My wife hears me listening to your content all the time. Today she asked just how many pinball machines are they gonna fix? And I told her! All of them! :)
This 8 year old (back in the 70s) dropped a lot of couch quarters in this wonderful game at the local bowling alley here in Wisconsin. It was the game that hooked me on pinball. Thank you to the customer for having you work on this wonderful piece of pinball history. And thank you for all you and your brother do. Be safe and be well.
Thank you Allan, I can see how as a kid this would be a cool one, the colors are nice and the idea makes sense with the gameplay and the targets.... Glad you enjoyed it Allan!
The oldest Pinball machine i have ever played was the Harlem Globetrotter Pinball and it was fun. So i like the restauration of these old Pinball machines. Thank's for sharing.
That coin door relay hum is driving me nuts. Since the coin mech is gone and set to free play I would disconnect that coil for a little peace and quiet. Great video. Can't wait for next one.
I watch so many of your videos, never realized, I had never subscribed. I love watching you tear into Jukeboxes and pinball machines and make them work again, like they did back in the day. I just watched an Addams Family TV rerun on RUclips, where Gomez was playing on Gottlieb's pinball machine, Dancing Dolls, I believe from 1961 with the old school wooden rails on side. Check it out, It's Addams Family Season 2 Episode 2, Morticia's Romance - Part 2. I recognized the Gottlieb logo right away. Keep up the nice work. From Indiana.
that copper thing on the top of the relay coil is a shading ring. its purpose is to keep the magnetic field circulating through the zero crossing of the AC powering it. without it, the coil would probably pull/release each cycle, or buzz very loudly
I love it where you explain meticulously how you approach a problem. Just work your way back from the thing that is wrong to what causes the problem is. And then you see one fix solving more issues, in this case the playfield lights.
Yup, I just had this same thing happen on a Gottlieb Bank A Ball, 1 problem I couldn't quite figure out but then a 2nd problem, I tracked it back, fixed it, and that fixed the 1st problem. Like you said just start at the light or whatever isn't working and work backwards!
As a kid aged 10 we played pinball in the local bar in Wilmette Illinois...1975...we would prop up the legs with cardboard to get more float in the ball...until the bartender would chase us out...
Back in the day...In order to "slow a machine down." Since a lot of shop keepers would jack up the rear legs to play fast (and consume balls fast...inducing more game plays/money). The fast and dirty way to circumvent this was to grab a pair of ashtrays (this was the '70s so smoking was common everywhere)...take the ashtrays and put the front feet in them. That would raise the front ¼" to ½" (depends on the glass thickness of the ashtray). Remember, one is trying to "modify" the machine fast (before the shop keeper or bowling alley would know what you were doing...you didn't need tools or anything).
Somewhat but that wasn't really a big deal. You had to do it before a game started because the more critical one was the ball in the track that determines if you are lifting the machine up. One isn't adjusting the play that much with the ashtrays...just slowing it down some...¼-½ inch is within the adjustment range of the leveling feet themselves.
Great video Ronnie, The playfield looks great. Coil problems and switch problems normal day at the shop. Can not wait for the second video. When the game tries to start to it sounds like the beginning of the tv show Miami Vice. Thanks for filming Ronnie
I should come visit. Maybe you could help me play better too. The girls on the back glass look like they used the pool cue chalk for eye shadow. Lol Thanks for the video, way to fill us with suspense.
So you don't tilt any of it :) The operators were skittish as hell man, it's hard to understand, but they saw it as outright theft. You know how people get pissed off if they get stolen from ,well the operators saw it like that because it was their livelihood. So if somebody stole a game or cheated, they took great offense at it, they were even a little superstitious in a lot of instances. So they basically demanded that the manufacturers really go overboard with the tilt mechanisms, this is a hold over from WAY back, the earliest pinball machines as you can understand were much easier to cheat on, because they didn't weigh as much. So by this point, they had a couple slam switches, a couple tilt switches in every machine. It says in the manual how you can add more if you like, LOL there's usually one in the backbox, one on the playfield, one on the mechanism board, one on the coin door, a tilt bob and a rolling ball in case you lift the front up.
