"No Body Escapes " The Black Hole , repair and cleanup

[Strangeways]

Posts in front of the capture hole is a new one - that's to prevent multiball. Your playfield is pretty good - not as much wear around the pop bumpers.

[goodolddays]

Why put black rubber on this game  Playfield looks pretty good .

Lucky you have a new plastic set .. as do I.
I must get around to selling my old plastics most of which are in good shape .
Did you source your new ones from PBR ? Are they making low PF plastic set yet ?

[riverinapinball]

Putting white rubber on it. Haven't started putting on rubber yet..

I have both upper and lower plastics . Yes Pbr do both . I got the lower playfield ones earlier in the year

[goodolddays]

Putting white rubber on it. Haven't started putting on rubber yet..

I have both upper and lower plastics . Yes Pbr do both . I got the lower playfield ones earlier in the year

Nuts .. PBR were out of stock of the lower PF plastic set when I placed my last order .. maybe next time

[Freiherr]

That playfield looks great  for age of machine. Should come up a treat. Inserts look nice and flat.

[Zedman]

I acquired a Black Hole in March 2013, after sourcing parts and sitting on it for while on Friday last week, I finally was able to move it from the garage to my home office.
First I would to start with f@$k these machines are heavy!

Repinn ef a missing connector was cut off.

Then I replaced the power supply board, MPU and driver boards with a Pascal board. I didn't want to mess around with original boards as pcb repair is not my strong point. Also my experience with pascal board has be great. I have several in my system 1s.

I removed the lower playfield for ease of access while I work on it.


Replace one coil so far. Large drop target bank cool with fried.
Replace 4 displays with spares I had. No look nice and bright . I would like to thank
Blair for his advice about rejuvenating these display.
Tightened the screw on both bottom transformers as they were loose and buzzing.

Replace a lots of fuses quite a few were blown, a few over sized fuses replaced with correct ones. I did put some 3amp fuses were there was 2.5amp. I have thought about putting 2amp ones..not sure these drive the Pop bumpers individually .

Metered all the coils to check for shorts or open circuits.

Replace 2 pop bumper boards as one missing the other suspicious (blow fuse associated) .

Replace a lot of lamps.

Games is booting up ok, with most lamps on the upper Playford working except 1. I will check the plugs soon

I have new plastics , rubbers, flipper bats, new drop targets, new lower playfield window, yet to install.

Just a few pics, nothing really interesting yet.

Wow, I wouldn't wanna make a mistake when adjusting the sound volume.

Nice work Dan. :-) Z

[riverinapinball]

Ok, I have put the lower playfield back in. New plastics and drop targets installed.

I couple of problems I have noticed.

2 or 3 voice sounds not working properly.

Gate coil is buzzing a lot. Tried adjusting will no luck. New coil I think

Needs spinner motor replaced. I have one , was going to leave it for last.

Sometimes the bottom playfield up kicker intermittently doesn't kick . Switch?or coil??connector?



I went to replace the lane guards which I ordered ages ago from Marco speciality , blood wrong ones they sent me 1 1/8 not 2 1/8 .



Other than that I can play a game.

[riverinapinball]

Still haven't installed the upper playfield plastics, I will wait until a get the right lane guards.

Also install all new flipper bats. I may need some new coil sleeves. Flippers seems ok.

All gi is now working. Only one insert not working probably connectors.

[Crashramp]

Fantastic work Dan, great progress and at least now you can enjoy a game while you work our the remaining issues. 

[Strangeways]

Still haven't installed the upper playfield plastics, I will wait until a get the right lane guards.

Also install all new flipper bats. I may need some new coil sleeves. Flippers seems ok.

All gi is now working. Only one insert not working probably connectors.

Connectors, connectors and connectors. Ground mods are a must.

[howzat]

What a great old game   This was another from my past     You done a nice job   well done    Howzat

[riverinapinball]

I have taken out the blue window, will install a new one.

I have also order a length of 40mm acrylic tube to replace the re-entry tube.



New upper playfield drop targets installed.

[riverinapinball]

Playfield window now in.

[riverinapinball]

[pinball god]

I hate this game and yet always want one. o think because it beats me 99/100 that I hate it but thats a good thing for challenge and interest longevity. Your game looks great and coming along nicely