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Ken Layton:
I just had my first experience servicing a Dominos Spectacular Pinball Adventure pinball machine made by Spooky Pinball in Wisconsin. This one came in with broken flippers and pop bumpers that were "machine gunning". Found broken return springs (Williams # 10-364) and a blown 3 amp slo blo fuse up on the cpu board. That got the flippers working again. The pop bumper problem which was occuring on all 3 pop bumpers was caused by all three spoon switches being stuck closed! After adjusting the gap on those spoon switches, everything was normal again.

I can't believe how cheap Spooky Pinball is in that they leave out essential equipment needed in servicing their machines. For instance, this is what's NOT included in the machine:

1. Manuals/schematics. Not even available on their website!

2. Prop rod to hold up the playfield. You have to pull the playfield all the way forward and lean it against the backbox. To work on the flippers, I have to stand on a ladder! F that!

3. No service outlet to plug in your soldering iron.

After photographing much of this Dominos machine and writing down tons of stuff, I've managed to create quite a bit of repair information regarding Spooky Pinball machines. It's all posted over at pinwiki:

http://www.pinwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Spooky_Pinball_Repair

Ken Layton:
Some pictures of the Dominos machine. Most parts are Williams assemblies except pop bumpers are Data East and slingshots are modern Stern assemblies.

Ken Layton:
More pictures. EDIT: even more pictures.

jennifer:
I have never had the Pleasure/Displeasure of ever even seeing one of these machines much less servicing one,  However, it does have a certain charm Jenn would find endearing, although the whole thing seems to be a Frankenstein best of the tried and true, even down to the cab itself (Although I would find it strange the never incorporated the fliptronics) beings its apparently mostly a Williams knockoff. And hurried to the finish line by cutting a few corners... It would take someone whos been around a few different cabs (over multiple years) to even know what their looking at much less reverse engineer it given the lack of service information. It certainly would be a poor choice (IMO) for somebody's first love. Thx Ken for showing that beast off.... FWIW, if you do go up on that ladder don't wear a short skirt, any bystanders will try peeking at your bloomers ::).

PL1:

--- Quote from: jennifer on November 12, 2018, 05:34:55 am ---FWIW, if you do go up on that ladder don't wear a short skirt, any bystanders will try peeking at your bloomers ::).

--- End quote ---
Ken knows how to trick that kind of nosy bystander.

He doesn't wear bloomers.  jk    :laugh2:


Scott

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