This machine was *so* much better than its contemporaries. There was a BK in the first arcade I ever went to, and it's still my favorite pinball machine some 40 years later.
@@LyonsArcade Thank you for making this video! I think these videos themselves will be priceless reference material for restorers 50 to 100 years from now.
A few years back I almost picked up an extra one that Tim Arnold himself shopped out from the Pinball Hall of Fame in Vegas and didn't follow through. I'm still kicking myself. It's one of the classics for a reason!
Great pinball machine. That booming "I am the Black Knight!" voice is awesome. It is pinball designer Steve Ritchie's voice. He also did the voices of Shao Kahn and the announcer in Mortal Kombat II.
@@LyonsArcade I had 2 , one was a parts only machine as the backboard had died on it , the attract voice used to say , the black knight will slay you ..... mwhahahaha ! payed $500 for both at the time . also had a rock-ola 463 juke , but the selector wheel started playing up and it started playing the same record's twice before it would cancel them out . here in Australia
Not the first pinball machine I played but my favourite. The dual level, multi-ball, speech and magnalock appealed to me so much as a child. Nice to see one get some love.
The oldest machine I remember playing was Fireball with the spinning wheel in the middle. That machine is a 72’ I would have been 6 so that’s about right. Where does time go.
Pinball machines are such works of art! So glad we have vintage arcades with tons of great machines so my son can see them too. And hear the voices! The speech element of these tables is so immersive and fun.
This reminds me of folks repairing tube radios. There are 2 mods you generally need to do for safety. The first is to install a polarized plug where the white/neutral wire goes to the left (larger) blade of the plug. The other is to rewire the on/off switch to where it switches the black ("hot wire") wire from the cord. And one needs to do both mods. You don't want the black wire to go to the chassis, and you don't want to switch the neutral (making it more dangerous when it is switched off).
@@LyonsArcade the Playboy machine next to it, I really wanted to try but wasn’t sure if I was “allowed” to at the time. Think I was there with my little league team. Was 10 at the time. :). All your videos being back memories. Really enjoy the channel.
Hey Joe...glad you know what you're doing with the wires and stuff. That schematic would have me totally nuts. I'm at 16:07 and I'm sure you'll be able to fix it. Best of luck my friend and a pre--GOOD JOB!!!!!!! Hah!!!!!!!!!
This machine looks so cool I really have to restrain myself just watching all the, albeit always very interesting, repair work. Want a play video, please sir, please dear sir. 🤣
Look to the left on the side wall on the backbox. They pulled the batteries on the CMOS battery pack. It might have caused the CPU lockup. Or it might not. I love this pin, it's #5 on my hit list of pins to get.
Yes! The first dual level pinball machine! And the predecessor to Black Knight 2000, my all time favorite. When I was in college at EKU in the 80s there was a bar in downtown Richmond called T. Bombadil’s that had a Black Knight.
If you can believe it, this is the first one I've ever worked on! Some of those big name games we've never had because we usually buy the cheaper ones.... we'll get this one going again , though! Thank you for watching Moto Dork!
will be an interesting restore, have owned a 1980 Black Knight for over 20 years, Grate game, shame my Back Glass is flaking. Think its an earlier run as the transformer in the back box like mine. later the transformer moved from the back box to the lower cabinet.
The backglass on this one is pretty bad, but to be honest, I thought it looked just fine due to the nature of the game. I mean it's pretty rough though, you'll see when we put it back on. It's so uniformly crazed and cracked that it kind of fits the theme.... thank you for watching Paul!
Wait a minute! This time you have a real classic pinball at your workshop. 💪 I've played this at real life and after many years with Visual Pinball/VPinMAME. This was one of double-level pinballs, which Williams produced. Other ones were Pharaoh and Solar Fire. This pinball had bell ring instead of a knocker. Good luck with it. 😀
I have the back glass from a Black Knight pinball machine mounted in a frame with LED backlighting. I used to work for a trucking company and it was unlabeled lost freight - no indication where it was supposed to be delivered and nobody ever tried to claim it. After many months in storage the company finally wrote it off so I was able to just take it home.
Great video Ronnie, Great info on the transformer. 40 pin connector always a problem on those Williams, its 40 years old, on my Firepower and Gorgar both have new ones, I hope this one is fine. Can not wait for the next video. Thanks Ronnie
YOU CAN'T DEFEAT THE BLACK KNIGHT! Man, I LOVE this machine! Played the brazilian version (Cavaleiro Negro by Taito) a lot back in the day, it was our first pinball with speech in Portuguese! "Eu sou o Cavaleiro Negro, à procura de um desafio!" (I am the Black Knight, looking for a challenge!)
It seems like this one was never wired for the UK so I don't know what the deal was... but we checked it all, the varistor if it was the wrong one wouldn't work right but that would only be an issue if you had a spike or whatever... thank you for watching Mac!
