El Dorado

[goodolddays]

Very nice - did you touch up the purple section near the flippers ?

Gday Nino ..

No, but I did around the target light inserts .. also removed and relevelled most of the PF inserts

[goodolddays]

I also touched up a couple of the horse targets , one almost completely .. can anyone notice ??

[skywalker]

Looks great  hope to own a EM one day soon

[goodolddays]

I have now ironed out just about all the issues with this game .. boy it has sure given me some headaches ..  

Score reels not resetting to 0 every time a new game is started ... Getting the score reels to all reset was a major PITA .. first I had to understand how it was supposed to work  
The runout and reset switches on every reel needed adjusting .. the A relay latch/trip needed adjusting as it wasn't latching, which then meant adjusting all 6 switches on this relay as well ..

Not lighting bonus when all targets are down .. tracked down to a dirty switch on the target reset relay .. it also decided not to reset the targets .. found an out of adjustment switch on the score motor

Not awarding 5000 points when it should .. tracked down to advance unit being out of adjustment

1000's chime not working .. out of adjustment switch somewhere .. I forget

A couple of flippers still a bit weak .. adjusted flipper return spring

Overhaul the credit unit .. has freed itself up after a while

All that is left is to check/overhaul the ball count unit which is playing up .

At one point during all the fault finding , I turned it on and it was dead as a dodo .. the wire from the transformer to the main fuse had fatigued and broken at the end of the fuse clip. 

I finally had great satisfaction yesterday playing a few games with everything working .. (well except the ball count unit sometimes jumping 2 places )  

[Strangeways]

The fun of restoring an EM. I find that in most cases with intermittent faults, you just play the game and look past the problems for 20 plays and then the game fixes itself. This is what I love about EMs. The ball count unit does need to be rebuilt as it is out of adjustment.

There should be an EM in every collection 

[goodolddays]

The fun of restoring an EM. I find that in most cases with intermittent faults, you just play the game and look past the problems for 20 plays and then the game fixes itself. This is what I love about EMs. The ball count unit does need to be rebuilt as it is out of adjustment.

There should be an EM in every collection 

Gday Nino .. yes agree every collection should have an EM ..
I find it bugs me when features don't work so I have to track down the fault .

[howzat]

   I just have a Question about that P/f  design   How many Titles was it used in         I know of Eldardo  and Solar city   was one called Gold strike     dose any one know the rest  ??

For some time I had Mr Pinboligist Solar City    I got to baby sit it     and It was great fun

It looks like you had your share of challanges on this one but we all know it will be worth it      Howzat 

[Strangeways]

Target Alpha and Canada Dry 

and technically - El dorado City of Gold

[goodolddays]

   

It looks like you had your share of challanges on this one but we all know it will be worth it      Howzat 

Yep , not finished yet though .. still have to seal and touchup the backlgass , repaint the cabinet and iron out a few remaining bugs (such as only occassionally paying out 5000 points (something with the advance unit) and sometimes skipping a ball in play