Joe I can't tell you how much I enjoy your videos. As a kid I saved my paper route money and bought an old Williams game from the local amusement dealer who lived in my neighborhood. It was the greatest thing ever. I played and played, for years. And I remember as a kid troubleshooting, fixing things, polishing the field, it was a joyous time in my life. Thank for you video's!
That's pretty much how we got started, me and my brothers used to go to the arcade. One day they had one for sale very cheap in the back and we had some money saved up so we bought it and took it home and just started messing with it!
That's very nice of you to say, but there are tons of people who are better than I am at repairing these things, just ask around.... I just happen to put it on youtube, lots of people do much better work but don't make videos about it.
Hey there from Kentucky! I was the one who visited your store a couple weeks ago as I was coming by there from vacation. Just wanted to say again thanks for chatting with me that day and thanks for these great videos! They are informative and fun to watch. And don't worry I'm not bothered by the lightbulbs LMAO
@@LyonsArcade “Pinball” are in general is my favorite forms of art. I’m 56 and started playing when I was 11. The 60’s-early 80’s is my favorite period of machines for art and to play. I really enjoy your channel. Thank you!
Great work as usual Ronnie. It’s easy to see why Bally was the new king of pinball with the digital age. These Bally machines must have really worried Gottlieb. They had been #1 in pinball from 1947-19977, but Bally quickly moved into the #1 spot with the new digital machines. Outstanding restore Ronnie. …that’s right, I said it ….restore., which is what you are great at. Thanks for a very entertaining series.
I always thought those Gottlieb solid state games got a bad rap, yeah they weren't as good as the Ballys and maybe there are problems after they've been left on for months at a time, but I have never really had any extra problems out of System 1 games than I have out of Ballys or Williams. I would honestly say, the Williams System 3-7 boards are the worst out of the three, but again gameplay is a whole other story. I think it's one of those things where the operators got a bad taste in their mouth and the Ballys were probably being played more, those System 1 games probably looked too much like an EM for people, but then again this game could have been an EM too.
You did a great job on that machine, in the first video I didn't think it would look that good at the end. Thanks for walking us through fixing this one and taking the time to film it, can't wait to see the next....
Superb recondition of something that looked like it had come out of dump truck. At least you had the basics to work with and the back glass was in A1 condition. Well done and great set of videos.
Great backglass on strikes & spares ,but my favorite will always be the 1979 KISS glass. The artist really captured the spirit of a live KISS performance
Beautiful machine Ron. Great backglass - I wish I had abs like her. I love Bally's classic chime melody - we're off to the races! You forgot to mention the people that say "well... you'd save a lot of those balls if you'd just nudge the machine a little". Haha. Love it.
That's a great game. I first played it back in the day at a Bowling Alley. Love the early SS Bally machines. Definitely has one of the back glass from the era.
I recently discovered your videos and love them. I grew up in the 70's and 80's and played most of the machines you repair. Pinball was my favorite. Have you ever considered building a custom pinball machine with spare parts? You could put in features from different machines you like the best. You could use "off the shelf" Arduino hardware for the electronics.
There used to be a local bowling alley which didn't basically didn't change anything since the 1950s. The display for game scores was put on screen with what was basically a glorified version of the overhead projectors we had in school. The scoring was fully manual and you pressed the button on the ball return to activate the pinsetter. In my opinion it's a much nicer system than the modern totally computerized everything.
Thanks for the videos, Ronnie. Love this title, one of the best. If you get bored, I’d love a video of your top 5 artworks of all time. Glass, playfield, total package, whatever. Or all. 😊
Great repair videos as always... thought it was funny when you were zooming in on the backglass art. The lanes on the right side have 5-6 pins in a row when there should only be 4. Guess the artist wanted more "pin action"! 🤣
A couple of your comments (…this girl is HEALTHY! Come own nah people!”) that address the characters on the backglass made me LAUGH OUT LOUD!! Funny stuff!
Oh, that was a good show. Love the how-to on fixing the displays. Great history lesson on the back glass and showed all the great detail. I got a little misty when you pointed out the 70's hairstyles. Now I want one. Not the hair style, the pinball machine son , the pinball machine!
LEDs can pretty much get the color temperature right, but still don't have the ramp up/down characteristic of a real incandescent that gives it the "vintage" look. I don't know if anyone has made an LED bulb that tries to emulate this yet, but there's probably a niche market for it if done well.
