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OG Play pinball because you are a boy

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bobbyb13:
Good to see you guys come up for air.
Fun to see how many people whose company I have been lucky to share are watching this mess Play out.
Haha

The time available for any of my more entertaining and still frivolous pursuits shrinks.

A replacement for that barbequed board has shown up so now the onus is on me to sort out those fricaseed connectors and put that thing right.
Funny how being too busy to do anything I want to at my age has illuminted the existential crises of it all.
---fudgesicle---.
The race is on.

Hope all of you are well- and well entertained in the twilight of it all !

pbj:
With pinball machines, it's always the connectors.  You may need to trim back some of the wire to get to good copper, too.  When you switch over to LEDs there's going to be less strain on that board.  And you're not going to leave it on 24/7 for 10 years, so that will help.  Best arcade time of my life was when my apartment bumped my rent $50/month and went to "free electricity."  Thermostat sat on 68 and the games never turned off.  Fun times.

 :cheers:

bobbyb13:
Between a lot of work chaos through the end of the year, the holidays in general, and a long-term house guest who was an entertaining distraction I had less than zero time for machine work- but now maybe I can make up for it!

Finally got back to working on the perverted pin.
John and Chad helped me get the new coffin upstairs so it cleared the space needed down in the shop to get going on the playfield swap for real.

I spent a bunch of time agonizing over the order of business with doing this and after sitting and staring at it for too long I said screw it and just dove in. I figured as I was looking at stuff I would figure out the ways I could screw it up and then try to not do any of those last swcond epiphanies as I went.

Can't recall if I posted anything about buying a few table saw run out devices that I hacked into temporarily being rotisseries but they are working out.


One of the points of contention was how much of this crap I was going to desolder along the way.
It was obvious that I should pull the wires off the coils and make it easier deal with all the heavy ---steaming pile of meadow muffin--- and swapping the flipper, slingshot, drop target bank, etc. over wound up not so bad.

Lining all those things up was easy as a result and I was glad I listened to the CPR guys about not just drilling out their singe marks willy-nilly and hoping for the best since almost none of those were good for my parts.

After I starting pulling GI bulb holders and other crap it occurred to me that since the bare wire here still looked perfect that I might just be able to get away with cutting the bazillion staples in this thing and transferring the entire rat nest over in one swell foop.

I took a metric crap ton of pictures for when I screwed it up but holy ---steaming pile of meadow muffin---- this stupid idea appears to be working.


As long as I don't get the bare stuff crossed up when I staple it back down this may actually work.

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