Lady Luck Restoration .. Progress update

[ajlaird]

Very nice starting point; if the touch-ups are done well this will look very good.

[illawarra_steelers]

Dave that game is looking sweet.

Norm Clark would be looking down and smiling 

Rates high on IPDB: http://www.ipdb.org/rate/showrate.pl?gid=1404

[goodolddays]

Still slowly working away on this game .
Had last 2 days off, so yesterday I overhauled 6 of the 12 score reels . I used to be a bit aprehensive of doing score reels but not any more 
The flyer turned up in the mail yesterday too.
Family day today so no work done

[Strangeways]

no pictures ?

 

[illawarra_steelers]

Good one 

Dave, you do enough of those score reels on an EM you can do them blindfolded after awhile. 

Have always thought this was the most important part of an EM rebuild

[ddstoys]

Its one of the first things i do on a rebuild score reels and steppers it makes a whole machine look better with nice shiny score reels

[goodolddays]

Got motivated tonight and overhauled the Number Match Unit Stepper. This is a very important part of this game as it is the Blackjack dealers hand which is revealed at the end of each ball.
Every stepper will get this same treatment , including very pivot point is cleaned, polished and light smear with Superlube.


I know cleaning the outside of the disc has no impact on how the machine runs but it looks great 

[goodolddays]

I lost the plot with the spring positions when I was putting the unit back together but have fixed them up after looking at these pics

[goodolddays]

Alcohol+Scotchbrite pad cleans up the contacts well

[ddstoys]

Looking good mate. I never remember to take photos when im doing up the internals but i must start as its great to see the difference

[Strangeways]

I love the attention to detail !

[goodolddays]

Credit Unit and Ball Count Steppers have now been overhauled . Both of these barely worked before, mainly because the centre shaft was pretty gummed up .
Of course I also remove coil plunger and sleeve and clean/polish them .
I don't have any new sleeves on hand at the moment and the old ones are pretty much OK for now.

 Here's the Credit Unit now (sorry .. no before Pics)

[goodolddays]

and the Ball Count unit

[goodolddays]

Oops .. forgot the other pic of the Ball Count unit .. last pic is the backbox now .

You can see from the player 1 score reels how dirty this is/was .
Still need to clean the 6 x player 1 score reel assemblies, all the relay switches , replace all the globes and the backbox will be done

[illawarra_steelers]

Dave,

It's these 'little things' that really give your old EM new life.

Would be the first time in 42 years that any type of cleaning/rebuilding would of been done on the mechanical parts.

Hope you are enjoying the ride!