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Re: Centaur II will be on its way soon..
« Reply #45 on: September 05, 2009, 10:48:17 PM »

Fantastic effort Shane - Well done  ^^^

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Re: Centaur II will be on its way soon..
« Reply #46 on: September 08, 2009, 12:53:31 AM »
No worries - gotta get there yet!!!

Toni got me a "Chase HQ" cab for father's day... $#$

Kinda stuffed my idea of getting Paul's machine on Sunday...

This week or this weekend Paul - I promise!


I am actually waiting for him to get sick of waiting and sell the machine to me instead.... $1000 for that! Tin arsed barstard.....
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Re: Centaur II will be on its way soon..
« Reply #47 on: September 08, 2009, 09:29:17 AM »
Yeah, Rollerball is a bargain attractant, that's for sure.

Still, we have to help him out, his meets are legendary.

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Re: Centaur II will be on its way soon..
« Reply #48 on: September 08, 2009, 01:54:35 PM »
<sigh> Yeah I know - bloody new south welshman.......
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Re: Centaur II will be on its way soon..
« Reply #49 on: September 12, 2009, 08:28:18 PM »
Just got this message from Shane....



Okay - it's sitting on the trailer inside my garage.   

My plan is to run it up to MarkC tomorrow or Monday.

Plugged her in - no worries, slingshots are stuffed and it's filthy! Will look at taking upper headbox off it tonight - I was not happy with the stress it puts on the cab leaving it on... (Main reason why I stopped here - it's 70k's to your mates place)

Machine was serviced 1 year ago by a local company (240 amusements) who I will not be recommending to anybody in a hurry!

Talk soon dude.

Shane.


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Thanks again Shane for making my life easy...great work mate...Happy to do the same for you in Sydney if you ever need a help with pickup ect..

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Re: Centaur II will be on its way soon..
« Reply #50 on: September 12, 2009, 08:33:55 PM »
slingshots are stuffed

????? as in plastics are broken????
????? coils not firing  ???

Any ideas what STUFFED means in this case
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Re: Centaur II will be on its way soon..
« Reply #51 on: September 12, 2009, 08:54:18 PM »
Well look at the pics on page 2...I would say coils ect stuffed...looks like the one on the right is stuck out.....thats not a big deal Im guessing..
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Re: Centaur II will be on its way soon..
« Reply #52 on: September 13, 2009, 12:27:11 AM »
Sorry Wotto...

The right hand slingshot does not go all the way home as per the photo - it does sometimes... This is because the whole thing is loose under the playfield!

Both are piss weak and need help/coils!

The plastics are complete - except missing small rectangle plastic/lane guide that sits at the back of the RH flipper.

The LH slingshot plastic has had an extra hole drilled in it and is not mounted correctly.

The RH slingshot plastic is warped from being incorrectly fitted.

The white plastic lane guides are both different...

Target faces worn out - 2 targets have been changed with thinner non-original ones.

Surface has a few minor wear spots under the mylar. Bigger wear spot at the bottom of the outlane.

Backglass has a leopard-skin effect because it was in a room with a clothes dryer. Bit of flake RHS halfway up.

Can't look at the boards as the backbox key is not the right one...

Took some quick and dirty phone pictures.

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Re: Centaur II will be on its way soon..
« Reply #53 on: September 13, 2009, 12:32:58 AM »
Sorry Wotto...

The right hand slingshot does not go all the way home as per the photo - it does sometimes... This is because the whole thing is loose under the playfield!

Both are piss weak and need help/coils! - No biggie I guess

The plastics are complete - except missing small rectangle plastic/lane guide that sits at the back of the RH flipper.

The LH slingshot plastic has had an extra hole drilled in it and is not mounted correctly - dickheads

The RH slingshot plastic is warped from being incorrectly fitted.-  again - no biggie
The white plastic lane guides are both different...

Target faces worn out - 2 targets have been changed with thinner non-original ones.- easy fix

Surface has a few minor wear spots under the mylar. Bigger wear spot at the bottom of the outlane.

Backglass has a leopard-skin effect because it was in a room with a clothes dryer. Bit of flake RHS halfway up- YEWOUCH !!- Leopard pattern is BAD news

Can't look at the boards as the backbox key is not the right one... break it open :lol  :lol

Took some quick and dirty phone pictures.


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Re: Centaur II will be on its way soon..
« Reply #54 on: September 13, 2009, 12:36:45 AM »
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I can't break the thing open wotto - it's not mine!  &^&
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Re: Centaur II will be on its way soon..
« Reply #55 on: September 13, 2009, 12:38:53 AM »
and again...
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Re: Centaur II will be on its way soon..
« Reply #56 on: September 13, 2009, 12:41:01 AM »
Thanks for the Pics Shane...

This machine should clean up not too bad at all im thinking...and good for the price as well...
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Re: Centaur II will be on its way soon..
« Reply #57 on: September 13, 2009, 12:43:07 AM »
And thats it....

Tried a side-on shot of the glass to show the delamination a bit better...
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Re: Centaur II will be on its way soon..
« Reply #58 on: September 13, 2009, 12:51:21 AM »
If you look at the girl between the flippers - there is a wear spot on her right bum cheek, there is another wear spot to the left of the girl (below the left flipper). That's the only "bad" spots.

Rip the mylar and give him a polish - will look a million bucks with a good clean.

Cab and head are really good - small marks and scratches is all.

Black legs with new levelers in the coin box.

Better buy a few boxes of new pinballs - there is quite a few in this baby!

No worries for the price my man - you have done well.
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Re: Centaur II will be on its way soon..
« Reply #59 on: September 13, 2009, 09:14:00 AM »
What a great looking game should come up really well make sure you do a restore thread so we can all enjoy your work  ^^^