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1955 Williams King of swat now has legs
« on: December 30, 2015, 11:48:35 PM »
With the help of a guy from the US with a 1955 Williams pinball machine he sent me a tracing of the legs and all the needed measurements to reproduce the missing legs .   

  I hate wood so it took some working upto but with all the info photos tracings and measurements I took the plunge cut out my first leg only to find that my pitch and bat must have different legs than a 1955 Williams pinball.   

   Slightly different bolt spacing and more meaty surface area that bolts to the cab so with the measurement I had slightly modified to suit my cabinet would get the apron sitting similar height to my 1955 Gottlieb marathon to I ditched the stuffed leg and started making mk2

This is from the supplied measurements

 

This is with the extra legs added to the cutout but the original holes


This is the mk2


The legs still need to be finish sanded and varnished but decided I'd wait and do that at the same time I repaint the cab but it's on legs for the first time in a bloody long time can't wait to rip into the restore

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Re: 1955 Williams King of swat now has legs
« Reply #1 on: December 31, 2015, 09:29:18 PM »
You hate woodwork, but woodwork likes you. They look fantastic. Well done mate.

Can you now point your attention in the direction of the BH legs  !*!
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Re: 1955 Williams King of swat now has legs
« Reply #2 on: January 01, 2016, 02:07:09 PM »
Hahaha there my work legs on the black hole they have wheels so I can move the machines around while I work on them

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Re: 1955 Williams King of swat now has legs
« Reply #3 on: January 01, 2016, 07:58:30 PM »
Great job Daniel now get to work and finish the game
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Re: 1955 Williams King of swat now has legs
« Reply #4 on: January 13, 2016, 06:00:38 PM »
Well I had another me day today and worked on my own stuff.   Originally started as just retrieving the ball that went missing but while I had the running man unit out I decided I'd  have a go at cleaning it up. 




Then while that was out decided to clean and adjust all the relays you know how it goes. 

    So now it fully working playable and just need the cabinet respray rd and the Playfield restored


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Re: 1955 Williams King of swat now has legs
« Reply #5 on: January 13, 2016, 07:23:04 PM »
Running man unit came up lovely mate.. can see the fade in colour at the marquee but it still pops!

Great game..

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Re: 1955 Williams King of swat now has legs
« Reply #6 on: January 13, 2016, 07:31:14 PM »
Yeah massively faded when you see an original area but cleaned up way better than expected.

    With new Perspex and a led globe it looks great.  Really can't wait to restore the cab now

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Re: 1955 Williams King of swat now has legs
« Reply #7 on: January 13, 2016, 07:40:12 PM »
Nice work, it really looks great Daniel.

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Re: 1955 Williams King of swat now has legs
« Reply #8 on: January 13, 2016, 09:35:18 PM »
That's awesome mate. You are very lucky indeed to have these old girls, and they are lucky to have found you !
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Re: 1955 Williams King of swat now has legs
« Reply #9 on: July 28, 2019, 05:24:48 PM »
Ohh crap now I’m in trouble




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Re: 1955 Williams King of swat now has legs
« Reply #10 on: August 02, 2019, 03:29:07 AM »
No turning back now..   damn this is a big game when you see it on it’s end the cabinet is almost as tall as me ( not that hard but still)


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