United Manufacturing Co - Playboy Shuffle-Targette restore

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Spring Lake John:
Nice work on the Playboy restoration! I had one at Spring Lake Arcade for many years! It is a great game and very competitive, especially in the flash mode. Unfortunately, one summer day in 2009, would be it's last day of operation. I was working a typical busy summer day and had an employee take over so I could attend an evening wedding. I took one last walk around, and rushed off to get ready. My wife and I stood at the ceremony watching the vows when my phone rang. My employee Cassidey: "John, everything's ok, but a machine started on fire! I was able to put it out with a fire extinguisher, but it's a mess in here. The alarm didn't go off and we didn't have to call for help." I told him to close and headed right over dressed in my best suit. THe layout of the arcade was all of the newer machines on the left side, and all of the antiques on the right. There was white powder everywhere from the fire extinguisher. We blocked off the antique side, cleaned up and had the new side open in short time. About another half hour and instructions to Cassidey, and then back to the wedding... The antique side reopened later after Cassidey finished the clean up. In the 20 years since I took over the arcade in 1989, I had never had any issue with this machine. (other than a few pucks being stolen over the years and normal tune ups) Turned out the coil shorted, but a 30A fuse was in that circuit and it should have been a 10A. After this incident, I check all the games to make sure all the fuses were correct! I still have the game, but will need at least another head unit to restore it correctly. Let me know if you need any help with your game. I would appreciate you keeping me in mind if you hear of a game or parts available. John

AlienInferno:
Hey John,

Sorry for the late reply. Man I need to update this old thread with some more pics. Sad to hear about your machine catching fire. This one's doing good. I still need to build a coinbox and get the coin mechanism installed into it but it's pretty much playable now. Have a bit of an issue with the puck return belt. It slides to one side enough to finally catch and causes the drive belt to slip so your pucks won't always return. I need to pull it out and rip it apart. Re-glue all the joints and replace the bushings. Hopefully that will get it to track better.

More pics later.

Spring Lake John:
I can't remember what the ends of the belt look like, so if you post pictures of both ends of the belt assembly, maybe I could make a suggestion. Are the rollers at the ends flat across or do they have a larger diameter in the middle? I picked up a Chicago Coin Deluxe Criss Cross Shuffle a couple months ago. A similar machine, but on this one you shoot to make 3 in a row. (The game play of playboy is far superior.) On the Criss Cross, they have tension adjusters near the motor end for both the left side and right side. You adjust the centering by trial and error on these two adjusters. I'm having a backglass made for the Criss Cross and if it arrives in time, I'll try to run the machine in the arcade this summer.

pbj:
These games are fun as hell and I can’t believe I missed this thread originally.

Let’s see some updated pics

bobbyb13:
I had never seen one of these before.
Very cool.

Thanks for sharing and I'm glad someone else revived this thread so i could see it!

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