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Offline beaky

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firepower restoration
« on: December 12, 2012, 08:27:32 AM »
what a score, a complete firepower for $300  $#$
Thanks to a fellow member for selling me this bargain  ^^^ he bought it in the same condition i bought it in so any hack / butcher jobs i mention was not done by him.
I still have to pick up the main cabinet but i do have the back box here

Machine is complete, boards boot,
someone has done some damage to the displays and hv section of the power supply, the HV section had a 5 amp fuse in it so it had gone bang at some time in the past so someone cut the power lead off.
Cabinet needs a lot of work but playfield is great.

I will post more photos as i go

 
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Re: firepower restoration
« Reply #1 on: December 12, 2012, 08:49:43 AM »
Wow, what a bargain.
Firepower is on my Top 10 list. Pure, raw, in your face pinball. A challenge with the best thumpers in the business. Way ahead of its time for a 1980 pin. Ritchie at his devilish best.
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Re: firepower restoration
« Reply #2 on: December 12, 2012, 09:05:40 AM »
WOW good score  ^^^

i thought the days of $300 pins were long gone.. just goes to show those bargains are still out there  *%*

Looking forward to seeing the rest of the pics.
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Re: firepower restoration
« Reply #3 on: December 12, 2012, 09:43:11 AM »

$300 is an absolute steal. Well done !

I'm looking forward to the restoration. A great Williams title from the Golden Age of Pinball !
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« Reply #4 on: December 12, 2012, 10:44:20 AM »

Wow!! That is a fantastic score Andrew. FP is by far my favorite early 1980's game, and up there as one of my overall favorites as well.
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Re: firepower restoration
« Reply #5 on: December 12, 2012, 11:07:53 AM »
You lucky bugger Andrew .. great score  ^^^ and bonus it has a good PF too. ^^^ ^^^

Firepower is a definite keeper for me .. not looking forward to the time its out of action while I swap in my CPR playfield (hopefully next year some time)
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Re: firepower restoration
« Reply #6 on: December 12, 2012, 12:09:08 PM »
Great deal, congrats mate  ^^^
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« Reply #7 on: December 21, 2012, 10:41:12 PM »
Bargain, well done  ^^^
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Re: firepower restoration
« Reply #8 on: December 21, 2012, 10:54:56 PM »
 Nice score Andy absolute bargain.  Picking up the final pieces for my firepower project so hopefully won't be long till I can try it with drop targets
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Re: firepower restoration
« Reply #9 on: December 21, 2012, 11:07:47 PM »
Quote from: ddstoys on December 21, 2012, 10:54:56 PM
Nice score Andy absolute bargain.  Picking up the final pieces for my firepower project so hopefully won't be long till I can try it with drop targets

I've never played one with drop targets .. will be intersted to hear what you think of the gameplay vs standups
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Re: firepower restoration
« Reply #10 on: December 23, 2012, 12:04:32 PM »
finally got it all up and running.
sound board had some issues which required some new I.C.sockets, PIA ram and then it had a problem with the speech, the gap for the speech was there in test but it had none. ended up being a faulty / shorted 1800 pf ceramic capacitor on the sound board (C2). i used my oscilloscope to find this fault

boards have been repaired to get it going but still need the full beaky rebuild

had a few games and after a few hiccups it's all good.
i thought i would get a few games in before stripping it down.

here are the pics of the good
 
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« Reply #11 on: December 23, 2012, 12:07:21 PM »
and the not so good
but at least the coin door is in good nick
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« Reply #12 on: December 23, 2012, 02:10:40 PM »
Great work andrew, absolute BARGIN for $300  ^^^
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Re: firepower restoration
« Reply #13 on: December 23, 2012, 03:14:28 PM »
That's Awsome Andy that playfield is the best original I've seen.  Most have been played to death
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Re: firepower restoration
« Reply #14 on: December 23, 2012, 03:29:34 PM »
Great stuff Andrew  ^^^. Bargain for sure . How good does that PF (and BG) look ^^^
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