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12 months of looking while at a mates leaning against a wall and $50 later im now the new owner.

 

Has had one owner since new and was sited in the late 70's. Needs shopping out as the parts are original and rubbers and globes stuffed and cabinet needs a good paint and scrub up in spots (coindoor is the worst) plus legs will need either replacing or painting

 

so far im missing 2 coils and where the balls are stored by the look of it besides that the motors ect are all squeaky clean and free moving

 

playfield looks good to me and backglass im impressed with for its age

 

 

this is my first pin so will be taking plently of time before i fire it up

 

heres hoping and time to dive in and will take all free donations :lol

 

http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v387/optimus_narfunkle/pinball/

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yeah there is alot of work

 

the artwork is damaged the coindoor is really bad but overall is actually alright for its age i reckon. Im going to scrub the sides tonite and get all the fly crap off it

 

ill take a pic of the insides tonite they are really smick it was stored standing on its back so all the dust and crap had settled on the bottom and left the switches ect nice and clean

 

once i get the internals going i can slowly do the cabinet which doesnt phase me in its state

 

and some little fan put KISS on the headbox :lol

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im really stoked at it foot

 

had a go at cleaning the sides its actually paint from the original stencilling

 

should i leave it as or later repaint perhaps

 

plus ive tried heaps to find a manual or schematic so far without out any success to work out some missing coils.

 

Went to take a pic of the insides and spotted a piece of paper poking out the bottom shelf and...

 

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v387/optimus_narfunkle/pinball/P3150562.jpg

 

inside this was..

 

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v387/optimus_narfunkle/pinball/P3140554.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v387/optimus_narfunkle/pinball/P3150563.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v387/optimus_narfunkle/pinball/P3150564.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v387/optimus_narfunkle/pinball/P3150565.jpg

 

 

ive got the shakes with shock and excitement at this project and its less than 24hrs in

 

those along would make my $$ back and also had a look at the backglass from behind no flaking at all minty fresh :o

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fired the old girl up

 

score motor kicks over and over so reading on the net there is a switch open somewhere

 

time to start searching but atleast the old girl is alive

 

tracked it back to the reset bank so far

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plus ive tried heaps to find a manual or schematic so far without out any success to work out some missing coils.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v387/optimus_narfunkle/pinball/P3150564.jpg

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Mate that is the schematic. Remeber this is nothing like your arcade games as everything is physical. Check Marvin for hints on how to read.

 

Michael

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  • 4 weeks later...

Been slack last few weeks and got as far as flipping the playfield over to start replacing parts that have been removed

 

now ive made a heap of room in my shed i can get into the old girl once i figure out some missing brackets :(

 

stay tuned for noob questions

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cheers mate ive been sidetrack atm and this is my next project as the wife has no called it hers

 

ill be needing some as the old paint still has the original overspray and the coindoor paint is near gone

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cheers mate ive been sidetrack atm and this is my next project as the wife has no called it hers

 

ill be needing some as the old paint still has the original overspray and the coindoor paint is near gone

 

 

When you are ready, let me know and I'll post off the stencils... Coin door should be grained, not painted. Post pix when you get the time

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well its been a while since ive been in the old girl

 

this week i finish my job and hopefully get into another so ive now set my self to get this old girl going again

 

so revision of the whole senario

 

i spotted it a while back at a guys house when i was going to look at some parts for arcade cabs. ended up getting a cab and asked about the pin. got told my brother could buy it but the guy (now a mate) wanted his old tech to look at time. time went on and on and i bailed him up as my brother lost interest

 

$50 i dragged it home untested and as is condition. It fire up but the following issues has occured

 

they must of had it complete and stolen parts of it at some stage so far ive had off and in the coinbox or missing. All the plastics are good only the centre one is cracked (common prob) also was given a stash of goodies that had spares in there

 

2 bumper coils

chime unit (got another)

1 flipper coil (missing)

ball eject coil and plunger (sourced)

one bracket for the drop targets (ive hopefully got it)

 

so far got as far as installing what was missing as much as what i had or could find. I hope once i resolder the score motor coil it should be all go for now under the PF and i can at least start narrowing down any faults

 

still along way to go but at least i have a nice BG and PF to go on with. Gibo has seen it and given it the thumbs up

 

just took some new pics too

 

Also on a handy note my mate has new housemate where i got this from. Its his old pinball tech from the old operator days :). Plan is to get it going and then get the cosmetics done. i dont want a good looking pin that aint going

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If you need any bits - let me know - I have just about everything (used) leftover from my restored Jacks - you are welcome to whatever I have. If you want to repaint the cabinet, I made stencils - again - you can use them - they are acetate sheets so they can do as many games as is required.

 

Keep the updates coming :)

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