3/25/2023 0 Comments Pinball machine repair![]() for the game when the game is powered off.įirst thing to check is to make sure the batteries haven’t just gone bad. ![]() This warning message immediately signals to me that their isn’t power hitting the U25 RAM, which holds the settings, high scores, etc. This Earthshaker was getting an “Adjustment Failure” at boot-up. I’ve got a stock pile of repair logs to fill out, bear with me as I try to get a new one up every day or two until I’m through the queue. I pulled the target bank apart and made the necessarily adjustments for smooth operation and fixed the not resetting one by adding a small piece of double-sided adhesive underneath that gave enough length to get it to push all the way up for proper reset.īoth the left flippers weren’t working, which required a complete rebuild of the top flipper assembly including the EOS, and a partial rebuild of the bottom left assembly.Īll-in-all she came a long way from her humble beginnings and I’m now enjoying this game in my current line-up. There were some sluggish drop targets on the drop bank and one which wouldn’t reset the entire way. I tore the whole top half of the playfield down, re-rubbered the game, added new star posts throughout, polished and waxed the playfield, and added LEDs throughout the game. This one was going into the permanent collection for awhile, so it got the royal treatment. Not too long ago I picked up a 1988 Williams Swords of Fury machine that needed a little love, but overall was a pretty nice example of this cheesy, fun System 11 pinball machine. ![]() Have been a little slow on the updates lately, but just too busy to keep up, which isn’t necessarily a bad thing. Turning the power save to a lower setting on games that allow you too or replacing your incandescent lamps with LEDs which run at lower amperage and less heat dissipation help reduce the likelihood of this type of burnt connector happening again, or can save this type of repair if your connector/pins are in good shape still at this point in time. To remedy, I replaced all the male pins on the power board and added in new female molex housings on the 9-pin connector from the power board and 6-pin connector to the backbox with trifurcon crimps. These are the lines that supply the general illumination lamps and they are on all the time, which can create a good deal of heat through the board and on those connector housings. GI connectors burning up over time on these Data East games, as well as most other manufacturers, is actually really common. Cut it off, opened the head and found some very burnt connectors on the GI connector from the power board and the ones going to the inter-connector to the backbox head. After a few minutes of hunting down with my nose, I narrowed it to Star Wars. I had my back line of games on and started to smell electrical burn, which is the last thing you want to smell around a pinball machine. Out of the nearly 60 pinball machines I’ve owned, I’ve never had one burn up a connector enough to actually smell it until this one. This is another game from the personal collection.
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