JOE CLASSIC, What does the lightbox tilt switch purpose? What would turns this on and off? I didn't know that different coils are made differently using different bobbin widths and lengths for part replacements which the gold bushings and gold washers will cause the latches to have less travel actuation range and that the gold bushings and gold washers prevent the metal to metal switch noises?
That tilt switch is there so that if the backbox gets 'tilted' violently, the switch will bounce open and stop the game from working. Sometimes people would play the games, and shake them so that the ball would go where they wanted.... so the manufacturers designed a circuit to help deter people from doing that.... if you shook the game and it opened that switch, the game turned off so you lost your quarter! So it made it where nobody would shake the game in fear of losing their money. Sometimes it stopped people from doing it, sometimes it didn't but it was what they were trying to do with it... Thank you for watching Wayne like always!!!
@@LyonsArcade thanks, I never heard of the backbox ALSO having a tilted switch because I know the playfield bottom cabinet has a tilt switch but I had no idea there was another tilt switch in the backbox also. Whats confusing is they should have just called it a backbox tilt switch instead of a lightbox tilt switch because I was confused what is the lightbox connected to or referring to. I'm guessing Lightbox means also the backbox
@@waynegram8907 Why I can't comment to Joe's Classic Video Games to upload more non-repairing videos like Johnny Nero Action Hero?.. Because Joe is busy repairing stuff?
Never spray WD-40 on a pinball machine unless you want a bon fire. The best thing to use is CRC 656 marine spray, especially when they start to ice up from sitting too long. Splash that EM down with CRC
Poe kipp see I lived in the Albany Saratoga area I know how to pronounce all the towns upstate Cohoes is very famous for having the 2nd highest waterfall Really something to see during the spring thaw Also very old mills that were water powered I used to explore the tunnels under the city as a kid. They were mostly water power tunnels, but some that I never figured out what they were for.
Hey Ron, I tried jacking up tje front of the P.B Machine slow mo kinda bites, my friend owned a mini mart at night we messed with Tim's machines a little, he was cool. Is the lockout at the coin seitch?
The owner may have a good reason why the legs are on backwards; his flooring maybe off-level to facilitate water drainage. I'd be asking the owner if they knew and why.
@@jamesdye4603 What happened to old videos about really cool arcade machines, now current videos about repairing arcade machines?.. Gonna need Joe's Classic Video Games to record ICE's Johnny Nero Action Hero arcade machine and upload to RUclips.
Yeah you definitely wouldn't have any fun with it, as a matter of fact, you've already decided it's not fun :) After you've decided it's not fun, definitely don't play it, it won't be any fun. Thank you for watching ACiDRAiN97!!!
@@LyonsArcade they are cool to see but really have no replay value at least for me. The mechanics of them are amazing. All relays and switches, no real computer running the show. I do like some of the classics, Pinbot, Gorgar, Space Shuttle, Fun House, and my all time favorite Medieval Maddness. Attack from Mars is up there as well... and then there is Godzilla...
@@piratestation69 Joe's Classic Video Games wanted to do a Johnny Nero Action Hero video by reverting to "Really cool arcade game" videos and quit the repairing videos for a while.
My wife hears me listening to your content all the time. Today she asked just how many pinball machines are they gonna fix? And I told her! All of them! :)
hahahaha Tell your wife it's o.k. if she likes us too, we won't tell anybody :)
This 8 year old (back in the 70s) dropped a lot of couch quarters in this wonderful game at the local bowling alley here in Wisconsin. It was the game that hooked me on pinball.
Thank you to the customer for having you work on this wonderful piece of pinball history.
And thank you for all you and your brother do.
Be safe and be well.
Thank you Allan, I can see how as a kid this would be a cool one, the colors are nice and the idea makes sense with the gameplay and the targets.... Glad you enjoyed it Allan!
The oldest Pinball machine i have ever played was the Harlem Globetrotter Pinball and it was fun. So i like the restauration of these old Pinball machines. Thank's for sharing.
That coin door relay hum is driving me nuts. Since the coin mech is gone and set to free play I would disconnect that coil for a little peace and quiet. Great video. Can't wait for next one.
Thanks for watching Kent!!!
