Complete The Plundered Pirates

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So this shop log was set to a budget as I needed to keep myself from going overboard. (Haha see what I did there)


The game arrived with the following missing:

- Back Box boards (all boards missing)


- Shooter Lane Coil Bracket Assembly


- Roll over switch assemblies for Outlanes x2


- Tortuga Disc Decal
- Tortuga Disc area Posts and Rubbers



- Coin door control buttons assembly

Cabinet suffers from the usual on location and lock bar holes




The playfield was actually in pretty good condition.


My first main goal was to get it operational.

 

[cmrl9]

So this shop log was set to a budget as I needed to keep myself from going overboard. (Haha see what I did there)


The game arrived with the following missing:

- Back Box boards (all boards missing)
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- Shooter Lane Coil Bracket Assembly
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- Roll over switch assemblies for Outlanes x2


- Tortuga Disc Decal
- Tortuga Disc area Posts and Rubbers
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- Coin door control buttons assembly

Cabinet suffers from the usual on location and lock bar holes
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The playfield was actually in pretty good condition.
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My first main goal was to get it operational.

Nice, always great to read a back from the dead

I actually have a soft spot for pirates and rather enjoy it, perhaps because I know what I'm doing on it

 

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I managed to quite luckily source the backbox boards on the same day of purchasing the machine. Travelled up north for board pick up and eagerly plugged them in to the machine.

Power on resulted in an immediate fail.

Checking the line in fuse it had blown.
Evidence in the cab showed a hisortical blow out so at least I know the issue probably existed before it got to me.


Raised the issue here on the forum and was signalled to replace the line filter. I did try first off replacing the varistor, but no change.

Luckily I know someone with a junk yards worth of Cooky carnival parts which use Stern White Star parts.

Sourced a replacement line filter and fitted it. Voila the machine powered on.



As previously mentioned the coin door assembly was missing so I had no buttons to navigate the machine. I've used a Kooky carvinval button assembly as this machine doesn't need to be back on location so no need for a coin mech. Stripped and repinned the wires to the control panel to the cabinet and happy days I can navigate.



Game was missing a coin lock key assembly so I put a new one on.

 

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Once I got the game up I proceeded into the switch test.

Had some broken switches around the ramp areas. Noted them down for replacement. Some were just missing the leaf switches but I opted to replace them entirely.

Entering the coil test all passed and with much relief so did the ship. I hear these can be a right pain to resolve if they break.

*Edit: Forgot to add here the Left Slingshot wasn't firing*

After a lot of trouble shooting it was deduced that the issue was with my replacement power driver board. It was either the diode or TIP102 Transistor.





From memory I think it was Q26 that handled the slingshot but I can't remember while writing this post. Anyway once those parts were replaced the left slingshot was working again... phew!

 

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Once I got all the technical issues resolved I moved onto the mechanical and aesthetic issues.

The ball launcher area was practically caved in from the ball bearing whacking the bare wood for a long time.




Added a shooter lane protector




Did some minor sanding and touch up on the shooter lane wood.

 

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Next up I focused my attention on the Tortuga Disc. I had to study up on what posts and rubbers it needed as much of those elements were missing.








Posts were damn expensive but managed to sort out these, plus some missing hex posts supporting the left ramp.

Gave the discs a clean and applied a new decal, fitted the new posts and rubber sleeves.

 

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Replaced a lot of the rubbers around the game including, flippers, slings and some posts and rubber rings.

Changed out some LED's and switched out some blown out incandescents with LED's.

I didn't go mad here as the wife kept saying 'keep to the budget.'



Did a minor strip down of the playfield, gave it a good clean and cleaned up the metal work.

 

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The game had a lot of loose wires under the playfield. Odd really may be someone was mid way through troubleshooting. Not sure?



Routed all the wires back to their home.

Next issue I hit was with the chest releasing a ball everytime you landed a ball within it.



Took apart the chest, began troubleshooting, thought it might be an issue with the opto's.

Checking the switch test, the Trough Jam switch was firing at the same time. You can see its on the same column.







I tried changing the diode on the chest lock, no dice. The Trough jam switch is basically the opto board seen here:



Would you believe just pressing the header in, caused the opto to fire. I could have repaired it but just bought a new one, CBA.

 

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Once I got rid of all the faults and replaced any faulty or missing parts I began work this weekend on the cabinet.

Stripped it all down and took out the playfield... new decals and repaired cab time!





Filled in the lock bar holes.



Repaired the damage by the start button





Decals 'may' go on today.

 

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Cabinet decals going on!