I remember that pinny rolling into my local arcade in South Australia when i was wee little lad(1983). That bloody game cost me alot of pocket money... XD
Great Video Ron as always. I can remember cycling to the Ramsgate Arcades in South East England to play this game. Sat along side 6 million Dollar man. 10 pence for 1 game 50 Pence for 6 games
Simon this game came from Wales maybe it's the same one you played, and it got tranported around a little bit :) did you scratch your name in it anywhere I could look for???!!!??? hmmm???? Thanks for watching buddy
@@LyonsArcade Who knows if i played it, be great to think i did. Wales is along way from Ramsgate. Great work Ron love how you take us through those schmatics.
Wells is to the South west of London - near to Glastonbury. It is about 2 1/2 hours drive or so. Love these videos - I always wondered how pinball machines (and jukeboxes) worked.
Friend of mine has this pin. One of the upgrades/replacements he did was a replacement power supply. After a while he decided to start it up to play it for the first time since he upgraded/replaced some parts, and for the most part it worked. But when he pressed both the left and right flipper buttons, the pin would reset. Took him a while to figure out that it was the replacement power supply and it wasn't supplying the correct voltage for the pin even though it was advertised to work on Black Knight from the site he bought it from (can't remember if it was Rottendog or someone else).
Yup, that is a common problem with a weak power supply, when you hit both flippers the game resets. It was a BIG deal on some of the WPC stuff, like the Twilight Zone which had multiple flippers... I'd never heard of a new power supply doing it though, but it sounds like it wasn't well thought out, as you know Black Knight has 4 flippers that flip every time you do that so it does draw some current. Thank you for watching Practicedummy!
Dumb question probably..but this is my second go around for doing pinball. I repaired and restored back in the 2000s and ended up getting out of it due to having to be a care giver for my mother and there just wasn't room for all the machines. But now...since I have gotten back into it...somethings I dont' remember... I have been touching up a playfield, planking problems, wear problems..etc..etc.. I have done most of my repaint and I seem to have forgotten some things. I did my red's and green's and on my red it looks too dark even though the color matched perfectly .... So I took one small spot and used Novus then some Wax just to see if it would look different when it's all done. Of course I use clear coat I shoot thru my gun and it's the same that I used when painting cars etc....so there is no way to put that on but other then that...I did the other two steps to see if it comes out looking different My question is do they sometimes look too dark, depending on the color .say Red, or maybe a Dark Orange..etc.. and then in the end...with clear coat and all the rest....it comes out right???????? any ideas would be appreciated..thanks
The clearcoat does change the tint sometimes, and as you know the colors dry darker too than when they're wet.... to make things even worse it's really hard to match red, your eye can easily see just even the slightest difference in red so it's tough!
Make sure to check the diode on the relay switch (black box) that's next to the transformer, it operates and flashes the playfield lighting during multiball, and a lot of the time it's failed. But most people don't know, as the game will continue to play, but not flash the playfield during the multiball sequence.
thats an early BK with the System 6 transformer in the backbox not in the cabinet like the later ones. somebody has done some work to the boards, the original lamp matrix resistors have been replaced with sand resistors and looks like the GI harness has been replaced with a newer 4 wire instead of the original 2 wire. has the correct pop bumper cap and they added the green outlane plastics. nice. plastic above the kickout by the center ramp looks to blue to be original(the end by the cove always breaks. Spring for the CPR backglass--best 300 to make the game look great. I replaced mine and it looks sooo much better. that relay maybe a cobbed relay for the GI to make it flash when you win a free game or multiball.
Thank you Barry, yes I figured out the relay was correct that's just how they originally did it when they came up with that concept.... I think the owner might buy that backglass I kind of liked the crazed cracked look on this one it was pretty rough though! Thanks for watching!
One of my favourite machines from the 80’s. The other also being a Williams machine, Pinbot. I’m sure there were better pinball machines, but I grew up in a small town outside Vancouver BC, and my exposure to pinball was very limited. Black Night was considered the “old modern” (Non EM) pinball machine in the bowling alley. Black Night was quickly eclipsed when the owners brought in Pinbot. Blew our small town minds…until Bride of PB, Taxi, and High Speed arrived shortly there after. Interesting all machines were Williams. Either the owner loved Williams or the distributor was limited in their selection.
Williams was just killing it around that time, Bally got smoked for a little while there.... then Williams just bought Bally! We did a Pinbot a little while back, such a cool game..... - ruclips.net/video/VkI0_LoKZiU/видео.html
@@LyonsArcade Beautiful Machine. I wish someone would publish a book of Python’s pinball artwork, much like “The Art of Atari”, which detailed the amazing artwork used for marketing and promotion during the 70’s and 80’s. My favourite quote from any arcade machine comes from Bride of Pinbot. Bride: I can speak Pinbot: Oh No!!
Aww, man, I was so busy today that I missed the notification that you'd posted a new video! Well, at least I'm less than 24 hours behind. This is going to be fun to watch. I never played as much pinball as I did video games, but this game consumed quite a few coins.
Just converting a US machine to NZ so was great to see this video…. even though you didn’t actually have to change it! Seems one way to know whether it’s been converted is 2 loops (butterfly) is lower US voltage setting and a single loop is for higher voltage like 240v in NZ. Of course the manual is probably the best way though. Had to drop the fuse down to 4A from 8A
Yup, that little jumper setup is really all that needs to be changed; this particular one the owner told us he had changed some things and never got it fully converted so we were just checking it all, plus it makes a neat video :) Thank you for watching David, have fun with your machine!
