Refurbishing and upgrading a electromechanical pinball machine from the seventies.
Right: How it looks like now. Left: How it might end up
Taking the monster apart |
| Under the hood. This thing is full of relays and mechanical switches -- a lost art. |
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| Underneath the playfield, showing the solenoids for the flippers. |
At this point, the machine is in quite a bad state. All the rubbers have turned into brittle plastic, many lamps are blown, the playfield is a filthy mess and the playfield window is cracked.
We took a last video of the machine with its original electromechanical brain, before we have teared it completely apart:
Turns out it almost works. The score counting wheels have some issues. Sometimes they get stuck, sometimes the reset process never finishes.
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