 

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Legs protectors on, holes cut. Backbox tomorrow!

 

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Onto the back box.

 

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[Pick Holder]

I think I am correct in saying this was the old operator one from Chris B?

Nice to see it getting put back together into a working game.

The clever thing was in this era stern is the optos/recievers are the same part - just one is reversed.

Sad thing is in 10 years time we wont be buying wrecked modern games off site as not many of them get sited. These games seemed to be the last operated ones before most of the operators gave up.

We should all place bets about the colour of the powder coating you choose.

Best of luck!

 

[Garry Sp8]

We should all place bets about the colour of the powder coating you choose.

How about brown?

 

[sharps]

I'm moving in soon Scott with beer too!

 

[David_Vi]

Sad thing is in 10 years time we wont be buying wrecked modern games off site as not many of them get sited. These games seemed to be the last operated ones before most of the operators gave up.

We should all place bets about the colour of the powder coating you choose.

Best of luck!

But I'm seeing a lot more Pinball on location now, than I did the last 10 years.
Our two local seaside piers have a bunch of modern sterns, last time I saw pins even near those was the late 90s when I was young.
So maybe in 10 years those will appear or will they have a longer lifespan?

 

[s000m]

Sorry to say @Pick Holder no powder coat. This was Chris's ex location pin you are correct. I took a punt on it as I wanted a project and lucked out basically.

I would have done a powder coat but a price had already been agreed to sell it.

Rails are so super easy to remove on these the person can now pick whatever colour they want, rather than what I might have picked though that brown in the post above looked rather choice!

I can now get my next Bally/Williams project do I'm happy.

 

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The lock down bar receiver was rusty so I used a spare receiver I've got in stock.



Finished up the backbox. I switched out some of the T molding with better stock I had as it had damage.

 

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I spent most of the evening getting the playfield back in and rerouting the wires/connecting them.





Put the side armour back on, added black buttons, replacing the original reds.





Coin door back in







The back of the backbox was sanded down and resprayed.



I don't have stencil kits/silk screen kits so I left the rear of the cab pretty much alone. I did however repair the edges as it had a massive chunk missing in the bottom middle.





Fitted a new lock bar as the old one was knackered.






Tomorrow's tasks:

Coin interlock needs hooking up
Florescent tube needs installing
Play test to ensure everything works


Thursday this game gets collected!

 

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Turns out the ballast has been removed from the game so I need to buy a LED Tube instead of a standard Florescent tube. Had to delay pickup by a day.

Interlock wiring is sorted. Secured in the side rails and that just leaves a topper.. Yes you heard right its going to have some over the top, topper stay tuned!

 

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So let me preface I didn't buy this topper, it was requested to be fitted as part of the sale.

Dear God though you'd think these topper designers would provide better wiring and think about the weight!

It shipped with two power bricks, so I cut the tails off each brick, bought a new PSU (thanks Amazon same day delivery) and spliced that after the switch power. Ran new cable lengths as each brick supplied with a piddly amount of wiring.

Routed the wiring through the backbox and out to the top.

3 hours for that.

It's up and running though!

Last thing to go is the LED strip.

 

[Pick Holder]

Yeah - the cab I have for a Vpin build has those extra wooden bits on the back too !

Chris did not operate these himself - you wouldnt get the bodges if it was Chris.

 

[s000m]

Yeah - the cab I have for a Vpin build has those extra wooden bits on the back too !

Chris did not operate these himself - you wouldnt get the bodges if it was Chris.

Yeah Chris made it clear it's sold as seen. I wanted a project machine and I got one. No complaints.

 

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Installed the LED strips and mirror blades. Game was finished to the wire. It goes tomorrow morning!

Tidied up the mod runs for the topper and other mod runs.



Mirror blades on

















Packed up and good to go

 

[cmrl9]

Looks great interesting topper

 

[s000m]

Looks great interesting topper

I think it could have done with being smaller and lighter.

A lot of these custom toppers aren't designed with portability in mind. Looks like I need to start making my own

 

[cmrl9]

I think it could have done with being smaller and lighter.

A lot of these custom toppers aren't designed with portability in mind. Looks like I need to start making my own

Well a Ghostbusters one using the Ghostbusters Playmobil

 

[s000m]

Well a Ghostbusters one using the Ghostbusters Playmobil

Haha I think I can manage better than that. Suppose we'll see!

 

[cmrl9]

The Playmobil fantastic in Ghostbusters have the full set including the firehouse bought for the kids for Christmas one year . Look what dad got you, no he's not interested in playing with it at all