Author Topic: Laser Cue - IT LIVES (Read 24443 times)

ChadTower · « **Reply #40 on:** November 05, 2005, 05:44:21 pm »

Finally got the PCBs packed up and shipped out... hopefully, I'll have them back by the end of the year.

ChadTower · « **Reply #41 on:** November 07, 2005, 12:54:56 pm »

Just got word, the boards arrived safely at their destination.

ChadTower · « **Reply #42 on:** November 08, 2005, 08:35:35 pm »

Started cleaning out the coils but couldn't find my short coil sleeves... I'm going to have to order more when I get paid.

ChadTower · « **Reply #43 on:** November 14, 2005, 09:38:35 am »

Ordered more sleeves, plus some other misc pinball maintenance stuff.

Took all the stuff off of the lower half of the playfield, will clean it all and novus/turtle wax the playfield.

ChadTower · « **Reply #44 on:** November 15, 2005, 10:02:56 pm »

Did some cleaning/Novus 1 on some plastics, posts, etc that are off the playfield right now. Went to Novus 2 the playfield but my drill didn't have enough charge left to do a good job. It is charging now.

I really need to upgrade that sucker to a powered drill.

menace · « **Reply #45 on:** November 16, 2005, 06:42:26 am »

how was your drill configured for applying the novus? i thought about this when I did mine but thought it might be too much elbow grease so i just did it by hand. I'm assuming it worked well since there were no reported mishaps.

ChadTower · « **Reply #46 on:** November 16, 2005, 09:51:53 am »

And there is one other spongy attachment not pictured that I like to use.

ClubNinja · « **Reply #47 on:** November 16, 2005, 04:19:33 pm »

I have the same kit and the poofy black attachment is my favorite.

ChadTower · « **Reply #48 on:** November 16, 2005, 04:20:08 pm »

Oh man, don't hit a switch with that, though, or you end up with black poofy lint all over the place.

ChadTower · « **Reply #49 on:** November 17, 2005, 07:37:41 am »

Did a single run with Novus 2, but the drill ran out of juice again. This time left it charging overnight.

ChadTower · « **Reply #50 on:** November 17, 2005, 08:50:58 pm »

After a second run on lower half with Novus 2.

ChadTower · « **Reply #51 on:** November 17, 2005, 08:51:36 pm »

From the closeup, you can sort of see some of the dirt that seems to be embedded in the wood and paint. It may not come out, I'm going to send it off to some pin guys and see if I can get that out or if I'd just wipe away too much finish to try.

ChadTower · « **Reply #52 on:** November 18, 2005, 08:18:51 am »

Oooh, I'm told that there is a nice little product, available at any grocery store, that should be able to do the job very nicely. I'm going to snag some tonight and test it out.

ClubNinja · « **Reply #53 on:** November 18, 2005, 04:45:02 pm »

I am very curious to hear if that works well enough to be worth the extra effort. I've noticed that the Williams games in this era seem to be prone to this bonus dirt issue.

ChadTower · « **Reply #54 on:** November 18, 2005, 09:14:29 pm »

Specific results sent, but of course, you're welcome to drive over and view the results. I did selected areas of the playfield. I'll show you which I did and which I did not.

Tonight, used the Magic Eraser on some parts with some success. Some caveats, though, in that the pad may pull up small chips of paint. Not cool, so I stopped. This playfield may be a bit too far gone.

But the machine is part of the family now, so we will love it just the same. My son and I put another run of Novus 2 on the lower half and then a first coat of Turtle Wax. It will get 5 coats in total. If we want more when 5 are on we will put more, but the minimum and current plan is 5.

ChadTower · « **Reply #55 on:** November 19, 2005, 01:18:09 pm »

Learned a lesson today:

When applying a coat of wax to the playfield, don't leave it overnight. The next day the excess wax is much harder to get off.

ChadTower · « **Reply #56 on:** November 19, 2005, 02:16:48 pm »

Up to three coats of wax on the bottom half. It's starting to shine nicely.

ChadTower · « **Reply #57 on:** November 19, 2005, 02:34:05 pm »

Ordered new rubber kit, and since they wanted 5.35 to ship it, I ordered one for my next project too to save a couple bucks.

ChadTower · « **Reply #58 on:** November 19, 2005, 07:28:52 pm »

Fourth coat of wax.

ChadTower · « **Reply #59 on:** November 19, 2005, 10:33:40 pm »

Five.

ChadTower · « **Reply #60 on:** November 20, 2005, 12:46:59 pm »

Six. May as well get it to an even ten. Overkill, but this machine hasn't seen wax in 15 years.