24:04 Haha! Your impression of the clickety clacks for the game starting is so perfect!
i'm trying to make you feel it :)
Thanks for all your great content, keep up the great work 👍🏼😎
Thank you Ninnish, that's very nice of you. We appreciate it!
I watch so many of your videos, never realized, I had never subscribed. I love watching you tear into Jukeboxes and pinball machines and make them work again, like they did back in the day.
I just watched an Addams Family TV rerun on RUclips, where Gomez was playing on Gottlieb's pinball machine, Dancing Dolls, I believe from 1961 with the old school wooden rails on side. Check it out, It's Addams Family Season 2 Episode 2, Morticia's Romance - Part 2. I recognized the Gottlieb logo right away. Keep up the nice work. From Indiana.
Thank you buddy we appreciate it… I might have seen that episode when I was a kid but I don’t remember it I’ll have to check it out!
Ron, what a tease with that ending….
I can't play all night :) We have to save some for next time!!!!
that copper thing on the top of the relay coil is a shading ring. its purpose is to keep the magnetic field circulating through the zero crossing of the AC powering it. without it, the coil would probably pull/release each cycle, or buzz very loudly
Hunts down switch, adjusted switch, game works....end of video (sort of a youtube mic drop). Nice work. I really like playing this one when I find it.
Thanks for watching Pez! We'll be back tomorrow with the next part....
Man I love classic pinball. My friend has the biggest classic em collection on the east coast. 400 machines only will buy Pins from 50s-70s
Your friend is living DAT LIFE, hahaha. Thanks for watching the Swole Dad Pitbull!!!
@@LyonsArcade love the video my man :) what do u guys have in stock btw
Excellent repair. Perfectly diagnosed! Love your videos.
Thank you Level Means-Flat!
Thats pretty cool to see you solve the issue. Have a good day sir.
Thank you Dennis, we appreciate you watching buddy
I love it where you explain meticulously how you approach a problem. Just work your way back from the thing that is wrong to what causes the problem is. And then you see one fix solving more issues, in this case the playfield lights.
Yup, I just had this same thing happen on a Gottlieb Bank A Ball, 1 problem I couldn't quite figure out but then a 2nd problem, I tracked it back, fixed it, and that fixed the 1st problem. Like you said just start at the light or whatever isn't working and work backwards!
As a kid aged 10 we played pinball in the local bar in Wilmette Illinois...1975...we would prop up the legs with cardboard to get more float in the ball...until the bartender would chase us out...
That's very descriptive, I can see it in my head :) I see lots of brown wood, LOL
@@LyonsArcade and guys drinking during the day with hair to their shoulders, handle bar mustaches, corduroy pants and tight shirts...
Back in the day...In order to "slow a machine down." Since a lot of shop keepers would jack up the rear legs to play fast (and consume balls fast...inducing more game plays/money). The fast and dirty way to circumvent this was to grab a pair of ashtrays (this was the '70s so smoking was common everywhere)...take the ashtrays and put the front feet in them. That would raise the front ¼" to ½" (depends on the glass thickness of the ashtray). Remember, one is trying to "modify" the machine fast (before the shop keeper or bowling alley would know what you were doing...you didn't need tools or anything).
I've heard a lot of people did that :) With a dime or a quarter on the line back then I can see why!
I imagine the amount you could get away with was limited by the tilt bob.
Somewhat but that wasn't really a big deal. You had to do it before a game started because the more critical one was the ball in the track that determines if you are lifting the machine up.
One isn't adjusting the play that much with the ashtrays...just slowing it down some...¼-½ inch is within the adjustment range of the leveling feet themselves.
Boom!! Ron the schematic sleuth to the rescue!! What a find!
That is an awesome game. The artwork is great and the play field is unique
Yeah I really like it too!
Great video Ronnie, The playfield looks great. Coil problems and switch problems normal day at the shop. Can not wait for the second video. When the game tries to start to it sounds like the beginning of the tv show Miami Vice. Thanks for filming Ronnie
We're getting there :) Thanks for watching man!
Can't wait to get my big shot going
It's a very cool game, can't go wrong with drop targets and pool
@@LyonsArcade drop targets are instant gratification.
