White Water project

[Strangeways]

Looking good !

If you want to match the factory color, just take the stripped (of parts) to a professional paint supplier and ask them to match the color and the finish. You will be surprised at how much you can learn with a professional. I never used 2 pac on any of my restores as that's not how it was done in the factory and it is overkill. Most of a DMD is covered with decals, so it is never a huge issue.

I have seen a few playfields cleared with a roller, and the general comment is always "I'll never do it this way again".  But as a cheaper alternative, I can see it could be useful.

[baoyar]

Fantastic work andtan. I've been trying to find a WH2O in the ACT but with no luck - looks like you have one of the only ones! Reading your post has got me scared for when I will (eventually) have to do my own repair/restoration work. Sounds like a nightmare! But I'm ready for the challenge.

[andtan]

Here is a few more photos, not long to go now

[Zedman]

Looking good Andy! I hope when it's done I can takes some video and share a few games. Keep up Th e good work. Z

[Crashramp]

Great work  nearly there.

[saldejums]

awesome work

[andtan]

Update:

Well the playfield has gone back in and all the wiring connected so the time came to fire the ol' girl up. As I had not ever had this pin running before, I decided to do it in stages, with fingers crossed:

• Transformer with nothing connected, then
• CPU board - yay it booted  
• with GI connected
• with solenoids connected

No house fuse tripped, and no 'magic smoke' escaped, so I was pretty happy.

So far so good, so I now decided to put it into test mode to see how things were going. Here came my first problem, the 'escape' and 'up' buttons didn't work. A few hours later and some jumpers on the CPU board between U13, U14, and U15 and I had all the coin door buttons active.

Next I tried the solenoid test, this was mixed, some fired, some didn't, some were intermittent. I found that a number of fuse holders were loose, so tightened them up and a few solenoids started to fire and the intermittent ones stopped being intermittent. I still have to find what's stopping the lower jet bumper and diverter from working

The next test was the flippers - Hmm, only one working, which was the upper right. Both the lower flippers didn't even budge. I had hoped it was a fuse issue again, but it was not to be. Someone managed to solder the outside coil wires the wrong way around  . That little rooky mistake cost me a few fuses, a couple of drivers on the fliptronic board and new diodes on the coils.

I still have a number of lights to trouble-shoot, but I am hopeful that many of these will be simple little problems. I was thinking that the pin would be ready for a game in the next few days, but it's probably going to be another couple of weeks. I still need to order a new set of mountains as I'm a couple short - hopefully he will be back from fishing soon. .

That reminds me, seeing as there are a few people who aren't topper fans does anyone have a white water topper tucked away? I know I've got buckleys, but thought I'd ask (beg). Maybe Twisted Pins will finally get their repo made soon

Cheers,

Andy

[Dimsims]

This is looking excellent, well done so far 
I think I want one now lol

The next test was the flippers - Hmm, only one working, which was the upper right. Both the lower flippers didn't even budge. I had hoped it was a fuse issue again, but it was not to be. Someone managed to solder the outside coil wires the wrong way around  . That little rooky mistake cost me a few fuses, a couple of drivers on the fliptronic board and new diodes on the coils.

If it makes you feel better, I did the exact same thing by soldering the wire back to front lol
Not sure how I did it but I soon found out when fire works came from the back box