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Coils don’t really “go bad”, barring mechanical damage. It’s typically gummed up mechs or switches like you concluded. Coils are just a length of wire. Just ohm out the coils and see if one is off of the others that are the same ones to see if one got melted or something. The LEDs make it pop. Very nice.

The decrement button on the bottom is for “gambling”. The operator could cash someone out if they won a bunch of free games. Might consider cleaning all the gummed up old grease off before adding more. Would stay functional longer. But that’s a beautiful machine. Never heard of it before.

I got one whats the worth of it ?

You need a mic. Badly

Great video and collection. Might want a BT mic for future videos.

Do you have any interest in arcade machines aswell? I collect both pinballs and arcades and would love to see you also restore arcades!

Nice pickups. I'm sure they'll ALL be fine. Just plug them in and fire them up! 😜 Looking forward to watching you work on them.

Hi Max, what is your engineering background or are you just a keen enthusiast

I'll give you credit buddy. I don't even bother with the EM machines. Box full of relays isn't fun for me, and I'm way older than you.

This machine has been restored! Visit the link in the description to watch my restoration series on this Phoenix.

Great video. I have been working on several pinball machines from the 70’s. I am inspired to work on some wood rail pinball machines someday soon. I really like the way the legs and trim looks after you sanded and clear coated. I am so impressed with your efforts.

Can I mail you my 1986 nes to see if you can get it to work?

Awesome job Max! I really enjoyed part 1 and 2. Your perseverance with Catalina paid off. I have worked on Gottlieb, Williams and Bally electromechanical pinball machines but not a Chicago Coin yet. It is obvious that you have learned a lot along the way from the experience. I look forward watching more of your videos and hope that you make more pinball videos.

Hi Max great videos. Watching from Great Britain. Always wanted a Bingo but they are few available in the Uk. I’ll keep looking and maybe one day will acquire one

Don't waste your time testing those caps. They are over 40 years old, just replace them. Use at least a 6800 for the 5V line. You'll notice the one big cap on your sound card is actually leaking.

hey i loved your vid and i gotta ask i have a 512k with a plus anaglouge board since mine had no traces left and was burned up and i have a vertical collapse what would you recomend

Cool!

Great video!! Thanks a lot!!!! 🙂

Great video Max! I'm restoring a sister Chicago Coin pinball "Baseball" 1948. This video saved me a lot of time trouble shooting. Also, your production values on your video get an A+ Thanks for doing this!

What does the attract mode sequence doing or testing?

Great job! Ball moves around on that playfield like glass. Cant get much better than that. Thanks for going ahead and documenting this process. 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

Great work, Max. I figured, based on the other videos that you'd get this one looking good and playing. I say we live in tgis weird golden age of pinball and arcade repair because of all the videos that are out there. Thanks for making the videos and adding to it.

The Famicom have jailbars (vertical lines) And all non RGB 8 bit Nintendos jabe bery baddly dot crowing on all vertical color obcects wnen scrolling horizontally.

Looks like the end of the video’s got some audio issues. Tried to fix it but can’t get the audio for that specific part to sync. Hopefully it’s understandable enough, I mention that the U5 spider chip contains the CPU board ROM code so with that chip being bad it could never have started, and that in part 4 I’ll be installing the new CPU board and replacing the shorted driver board transistor.

What does the Strobe signal do? the Spider chips have multiple strobe signal inputs which I think are at different strobe frequencies. If you take your oscilloscope and measure the strobe input signals they should be at different frequencies and duty cycles? I'm not sure why they are strobing or using strobe signals for the switches but the CPU must be scanning the switches so how.

Ah bummer that the spider chip is a goner. But good troubleshooting getting to that point and all the other stuff you did like the ground mods. I know you'll get it going. Thanks for the video showing the process.

Thankfully we have resources to replace these cpu boards. Back in the day when this would happen they would part out hundreds of these games due to bad spider chips and no alternative.

Any reasons why they used a separate ground reference only for the 42vdc and 60vdc? its isolated from the other grounds for some reason, its ground is NOT tied connected to the pinball games backbox ground?

Idk about the iPod but now I want a Volvo truck

Great series looking forward to watching pt3 as I go through one I just got ahold of

Great job! Increase the pitch of the game and add some 321 oil to the spinner axel, and thats gonna be an awesome time!

Could you upload those videos to Archive?

Great job! Machine looks awesome it almost looks like new.

Great restoration. I am a 62 yo man who played these machines as a kid. My friends mom owned a beer joint and we were allowed in during the day. Great fun and they were for amusement only. 😉😉

I'm having problems with this iPod, I use Cf adapter with micro SD, but I need to format it with Windows. Have you had any idea how to do it?? I'm already getting desperate

Use to play these in Australia☺

Русские быстрее тебя работают.(болтаеш много)....

This was my first pinball. Pretty fun game

I’ll be super impressed if you could get this entirely working. Vintage bingo machine in my opinion aren’t worth touching since they don’t have much value and their complexity is insane

Awesome video series on this Night Club! I'm fixing up my Bally Show Time right now and have it working great mechanically but doing some cosmetic fixes. Can you detail which LED bulbs you used specifically in the backglass? When you pulled them out of the box, they looked like Comet Pinball LEDs which is where I get all mine for my other pinball games. I like the look of the ones you got so would like to experiment with those. Maybe you could add links to the description? Thanks for an awesome in-depth series!

Max, you do a very good job of detailed explanations of problems, how you fix the problems, and how you test for bad parts. This is very helpful to us at home trying to repair our pinball machines. Thanks

The Williams logo? That is an upside down Motorola logo - they are very similar.

You have to replace all the electrolytic in the power supply including the very big one.

You have to look at the Powers’s-ply

I loved that computer growing up. If memory serves, the joystick is connected to the 9-pin connector on the left. I believe the 9-pin on the back is for the cassette deck to load/save programs.

3d print posts..

I love seeing into them so much. They are beautiful

Looks great, Max. It's always amazing how much a simple cleaning can go a long way to make the game look better. I have to second the "No Grease" usage on the coil mechs. Take those sling shots and flipper assemblies apart and clean. No Grease on metal to nylon. Only metal on metal needs any greasing. Go to the Williams Phoenix game and rebuild those flippers for practice. Gottlieb Flippers are more complicated. Clean, not grease. Also the bullet style bulbs are a nice touch, although not necessary. Lastly, the coil sleeve for the knocker is incorrect style. The longer sleeve is usually necessary so the plunger doesn't wiggle free. But terrific job so far. Looking forward to the rest of this and the Phoenix videos.

Please do not grease the flipper plungers! Over time it will gum back up with the coil dust and other debris from the flipper mechanism. Installing a new coil sleeve should go a long way. No lubricant needed as the coil sleeve is nylon and is self lubricating

Yes. CT is center tap. Transformer definition. You are counting pins on the processor wrong on the second side. They count in a circle.