When working with EM's, it's "Usually Just a Switch"....LOL. Good find.
Yup, trouble is just figuring out which one :)
sweet... nice work
Thank you irieman442!
I should come visit. Maybe you could help me play better too. The girls on the back glass look like they used the pool cue chalk for eye shadow. Lol
Thanks for the video, way to fill us with suspense.
Come on down Scott!
Sounds like pah-kip-see Ron. Central New York here. Keep up the great work and filming it!
We're narrowing it down to two pronunciations :) Thanks for watching beavis6363!!!!
we love gottlieb em's Nice video as always.
Thank you Clyde, we appreciate it man
a little tickering goes a long way ,well done
"puh-KIP-ski" :) I used to live quite near there.
Thank you Lewin!
I bet there’s dirt on one of the slam tilt switches. … great suspenseful ending Ronnie. …. always leave ‘em wanting more….
We try to :)
A true classic.
It really is!
Brilliant, so simple in the end. Even i could follow the schematics. Why have a tilt switch in the back box?
So you don't tilt any of it :) The operators were skittish as hell man, it's hard to understand, but they saw it as outright theft. You know how people get pissed off if they get stolen from ,well the operators saw it like that because it was their livelihood. So if somebody stole a game or cheated, they took great offense at it, they were even a little superstitious in a lot of instances.
So they basically demanded that the manufacturers really go overboard with the tilt mechanisms, this is a hold over from WAY back, the earliest pinball machines as you can understand were much easier to cheat on, because they didn't weigh as much. So by this point, they had a couple slam switches, a couple tilt switches in every machine. It says in the manual how you can add more if you like, LOL
there's usually one in the backbox, one on the playfield, one on the mechanism board, one on the coin door, a tilt bob and a rolling ball in case you lift the front up.
JOE CLASSIC, What does the lightbox tilt switch purpose? What would turns this on and off? I didn't know that different coils are made differently using different bobbin widths and lengths for part replacements which the gold bushings and gold washers will cause the latches to have less travel actuation range and that the gold bushings and gold washers prevent the metal to metal switch noises?
That tilt switch is there so that if the backbox gets 'tilted' violently, the switch will bounce open and stop the game from working.
Sometimes people would play the games, and shake them so that the ball would go where they wanted.... so the manufacturers designed a circuit to help deter people from doing that.... if you shook the game and it opened that switch, the game turned off so you lost your quarter! So it made it where nobody would shake the game in fear of losing their money.
Sometimes it stopped people from doing it, sometimes it didn't but it was what they were trying to do with it... Thank you for watching Wayne like always!!!
@@LyonsArcade thanks, I never heard of the backbox ALSO having a tilted switch because I know the playfield bottom cabinet has a tilt switch but I had no idea there was another tilt switch in the backbox also. Whats confusing is they should have just called it a backbox tilt switch instead of a lightbox tilt switch because I was confused what is the lightbox connected to or referring to. I'm guessing Lightbox means also the backbox
@@waynegram8907 Why I can't comment to Joe's Classic Video Games to upload more non-repairing videos like Johnny Nero Action Hero?.. Because Joe is busy repairing stuff?
Never spray WD-40 on a pinball machine unless you want a bon fire.
The best thing to use is CRC 656 marine spray, especially when they start to ice up from sitting too long.
Splash that EM down with CRC
Yeah I feel like WD-40's been marketed wrong, people think it's a lubricant and it isn't.... thanks for watching Dave!
Getting excited for mine to pop up on your channel.
We're filming videos of it right now, we should have it done in the next couple days and you can come get it Chris! What a wonderful little machine.
My sister lives in Poughkeepsie. it is pronounced "Poe-kip-see".
That's the place!
Make sure to give ol Naytch a thumbs up people for his birthday tomorrow 😁
We can't do that because you live in a different day than the rest of us, damn Time Zones and everything
@@LyonsArcade ok
Artwork almost smacks of Jack Davis.
I'd imagine a lot of these guys were influencing each other at the time, it does look similar with the caricature like smiles and faces....
Do a "what to look for when purchasing a" video. Pinball and arcade.