For that reason I would put LEDs in for general illumination before switched illumination. Phillips "Warm Glow" bulbs emulate the color shift of a dimmed lamp but I don't know how they handle the switchon/off. It should be fairly easy to imitate with some resistors and capacitors, maybe a transistor. However it might be harder to make the circuitry small enough to be a direct drop-in replacement.
Such good memories.... This was one of the best games at our alley, sat between Night Rider and Lost World. Thanks for keeping another one out of the landfill! Did that chick on the back glass remind anyone else of Dolly?
Nice classic machine we spend many hours at. I remember something about multiple free games with a plunger skill Special shot and let the ball drain immediately after. It gave you back the ball with no score but activated the special.
This is the type of knowledge that you just don't find often. This is why we used to have apprenticeships. In the 50s you would bring your son to work and teach him everything you did. Even at the factories you would shadow and learn everything about the job. I remember last year a real estate owner who rented apartments, mostly to college students, said that after the lease was up she came in and there were no lights working. One by one she had the bulbs replaced and they all worked all the sockets were fine and she asked the five students who were renting the apartment together why they didn't replace the light bulbs. They said they didn't want to call her and bother her about a light. She said " But you could just go to the store and get a light bulb and replace it " They said " We don't know how to do that." They weren't being funny. Honest-to-God they did not know how to change a lightbulb And these are kids going to college to be doctors and lawyers and I worry about what's going to happen in thirty years when the people who knew how things work don't exist anymore. I see so many videos where people are looking at different pieces of equipment and they don't have a clue what they're looking at. Many Urban explorers in Old factories and power plants looking at controls and machinery and they don't know what it is or what it did. I remember in the 90s at a reunion of Navy men who remembered every part every switch every wire every single thing about their ship and they could have walked on and started the thing up from scratch. It is amazing to see people who have a specialized knowledge. We used to have a lot of people like that. Now we have a lot of people who don't know how to change a lightbulb. A lightbulb God help us
First, great video. You really seem to be able to find Bally's in great shape. Meaning they don't need every pin replaced, circuit boards generally work, etc. On lamps, I like the old look and think that the new line of Comet Retro's look pretty damn close to 44's if you go "Warm White", but you can't use them on the feature/switched lights without some adding a resistor, which isn't a big deal, but a lot of work. I recently tried the Yoppsicle and really like them. I replaced the light socket for a green lens because the bulb just couldn't light it up. I put in a cool white Yoppsicle and now it looks perfect, even next to a bunch of 44's. On the display I just fixed a couple of them. One one it was a bad resistor (R3 for the 10's), easy find and fix. I had to replace the IC on another display, the top segments were always on. Your flippers need to be adjusted. The tops of the flippers should be inline with the in-lane rails. 🤣 And one of your roll-over lamps kept going out. Okay enough of that, just had to have a go. Thanks!
Awesome game. Lots of action from a game that doesn't look like it would be action packed. Much harder than it looks. Love it as always. Thanks for making us laugh!
To be fair, That game works better with 5 balls and the setting done a little harder. As you progress the A,B,C lanes you can carry thing over like 2x, 3x, 5x then after 5x 5000, SPECIAL. to the next ball but with the setting made harder, well it is harder to do. But in your case you make it real hard as it reset the A,B,C lanes after every ball. Much like the strike advance and extra ball or set to alternate.
Nice work on this one. I don't recall if that one was ever in my parent's bowling alley. But I'd like to see it and play for awhile. Might be making a road trip in your general direction this week so if I have time I'll swing by. If it has found its next home though, I'll see what else you have in the shop. And I'll bring along my Fluke multi-meter so you can take a photo of them side by side and show people that mine is dirty too. Its a working man's meter, people! Give the man a break! As for the old tyme bowling alleys, many did use projectors that showed the hand written score card on a screen above the lanes. Or just plain old pencil and paper on a table like my 8 lane house which couldn't afford to be fancy. Nomenclature for the machines is "sweep" for the bar the clears the pins off the pin deck. And the part that sets and picks up the pins is called the "table". At least on AMF machines. Though bowlers at my place called them both the "rack". The machines depicted on the pinball resemble Brunswick pinsetters. I'm not sure if they call them by the same names.
