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« on: July 21, 2015, 11:00:14 am »

I mentioned in a previous post I had picked up my first (and only - according to my wife) Pinball Machine.
PinBot was a steal!!  It was playable in the sense that it would eventually spit out a ball and you could bang it around the board.
A few of the toys didn’t work. 

With the help of my daughter and step-son we got it almost to 99% good!
  • We changed out the yellow leaf switch buttons - with stock clear red ones.
  • We replaced a ton of burnt out bulbs also a micro-switch in the ball trough to indicate both were in there!  (Kinda like Johns Opto issue only instead of infared - Pinbot used a crooked wire and a micro-switch.)
  • We also replaced the little motor and 2 hooked micro-switches that opens and closes the helmet.
There is still the issue of the ramp that raises but can't seem to lower - I think I have to replace a magnetic solenoid thingie...

Incidentally, I bought all the parts from http://www.marcospecialties.com/

The site is great - you choose your game and it lists all the available parts for JUST that game!
Shipping was fast and reasonable too!


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1982 Atari Pole Position
1986 Atari Championship Sprint
1986 Williams Pin*Bot Pinball
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« Reply #1 on: July 21, 2015, 03:35:57 pm »

May I say it?
Get the LED bulbs, never change them again!

Looking great! Keep up the good work!
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« Reply #2 on: July 21, 2015, 07:18:53 pm »

Yes LED's are on the to-do list.  However the 'goodie box' that came with the game had a few boxes of bulbs we changed the dead ones for now with old-school bulbs.  The LED Kit will come - but for now... at lest it is well lit!  ;)
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1979 Atari Asteroids
1980 Midway Pac-Man (TOTAL Restoration Needed)
1981 Midway Galaga
1982 Atari Pole Position
1986 Atari Championship Sprint
1986 Williams Pin*Bot Pinball
1987 Atari Badlands
1988 Atari Tetris/19-1 Multi-Cade
60-1  DK Jr Cabinet
2002 Hanabi Japanese Slot Machine
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« Reply #3 on: June 07, 2016, 05:53:49 am »

I was thinking about this, I would have come by now.
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« Reply #4 on: June 09, 2016, 08:52:54 pm »

How has the game been doing? Any changes or updates?
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« Reply #5 on: July 07, 2016, 10:34:15 pm »

Any new updates?
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