I may do that in the future, i'm the type though I just hate wearing things it's a lot more comfortable for me to pick up the camera when I need it but then I run out of hands :) Thank you for watching Majcrash!
17:58 that looks like the GI Relay on my Blackout! Damn. Blackout would've been the best Williams pinball from 1980... only they made Black Knight immediately afterwards... and Fire Power immediately before... talkin' bout some epic machines there!
Ahhhhhh this is one of the EARLY Black Knights with the System 6 power supply. Easy to convert; just a jumper wire change on the board in the bottom cabinet with the tilt assembly (should have a red plug).
look on the transformer. plug in the transformer test all the outputs on the seconday. now I will watch to see how you did it lol ****** check if the low voltage circuit is in for the 110 low supply that would add the extra at the transformer. the power board will make the D.C. voltages ok but it is working harder and has more heat to dissapate locking the voltages down
Black Knight had arguably the strongest glass top in pinball history. I should know .. I bashed it hundreds of times when missing a Magna-Save and then being laughed at by the machine. Good times.
I had a guy switch his computer power supply to 110 while we have 220.... the thing came on with a bang and scared the **** out of everyone in the room :-D
@@LyonsArcade Barry Lewis had a US grilled cheese toaster connected to 220 instead of 110v (find it here in YT) and nearly burned his kitchen down :P (toasters are designed to not care about a short circuit.... because they are quite literally a sort circuit). This is why you do not really buy those power plug converters and you are better of with a more beefy one here in europe :P
How did you move it? I’m looking at buying one and transporting it home and I want to know if I need anything aside from a spare set of hands to move it.
I just use my logic probe which also tells me if I have a flat line on the data channel :) We have a few oscilloscopes but it takes so long to set them up and then try to understand what each pin should look like, dial it in, etc. I usually leave them sitting on the shelf. Thank you for watching Dan!
@@LyonsArcade we didn't have logic probes (ones you could trust). We had to repair at least 20 boards a day, I used Oscope and meter for 20 years. Then it was cheaper to throw away boards than repair them... Not too far from you in Spartanburg
I'm not sure if that was some wear on the playfield. I could see half-toning, so that dotted line might actually belong there, not sure. If you meant around the lights, yeah, that seems to be common to most machines.
Yes sir we have one coming up soon, but it's on the old "Big Choice" crane with the 3 relays on it, not sure if you'd be interested in that or not.... Thanks for watching!
Wells is in the west of England Wales where Teegan is from is the lump on the left hand side on the country and is a principality a smaller country that is part of the United Kingdom to help with your geography 👍
Those Molex headers are notorious for being problematic. GE used them in their two-way radios in the '70s and '80s. Anytime the radio was acting intermittently, you could almost always trace the problem to one of those headers.
I'd DEFINITELY have to go with Pac-Man. Just hard to beat it. Nearly perfect game, and it's stood the test of time, I just filmed a Pac-Man video last night as a matter of fact, it'll be out in a couple weeks, see you then AJ!
@@LyonsArcade its north of london but on mid way up england and less than a third up if you count all of UK. hey you did better than me ask me where somthing is in USA i would just say texas in in the south lol. BTW your videos are never too long
"it's like you guys don't watch pro wrestling" you're right, we watch pinball and video game repair videos. :P Also, does the cycles per second do weird things when going from the UK to the US? (UK is 50 hertz instead of 60 hertz)
You know i'm not sure about that.... but they designed it to do both, so on a solid state machine like this I'm not sure if it would be a problem. I do know that Stern pinball the newer games, they do something on them so that you CANT go from UK to US. Something about the hz like you mentioned.... On an EM I know sometimes that issue makes them run too fast, so you have scoring problems sometimes because the score motor runs so fast that it can't keep up with every single switch closure it's supposed to. thank you for watching LT Siver!
Some of the errors that you manage to find in manuals are almost comical. It makes me wonder if that's why some games get really hacked up. Someone goes through and tries to do a repair "by the book" and ends up mangling the wiring (or board traces etc.) thinking they are fixing a problem that never existed in the first place.
We had one a few years back, unfortunately they have become unobtainium. They're worth a fortune now. Everybody that has one wants 5 grand for it. Craziness.
@@LyonsArcade That is utterly ridiculous. My first car didn't cost that much, lol. I really wish I could find one for a decent price though. Thank you for all you very entertaining videos my friend. I really do appreciate the work you put into them.
Steve Richie joins jerseys Jack. Cary hardy the getaway started flaking out. And you start working on a black knight.. Mmmm. A series of coincidences you think?
@@LyonsArcade 🙂 Any idea what it would go for when you finished it? And would you ship to Atlanta Georgia? I worked at a Namco arcade when I got out of High School and spent many a free token playing this game. When ever I was able to find it in the wild I can usually put high score on the first 2-3 levels😎. (Yes I’m bragging on a 20+ year old game😝). Anyway arcades are a dying breed as you know and finding anything this old is near impossible. And I’ve only seen one or two for sale but they were pickup only in other states and rather expensive too boot ! But I understand they are rare and a cheap one is probably a broken or in poor cosmetic condition. Anyway sorry for be being so long winded.
