Hi all, starting this thread as a progress log for my newly acquired em pin.
I’m completely new to pinball, but been wanting to own a machine for around the last 20 years. I finally got the opportunity to get hold of a nice old machine that could do with some tlc.
Physically, the machine is intact and serviceable and upon power up it sprung into life briefly before the smallest amount of
and smoke stopped all the fun….
Cosmetically, the cabinet is heavily nicotine stained, but mostly original with some battle scars. The playfield artwork is beautiful but worn in places, requiring some touch up. The back glass is in lovely condition with only some small chips of paint missing.
I have mulled over what the next steps for this machine should be and given that all of the rubbers are missing and or perished and some plastics are damaged, i would have to replace these to get the table working. I feel that given the cosmetic and mechanical condition, it’s got to be a quite intensive restoration job to do the machine justice.
I have started by stripping all the hardware off the playfield and cleaning the surface lightly but enough to remove the nicotine stains. It will need touching up, but I love the design of the original artwork.
I aim to get to the cabinet wiring next to find the cause of the fire, it seemed to be around what I think is called the “beam unit” a feature specific to this machine.
That’s all for now
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I’m completely new to pinball, but been wanting to own a machine for around the last 20 years. I finally got the opportunity to get hold of a nice old machine that could do with some tlc.
Physically, the machine is intact and serviceable and upon power up it sprung into life briefly before the smallest amount of
and smoke stopped all the fun….Cosmetically, the cabinet is heavily nicotine stained, but mostly original with some battle scars. The playfield artwork is beautiful but worn in places, requiring some touch up. The back glass is in lovely condition with only some small chips of paint missing.
I have mulled over what the next steps for this machine should be and given that all of the rubbers are missing and or perished and some plastics are damaged, i would have to replace these to get the table working. I feel that given the cosmetic and mechanical condition, it’s got to be a quite intensive restoration job to do the machine justice.
I have started by stripping all the hardware off the playfield and cleaning the surface lightly but enough to remove the nicotine stains. It will need touching up, but I love the design of the original artwork.
I aim to get to the cabinet wiring next to find the cause of the fire, it seemed to be around what I think is called the “beam unit” a feature specific to this machine.
That’s all for now
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I’ve got the score motor turning over and over at the minute. I need to get the schematic printed as its hard to follow as a digital copy. I think I’ll investigate the reset relay first as this seems to require all of the score reel units to be zero and open circuit amongst other things, this looks to drive the score motor when energised.
Apparently they have quite a difficult relay system to light the sequences for the back glass and the motor in these relatively irreplaceable if broken. There’s another game with a similar motor based on an Egyptian theme from memory. Good luck
A very niche market as there specific to an older generation ie me who played them in the 60’s but amazing Computers in the true sense of the word. It’s actually Ozzie Grahams specialist subject. 
those machines are something else, I think it would be a while until I could attempt something like that! Amazing electro mechanical artefacts though.