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Williams Smarty project


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DSCN0745.thumb.jpg.a00e4a54c1cc8a5406dcfe853f017bd4.jpg[ATTACH=CONFIG]0[/ATTACH]DSCN0708.thumb.jpg.c4c0e2b9c660efb451be11a1f092a56a.jpgDSCN0743.thumb.jpg.13f7ecb0dc932967532c7dc985f7170f.jpgDSCN0740.thumb.jpg.db2c58406ac84d47d286eb7c81d66eae.jpgHere are some random pics of my latest project machine.

It is a Williams Smarty which is the add a ball version of Ding Dong.

I have posted some pics of what the game looked like before I started the resto and some of the game at the stage it is at now.

It is finally all working and it cleaned up fairly well.

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The machine is all working although there were some desperate moments to get it to this stage.

When I first got the machine I did the usual checks that you do and had that sinking feeling when I realised there were some parts missing which may be hard to locate.( hmm could this just be a parts machine?):(Also the wiring to two of the score reel switches and all the wiring to the score reel backing plate which registers added balls had been cut.Anyway thanks to a guy in the states who sent me lots of pics of his machine and Tony T who had an add a ball head which had the parts I needed it ended up being a going machine which is great fun to play.

Interestingly this game scores to 99990 and originally it score up to 9999 only. Im pretty sure it came from Italy and they often added a dummy zero to the scores.(Im glad they didn't paint extra zeros on the playfield as well:o) Whoever did this actually screwed the 1000s reel holder one position to the left and moved all the reels across one position.That is why there is an unusual looking score window for the 10000s.The paint has been scraped off to make way for the apparent extra reel.

The other real weird thing which I noticed after I had fully gone through the game and was about to fire it up was it had a replay button in the front of the cab:o Panic set in now as I thought maybe this is the wrong cabinet for the head.(add a ball games dont have replay buttons)The paint was different from cabinet to head to, but then again the plugs all fitted so it has to be right?

Anyway it worked straight off the bat and what a relief everything worked other than a few lights which I have now sorted out.

I replaced the 3 inch flippers and filled the holes with pieces of dowell.Lucky enough to find some 2 inch metal flippers(thanks Steve) which im pretty sure it would have had originally.

There were only two flogged out holes in the playfield and they got the skewer treatment as shown in the pic.Cant believe how well this works!

Will post some cabinet pics when it gets resprayed.

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Well done John, gotta be happy with that.

 

What's it play like? Good game to play?

 

Hasn't Steve got a Ding Dong? (what a name!)

Yes happy with the way it plays and it looks presentable.(Cabinet not, but will rememdy this soon!)

Its a tough game as you work as hard to earn an added ball as you do to win a replay on the replay version.

If you win a ball the sequence resets and you need to spell a horizontal word to light one of four outlanes to win a ball.spell all four and you light all four lanes.Score one though and the whole thing resets and your work begins again.:cry

It pays a ball at 2 and 4000 so if you manage to spell a few words then you have generally won at least one if not two balls by score along the way..You can only win one added ball at a time though so i cant see any insane scores being posted nor do i think the 9 balls to play capabiility will ever be realised.Funny thing is it only says up to 5 balls to play on the backglass.for balls 6 to 9 a bell lights up and moves positon to the right until the max position is reached.Ths may have been to get around Italian laws at the time.Weird!

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