EDIT: Seven.

ChadTower · « **Reply #61 on:** November 21, 2005, 06:59:09 pm »

Hrmph... just cleaning all of the parts, didn't realize until now there is a missing playfield plastic. Bah to that.

Not sure yet if I'll seek a replacement or make one.

EDIT: Huh. Just looked at ipdb, and either that one is missing this plastic too, or it just didn't have one there. Weird.

ChadTower · « **Reply #62 on:** November 22, 2005, 11:14:15 am »

Stopped at seven coats, didn't seem like it was adding anything anymore.

Put much of the center drain metalwork back in and some of the slingshot hardware minus rubbers. Rubbers are in the mail AFAIK.

ChadTower · « **Reply #63 on:** November 22, 2005, 06:53:26 pm »

MMM, coil sleeves came in today, I'm ready to replace those suckers.

ChadTower · « **Reply #64 on:** November 23, 2005, 09:57:49 am »

Changed the ball loader coil sleeve and put some more of the lower playfield stuff back on.

ChadTower · « **Reply #65 on:** November 25, 2005, 12:27:59 pm »

Two more coil sleeves, can't get a third... need a right angle screwdriver. Will be hard to find locally.

ChadTower · « **Reply #66 on:** November 25, 2005, 03:36:44 pm »

Okay, so I call the local hardware store, first guy is like "wtf is a right angle screwdriver". I describe it, he asks another guy who says it's called an "offset screwdriver" and they don't have them. So I go to homedepot.com to see if they have them. I see the picture of one, realize there is one sitting in my toolbox and I didn't know what it was until now.

So, I have one. Yay.

ChadTower · « **Reply #67 on:** November 26, 2005, 09:40:46 am »

Buh, the upper flipper coil seems to have melted the sleeve just enough that I can't get it out. I have to replace the coil (that's a sign of a dying coil anyway).

I wonder where I could get a 50v coil, though... not common.

ChadTower · « **Reply #68 on:** November 28, 2005, 05:58:11 pm »

Found a source for the coil, about $15 shipped, don't have the cash right now. Will put that one back and continue with the other stuff.

Once the new cat6 / rg6 run project I've started is complete, that is...

Rubber kits came in.

ChadTower · « **Reply #69 on:** November 30, 2005, 11:19:09 am »

Nyerf, make that about $20 shipped, they overcharge shipping. Definitely has to wait.

ChadTower · « **Reply #70 on:** December 01, 2005, 06:10:48 pm »

Found a place that would send it out $16 shipped, bit the bullet.

ChadTower · « **Reply #71 on:** December 05, 2005, 09:27:39 am »

Coil came in, that was fast. Haven't touched the machine while I worked on the wiring project for my house. That is 95% done now, should be able to get back to Laser Cue this week.

ClubNinja · « **Reply #72 on:** December 05, 2005, 09:50:57 am »

Quote from: ChadTower on December 05, 2005, 09:27:39 am

Coil came in, that was fast.

ChadTower · « **Reply #73 on:** December 05, 2005, 10:31:16 am »

Yeah, he said he'd ship out same day, apparently he did.

On a side note, I found an old envelope I'd pulled from the TZ but I guess not looked into. It has a couple of TZ extra slingshot plastics.

ChadTower · « **Reply #74 on:** December 07, 2005, 01:35:55 pm »

So, erm, I tried to swap that coil, but managed to burn myself and get nothing positive done.

ClubNinja · « **Reply #75 on:** December 08, 2005, 09:24:54 am »

Ouch. Did the coil survive?

ChadTower · « **Reply #76 on:** December 08, 2005, 10:15:44 am »

Oh, yeah, totally unaffected. The only things affected are my finger and the length of two wires that I now have to make jumpers to extend. Once it is done it will be fine.

For future reference, if you drop your soldering iron, don't catch it. It hurts.

ClubNinja · « **Reply #77 on:** December 08, 2005, 03:13:40 pm »

Quote from: ChadTower on December 08, 2005, 10:15:44 am

For future reference, if you drop your soldering iron, don't catch it.

ChadTower · « **Reply #78 on:** December 12, 2005, 02:26:44 pm »

Apparently Laser Cue is popular with the guys...

ClubNinja · « **Reply #79 on:** December 12, 2005, 03:09:22 pm »

I knew it! I knew it, I knew it, I knew it. That game is so lucky that it actually has worthwhile gameplay. Of course, both Alien Poker and Sorcerer are similar enough in the playfield to get you by, and without the sexy men.

Poor Laser Cue.


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