VF is usually green Plasma is orange LED is red Most VFs are so faded you can't see them anymore They are just like a 4 foot florescent bulb in the light fixture They burn out over time VF was real popular in the early 80s before backlighted LCD, which the bulbs would burn out, replaced a lot of those bulbs on scanners. LED was used for a short time on radio equipment But LCD is all I see now I have a bunch of Kenwood radios that the blacklight bulbs have long ago burnt out. I am not going to mess with them. I am looking for KDM-7 keypafs for the TK-250 radios. I found 2 in Europe online and bought them. I hope to have a good day when I have the strength to get out of bed and put in the keypads and program them for the ham radio repeater here They are great Radios You can drop them all day long and not worry about breaking them.
Hey Ron... Maybe in one of your videos... you should explain 'WHY' the capacitors are there on the switches... to extend the signal to the CPU. A diagram works wonders 😁 Just for those who may not have been working on Pinballs since the 80's.
@@LyonsArcade I do... 🤔 But apparently I have a lot to still watch (that I've missed) 🤣🤣 Love the videos!! You have a great presentation skill that keeps even the most mundane process (cleaning contacts) interesting! 😆
I remember fixing a general electric 1970s to channel analog VHF mobile two-way radio, and it kept blowing the fuse as soon as I powered it up The first component in the circuit was a rectifier and it looked perfect Once I unsoldered it it broke into two pieces You really can't tell by sight on many failures. I went to RS and picked up a new one and had it working that night. Old crystal radio. Had to special order new crystals from a company in NJ. Most likely long since gone I picked up some old 1 watt crystal VHF RCI-1000 radios and some ADI radios brand new in the box from the 90s I called the number on the registration card and they are both out of business They were big radio manufacturers back in the 80s and 90s
Thanks for all the vids. My dad and I are restoring his dead Strikes and Spares machine he just got, and we’ve been following along on advice on each vid. Question for you: why did you decide to paint the backbox border in black?
Transistor Sister!? What is that? Wipe that smile off your face. Do you understand!!! What is that?!?! A Transistor Sister pin?!?! On your uniform?!?! 😉
Absolutely no doubt that artwork is classic and iconic. No argument from me on that. But I have to say that the greatest would have to be Black Knight followed by PinBot.
Actually, he does on occasion. However, there are reasons why you'd do the playfield more often. You look at the playfield the most and the playfield affects and is affected by gameplay. Also, there may be more opportunities for the playfield to get damaged. So usually, when the side art gets damaged, it is really damaged. So we are talking more about things like the game falling through the floor and intentional sabotage (eg., robbers and drunks). Ron and Joe did a great job on the arcade cabinet with the hole kicked in the side. Joe filled it and Ron painted it.
Yep, I got it right. I said "It's broke!" and sure enough I was right! (Never gets old!) Come on, people. I'm just having fun here. It's gonna be all right!
JOE CLASSIC, When a 0.05uf capacitor is "shorted" on the switch, won't this damage the driver FETs on the solenoid board or damage the switch matrix circuit? The diodes purpose on the switch matrix circuit so only there for when two or more switches are CLOSED that the scanning monitoring circuit doesn't get confused? maybe others might know the answer to why the switch matrix uses diodes
Other than a few things like the spinner I can't imagine why there would be multiple switches pressed at once, so I don't see why the diodes would be needed for anti-ghosting. But this (possibly) goes back to the capacitors. The capacitors could make it so more than one is "pressed" at once. Shorted capacitors don't hurt the circuitry because it's just like a closed switch. The drivers are probably open collector so nothing bad happens.
@@eDoc2020 Why can you have a short circuit on open collector drivers and it won't damage the open collector FET or transistor drivers? Most open collector devices use a pull up resistor so if there is a short circuit on the output pin I would think it would still damage the fet/transistor driver
@@waynegram8907 Because there's no strong current source in the matrix. The pullup resistor is the only source of voltage in the system. If a switch shorted to Vcc then you could damage things but this can't happen unless there is a cross with other circuits.
@@eDoc2020 Anti Ghosting I think means it the switch causes debouncing like a chatter so the Diode will block the debouncing chattering effect of the switch and only "register" one instead of registering multiple switch contacts. The Anti Ghosting also can mean when a switch is closed the diode is blocking the scan frequency signal from backfeeding which causes errors of confusing the columns and rows. Anti Ghosting means when you're pressing multiple switches at the same time and only a few "register" and others "don't register". The switches that don't register is called Ghosting. What I'm confused about is I can't see on the playfield when multiple switches would ever be pressed/closed at the same time. I'm guessing the PIA chip can't only "register" one switch at a time? and if multiple switches are pressed/closed at the same time it overloads the PIA chip. The Scan frequency is outputted by the CPU which scans the columns and rows of the switch matrix. The Pinball games test program doesn't have any switch matrix testing for antighosting or ghosting test but you can manually just press/close a combination of switches to see if the switch matrix circuit is causing ghosting issues?