You'd think everybody would know that, what's wrong with people, have they not seen her or something? People living under a rock don't even know who Tegan Nox is.
This machine was *so* much better than its contemporaries. There was a BK in the first arcade I ever went to, and it's still my favorite pinball machine some 40 years later.
Thank you for watching 3vi1J!
@@LyonsArcade Thank you for making this video! I think these videos themselves will be priceless reference material for restorers 50 to 100 years from now.
A few years back I almost picked up an extra one that Tim Arnold himself shopped out from the Pinball Hall of Fame in Vegas and didn't follow through. I'm still kicking myself. It's one of the classics for a reason!
Yeah! Plus the Tim Arnold connection make it's cool too if he shopped it out. Oh well, you can't have them all! Thank you for watching DocNo27!
Did you have someone else shop it out after you got it because Tim Arnold shopped it out and it needed re-done?
@@bobgomez9481 No, I was an idiot and didn't buy it 😳 I'm sure if I had, it wouldn't have needed any work.
Great pinball machine. That booming "I am the Black Knight!" voice is awesome. It is pinball designer Steve Ritchie's voice. He also did the voices of Shao Kahn and the announcer in Mortal Kombat II.
It is very fun! thank you for watching John!
@@LyonsArcade I had 2 , one was a parts only machine as the backboard had died on it , the attract voice used to say , the black knight will slay you ..... mwhahahaha ! payed $500 for both at the time . also had a rock-ola 463 juke , but the selector wheel started playing up and it started playing the same record's twice before it would cancel them out . here in Australia
Not the first pinball machine I played but my favourite. The dual level, multi-ball, speech and magnalock appealed to me so much as a child. Nice to see one get some love.
The oldest machine I remember playing was Fireball with the spinning wheel in the middle. That machine is a 72’ I would have been 6 so that’s about right. Where does time go.
We're gonna fix it right up Kate, thank you for watching!
Pinball machines are such works of art! So glad we have vintage arcades with tons of great machines so my son can see them too. And hear the voices! The speech element of these tables is so immersive and fun.
Yeah it's even more cool when they talk, because you think about what the designers decided they should say! Thank you for watching Patch!
None shall pass! The Black Knight! One of my favorite Williams pinballs. I look forward to this series Ron, it will be a good one.
Thank you Buzz, never met a guy named Buzz I didn't like :)
gets to play with all the cool toys, great video
Thank you Tucker!
Yay Black Knight! Lot's of fun playing that one.
It's pretty awesome! Thank you for watching Mr E!
This reminds me of folks repairing tube radios. There are 2 mods you generally need to do for safety. The first is to install a polarized plug where the white/neutral wire goes to the left (larger) blade of the plug. The other is to rewire the on/off switch to where it switches the black ("hot wire") wire from the cord. And one needs to do both mods. You don't want the black wire to go to the chassis, and you don't want to switch the neutral (making it more dangerous when it is switched off).
WOW, that was the best pin ball back in the day. My big brother kicked ass with that pin ball.
Yeah it's definitely a special one. Most Steve Ritchie pins are...
First pinball machine I ever played. Absolutely loved it and still a favorite today.
It's pretty awesome! Thank you for watching, B.O.!
@@LyonsArcade the Playboy machine next to it, I really wanted to try but wasn’t sure if I was “allowed” to at the time. Think I was there with my little league team. Was 10 at the time. :). All your videos being back memories. Really enjoy the channel.
Wow Black Knight one of the best pinballs of my era !! Thank you guys for posting this :) x
Thank you Saskia, good to see you on the livestream the other day too!
@@LyonsArcade you too guys !! :) x
I always love your "c'mon people" bit. :)
Thanks Jay it's a work in progress, lol
C'mon Jay. Come on now.
THis is my favorite pinball machine of all time. If I ever bought a pinball, this would be it.
It's really cool, thank you for watching CrimFerret!
I wish this series was in a playlist
I'll make you one
Absolute classic pin! Loved that one way back when.
Thank you for watching Rick!
Loved that game, but the sequel Black Knight 2000 was incredible back in the day!
We need to get one of those in too :) Thanks for watching Evil!
My favorite pinball machine of all time!!!
It's pretty sweet!
Hey Joe...glad you know what you're doing with the wires and stuff. That schematic would have me totally nuts. I'm at 16:07 and I'm sure you'll be able to fix it. Best of luck my friend and a pre--GOOD JOB!!!!!!! Hah!!!!!!!!!
Thank you for watching Troy!
This machine looks so cool I really have to restrain myself just watching all the, albeit always very interesting, repair work. Want a play video, please sir, please dear sir. 🤣
It's coming up :) LIKE A FLOWWWWAAAAA See you on the next video Indiskret1!
Look to the left on the side wall on the backbox. They pulled the batteries on the CMOS battery pack. It might have caused the CPU lockup. Or it might not.
I love this pin, it's #5 on my hit list of pins to get.
It's a pretty special game, thank you for watching Nighthawke70!
