Watch out for the robot. He will hurt you. Okay. Which way? Which way does this transistor go? Does it go this way or does it go this way? Let's ask the uh pinball repair group and see what they have to say. Get the data sheet and figure it out. Okay. Okay. Interesting. If you cannot figure it out from the data sheet, you probably ought to be in a different hobby. That is how games get started on fire. Okay. Q49 right next to it is screened with how the part goes. Maybe looking at a schematic to figure it out is just too much these days. Okay. What a helpful bunch. I'm Mike Dus and this is Pinball Shenanigans. [Music] Okay, I kid. I kid. Uh, 90% of the time or better, you get some wonderful, wonderful, helpful people on the repair group like Andrew Spitler who laid it out for me on which way the transistor went. And I've installed that and I talked about that on my last episode. But I thought you might find a couple of those responses humorous. So, it's been a few days since I've been in the basement. Time to get back to the gamutron action. Look at Check what I got. LED adapters. So, what I'm going to do is install the LED adapters onto the board. We're going to install the board, connect it, and see if indeed every single light bulb is now officially working. Oh, check this out. No, I'm not going to show you just yet. Um, I did uh get sidetracked a little bit. I went and bought me a new Deadpool Premium off my buddy Rob Ellison because it is nicer than mine. It has under 1,000 plays. I think it's got a custom shooter rod insider connected, which I didn't have on mine. Some flipper toppers. You got the little like orange and green slingshot dress kit. Got some mods. Uh gun there. We've got juggernaut. We've got um what is this called? I forget the name of the dog. Rob mentioned it. But we got that dude. We've got that guy. I don't know who that is. Wolverine, I think, is not on the original. I think that's a mod. We got the ninja star, the metal ninja stars. Oh, and look, chimmy chonga. That is cute. We've got the art blades, which you can't really see right now. We've got speaker lighting. We've got a topper and um shaker motor. So, yeah, I got a little distracted by bringing home a new toy, which means that this Deadpool is now for sale. So, if you want to buy it, come on over. Get you some chim chungas. I got mirror blades. I got a shaker motor. And I also have the metal ninja stars. Oh, see how I put the like plastic caps back on over top of the ninja stars, but Rob did not Oh, you know why you're supposed to put those on? So the ball doesn't get stuck. I remember now. So, we'll see if uh the ball gets stuck there. So, I think I actually still have them kicking around in a bag perhaps. So, anyway, that happened. Oh, and the thing that I didn't show you that I'm going to show you now is uh Rob tossed in this pretty cool stern pinball sign. It is pretty large. There's your perspective there. There's your, you know, it's good uh foot and a half by a foot. And I just got it plugged in and boom. So, just pop that on there for now. It's not my favorite spot, but I don't have a whole lot of spots for things anymore. I'm running out. I was thinking of putting some shelving along this wall. Just like a row of like four or five or six shelves. Remove these two posters and translates. And then I could load up all kinds of little miscellaneous trophies and smalls and this kind of stuff that's compiled up here. And what I would like to do actually is put all these promo plastics up there. Got the medieval madness. I got the Congo. I've got Lethal Weapon 3 Nitro Ground Shaker. The Getaway. And also back there got Creature from the Black Lagoon. So it would be kind of cool to have all those promo plastics. Oh, look. And Ghostbusters. If I could have them all in one space, that would be pretty cool. All right, so I think that's about it. Oh, the reason I have that machine torn apart is because I was having one single drop target that wasn't liking to stay up on my Deadpool. And it took me a bit to figure out what was going on, but I think what it is is that these targets actually kind of like warp over time. And this one is just a little bit warped and is leaning back further than the rest. I tried to bend it forward and it worked temporarily but in short order it would go back to its original warped position. So I don't have one of these in stock. So I stole the entire bank out of my new Deadpool. Put it in the old Deadpool. So now it is 100% and then I'll order a single drop target uh pinball life for like three bucks. Replace it. Got the decals and then uh you know no panic on that. But I do have that Deadpool listed right now. So, if somebody wants it tonight, then they can have it. I don't need to wait for a drop target. I think I got it pulled up right here. Yeah, that is your stern drop target. Took me a bit to find it. I was checking part numbers cuz there's two different drop targets with different widths. This is the 468 wide top variety. That's what you want. Okay. So, let's uh put on some adapters. see if we've got all of our lights working. All right, so bring you along for this enthralling excitement. Some people actually uh were happy that I had an hourong video on Game ofron a few episodes ago. I thought people would be like, "Oh god, that is just too long. Let's uh just pass." But you, some of you guys are just gluttons for the shenanigans, and I appreciate that. So, and also getting lots of comments about Ellie. Everybody loves Ellie. She's becoming a household favorite. I won't tell her. It'll just get to her head. But, uh, she does love the action, too. Okay. So, easy enough to install. You just match up J2 to J2. How hard can it be? Right. Like so. This is J1. Hopefully Ellie will make an appearance. She's uh Jaime's got her mother over and