@@eDoc2020 If the capacitor is shorted across the switch contacts the switch matrix things this column and row is activated and when the pinball is pressing down other switches at the same time the shorted capacitor switch the switch matrix diodes are going to register the BALL that is rolling over the switches. If the diodes weren't there then none of the switches would be getting registered, which is considered ghosting? This is the only thing i can think of is that the designers were thinking IF one of the switches gets STUCK or if one or more of the pulse stretching capacitors across the switch gets shorted this could cause switch matrix ghosting errors?
What's with the black on the head around the backglass? Paint it! Paint code Match is: Yellow: 'Mardigras Gold' #2019-10 - Benjamin Moore enamel ultrabase paint (C133 4b).
You watched an hour long video and like usual, you want to complain and bitch. What is it about you, that makes you want to do that? Nothing positive to say about an hour long video, you just want to point out the 1 thing you found that you think you could do better. Go be miserable somewhere else, we're enjoyng life around here
She is very HEALTHY.
I'm laughing so hard.
I'm crying
Your REAL brother.
Joe I can't tell you how much I enjoy your videos. As a kid I saved my paper route money and bought an old Williams game from the local amusement dealer who lived in my neighborhood. It was the greatest thing ever. I played and played, for years. And I remember as a kid troubleshooting, fixing things, polishing the field, it was a joyous time in my life. Thank for you video's!
That's pretty much how we got started, me and my brothers used to go to the arcade. One day they had one for sale very cheap in the back and we had some money saved up so we bought it and took it home and just started messing with it!
You are the king of vintage pinball machine repair!!! Hail to to the King!!!
That's very nice of you to say, but there are tons of people who are better than I am at repairing these things, just ask around.... I just happen to put it on youtube, lots of people do much better work but don't make videos about it.
Coldest bowling alley ever!!!!
Hey there from Kentucky! I was the one who visited your store a couple weeks ago as I was coming by there from vacation. Just wanted to say again thanks for chatting with me that day and thanks for these great videos! They are informative and fun to watch. And don't worry I'm not bothered by the lightbulbs LMAO
Thanks Wolf Pack! See you next time you make it by man!
Did you say one of his catchphrases while you were there? 😆
I loved the "backglass tour", great graphics. And of course the rest of the repairs and maintenance as always.
the 1 and 2 pop bumper fire at the same time
ya we mixed up the wires when we swapped the new pop bumper skirts, went back and fixed it after this video
Paragon is my favorite back glass. This is a very close 2nd. Among my favorite machines to play as well. Very nice! Thx for all the videos!😃❤️
Paragon is a great glass too
@@LyonsArcade “Pinball” are in general is my favorite forms of art. I’m 56 and started playing when I was 11. The 60’s-early 80’s is my favorite period of machines for art and to play. I really enjoy your channel. Thank you!
Great work as usual Ronnie. It’s easy to see why Bally was the new king of pinball with the digital age. These Bally machines must have really worried Gottlieb. They had been #1 in pinball from 1947-19977, but Bally quickly moved into the #1 spot with the new digital machines.
Outstanding restore Ronnie. …that’s right, I said it ….restore., which is what you are great at. Thanks for a very entertaining series.
I always thought those Gottlieb solid state games got a bad rap, yeah they weren't as good as the Ballys and maybe there are problems after they've been left on for months at a time, but I have never really had any extra problems out of System 1 games than I have out of Ballys or Williams. I would honestly say, the Williams System 3-7 boards are the worst out of the three, but again gameplay is a whole other story.
I think it's one of those things where the operators got a bad taste in their mouth and the Ballys were probably being played more, those System 1 games probably looked too much like an EM for people, but then again this game could have been an EM too.
I don't think so man those lights are off on purpose
In all the years I owned that machine I never noticed her earrings or the signatures. I guess I was distracted 😉 Thanks for the video Ronnie! ✌️
You did a great job on that machine, in the first video I didn't think it would look that good at the end. Thanks for walking us through fixing this one and taking the time to film it, can't wait to see the next....
Thanks for watching!
Superb recondition of something that looked like it had come out of dump truck. At least you had the basics to work with and the back glass was in A1 condition. Well done and great set of videos.
