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crossposting from the pinball thread, since i get dose two next week and things finally look like they may end some day: i've almost finished my quarantine project F-14. just need to touch up the black paint. in total, I ended up: rebuilding all 4 flippers replacing the switch on the Yakov kicker replacing the left center pocket coil bracket- it took about a month to hunt the part down when i could have just replaced the whole coil for $14 replacing the left center pocket retaining gate wire replacing all the incandescent bulbs with LEDs sending the boards to Missouri for a $300 repair/bulletproofing including installing NVRAM replacing all the plastics and star posts with NOS replacing all the rubbers replacing the Yagov, light lock and spinner stickers fixing a damaged piece of playfield wood on the right outlane replacing the rollthrough sensor on the left side lock habitrail soldering a standup target and an LED back in to place repairing the pulley system that drives the gumballs on the topper generally unfucking lots of "field repairs" including stripped screw holes that'd been patched with toothpicks tightening/locking down all the posts on what has been a very hard routed machine- now it gets to relax as a HUO dipped the legs in CLR and scrubbed them to new and if some of you recall, when i brought the machine home, it looked like this on the left side (i think the best comment posted here was 'did that thing fall off a truck and slide a hundred yards on its side?':   and now, eleven months and a corona-timed landlord ending our lease later, i'll be bringing it inside probably Friday, depends on how fast the black gets touched up (wife volunteered, i'm trying not to be pushy):  it was fun, and a good reason to get off my computer during corona, but i don't want to buy a machine that needs this much work again. i feel like i learned a lot and could diagnose nearly anything now. the worst, most tedious and nerve-wracking part was by far doing the paint. just pay someone the $900 to redo your cab for you, trust me  oh, and drilling out the rivets on the old plastics to get access to the parts that needed to be re used. that also was an utter bitch getting my second shot a week from saturday. gonna go ref a bunch of soccer games boar guy fucked around with this message at 17:54 on Apr 7, 2021 |
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Internetjack posted:Nice work on the restoration boar guy. Nothing better than a good pinball machine to enjoy with family and friends.  i think i might get to play it tonight!
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Vim Fuego posted:lmao yeah just the general pinball thread. happy to answer questions about it or tell a longer story also many, many folks in there that have done a lot more than i have. this was my first resto.
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