KISS, my holy grail pin is here!!

[faza]

No mucking around here, cant wait to see how it turns out

[goodolddays]

Good one Mitch 

[Mr Pinbologist]

Hi all.. time for a little update;

The game is now 100% working, after repairing the sound board and the auxiliary driver board.

The sound board i ended up replacing just about every IC on there to get it going as it had several problems. The main problem ICs ended up being U1, U4, U5 and U9... as well as R21 and C16 which are the timing components for the 555 timer IC on the board.
Part of U1 is the main oscillator for the tone generator, which wasnt working at all (no oscillation so no tones), U4 and U5 were causing the tones being played to be all over the place, and U9 was causing low volume. I socketed most of the ICs that i replaced, for easy repair in the future if needed.

For the auxiliary driver board i replaced U2 and U3 (both 4555 CMOS ICs) which saw the lights in the KISS lights for the BG working properly, plus resoldering a few header pins and replacing a burnt connector pin, in the pic the housing hasnt been replaced as yet but it will be soon, now that the game is all running properly.

[Strangeways]

Good stuff Mitch. 

Now go find that copy of KISS ALIVE! and belt out some tunes 

[Mr Pinbologist]

and over the last couple of weeks i have done some work on the backglass...

first some pics of what i was dealing with...

[beaky]

It's always great to get your holy grail pin &  as far as getting 'the' one you played when you were a kid is priceless.
good job so far 

[Mr Pinbologist]

and here are the results of my attempts to save the backglass.. using Triple Thick and cling wrap.

First i needed to get tripe thick between the peeling artwork and the glass. To do that, after laying the glass flat i used a drinking straw, held against the TT spray nozzle to get a heap of TT UNDER the lifted artwork, then i sprayed more TT onto the back of the art before CAREFULLY laying the clingwrap over the wet TT and pressing it down into position, luckily the art hadnt shrunk too bad at all and it all went into place pretty well, i held it all in place with pieces of plywood and weights and left it to dry. i ended up having to leave it for over a week, for it to dry properly, it took ages because the TT between the glass and artwork wasnt really exposed to air so it took longer

It also ended up getting a few bubbles in it which i want too happy about, but considering what i started with it could have been a LOT worse, anyway 1st pic was taken from under the glass while the TT was drying, and the others are how the glass currently looks.

I plan on doing more work on this glass.. the lit up KISS name has a few cracks through it, so my plans are to re-do this area using the same tricks i used on my Zaccaria Universe BG restore...

Stay tuned for further updates

[faza]

Huge improvement well done

[Strangeways]

Very hard to tell it was peeling to begin with !

[Mr Pinbologist]

Its not perfect by any means, but its MUCH better than it was these pics dont really show it but it can be seen from certain angles/reflections where the bad bits are. It now just looks like a glass where the paint has just started to lift, i still think i may be able to get it better, if i can get a syringe and needle and fill it with TT and fill these bits, which should make these bits all but invisible from the front.

And yes Nino, i HAD been listening to KISS while working on the game!! Double Platinum to be precise, as i found it first
il have to dig out ALIVE! and put that on when working on it next

[ddstoys]

These Bally glasses are a bitch for lifting like that you have managed to do well.   My kiss backglass that was missing the center most regular people can't even tell it's repaired untill I point it out ( not sure why I point it out). Point being only you will notice so be happy with your efforts

[pinnies4me]

Neat job, backglasses scare me, they are so important for the look of a game, good work making this very presentable.

[el_timbo86]

Mitch,

This is looking great  Its good to be able to compare what you had, to the photos you updated us with. AMAZING transformation, and like Daniel said - It will only be you who picks out the tiniest imperfections. Everyone else will simply be blown away.

Top job,

Timbo

[goodolddays]

Great improvement on the BG Mitch 

[Mr Pinbologist]

Thanks for the supportive words guys
stay tuned for further improvements