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The Vulcan Project

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Cyberflexx:
As I posted in the thread for needing a manual about the machine, I thought I would make a dedicated thread to the restoration of this machine.

This machine would not work as it smoked really bad from the relays in the bottom of the cabinet.  The fuses also blew.

I found a guy on the internet who has the same pin and he took some pictures for me and I was able to resolder the wires to a few of the relays.  I put in a new fuse and she clicked and popped and all the scores reset to 00000.  I tested all of the targets and only ones that do not work are 3 drop targets and I am going to check the ground wire on those. 

I really need new white/black star drop targets, round pink/white with stars target, other drop targets, not sure color, bumper caps ( mine are cracked ), a reproduction playfiled plastic for the left slingshot which I have the scans for now, want, but dont need new rollover stars as the ones i have are grungy, and i need new flipper bats and the plastic sheet that goes under bumpers ( not sure the name of those)


Here are some pictures what she looked like when I got it..

Cyberflexx:
I got my replacement playfield in today.  This one is 100 times better than what i currently have in the machine..

I am going to use the old playfield as practice for touchups and clear coating.  I have never done that before, so that is the perfect playfield to learn on..

Cyberflexx:
I'll take some pics of the head and cabinet sometime today.. the backglass is in really good shape. 

I may need to re-stencil the artwork. Has anyone here done that?  how do you make stencils?   Maybe I could clean it up and touch up the scratches and leave it for character..

shardian:
On a pin like this, if the parts are there and not broken, you don't need new ones. you will spend a small fortune on drop targets, regular targets, star inserts, etc. It takes work, but I cleaned all of mine to where they look darn near new.

I also just repainted the same exact stars on my drop targets. It was pretty easy with Testors enamel paints - and durable. The image was stamped, so there is a depression on the plastic you use as a brush guide.

On Wade's advice, I switched to using Bleache White as my main cleaner for pretty much everything. That and a toothbrush worked wonders on targets and star inserts.

That new playfield looks really, really nice.  :applaud:

Cyberflexx:
Here are some pictures of how she sits..

One good thing for me is that I have this machine at work in a secured datacenter.  I can work on it when I am at lunch or when the day is going really slow.  ;D

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