The feeling of satisfaction once you fix something like this and see it working properly is just a great feeling
30:57 Ronnie, you totally read my mind! Laughed for real when you went back for the true pronunciation!
Great backglass on strikes & spares ,but my favorite will always be the 1979 KISS glass.
The artist really captured the spirit of a live KISS performance
Same guy, believe it or not!
I agree, the KISS artwork is legendary.
You did a great job of skirting around the backglass tour!
That's one nice looking.... game.
Awesome looking game. Must have been a bit cold in that bowling alley, or a bit nippy as we say in this part of the world.
Beautiful machine Ron. Great backglass - I wish I had abs like her. I love Bally's classic chime melody - we're off to the races!
You forgot to mention the people that say "well... you'd save a lot of those balls if you'd just nudge the machine a little". Haha. Love it.
That's a great game. I first played it back in the day at a Bowling Alley. Love the early SS Bally machines. Definitely has one of the back glass from the era.
ooooooh, can we watch a video of you fixing the old multimeters?!!! Like the idea! Nice though, Ronnie!
Those back.glasses were so cool...so so cool!
I like watching you repairing things.
Thanks Joe! I've learned so much from your videos as I attempt to revive our Segassa Monaco game!
Thanks again, for teaching all of us how to fix these old machines.
WOW! She's alive! Keep up the good work! 👍👍👍
I recently discovered your videos and love them. I grew up in the 70's and 80's and played most of the machines you repair. Pinball was my favorite. Have you ever considered building a custom pinball machine with spare parts? You could put in features from different machines you like the best. You could use "off the shelf" Arduino hardware for the electronics.
Incandescent bulbs were outlawed in Australia over 10 years ago. There are ways around everything though ;-)
You ever need me to smuggle some in let me know, i'll stuff some in a teddy bear and send it to you or something
There used to be a local bowling alley which didn't basically didn't change anything since the 1950s. The display for game scores was put on screen with what was basically a glorified version of the overhead projectors we had in school. The scoring was fully manual and you pressed the button on the ball return to activate the pinsetter. In my opinion it's a much nicer system than the modern totally computerized everything.
I forgot about that button.... now that you mention it I went in a couple like that back in the day, and I vaguely remember the projector...
Thanks Ron & Joe! Looks great!
They always pick on the operators for cutting caps to steal quarters but ignore the bowling alley owner for keeping the AC at 55 to sell more beer 😂😂
I can always count on you Shawn to understand!
I needed this video on a Friday night. Great job on bringing it from ewwwwww to an every day driver!
Love the work you do, Ronnie, been waiting patiently for the Student Prince I've been seeing in your recent videos!
We will get to it eventually! stuff keeps jumping infront of it
Thanks for the videos, Ronnie. Love this title, one of the best.
If you get bored, I’d love a video of your top 5 artworks of all time. Glass, playfield, total package, whatever. Or all. 😊
This was one of my favorite games when I was in college. Loved the real chimes and I agree that the glow of real bulbs is better than LED.
Funny how you go to the favorite, trusted meter. It takes a concerted effort to use a different meter. Of course the backup needs to work.
Great repair videos as always... thought it was funny when you were zooming in on the backglass art. The lanes on the right side have 5-6 pins in a row when there should only be 4. Guess the artist wanted more "pin action"! 🤣
A couple of your comments (…this girl is HEALTHY! Come own nah people!”) that address the characters on the backglass made me LAUGH OUT LOUD!! Funny stuff!
Oh, that was a good show. Love the how-to on fixing the displays. Great history lesson on the back glass and showed all the great detail. I got a little misty when you pointed out the 70's hairstyles. Now I want one. Not the hair style, the pinball machine son , the pinball machine!
LEDs can pretty much get the color temperature right, but still don't have the ramp up/down characteristic of a real incandescent that gives it the "vintage" look. I don't know if anyone has made an LED bulb that tries to emulate this yet, but there's probably a niche market for it if done well.
For that reason I would put LEDs in for general illumination before switched illumination. Phillips "Warm Glow" bulbs emulate the color shift of a dimmed lamp but I don't know how they handle the switchon/off. It should be fairly easy to imitate with some resistors and capacitors, maybe a transistor. However it might be harder to make the circuitry small enough to be a direct drop-in replacement.
Such good memories.... This was one of the best games at our alley, sat between Night Rider and Lost World. Thanks for keeping another one out of the landfill!
Did that chick on the back glass remind anyone else of Dolly?
