Leveled playfield.
Bell(s) not working
Horse 1 doesn’t fully reset.
The startup relay was slightly out of alignment. A video shows correct operation.
Did some diagnosing and noticed a number of loose wires and bent leaf switches unable to be actuated. Our current assumption is that the four gears under the play field are trying to cycle to all zeroes on startup. The gears are sometimes too rigid to turn and the contact points that cause the next gears to rollover are likely not clean and getting actuated. Since the machine can’t recognize all the wheels are set to zero, it triggers and cycles everything until it reaches the default (inaccessible) state
Startup sequence is looping
Machine was not starting up. Button worked, but S relay wasn’t triggering. Sanded blades and adjusted alignment
- Found the missing screw. It had bounced over to the wall/floor line and gotten wedged there.
- Fixed the 10k score stepper. It just needed some cleaning and everything started moving smoothly again.
- There was also a solder point that was broken; removing the 10k stepper made that easy to get to, so I fixed it too.
- Overall, it seems like it works now. Time to put it back where it belongs.
- This one has to be close. What’s remaining?
- Fixed the 1 and 2 targets.
- The pinballs look kinda rough! didn’t I replace them? Let’s definitely replace these.
- The wood on the board inside the backbox splintered.
- I think it happened when I shook the machine a bit while playing, causing the board to come loose, swing on its hinge, and then stop suddenly at the bottom.
- I ran over to Home Depot to get some glue and clamps and glued it up. I’m supposed to wait 24 hours to try it out, but I’m going to cheat a little and see if I can get it running again.