Howdy all, I've seen Clay in action with the screw driver. That dude's fast! I mean real fast! He can rip through a bank of relays adjusting switches with...
Does anyone have a ball bowler in the detroit area? If so would it be OK for me to come over and film the game for 10 minutes? I would great appreciate this...
Good find, Mark....King Rex is a pretty rare game..don't know if it's a player or not, but you seem to have a rae one for sure....I can't imagine a guy not...
Yup, it might be a challenge to get her going. The group may see a bunch more posts from me this fall/winter. :-) Mark (-welby) ... From: Larry Wolfe To:...
hi, i need a pic of the jones plug board in the backbox of a gottlieb 300. it wasnt mounted when i got it and its not real apparent how it was mounted. anyone...
i just looked on the IPDB and it had a backbox pic. the jones plugs werent there, so it must mount in the cabinet. any pics? thanks have fun, mike hooker ...
Mike, I was just getting ready to send you that link...Take another look...There IS a Jones plug on the right side, not quite half way up from the bottom of...
hi, those are score reel jones plugs. the wiring harness going down into the cabinet goes to the board i'm talking about. if you look at IPDB for top score( 2...
I'm not talking about the 4 that are adjacent to the 4 score reeels, Mike...The one I am seeing is right on the edge of the board on the right side not quite...
AHHHH, OK, I see what you are talking about now...YES, those should plug into a matching set coming from the mech board in the bottom cabinet...my mistake... ...
It was late October of 1980, just about the perfect time to be involved with EM pins. The Solid State games were being demanded by location owners throughout...
Great photos of your gameroom? How big is the pinball room (or rooms)? I noticed that you accidentally posted a few photos twice, ie. 9 ball sign, shot of pool...
in 1980 i didn't even know what a pinball machine was! ... to ... fairly. ... way ... and ... repair. ... had ... could ... saw ... garage ... a ... a ... for ...
Great story, Al...I love hearing about those early days of pin collecting on a private home basis and how cheaply you could pick up quanities of games...Ahhhh,...
in 1980, I'd already moved from pins to girls and beer, The last game I really remember was Black Knight. Guys were lining up to play it, I stood in line,...
hi, i heard from a few people that the large jones plug board on the gottlieb 300 was never mounted, it just hung in the back of the cabinet, dangling from the...
I have a Masquerade and it they are connected to a board that just hangs in the cabinet. You would think they would have done a better job at the factory of...
i heard the same thing from a few guys. cheesy. i got this thing running, i cant believe it wasnt a 2 month project just to get it to do a reset. time to start...
Ok...making very slow progress. Found that a number of the coils that I thought were bad are really good (player 1-2 reel reset, lock, tilt, and bank reset)...
I always remove the playfield to work on it if i am doing something major. You can also, when you lift the playfield. slide it forward nd then stand it up...
i work on games all the time with the playfields removed. you can power them up with no problems. if you are having a certain problem, you can manually set the...
The hanging board jones connectors were used on games with animation in the backbox, the animation unit takes up space that makes relocating the plugs ...
Hello All, Here is my dilemma. I have a Williams Fan-Tas-Tic I am trying to get going. Here is the problem when I hit the start button I am losing it somewhere...
Finally, Problem solved! It turns out (I think) a dirty contact on the Game Reset Latch switch. That was the last thing I did and it started working. Now, I...
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