My fav backglass of that era was Captain Fantastic (Elton John) it just seemed extra bright beside the other machines.
Nice classic machine we spend many hours at.
I remember something about multiple free games with a plunger skill Special shot and let the ball drain immediately after. It gave you back the ball with no score but activated the special.
This is the type of knowledge that you just don't find often. This is why we used to have apprenticeships.
In the 50s you would bring your son to work and teach him everything you did.
Even at the factories you would shadow and learn everything about the job.
I remember last year a real estate owner who rented apartments, mostly to college students, said that after the lease was up she came in and there were no lights working.
One by one she had the bulbs replaced and they all worked all the sockets were fine and she asked the five students who were renting the apartment together why they didn't replace the light bulbs.
They said they didn't want to call her and bother her about a light.
She said " But you could just go to the store and get a light bulb and replace it "
They said " We don't know how to do that."
They weren't being funny.
Honest-to-God they did not know how to change a lightbulb
And these are kids going to college to be doctors and lawyers and I worry about what's going to happen in thirty years when the people who knew how things work don't exist anymore.
I see so many videos where people are looking at different pieces of equipment and they don't have a clue what they're looking at.
Many Urban explorers in Old factories and power plants looking at controls and machinery and they don't know what it is or what it did.
I remember in the 90s at a reunion of Navy men who remembered every part every switch every wire every single thing about their ship and they could have walked on and started the thing up from scratch.
It is amazing to see people who have a specialized knowledge.
We used to have a lot of people like that.
Now we have a lot of people who don't know how to change a lightbulb.
A lightbulb
God help us
How many college students does it take to change a light bulb?
Forever and ever amen, got me !! You always get me !
The girl in the backglass is Barbara Bach, Ringo Starr's wife, if I'm not mistaken.
It does look like her!
Best backglass is Aladdin’s castle with AC/DC Luci being a close 2nd. I also love the mirrored BK2K
I had an Aladdin's Castle, I really liked that one!
You are correct as the Bally displays are Plasma Gas. Vacuum Fluorescent are lower voltage and used as the Gottlieb style blue displays.
Great video as always!
I can't stop laughing.
Great videos
First, great video. You really seem to be able to find Bally's in great shape. Meaning they don't need every pin replaced, circuit boards generally work, etc. On lamps, I like the old look and think that the new line of Comet Retro's look pretty damn close to 44's if you go "Warm White", but you can't use them on the feature/switched lights without some adding a resistor, which isn't a big deal, but a lot of work. I recently tried the Yoppsicle and really like them. I replaced the light socket for a green lens because the bulb just couldn't light it up. I put in a cool white Yoppsicle and now it looks perfect, even next to a bunch of 44's.
On the display I just fixed a couple of them. One one it was a bad resistor (R3 for the 10's), easy find and fix. I had to replace the IC on another display, the top segments were always on.
Your flippers need to be adjusted. The tops of the flippers should be inline with the in-lane rails. 🤣 And one of your roll-over lamps kept going out. Okay enough of that, just had to have a go. Thanks!
I prefer the real lightbulbs thx
I heard this was the glass Tarentino wanted to emulate in the Pulp Fiction machine.
Awesome game. Lots of action from a game that doesn't look like it would be action packed. Much harder than it looks. Love it as always. Thanks for making us laugh!
To be fair, That game works better with 5 balls and the setting done a little harder. As you progress the A,B,C lanes you can carry thing over like 2x, 3x, 5x then after 5x 5000, SPECIAL. to the next ball but with the setting made harder, well it is harder to do. But in your case you make it real hard as it reset the A,B,C lanes after every ball. Much like the strike advance and extra ball or set to alternate.
If you look, you can see Reds under garments have lines and you can see her baby feeders outlined when the light is lit behind the glass
Nice work on this one. I don't recall if that one was ever in my parent's bowling alley. But I'd like to see it and play for awhile. Might be making a road trip in your general direction this week so if I have time I'll swing by. If it has found its next home though, I'll see what else you have in the shop. And I'll bring along my Fluke multi-meter so you can take a photo of them side by side and show people that mine is dirty too. Its a working man's meter, people! Give the man a break!
As for the old tyme bowling alleys, many did use projectors that showed the hand written score card on a screen above the lanes. Or just plain old pencil and paper on a table like my 8 lane house which couldn't afford to be fancy. Nomenclature for the machines is "sweep" for the bar the clears the pins off the pin deck. And the part that sets and picks up the pins is called the "table". At least on AMF machines. Though bowlers at my place called them both the "rack". The machines depicted on the pinball resemble Brunswick pinsetters. I'm not sure if they call them by the same names.
