Complete Twilight Zone

[Happypin]

Busy painting this weekend and replacing leg plates/legs. Fitting internal side art next.

Looking much better.

 

[Andrew Hannay]

Need to pack away for the weekend as we have visitors and the man cave becomes the downstairs guest bedroom. So put hardware back on and fitted @Judge Dreads art blades. Really does bring out the playfield.

 

[Andrew Hannay]

Under playfield ramp stuff.
Can you guess which one I cleaned first?

 

[Andrew Hannay]

Under playfield ramps done. Staring to re-populate stuff on the top along with fitting LEDs. I don’t seem to have GI on right hand side of playfield but traced this back to a scorched connector J120 on the driver board. Looks like I might also have a dry joint on the underside where the pins are soldered so need to get this out to investigate.
Oh yeah, that is a 3D printed lid for the gumball machine designed and printed y myself. Came out ok and fits quite well after a post print mod. It’s not an exact replica and it does need painting. Notice it doesn’t have the 4 slots in the top which the original moulding tool would have required.

 

[Happypin]

Under playfield ramps done. Staring to re-populate stuff on the top along with fitting LEDs. I don’t seem to have GI on right hand side of playfield but traced this back to a scorched connector J120 on the driver board. Looks like I might also have a dry joint on the underside where the pins are soldered so need to get this out to investigate.
Oh yeah, that is a 3D printed lid for the gumball machine designed and printed y myself. Came out ok and fits quite well after a post print mod. It’s not an exact replica and it does need painting. Notice it doesn’t have the 4 slots in the top which the original moulding tool would have required.

worth changing the socket with a new plug. Great job on the gumball lid.

 

[Andrew Hannay]

worth changing the socket with a new plug. Great job on the gumball lid.

I ended up replacing the 2 end contacts (1 and 11) with 2 unused contacts from the same connector. Worked a treat.

 

[Andrew Hannay]

Fixing a couple of incorrectly wired targets.

 

[Andrew Hannay]

It’s getting there!

 

[Andrew Hannay]

Ramps back on.

 

[Happypin]

Ramps back on.

Looking good

 

[Andrew Hannay]

That’s everything back on the top of the playfield including LEDs. Now to clean the inserts and replace all the lamps on the underside of the playfield.

 

[Happypin]

That’s everything back on the top of the playfield including LEDs. Now to clean the inserts and replace all the lamps on the underside of the playfield.

Massive difference

 

[Andrew Hannay]

All inserts cleaned and LEDs fitted. Still need to sort out the clock and I have gumballs to put in the gumball machine.

 

[Andrew Hannay]

4 of the optos were faulty on the clock board, however I bought some old clock boards on eBay and found a method to properly test them in circuit as just measuring continuity with a DMM is not good enough. So now I have a fully working clock board set, but annoyingly although the hour optos are registering correctly the minute hand is so sloppy that it doesn’t cut the opto light enough to cause them to detect the hand passing unless I push it down into the opto a little. So I I’m either going to have to find a way to push the tip of the minute down or extend the little tag on the minute hand so it cuts that beam. Might explain why there was some black tape wrapped around it when I got it.

 

[Andrew Hannay]

And that’s the clock fixed!

 

[Andrew Hannay]

Finished!
Just a few tweaks to do now to get the play right.

 

[Monkeyboypaul]

Always been a mirror blades kinda guy, but have to give credit where it’s due to those art blades - they suit it very well.

 

[Happypin]

Finished!
Just a few tweaks to do now to get the play right.

It time for “Lost In Zone”