I think I saw smoke Ron. You give it the sniff test. Great Video.
I smell something! I SMELL SOMETHING WHAT DO I DO????
@@LyonsArcade Quick turn it off and spend three hours looking for something that isn't there.
I loved playing that game when I was stationed in Great Lakes.
Thank you for watching TobyKenobe!
Yes! The first dual level pinball machine! And the predecessor to Black Knight 2000, my all time favorite. When I was in college at EKU in the 80s there was a bar in downtown Richmond called T. Bombadil’s that had a Black Knight.
If you can believe it, this is the first one I've ever worked on! Some of those big name games we've never had because we usually buy the cheaper ones.... we'll get this one going again , though! Thank you for watching Moto Dork!
@@Pyrrho_ they still have it. And they have a Black Knight.
@@Pyrrho_ they just moved into a brand new giant building down on the end of the strip near the Vegas sign. It’s glorious. Look it up.
The Black Knight will slay you.
Yup! He always wins.....
Sold mine last year, such a fun pin I miss it
It really is, what a great one!
One of the best pinballs ever!
Definitely!
We have faith in you Ron...you'll get that BK running like it's 1980 again
It's gonna happen!
will be an interesting restore, have owned a 1980 Black Knight for over 20 years, Grate game, shame my Back Glass is flaking. Think its an earlier run as the transformer in the back box like mine. later the transformer moved from the back box to the lower cabinet.
The backglass on this one is pretty bad, but to be honest, I thought it looked just fine due to the nature of the game. I mean it's pretty rough though, you'll see when we put it back on. It's so uniformly crazed and cracked that it kind of fits the theme.... thank you for watching Paul!
Wait a minute! This time you have a real classic pinball at your workshop. 💪 I've played this at real life and after many years with Visual Pinball/VPinMAME. This was one of double-level pinballs, which Williams produced. Other ones were Pharaoh and Solar Fire. This pinball had bell ring instead of a knocker. Good luck with it. 😀
Thank you Petri!
I worked at Williams, bally, and this was the first one I worked on in 1989
Thank you for watching, Richard!
I have the back glass from a Black Knight pinball machine mounted in a frame with LED backlighting. I used to work for a trucking company and it was unlabeled lost freight - no indication where it was supposed to be delivered and nobody ever tried to claim it. After many months in storage the company finally wrote it off so I was able to just take it home.
Nice little perk of that job :) Thanks for watching, Duanevp!
Great video Ronnie, Great info on the transformer. 40 pin connector always a problem on those Williams, its 40 years old, on my Firepower and Gorgar both have new ones, I hope this one is fine. Can not wait for the next video. Thanks Ronnie
Thanks Frank, we'll see you soon man!
Oh what a fun game that was. LOVED the idea of the magnets. It is another that's on my list to get one day...which will probably be never... :(
You never know :) Thanks for watching WreckDiver!
That was my go to game!! Wow
My fingers used to smell like quarters.
That's hilarious, thanks for watching Poot!
YOU CAN'T DEFEAT THE BLACK KNIGHT! Man, I LOVE this machine!
Played the brazilian version (Cavaleiro Negro by Taito) a lot back in the day, it was our first pinball with speech in Portuguese! "Eu sou o Cavaleiro Negro, à procura de um desafio!" (I am the Black Knight, looking for a challenge!)
I keep forgetting that you told me they had special Brazilian games, that is so cool...
You can't defeat the black knight??.. highly illogical captain 😁😷
Used to play black knight at pool hall All through highschool 😁
This may have been the one you played :) Thanks for watching Robert!
Nice survivor, the only thing I didn't see you double check was the fuse and varistor. probably not a big deal though.
Keep up the great vids!
It seems like this one was never wired for the UK so I don't know what the deal was... but we checked it all, the varistor if it was the wrong one wouldn't work right but that would only be an issue if you had a spike or whatever... thank you for watching Mac!
I remember that pinny rolling into my local arcade in South Australia when i was wee little lad(1983). That bloody game cost me alot of pocket money... XD
That's what they were designed for, and by 1983 they were very good at it! Thank you for watching Midnite Pagan and subscribing too!
Got one of these and I'm still working on it.
It's such a great game! Thank you for watching Level!
@@LyonsArcade is it common for transformers to go out?
Great Video Ron as always. I can remember cycling to the Ramsgate Arcades in South East England to play this game. Sat along side 6 million Dollar man. 10 pence for 1 game 50 Pence for 6 games
Simon this game came from Wales maybe it's the same one you played, and it got tranported around a little bit :) did you scratch your name in it anywhere I could look for???!!!??? hmmm???? Thanks for watching buddy
@@LyonsArcade Who knows if i played it, be great to think i did. Wales is along way from Ramsgate. Great work Ron love how you take us through those schmatics.
I was 11 when this came out - fantastic memories
It's a real legendary game!
Sweet.
BLACK KNIGHT.
It's pretty Sweet, you're right :)
Great video
Thank you for watching Gregory!
Relay inside the back box is the same in my BK as well, this is for flicking the G.I. lamps on and off..
