I don’t think I mentioned at the start, this is hoping to be the “star” of a meet-up I have coming up with all the uni guys and a few local friends too, we generally meet at mine now as it’s close enough for everyone, there’s space and the pinball seems to get everyone saying, oh let’s go out in Norwich, we can drink at Jays before hand
I have 3 weekends... as it’s on the 13th April... so wish me luck.
So... I’ve spent a bit of time “touching up” the playfield, some bits I’m happy with, some not so much, but it was £110, so I think it looks nicer than before, the orange came out really bad, I’m hoping with some wax and play it’ll dampen down a bit but who knows... it’s good enough for me anyway. I will eventually strip either this down, or something else and invest in a full airbrush set... that wasn’t today.
The first stepper I wanted to attack was the free play unit, it’s an up/down stepper, so the most advanced as I understand, neither way was rotating the disc at all, it was completely seized up to begin with.
It really is a case of just stripping it all back, cleaning like crazy and rebuilding, once done, one of the springs tensions wasn’t quite cutting it, so I simply cut a few turns out and re-fit. Happy to say the unit now works perfectly, checked the switches and all look good and logically open and close as expected.
Back in as it should be.
I also wanted the back box to be sorted... in preparation for the backglass that I’ll come onto in a minute.
Using a mask as these old machine I imagine the paint is lead and all sorts, sanded it back from its previous state, I’m only doing the outer edge of the head as that’s the most obvious and easiest to solve for me.
All primed and ready for a coat of a nice seafoam green (Tom DeLonges Strat colour, if I can find it, if not a light blue will do), before a white trim.
The backglass is shot to bits, but I knew this, my friend is looking to upscale an image in photoshop that I have, alongside the mask for the back and I’ll just have that printed to allow the light through. It’s currenlty fubar.
Watch his space on that bit.
I’ve tested the score reels, all seem good but a bit gummed up tbh. I’ll strip them down hopefully during the week.
So, EM’ers,
@AlanJ @Moonbus and
@astyy - any ideas on what you would do with the electrics as there’s no ground on these?