons red

1 Pair 2” round top white flipper plastic

2x 1” white rubber rings

2x Holding screws

2 boxes of #455 blinking lamps

5 boxes of 47 lamps

4x 31" reproduction legs

Edited July 28, 2012 by illawarra_steelers
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[Fish Tales]

Look fwd to watching this one ;)

[bigALshoalhaven]

thats a massive list of new parts! :blink:

i also will be watching this one closely :)

[goodolddays]

Major project there Tony . Looking forward to progress pics :)

[em_pins]

Looks to be a great project, keep the pics coming. The cabinet & BB artwork look to be very simple to duplicate for stencils etc. There is a instruction card on IPD.

 

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Try this as well for instruction card - http://www.pinballrebel.com/pinball/cards/

[Darksoul]

Will be watching.

[illawarra_steelers]

Some photos of what the game started at, these were taken a few days ago.

 

Nice white house paint.

http://i270.photobucket.com/albums/jj101/illawarra_steelers/egghead1/20111129_7.jpg

 

Nice original perspex backglass has held up fairly well for 50 years. Repro Shay glass to replace.

http://i270.photobucket.com/albums/jj101/illawarra_steelers/egghead1/20111129_1.jpg

 

Closeup detail of some Roy Parker babes, some slight paint loss.

http://i270.photobucket.com/albums/jj101/illawarra_steelers/egghead1/20111129_6.jpg

 

Upper and lower playfield. All to be replaced by new parts.

http://i270.photobucket.com/albums/jj101/illawarra_steelers/egghead1/20111129_3.jpg

http://i270.photobucket.com/albums/jj101/illawarra_steelers/egghead1/20111129_4.jpg

 

Showing the split in the timber of the head, the strange thing is both sides are the same

http://i270.photobucket.com/albums/jj101/illawarra_steelers/egghead1/20111129_8.jpg

 

Front door detail - sure looks different to the 1980-2000 front doors. Note small plunger under main plunger. This was to manually load the balls from the trough to the playfield.

http://i270.photobucket.com/albums/jj101/illawarra_steelers/egghead1/20111129_5.jpg

 

Very rare survivor! This is an Australian delievered game that spent it's location life in Queensland. Still in 2 minds about keeping the original coin plates or replacing with reproduction 5c plates from PBR.

http://i270.photobucket.com/albums/jj101/illawarra_steelers/egghead1/20111129_9.jpg

[Arcade King]

Wow how sweet it that!

[millsy56]

Should come up nicely Tony

Hopefully the original paint is under that house paint.

Personally I would leave the coin plates as 6d (Lot of younger ones dont realise this is the coin we used to use back then :lol)

[illawarra_steelers]

Should come up nicely Tony

Hopefully the original paint is under that house paint.

Personally I would leave the coin plates as 6d (Lot of younger ones dont realise this is the coin we used to use back then :lol)

 

Have just removed the house paint and sadly there is nothing under. Wont be a difficult patern to copy. Still in 2 minds about the coin entrance plates..the reason being all of the front metal will be new/reproduction and they will look out of place.

[bigALshoalhaven]

they will look out of place.

 

thats the first thing that crossed my mind.

looking at the picture it looks like with an engraver and some black paint you could possibly change the new 5c plate's text to 6d:unsure

[dezbaz]

What a great contender for a restore, looks amazing already:)

 

Better than most of us at age 50 I might say :D

[twobobsworth]

Looking at the machine to the left of egg head, you have all the tools needed sitting on top.

[Fish Tales]

Artwork is a real snapshot, later pins didnt come close to doing that.

[Thasaman]

Yeh I saw this at Tony's the other day and this will be a fantastic pin to restore.

 

All the best for this one mate. It will be a classic.

 

And yeh the plunger pull up ball is where I started from, showing my age now....

[wingtipvortex]

What is 6d? Nice looking em though, just something about them i really like:)

[illawarra_steelers]

What is 6d? Nice looking em though, just something about them i really like:)

 

Pre 5 cent coin before the currency thing went 'metric' a coin of this value was 6d (which was the Australian Sixpence)

 

The Australian Sixpence was a coin used in the Commonwealth of Australia prior to decimalization. It was minted from 1910 until 1963, excluding 1913, 1915, 1929–33 inclusive, 1937, 1947 and 1949. After decimalization on 14 February 1966, it continued to circulate at the value of 5?, along with new 5? coins of the same size and weight.

 

During World War II, between 1942 - 1944, sixpence production was supplemented by coinage produced by two branches of the United States Mint. Coins struck at the San Francisco mint (1942-1944) carry a small S below the coat of arms, while those from the Denver mint (1942-1943) have a small D in the same place.

 

From 1910 to 1945 Australian sixpences were of sterling silver (0.925 fine); from 1946 to 1963 they were reduced to 0.500 fine.

 

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Looking at the machine to the left of egg head, you have all the tools needed sitting on top.

 

Indeed, Coopers Stout is the current favourite in the Steelers shed :)

[Thasaman]

Ok what is a 6d.....now I feel old!!! 3 pennies for bus fare from school home.....

[Fire_Power]

Looks great Tony, will be a good to follow progress. I like the humour in th BG and I reckon keeping the original coin plates would suit - surely they can be polished up or replated?

[Special When Lit]

Looking forward to seeing this done, love 60's Gottliebs.

The B/G & playfield already look pretty good, looks like you did well with it.

[goodolddays]

What a great looking game .. love the Roy Parker Babes :cool:

[blue95]

If you could get those old plates to clean up enough not to look out of place, they would be the go

[gordo]

Hi Tony,

 

What a great looking machine to start a resto with.

 

For what it's worth, I left the 6d coin slide in my Sweet hearts machine (only has the one). Still looks great. If they were in bad shape I would replace but it's nice to keep something special.

 

Good luck Gordo........

[illawarra_steelers]

N.O.S. playfield is on it's way from the US and with some luck will be here next week :)

 

Cab is stripped of all paint and over the past few days have been strengthening and clamping. Base white to be applied over the next 48 hours.

 

Good old Ozito orbital sander (bang for your buck powertools)

http://i270.photobucket.com/albums/jj101/illawarra_steelers/egghead2/IMG_8335.jpg

http://i270.photobucket.com/albums/jj101/illawarra_steelers/egghead2/IMG_8340.jpg

 

As luck would have it the original stencil design is marked into the timber

http://i270.photobucket.com/albums/jj101/illawarra_steelers/egghead2/IMG_8336.jpg

 

Back corner of the head has seen better days

http://i270.photobucket.com/albums/jj101/illawarra_steelers/egghead2/IMG_8341.jpg

[Gottlieb Gary]

NOS playfield to be shipped soon

 

Thanks for the purchase / payment of the NOS playfield from me. As soon as my bank has the funds available I will ship immediately. I am currently unemployed in this economy and money is very tight. I had this shipped to me from Canada over 5 years ago but never got around to installing. I has been sitting around in the crate since arriving. My playfield is still presentable enough to keep using. Glad to see it is going into a complete restoration. I plan on tracking this thread since I will repaint my entire cabinet someday. Glad to see the original stencils are viewable for you. :D