Yeah I looked a picture up just to make sure, it's original, lol Thanks for the confirmation :)
Hey Ron. Just got my “Play at Joe’s “ t-shirt! I dig it!! Black knight is a fun game. Can’t wait to see the next video.
Very cool Clint, thanks for representing the shop :)
Second best Machine ever!
That's pretty good :) Thanks for watching Rod!
Wells is to the South west of London - near to Glastonbury. It is about 2 1/2 hours drive or so.
Love these videos - I always wondered how pinball machines (and jukeboxes) worked.
Whoops, he told me North! Now that you mention that I do remember seeing it to the west on a map :) Thank you for watching MrRobbiePee!
I was trying to decide if he was saying Wells or Wales. :) But mentioning Nox, I assumed Wales.
Wells tho, is where Hot Fuzz was filmed!
Jo's, try using brasso on your leaf switches. It cleans all the crap off the switches and .akes them look like new.
Friend of mine has this pin. One of the upgrades/replacements he did was a replacement power supply. After a while he decided to start it up to play it for the first time since he upgraded/replaced some parts, and for the most part it worked. But when he pressed both the left and right flipper buttons, the pin would reset. Took him a while to figure out that it was the replacement power supply and it wasn't supplying the correct voltage for the pin even though it was advertised to work on Black Knight from the site he bought it from (can't remember if it was Rottendog or someone else).
Yup, that is a common problem with a weak power supply, when you hit both flippers the game resets. It was a BIG deal on some of the WPC stuff, like the Twilight Zone which had multiple flippers... I'd never heard of a new power supply doing it though, but it sounds like it wasn't well thought out, as you know Black Knight has 4 flippers that flip every time you do that so it does draw some current. Thank you for watching Practicedummy!
Dumb question probably..but this is my second go around for doing pinball. I repaired and restored back in the 2000s and ended up getting out of it due to having to be a care giver for my mother and there just wasn't room for all the machines. But now...since I have gotten back into it...somethings I dont' remember...
I have been touching up a playfield, planking problems, wear problems..etc..etc.. I have done most of my repaint and I seem to have forgotten some things. I did my red's and green's and on my red it looks too dark even though the color matched perfectly .... So I took one small spot and used Novus then some Wax just to see if it would look different when it's all done. Of course I use clear coat I shoot thru my gun and it's the same that I used when painting cars etc....so there is no way to put that on but other then that...I did the other two steps to see if it comes out looking different
My question is do they sometimes look too dark, depending on the color .say Red, or maybe a Dark Orange..etc.. and then in the end...with clear coat and all the rest....it comes out right???????? any ideas would be appreciated..thanks
The clearcoat does change the tint sometimes, and as you know the colors dry darker too than when they're wet.... to make things even worse it's really hard to match red, your eye can easily see just even the slightest difference in red so it's tough!
Alright, there’s a classic beast, and it’s a hungry one.
Absolutely :) Thank you for watching Deborah!
Looking good
Make sure to check the diode on the relay switch (black box) that's next to the transformer, it operates and flashes the playfield lighting during multiball, and a lot of the time it's failed. But most people don't know, as the game will continue to play, but not flash the playfield during the multiball sequence.
Thank you Mack, i'll check that out!
thats an early BK with the System 6 transformer in the backbox not in the cabinet like the later ones. somebody has done some work to the boards, the original lamp matrix resistors have been replaced with sand resistors and looks like the GI harness has been replaced with a newer 4 wire instead of the original 2 wire. has the correct pop bumper cap and they added the green outlane plastics. nice. plastic above the kickout by the center ramp looks to blue to be original(the end by the cove always breaks. Spring for the CPR backglass--best 300 to make the game look great. I replaced mine and it looks sooo much better. that relay maybe a cobbed relay for the GI to make it flash when you win a free game or multiball.
Thank you Barry, yes I figured out the relay was correct that's just how they originally did it when they came up with that concept.... I think the owner might buy that backglass I kind of liked the crazed cracked look on this one it was pretty rough though! Thanks for watching!
One of my favourite machines from the 80’s. The other also being a Williams machine, Pinbot. I’m sure there were better pinball machines, but I grew up in a small town outside Vancouver BC, and my exposure to pinball was very limited. Black Night was considered the “old modern” (Non EM) pinball machine in the bowling alley. Black Night was quickly eclipsed when the owners brought in Pinbot. Blew our small town minds…until Bride of PB, Taxi, and High Speed arrived shortly there after. Interesting all machines were Williams. Either the owner loved Williams or the distributor was limited in their selection.
Williams was just killing it around that time, Bally got smoked for a little while there.... then Williams just bought Bally! We did a Pinbot a little while back, such a cool game..... - ruclips.net/video/VkI0_LoKZiU/видео.html
@@LyonsArcade Beautiful Machine. I wish someone would publish a book of Python’s pinball artwork, much like “The Art of Atari”, which detailed the amazing artwork used for marketing and promotion during the 70’s and 80’s.
My favourite quote from any arcade machine comes from Bride of Pinbot.
Bride: I can speak
Pinbot: Oh No!!
Aww, man, I was so busy today that I missed the notification that you'd posted a new video! Well, at least I'm less than 24 hours behind. This is going to be fun to watch. I never played as much pinball as I did video games, but this game consumed quite a few coins.
