Arcade Collecting > Pinball
Low End Pin Guy scores a Data East Tommy
TopJimmyCooks:
Hey, that TFLE was freakin' fun to play. Couldn't comment on the quality of components. PF looked cheap with the heavy screen print texture printing through the clear. My wife was getting excited until I told her it was $7K. Maybe I should get some cheapo tin foil stern legs or something.
Just took a look and the legs are definitely heavier gauge than the bally games. Might try a swap.
TopJimmyCooks:
Replaced with trifurcons. Actually replaced two times, because the first time I put pins on and plugged it in the wires all broke off. They were completely cooked for 1" back from the ends. cut off a couple of inches of wire and now I've got complete GI. pins were gone on the board side, so i put new ones in with an 18 ga. Jumper wire across all four and over to the relay. Hopefully that will run cooler.
New rubber (black per original spec), rebuilt flippers, more cleaning. Looked at a replacement for the worn out auto plunge lever but they're $49. decided to repair the old one as best I could. working better now. As soon as I touch up the black on the head and inside the cab sides, it will be ready for some glamour shots.
Getting ready to try making a plastic to replace the trashed VUK surround.
TopJimmyCooks:
As with all Tommy's, the VUK plastic on the game was toast. LEP Man does not deal in euros so could not purchase an expensive repop from the deutschlanders. Got a scan of the intact plastic from a dude on RGP. Printed on photo paper. Made a template of the plastic in wood. Routed the Optix by using the permanent mounting holes to screw through and sandwich the optix- see pics. The piece of masonite on top of the optix is there so the wood screw clamp screws have a place for their heads to countersink and not be in the way of the router baseplate. Sanded the edges through the grits to 800. cut out the paper and taped it on with clear packing tape. The tape is trimmed flush with the edges and you can see a 1/16" of clear around the edge. I didn't spend any time color correcting or anything. I'm going to see how this holds up/how long to crack it. If things go well, I'll do a more permanent version with flush edges, polish out the edges, etc. for a more perfect dupe of a real butyrate. For the time being, I think its Smucking Fashing.
TopJimmyCooks:
Oh yeah, in a not-so-Low End move, ordered a G.D.M.F. $69 replacement Data East autolaunch. I am tired of not even having a chance for a double jackpot on multi. Worst engineered autolaunch possible- 17 moving parts. it would have been more to get a stern upright autolaunch and coil bracket though.
:badmood: :badmood: :badmood:
jennifer:
Jennifer looks over the top of her glasses at this...An interesting (low end fix), But the problem as I would see it it being clear packing tape will
yellow with age within a year.
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