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Lucky Arcade Find This Past Weekend....

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Glaine:

Moisture would have been my guess to (though we really don't know). Glad for you that it didn't blow if thats what it was. In the future you should really remember to look over the parts first (I know it's tempting to just flip it on when you get it home, but sometimes a loose quarter will create a connection accross a circuit and blow something for example).

Good haul. So the pinball doesn't do anything yet except light up though huh? Let us know how this goes.

Nostalgia:

Thats awesome. Great free find. I wish that stuff would happen to me.  :'(  :laugh:

melarky:

Just an update on that pinball machine, we finally had a chance to look into it, and it supprisingly, it started working too.  I mean everything works on that thing (even all the lights work, I would have thohght most of the bulbs would be burned out).  The only thing we did was greese up the points wheel (the 100 place wheel was getting stuck on "9" when trying to reset back to zero, we lubed it up with a little petroleum jelly, and it works good as new).

I really can't believe that both of these machines basically work with no fixing needed.  They were stored outside for who knows how long and it doesn't look like they were really maintained before that either.

Havok:

Congratulations! Now clean those suckers up and post some more pictures! (Especially the pin)

Texasmame:

Ah, congrats on a sweet find!

Like someone else said, probably some moisture causing a short.

I'm not a pin guy but something that old is pretty cool. . .

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