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Slash:

--- Quote from: Mr Pinbologist on October 06, 2017, 09:13:48 AM ---I'm on the home stretch now, playfield work now complete, having just finished refurbishing all of the lamp sockets  #*#


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I was curious, what do you do to refurbish the lamp sockets?

Mr Pinbologist:

--- Quote from: Slash on October 14, 2017, 11:30:42 AM ---
--- Quote from: Mr Pinbologist on October 06, 2017, 09:13:48 AM ---I'm on the home stretch now, playfield work now complete, having just finished refurbishing all of the lamp sockets  #*#


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I was curious, what do you do to refurbish the lamp sockets?

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I remove them, clean them up inside where the lamp fits in and solder the base where they are often loose and spinning. I also usually solder the wire directly to the center pin instead of the solder lug.

Mr Pinbologist:
Final update;


Playfield was installed into the cabinet a week ago, and after several days of final testing the game is now complete  #*# ... well complete except for the non working speech board which i'm hoping i can repair  @@^


The game was picked up this morning, minus the speech board as the game doesn't need it to play, i'll fit it at a later date if it can be repaired.


The game has turned out pretty well for a game that was destined to be scrapped for parts if i had bought it when it was originally offered to me! Until Ian put up his hand for it, i had plans of using the boards and parts for a test fixture. As far as i was concerned at the time we got it, it was worthless, with a worn out playfield, dead speech board and no backglass! Thanks again to Nino for selling Ian the playfield that is currently in the game, and saving me from a world of hurt trying to restore the original one!!


It's good though to see it up and running again and playing well. the translite doesn't look as good as a proper backglass, but its way better than no backglass at all (or the painted piece of glass that was in the game when we got it  %.%

Mr Pinbologist:
One last pic of the game set up in Ian's lineup!


Apologies for the crappy pic from my crappy smartphone.. will get some better pics later on and post them  *%*

Strangeways:
Very nice work there mate. You never know, the backglass might be reproduced in the future. The game can now be enjoyed rather than parted out. Like you, Mitch, I could never bring myself to part out a machine.

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