Thank you for catching us SpearM!
Just converting a US machine to NZ so was great to see this video…. even though you didn’t actually have to change it! Seems one way to know whether it’s been converted is 2 loops (butterfly) is lower US voltage setting and a single loop is for higher voltage like 240v in NZ. Of course the manual is probably the best way though. Had to drop the fuse down to 4A from 8A
Yup, that little jumper setup is really all that needs to be changed; this particular one the owner told us he had changed some things and never got it fully converted so we were just checking it all, plus it makes a neat video :) Thank you for watching David, have fun with your machine!
You from NZ??😲
@@naytch2003 yep New Zealand 🇳🇿
@@davidg-m1768 what part?
@@naytch2003 in Auckland. Do you own machines, where are you?
Love the repair videos. You might check out a chest mount for your camera so you can use both hands.
I may do that in the future, i'm the type though I just hate wearing things it's a lot more comfortable for me to pick up the camera when I need it but then I run out of hands :) Thank you for watching Majcrash!
Great stuff, love you videos 👍
Thank you Joe that's very nice of you to say, we'll see you on the next one man!
Love your vids Joe...Keep em comin....wales is west England...
Whoops, I got turned around :) Thanks for watching Fred!
Yes! Called it! :)
You, you're very good you. Thank you for watching accskaguy!
17:58 that looks like the GI Relay on my Blackout!
Damn. Blackout would've been the best Williams pinball from 1980... only they made Black Knight immediately afterwards... and Fire Power immediately before... talkin' bout some epic machines there!
I eventually figured out it's supposed to be there, lol Thanks for watching!
good video
Thank you Lu Ka, we appreciate you watching!
Ahhhhhh this is one of the EARLY Black Knights with the System 6 power supply. Easy to convert; just a jumper wire change on the board in the bottom cabinet with the tilt assembly (should have a red plug).
Yeah I thought that was a little strange, they were using the old style power supply with the newer mpu...
"Come on relay people....I mean come on, really... A relay?? Come on people" LOL
hahaha thanks Brant we appreciate it man :)
@@LyonsArcade I'll see you soon
Love this game, I know you got this...
The Black Knight Will Ride Again!
Speaking as a electrician, the primary windings are in series for high voltage (220v) and are in parallel for low voltage (120v).
Thank you Dennis!
Oh man! Black Knight!
He will Ride Again Soon :)
Respect 🙂🙂😄
Thank you brother
the one time, you're thankful for auto-sensing transformers... plug in and forget without any of this hassle, lol
Ain't that the truth! Thank you for watching!
Played this back in my college days.
Hey, how's it going?
We're doin' good Z, thanks for watching!
look on the transformer. plug in the transformer test all the outputs on the seconday. now I will watch to see how you did it lol ****** check if the low voltage circuit is in for the 110 low supply that would add the extra at the transformer. the power board will make the D.C. voltages ok but it is working harder and has more heat to dissapate locking the voltages down
They used the same one!
@@LyonsArcade I should have known you would not miss that as you are so thorough. its all the extra energy you have in you for these pieces of ART
Black Knight had arguably the strongest glass top in pinball history. I should know .. I bashed it hundreds of times when missing a Magna-Save and then being laughed at by the machine. Good times.
The laugh was perfectly wicked :) Thanks for watching Deploracle!
I had a guy switch his computer power supply to 110 while we have 220.... the thing came on with a bang and scared the **** out of everyone in the room :-D
Whoops! Over here if you have it set backwards it doesn't fry anything it's all half voltage :) Thanks for watching as always Jeroen!
@@LyonsArcade Barry Lewis had a US grilled cheese toaster connected to 220 instead of 110v (find it here in YT) and nearly burned his kitchen down :P (toasters are designed to not care about a short circuit.... because they are quite literally a sort circuit). This is why you do not really buy those power plug converters and you are better of with a more beefy one here in europe :P
How did you move it? I’m looking at buying one and transporting it home and I want to know if I need anything aside from a spare set of hands to move it.
Do you use an oscilloscope? If so you can see if you have a flat line on the data channel (should look like a ladder)
I just use my logic probe which also tells me if I have a flat line on the data channel :) We have a few oscilloscopes but it takes so long to set them up and then try to understand what each pin should look like, dial it in, etc. I usually leave them sitting on the shelf. Thank you for watching Dan!
@@LyonsArcade we didn't have logic probes (ones you could trust). We had to repair at least 20 boards a day, I used Oscope and meter for 20 years. Then it was cheaper to throw away boards than repair them... Not too far from you in Spartanburg
Cool
Thank you Ghillie!
I'm not sure if that was some wear on the playfield. I could see half-toning, so that dotted line might actually belong there, not sure. If you meant around the lights, yeah, that seems to be common to most machines.
Any plans for more Claw Machine videos? Thanks.
Yes sir we have one coming up soon, but it's on the old "Big Choice" crane with the 3 relays on it, not sure if you'd be interested in that or not.... Thanks for watching!
@@LyonsArcade I just played one of those the other day at a flea market. I love seeing those things.
