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My Pinball Playfield Swap - Stargate - All Electronics Done!
Buddabing:
I think the analogy of classic cars to pinball is extremely apt.
For the time and money I have spent on this project, I definitely could have bought a machine in better condition to start with. But where would the learning experience be?
Buddabing:
While I was on vacation I received the extra wiring harness and connectors that I had ordered. I wired up the knocker and it works. I also wired up the connector for the coin meter. Before I know if that works I'll need to wire up the coin door.
One of the reasons I bought a spare wiring harness is because I wanted the colors of wire to match the original. It would have been easy but sloppy to use T-taps to wire up the knocker instead of the correct Molex connectors like the original used.
One problem I have is that my coin door connector only has one coin slot wire, the others are not in the connector. To fix this I wanted to pull the two missing pins from the corresponding connector on the spare wiring harness. Unfortunately, I have been unable to extract the pins from this molex connector. I'm probably going to dremel the connector apart.
Buddabing:
Tonight I extracted the pins from the spare wiring harness by dremelling the molex connector apart. Sloppy, but effective. Now my connector has wires for both coin slots.
After I got the pins into the connector, I tried to find my insulated quick disconnects I got from Peale. I couldn't find them! :angry: All I could find was non-insulated.
Next up is to find the QDs and attach them. I think I will solder and heat shrink the light sockets because the connections are too small for QDs. Oh yeah, I'll also need to change the light socket wiring because the old coin door had only one light.
Buddabing:
Reattaching the ramps was somewhat difficult. This is because there were no screw holes for the screws that attach the bottom of the ramp to the playfield. So I took some cardboard and made a template for the existing screw holes on my old playfield. Then I screwed in the screws in the same relative locations on the new playfield. It worked out okay. I've had to take the right ramp off again because there's a plastic that can only be put on if the ramp is off.
Buddabing:
In these two pictures, the routed-out areas are where the ramps attach. One picture is on the old playfield and one is on the new playfield.
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