Picked this up in Rochester, NY last Thursday(03/24/11) with the wifey. We ended up making a day trip out of it and stopped at the Waterloo Outlets to kill some time. It was really nice having Michele make the trip with me... I think this may be the first one she's gone on?!?!
Overall the game is in beautiful shape. It was mostly working when I got home but after opening her up I discovered some really shady wiring. The GI lights were hard-wired(bypassing the fuses) by being twisted together with wire nuts. There were tons of burned out lights. The flippers were all weak. And there were a few mis-adjusted switches.
In the past week I've replaced all the burned out lights, added LEDs to behind the backglass and it looks amazing, rebuild two of the three flippers, adjusted the switches correctly, repaired the GI wiring mess, and took a look at the DMD screen to see why 3 verticle rows are not working. It's been a busy week.
Speaking of the DMD... the three non-working vertical lines have broken "traces" where the ribbon cable goes between the glass. It looks like I may be able to fix it but I don't want to mess with it until I get another display. Needless to say if you're selling a decent large DMD display let me know.
I have an order placed for LEDs to put in the inserts since I love the idea of them using less power. I like the way incandescents look on the playfield GI though so they will stay nice and warm.
(AS OF: 04-01-2011)
- Cleaned playfield with Novus products
- Replaced burned out bulbs
- Repaired power supply board and GI harness
- Adjusted non-working switches
- Re-build flippers
- Added LEDs to backbox and some inserts
- Played & Played & Played!!!
- Install new rubbers
- Install more LEDs in inserts
- Rebuild upper-right flipper
- Clean up a couple more wiring "fixes"
Page Created: 04-01-2011
Last Update: 04-01-2011