Captain Fantastic

[malone6]

Hi,
Purchased a fully restored Captain Fantastic  4 days ago.  After three days score counter not going above 1000 and at times goes backwards.
Problem No. 2 All four player ball counters start on ball 2, therefore only playing with 4 balls.  My experience was playing games at ages 12 to 16, some 45 odd years ago.  Can anyone please advise, before I chase up an Electro Mechanic guy.  It may be something very simple?
Larry

[Goingpinsane]

Have you asked the previous owner for any help or advice? I'm sure they would be willing to help if they can.

[malone6]

Hi,

Yes and he has no idea either!
Thanks for the interest.

Larry

[Steevsee]

Hi Larry and welcome to the forum.

Sounds like you are experiencing the usual issue with old EM's of the Stepper units not turning freely.

There is a very good repair guide HERE

[goodolddays]

Interesting .. in his for sale ad he had stated "All stepper units have been cleaned and adjusted. "



I agree with Steevsee , problem 1 sounds like a Stepper issue .. problem 2 will be a ball count unit issue .. check that when it resets that the wipers are actually on the the first position . Ball count unit is usually found in the backbox.
A manual and schematic will really help you out with troubleshooting as will the labels on the steppers and relays , if they are still there.

Link to manual is here http://mirror2.ipdb.org/files/438/Bally_1976_Capt_Fantastic_FULL_Manual_United_States_Domestic_.pdf

Link to Schematic is here http://mirror2.ipdb.org/files/438/Bally_Capt_Fantastic_1062_Schematic.pdf

Good luck
Dave