Clint Posted October 22, 2021 Share Posted October 22, 2021 It looks amazing, you have done an awsome job! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TimeBandit Posted October 23, 2021 Author Share Posted October 23, 2021 I have new rubbers arriving hopefully Monday so will be able to get a whole heap of plastics in place. I will also be able to put the ramps in and get a good idea of the finished product. BUT, my rivet punch and spring steel for new ramp flaps are deep in the delivery jungle, so final final result will be held up till then. Getting close though! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TimeBandit Posted November 1, 2021 Author Share Posted November 1, 2021 Parts!! Rubbers, alternate pop bodies, flipper rebuild, ramp flap steel, coil sleeves. Going back in to change all the sleeves and try out some yellow pops. Then rubbers and plastics on. Stay tuned.. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TimeBandit Posted November 5, 2021 Author Share Posted November 5, 2021 95% finished. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rich Posted November 5, 2021 Share Posted November 5, 2021 wow man, well worth the effort, looks stunning, you gotta be happy with your results 👍 the spoon mod for the switch looks tops ✌️ 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TimeBandit Posted November 25, 2021 Author Share Posted November 25, 2021 Finally getting the closing things done. Ramp flaps. OMG may I never have to do this again. They are going to have to do. Not perfect but in the scheme of things I don't think they will let the whole project down. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roland rat Posted November 25, 2021 Share Posted November 25, 2021 Fantastic job and a very entertaining thread. Well done and thank you! ....(which playfield you're looking at selling now?!) 😊 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TimeBandit Posted November 27, 2021 Author Share Posted November 27, 2021 Oh man, she just won’t play nice. This is the LAST ramp going in. I am done. Basically just have to put the translite in after this. and then this happens.. 😫 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rich Posted November 27, 2021 Share Posted November 27, 2021 and the white with blue tracer looks like it's just hangin' on so maybe worthwhile tending to that at the same time? cut yourself some slack, you've done an awesome job 👌 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Railways Posted November 27, 2021 Share Posted November 27, 2021 Awesome job and you're always going to get a little niggle of a problem after such an extensive ( read excellent ) job. I agree with @Rich. Cut yourself some slack and Give yourself a pat on the back. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TimeBandit Posted November 27, 2021 Author Share Posted November 27, 2021 (edited) You're right of course guys. Let's be grateful for the opportunity to have and do these things. FINISHED!!! Here is another bunch of pics of the finished product in some natural afternoon sunlight. Edited November 27, 2021 by TimeBandit 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Autosteve Posted November 27, 2021 Share Posted November 27, 2021 Aye, a wire comes off and you are upset?. We only ever had one Tommy and lets just say it wasn't my favourite reliability wise and it was brand new so I certainly wouldn't be to concerned. Bigger to come by design such as the stupid auto launch plunger mech arm. I think our one lasted about a month before it sheared off as it should considering they only put one connecting arm to a part that obviously twists every time it hits a ball resulting in all the balls dropping inside the cabinet. This become an annoying problem because before shearing off, the arm would bend back enough to allow the ball to roll behind the ball switch but still infront of the arm. Result, the arm would fire and snap the micro actuator arm off the micro switch so now no way of the machine detecting when to kick. After running with no switch you end up with more than one ball in the shooter lane making it bend more till it failed. I repaired a few of those on site before coming up with a long term solution that involved using Williams parts. Turtles and Hook I think suffered this same collection of problems. Some ideas are just poor and this idea is one of those I thought. Good thing is I don't remember Tommy having to many other "design" problems. Not many machines didn't have "design" problems. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TimeBandit Posted November 27, 2021 Author Share Posted November 27, 2021 5 minutes ago, Autosteve said: Aye, a wire comes off and you are upset?. We only ever had one Tommy and lets just say it wasn't my favourite reliability wise and it was brand new so I certainly wouldn't be to concerned. Bigger to come by design such as the stupid auto launch plunger mech arm. Yeah, not so bad. It was more about the hilarious timing.. right after I got the very last ramp on, haha. Whole ramp had to come out again right after it went in. Just the way it goes. I’m going to try a Stern launcher on it at some point. The OG really is not the best. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Autosteve Posted November 27, 2021 Share Posted November 27, 2021 To me the design got changed from original as in it started out as a normal slingshot kicker that aren't really known to fail but them someone worked out the switch arm got in the way so they offset the arm to one side. Offsetting it allowed the arm to twist. I just looked at what they were trying to do and looked at how Williams did it on machines like Getaway that didn't really fail. Problem through memory is Williams have a shooter guage that has metal at the front edge where as Data East did not. That had to be altered so the ball couldn't go beside the plunger. It may not give you the problems I got as regularly on account that tommy when it was new was making us around $400 a week plus 10% free so around 440 games X 3 balls per game is around 1300 operations per week. I guess I was blessed seeing what goes wrong so quickly on machines but I was also cursed when a new machine wasn't earning it's expected revenue resulting in an arse kicking so to say. I think through memory this mech design was factory modded later as the factory finally recognised they had an issue. Look for the kicker that has two arms up to the part that contacts the ball. It was better but the arm that goes back to the plunger still twists allowing the mech to touch the playfield and not return to the rest position reliably. You avoid all these probems simply using basically a knocker coil bracket but that isn't exactly standard factory I guess. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldhank Posted December 7, 2021 Share Posted December 7, 2021 Nice crocs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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