Time to start on my new project 
Firstly a big thanks for Mark @8bit-1up for hooking me up with the game 
It's a bit of an unknown to him and me in terms of whether it works etc so going to start with the basics and go from there. With that in mind, the first thing was to give it a once over and see what I'm dealing with before deciding where to start. To make it a bit easier to keep track of everything I'm breaking it down into 3 areas.....cabinet, backbox and playfield.
Cabinet
First impressions are really goodIt's structurally sound and the paint work is great for a game made in 1977, especially as the majority is white. I gave it a clean up with a magic eraser and I don't think I'll do much more that that:
Inside the cab just needs a good clean and all the gubbins is in there for the soundsYou've got 2 chime units to get the 4 chimes, an EM score reel for the clicking noise, a knocker and some sort of buzzer (not sure what sets that off). Everything moves freely by hand so just needs stripping down and cleaning up.
Backbox
Structurally good but the paint isn't as nice as the cab. It's yellowed a lot more and there's knicks and scrapes as well. At some point in the past it's had the front edge repainted along with a 1in border round the edges of both sides. I've cleaned it up and will leave it as once it's in the line you won't be able to see it
It's missing the player 4 score display so will be on the look out for one of those if anyone has a spare they'd part with? The lower light shroud is also a bit loose so will need re-attaching but looks ok other than that.
Inside the backbox is where my initial work is going to start I suspect. I've stripped out the wiring harness so I can get a better look at the hack job that's been done between the transformer and bridges going into the power supply board. Looks like the power input connecter got fried at some point in the past so rather than replace it, wires have been soldered directly to the board and then a load of choc block used to tie it back into the original wiring. The wires into the transformer from the plug/line filter have also been chopped, then re-connected with crimp terminals which have since failed and finally there's a rogue wire coming off the transformer that doesn't seem to connect to anything!
Playfield
Probably the best part of the game tbh. Underneath is very clean and the top side is in the kind of shape that should clean up great. No broken plastics, no sunken inserts and very little wear for a game of this vintage. There's a couple of spots where I'll need to get the paints out but mostly solid colour and I'll also re-black round the inserts to tidy them up. There's no playfield protector available for this game so depending on how far I go with the painting I might look at clear coating the playfield instead. Ball swirls in yellow paint, my old enemy
Firstly a big thanks for Mark @8bit-1up for hooking me up with the game It's a bit of an unknown to him and me in terms of whether it works etc so going to start with the basics and go from there. With that in mind, the first thing was to give it a once over and see what I'm dealing with before deciding where to start. To make it a bit easier to keep track of everything I'm breaking it down into 3 areas.....cabinet, backbox and playfield.Cabinet
First impressions are really good
It's structurally sound and the paint work is great for a game made in 1977, especially as the majority is white. I gave it a clean up with a magic eraser and I don't think I'll do much more that that:Inside the cab just needs a good clean and all the gubbins is in there for the sounds
You've got 2 chime units to get the 4 chimes, an EM score reel for the clicking noise, a knocker and some sort of buzzer (not sure what sets that off). Everything moves freely by hand so just needs stripping down and cleaning up.Backbox
Structurally good but the paint isn't as nice as the cab. It's yellowed a lot more and there's knicks and scrapes as well. At some point in the past it's had the front edge repainted along with a 1in border round the edges of both sides. I've cleaned it up and will leave it as once it's in the line you won't be able to see it
It's missing the player 4 score display so will be on the look out for one of those if anyone has a spare they'd part with? The lower light shroud is also a bit loose so will need re-attaching but looks ok other than that.
Inside the backbox is where my initial work is going to start I suspect. I've stripped out the wiring harness so I can get a better look at the hack job that's been done between the transformer and bridges going into the power supply board. Looks like the power input connecter got fried at some point in the past so rather than replace it, wires have been soldered directly to the board and then a load of choc block used to tie it back into the original wiring. The wires into the transformer from the plug/line filter have also been chopped, then re-connected with crimp terminals which have since failed and finally there's a rogue wire coming off the transformer that doesn't seem to connect to anything!
Playfield
Probably the best part of the game tbh. Underneath is very clean and the top side is in the kind of shape that should clean up great. No broken plastics, no sunken inserts and very little wear for a game of this vintage. There's a couple of spots where I'll need to get the paints out but mostly solid colour and I'll also re-black round the inserts to tidy them up. There's no playfield protector available for this game so depending on how far I go with the painting I might look at clear coating the playfield instead. Ball swirls in yellow paint, my old enemy
bit on the low side
This means the CPU board isn't booting and is likely locked up so I quickly powered off and removed the solenoid and lamp fuses from the power board so that any future power on's won't break anything else! Based on the repair 
might make the hair stand up a bit lol 