Hello Goodnight. Could someone tell me what voltage of fuses it has because I can't find the correct one and it burns them. Thank you!
do i see cracks in the boards?
I don't believe there were any cracks in them....
Wells is in the west of England Wales where Teegan is from is the lump on the left hand side on the country and is a principality a smaller country that is part of the United Kingdom to help with your geography 👍
Thank you Rob!
8:58 Man, engineers sure have their own sense of sentence structure! ;)
Wales mate ! north of England ! nope ! to the left :)
Whoops :) Thanks for watching RS2000!
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wales
Those Molex headers are notorious for being problematic. GE used them in their two-way radios in the '70s and '80s. Anytime the radio was acting intermittently, you could almost always trace the problem to one of those headers.
I wonder why they used a molex in there when they could have just soldered it in the radio? Thank you for watching Chris!
A transformer without a load has always a little higher voltage on the output. That's normal.
Thank you JendaLinda!
Joe if you had to choose Pac-Man, Tron, and Gauntlet what arcade would you choose as your favorite?
Oh and nice pinball machine by the way
I'd DEFINITELY have to go with Pac-Man. Just hard to beat it. Nearly perfect game, and it's stood the test of time, I just filmed a Pac-Man video last night as a matter of fact, it'll be out in a couple weeks, see you then AJ!
Same Pac-Man is challenging
Love this game and your videos! Ron, is that Super Mario pin I saw for sale?
It's not for sale but we'll be doing videos of it eventually!
Darn, lol. Still looking forward to those vids. I love that game even though most dont.
wales west of middle england. just use your 240 you have in USA too
That might work :) I'll have to ask Tegan why I thought it was north :) Thanks for watching Brian!
@@LyonsArcade its north of london but on mid way up england and less than a third up if you count all of UK. hey you did better than me ask me where somthing is in USA i would just say texas in in the south lol. BTW your videos are never too long
"it's like you guys don't watch pro wrestling" you're right, we watch pinball and video game repair videos. :P
Also, does the cycles per second do weird things when going from the UK to the US?
(UK is 50 hertz instead of 60 hertz)
You know i'm not sure about that.... but they designed it to do both, so on a solid state machine like this I'm not sure if it would be a problem. I do know that Stern pinball the newer games, they do something on them so that you CANT go from UK to US. Something about the hz like you mentioned....
On an EM I know sometimes that issue makes them run too fast, so you have scoring problems sometimes because the score motor runs so fast that it can't keep up with every single switch closure it's supposed to.
thank you for watching LT Siver!
@@LyonsArcade Thanks for making them. IF I ever get in the area, I'll definitely try to visit the store.
Another good video but when reading schematics match the "Notes" descriptions to the location of the "notes #" in the schematic.
OK I'll try harder to do what you do in your mind, thank you for watching Sean!
10:07 FULL BRIDGE RECTIFIER
That's the one!
hell to the yea \m/
Heezy For Sheezy
Some of the errors that you manage to find in manuals are almost comical. It makes me wonder if that's why some games get really hacked up. Someone goes through and tries to do a repair "by the book" and ends up mangling the wiring (or board traces etc.) thinking they are fixing a problem that never existed in the first place.
Yup. that's why you have to think it out and make sure it looks legit, haha. Thanks for watching Maxxarcade!
Ron, do you guys ever get in Taitos Ice Cold Beer. I have been looking for a decent working one for years now.
We had one a few years back, unfortunately they have become unobtainium. They're worth a fortune now. Everybody that has one wants 5 grand for it. Craziness.
@@LyonsArcade That is utterly ridiculous. My first car didn't cost that much, lol. I really wish I could find one for a decent price though. Thank you for all you very entertaining videos my friend. I really do appreciate the work you put into them.
Steve Richie joins jerseys Jack.
Cary hardy the getaway started flaking out.
And you start working on a black knight..
Mmmm.
A series of coincidences you think?
I know man there's something in the air, something is going on for sure!
Just one complaint Ron..you didn't put don't forget to subscribe up enough times 😁
I'm gonna just put it on there permanently :)
Is that Sega Super GT something you’re working on for someone or could it possibly be for sale?
It will be for sale when we fix it, it's sitting there patiently waiting.
@@LyonsArcade 🙂 Any idea what it would go for when you finished it? And would you ship to Atlanta Georgia?
I worked at a Namco arcade when I got out of High School and spent many a free token playing this game. When ever I was able to find it in the wild I can usually put high score on the first 2-3 levels😎. (Yes I’m bragging on a 20+ year old game😝). Anyway arcades are a dying breed as you know and finding anything this old is near impossible. And I’ve only seen one or two for sale but they were pickup only in other states and rather expensive too boot ! But I understand they are rare and a cheap one is probably a broken or in poor cosmetic condition. Anyway sorry for be being so long winded.
I know who Tegan nox is.. c'mon people..she's an nxt wrestler.. pretty hot too🤣😂..oh she's now on smackdown
You'd think everybody would know that, what's wrong with people, have they not seen her or something? People living under a rock don't even know who Tegan Nox is.
@@LyonsArcade we are back in lockdown again..yay😩