I may have to do that!
2:53 Hysterical review of the weird looking people on the backglass
Poe kipp see
I lived in the Albany Saratoga area
I know how to pronounce all the towns upstate
Cohoes is very famous for having the 2nd highest waterfall
Really something to see during the spring thaw
Also very old mills that were water powered
I used to explore the tunnels under the city as a kid.
They were mostly water power tunnels, but some that I never figured out what they were for.
I've heard it's very nice up there!
Could you show on screen sometime the file that you use to clean switches?
Any video with dirty fingers tracing the schematics and using brain power is my kinda detective.Com ‘ on Man 😃
The lady at 2:41 has seen some stuff that is for sure.
She's probably a lot of fun :)
maybe the floor in their house is slanted and they had to adjust it to play ok 😁
It could be, I'm gonna ask the guy next time I see him "Hey man, what room is this in?"
8:55 hey Ronnie, it is pronounced as 'Puh-Kip-See'
That's it!
Come on people!
What are they thinking???? Come on peop.... People, you can't do that, come on now. Come on p... People. The nonsense has got to stop, come on now
@@LyonsArcade lol
Hey Ron, I tried jacking up tje front of the P.B Machine slow mo kinda bites, my friend owned a mini mart at night we messed with Tim's machines a little, he was cool. Is the lockout at the coin seitch?
Oh I can't text.
Cool
Thank you Ghillie!
The owner may have a good reason why the legs are on backwards; his flooring maybe off-level to facilitate water drainage. I'd be asking the owner if they knew and why.
The good news is he can put them right back on backwards if he wants :)
@@LyonsArcade true enuf. He'll be a little irritated though.
@@Nighthawke70 Joe's Classic Video Games uploads Johnny Nero Action Hero video because Joe wanted to take repair videos a break, please!
You had to be a big shot did ya 😁
You had to prove it to the crowd. 🎵
@@FaithyJo Haha all your friends were so knocked out 😄
You had to open up your mouth!
@@dnbreyen 😆Yellow matter custard..dripping from a dead dog's eye 👁
@@naytch2003 Johnny Nero Action Hero video if Joe stop repairing arcade machines for a while and start a video of a cool arcade machine again.
Poe-kip-see.
Poughkeepsie native.
@@dkd1228 Never been there, but where I live we get the NY radio and TV stations.
@@jamesdye4603 What happened to old videos about really cool arcade machines, now current videos about repairing arcade machines?.. Gonna need Joe's Classic Video Games to record ICE's Johnny Nero Action Hero arcade machine and upload to RUclips.
Bradyrhino we are going to have a Johnny Nero Action Hero video up in the next two weeks, see you then!
puh kip see
That's the one!
End of stroke switch on one of the flippers looks screwed.
It has it's issues :) We'll get to it!
I don't know if you were kidding or not, but as a life long NYer poughkeepsie is pronounced puh-kip-see.
🤣🤣🤣 👍👍👍
Thank you
Yodelayheehoo
Hello Lil Everette!
come on people come on now
I have a gottlieb pop a card and pro pool
Very nice games!
Lol. Poh - KIHP -see
That's the place!
poe-KIP-see
That’s the place
I wouldn't care so much about the guy with leprosy, as long as the girls are still intact.
Po kip c
That's the place!
they all look drunk.
or Rollin!
Ive tried playing some of the mechanicals but they are so boring compared to modern day pinballs... even ones 30 years ago have more appeal...
Yeah you definitely wouldn't have any fun with it, as a matter of fact, you've already decided it's not fun :) After you've decided it's not fun, definitely don't play it, it won't be any fun. Thank you for watching ACiDRAiN97!!!
@@LyonsArcade they are cool to see but really have no replay value at least for me. The mechanics of them are amazing. All relays and switches, no real computer running the show. I do like some of the classics, Pinbot, Gorgar, Space Shuttle, Fun House, and my all time favorite Medieval Maddness. Attack from Mars is up there as well... and then there is Godzilla...
@@piratestation69 Joe's Classic Video Games wanted to do a Johnny Nero Action Hero video by reverting to "Really cool arcade game" videos and quit the repairing videos for a while.