Little Mandalorian jab😊
VF is usually green
Plasma is orange
LED is red
Most VFs are so faded you can't see them anymore
They are just like a 4 foot florescent bulb in the light fixture
They burn out over time
VF was real popular in the early 80s before backlighted LCD, which the bulbs would burn out, replaced a lot of those bulbs on scanners.
LED was used for a short time on radio equipment
But LCD is all I see now
I have a bunch of Kenwood radios that the blacklight bulbs have long ago burnt out. I am not going to mess with them.
I am looking for KDM-7 keypafs for the TK-250 radios.
I found 2 in Europe online and bought them.
I hope to have a good day when I have the strength to get out of bed and put in the keypads and program them for the ham radio repeater here
They are great Radios
You can drop them all day long and not worry about breaking them.
Daayam! I need to go bowling.
Hey Ron... Maybe in one of your videos... you should explain 'WHY' the capacitors are there on the switches... to extend the signal to the CPU. A diagram works wonders 😁 Just for those who may not have been working on Pinballs since the 80's.
BTW... my personal 2 favorite back glasses are 1) - Paragon, 2) Centaur 😊 But I definitely like the Strikes and Spares also.
Greg I've explained it on countless videos and shown diagrams, I guess you don't watch much
@@LyonsArcade I do... 🤔 But apparently I have a lot to still watch (that I've missed) 🤣🤣 Love the videos!! You have a great presentation skill that keeps even the most mundane process (cleaning contacts) interesting! 😆
I noticed the pop when Joe was cleaning it.
I wish my bowling alley had patrons that looked like this lady. I'm sure they'd got a lot more business.
Awesome
I remember fixing a general electric 1970s to channel analog VHF mobile two-way radio, and it kept blowing the fuse as soon as I powered it up
The first component in the circuit was a rectifier and it looked perfect
Once I unsoldered it it broke into two pieces
You really can't tell by sight on many failures.
I went to RS and picked up a new one and had it working that night.
Old crystal radio. Had to special order new crystals from a company in NJ.
Most likely long since gone
I picked up some old 1 watt crystal VHF RCI-1000 radios and some ADI radios brand new in the box from the 90s
I called the number on the registration card and they are both out of business
They were big radio manufacturers back in the 80s and 90s
She seems to have all her gadgets properly installed.
Thanks for all the vids. My dad and I are restoring his dead Strikes and Spares machine he just got, and we’ve been following along on advice on each vid. Question for you: why did you decide to paint the backbox border in black?
The back glass is better in the dark lol
I thought the problem was the left in-lane track, which lets the pinball kinda hop just before the flipper
You should definitely let someone sample that beat.
Absolutely! 😛
Transistor Sister!? What is that? Wipe that smile off your face. Do you understand!!! What is that?!?! A Transistor Sister pin?!?! On your uniform?!?! 😉
Hey Ron!!
I don't want to be a light bulb guy, and I think your work is excellent. But, ...is a rubber missing between the R and E right side ?
Brilliant job, but about that light bulb....
@1:10:03 Gotta admit, that really made me laugh. Nicely done.
Ding ding ding birp ting ting blip squonk ding ding ding
I have a question On the balance of front to back, how is that done? and how does it change the playing field.
Don't recall seeing anyone in a bowling alley dressed like that...
Looks like #4 pin light is out. Maybe the switch needs to be cleaned.
Absolutely no doubt that artwork is classic and iconic. No argument from me on that. But I have to say that the greatest would have to be Black Knight followed by PinBot.
Backglass girl reminds me a little of "The Machine"...
The computer controled bulbs seem really dim compaired to the GA. Do you use #44 in the GA as well or is it a camera thing?
That's just there so you can complain
39:23 this looks like a trip to the Moon. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Trip_to_the_Moon
Next to Gottlieb Genie..
Great! Job on the video.
You guys do a lot of touch-up playfield videos, is there a reason why you guys never touch up the outside of the game?
Probably because the customer doesn't want that
come on now - ruclips.net/video/WnHPzuq93Y0/видео.html
@@LyonsArcade I loved this series - great work inside and out, and a neat boardwalk game too!
Actually, he does on occasion. However, there are reasons why you'd do the playfield more often. You look at the playfield the most and the playfield affects and is affected by gameplay. Also, there may be more opportunities for the playfield to get damaged. So usually, when the side art gets damaged, it is really damaged. So we are talking more about things like the game falling through the floor and intentional sabotage (eg., robbers and drunks). Ron and Joe did a great job on the arcade cabinet with the hole kicked in the side. Joe filled it and Ron painted it.
Dirt MM means your using it. :)
Exactly!!!!
Err? Did Donny find any games in the convientce store?
Nope, there weren't any
32:03 rectifier
Yep, I got it right. I said "It's broke!" and sure enough I was right! (Never gets old!) Come on, people. I'm just having fun here. It's gonna be all right!
RIP R5...it died in it's sleep a peaceful death.
Can't read the score? Those were beer frames.
JOE CLASSIC, When a 0.05uf capacitor is "shorted" on the switch, won't this damage the driver FETs on the solenoid board or damage the switch matrix circuit? The diodes purpose on the switch matrix circuit so only there for when two or more switches are CLOSED that the scanning monitoring circuit doesn't get confused? maybe others might know the answer to why the switch matrix uses diodes
Other than a few things like the spinner I can't imagine why there would be multiple switches pressed at once, so I don't see why the diodes would be needed for anti-ghosting. But this (possibly) goes back to the capacitors. The capacitors could make it so more than one is "pressed" at once. Shorted capacitors don't hurt the circuitry because it's just like a closed switch. The drivers are probably open collector so nothing bad happens.
@@eDoc2020 Why can you have a short circuit on open collector drivers and it won't damage the open collector FET or transistor drivers? Most open collector devices use a pull up resistor so if there is a short circuit on the output pin I would think it would still damage the fet/transistor driver
@@waynegram8907 Because there's no strong current source in the matrix. The pullup resistor is the only source of voltage in the system. If a switch shorted to Vcc then you could damage things but this can't happen unless there is a cross with other circuits.
@@eDoc2020 Anti Ghosting I think means it the switch causes debouncing like a chatter so the Diode will block the debouncing chattering effect of the switch and only "register" one instead of registering multiple switch contacts. The Anti Ghosting also can mean when a switch is closed the diode is blocking the scan frequency signal from backfeeding which causes errors of confusing the columns and rows. Anti Ghosting means when you're pressing multiple switches at the same time and only a few "register" and others "don't register". The switches that don't register is called Ghosting. What I'm confused about is I can't see on the playfield when multiple switches would ever be pressed/closed at the same time. I'm guessing the PIA chip can't only "register" one switch at a time? and if multiple switches are pressed/closed at the same time it overloads the PIA chip. The Scan frequency is outputted by the CPU which scans the columns and rows of the switch matrix. The Pinball games test program doesn't have any switch matrix testing for antighosting or ghosting test but you can manually just press/close a combination of switches to see if the switch matrix circuit is causing ghosting issues?
@@eDoc2020 If the capacitor is shorted across the switch contacts the switch matrix things this column and row is activated and when the pinball is pressing down other switches at the same time the shorted capacitor switch the switch matrix diodes are going to register the BALL that is rolling over the switches. If the diodes weren't there then none of the switches would be getting registered, which is considered ghosting? This is the only thing i can think of is that the designers were thinking IF one of the switches gets STUCK or if one or more of the pulse stretching capacitors across the switch gets shorted this could cause switch matrix ghosting errors?
Are those fused resistors?
You did the whole video without saying breasts. Not sure I could have done that.
I always call them boobs, seems less vulgar
The left and right pop bumpers are not working right.
I owned this machine, left for the military and my father GAVE IT AWAY! Talk about pissed off.🤯🤬
The internet database shows just 100 star caps. Awesome game just saying people 😂
They must have been swapped in Antiquity!
I think Ronnie has a crush on the backglass girl.
One pinball I regret selling
What's with the black on the head around the backglass? Paint it!
Paint code Match is: Yellow: 'Mardigras Gold' #2019-10 - Benjamin Moore enamel ultrabase paint (C133 4b).
You watched an hour long video and like usual, you want to complain and bitch. What is it about you, that makes you want to do that? Nothing positive to say about an hour long video, you just want to point out the 1 thing you found that you think you could do better. Go be miserable somewhere else, we're enjoyng life around here
Intolerant folks just aren't having any fun, are they? The glass is epic!
Yodelayheehoo
Hello Lil Everette, how have you been? Did you have a good Easter????
@@LyonsArcade yes