she's hanging out with the ladies upstairs right now. She likes to be where all the action is at. If Jamie goes outside, then Ellie will be down here in no time. We've tried to put her on a freaking harness and a leash and uh two, three, four different times. She's escaped every freaking time. So, little turkey cannot be trusted. She escaped from the leash, just bought a new one, like a whole harnessy thing. And she's sitting there for an hour. She wouldn't budge. She was like in paralysis mode. And then all of a sudden, here we hear a clunk. That was the leash coming off. And then she immediately took off into another Ne another Netherland. Came back a few hours later. had some stories to tell. Didn't bring a home a mouse this time, though. So, last time I installed some adapters, these two were like really tight together. So, I think I just like filed them a little bit cuz it is pretty close and snug, but I didn't have to this time. You can file the top if you need or the bottom of J1. Okay. And then we've got this wire. This goes to the Oh, I always forget. Controlled lamps. Controlled lamp bus line. Remember that blue wire that we found in the head that was causing our controlled lamps to not work? dot line. I got to connect it to that. So, this just kind of like Don't force it too hard. You don't want to break the solder connection. I like these little Snap-On connectors. They're great. These are from um pinballledds.ca. Eddie Dazzio. I've used a few sets of these now and they're great. What is my problem? Had one issue one time where like two of these um points were bridged together. like maybe this guy and this guy were bridged together and so the lighting's the lights were doing some weird things and I finally figured it out. Just got rid of the solder and boom. Okay, I'm going to stick that in. Okay, so if these lights work then um it might be time to stick the playfield in the cabinet for the first time and have a play test. So that is the end game for tonight. So that will be exciting. I can finally put the last pieces of the playfield back on plastics, the apron, and get my space back. get it off this rotisserie because I know I have a one drop target that is falling back down just like Deadpool and I don't know that working on it in this condition is going to be any better than putting it in the cabinet and just propping the playfield up vertical. That might be just as easy. So either way, I've got a drop target issue that I could deal with one way or another. But okay, this lamp driver is plugged in. I don't have it connected just yet cuz first of all, I want to see if all the lights are working. And then secondly, I want to show you the difference between whether the uh like the difference between having the adapters and not having the adapters. Okay, calm down there. Just closing these three switches so that Gamatron thinks it has balls. Okay, I think I see success. Look at this. We have light. And we have light. And one more. Where is it? Yes. All right. And look, I think I did show you this one. That general illumination bulb there that was out is now working. Finally, after 10 hours, every single light bulb is working, I think. So, you know, it doesn't really look that bad. Oh, of course. I knew it. As soon as I said that, something was going to mess up. Okay, I'll deal with the A. Oh, see, it's flickering on and off. So, that's an easy fix. Anyway, in terms of the flickering and ghosting, it's not really prevalent right now. So, maybe if we throw in lamp test. Let's do that. Maybe we'll see it a little better. Let's do that. Okay, here we go. You can see from the backside the blues especially. Well, maybe you can't. Uh, not going to be able to show you. Something to do with cameras and frame rates and all that kind of stuff. Does not really come through on the camera. See any other lights out? Well, have a last glance at that. It's really the blues that are most obvious. H. And these guys, you can see them flickering. Well, I can. So, now let's connect our serial bus line connector. Is that what it's called? Am I saying it right? Serial bus. Switched illumination bus. That's what it is. Where do I get serial from? I did have cereal this morning. Lots of brand. And boy oh boy, I can barely stand myself at times. Poor Jamie. She'll have none of it. Okay. What about this? Wait a minute. That's still flickery af. Maybe that's the wrong line. Maybe I got to go uh down here. Yeah, that that's what I got to do. There it is. Okay, that is beautiful and smooth. Now, I don't know if you can see the difference at all, but I'm telling you, for $63, you need it. It's not a It's nice to have. It is a requirement cuz that flickering would drive you crazy. And it just looks so much better now. So, there it is. We've got to deal with the the pain in the A over there, and then we'll be done with light bulbs forever. Hey fellow shenanigans, if you are enjoying what you are seeing, why don't you click on these three dots at the bottom of any video and then find this heart. Click on that and hey, look at this. You can buy me a beer. You can use the slider to buy me 500 beers if you really like. But this is a way you can uh send thanks and I very much appreciate your support. If you do so, your comment will be highlighted and also I will give you a shout out. So, thank you for all your support.
Oh, and a quick side note in other shenanigans news, the circuit board that Jay the Neighbor brought over last episode for a hot tub that I replaced three relays on with a very troublesome board. It had a whole layer of crap on it that was very tough to fight through. The board worked. Customers happy. So, boom. And if you've been following along my fridge shenanigans, I replaced this control board on my fridge with a different one I bought off of eBay and that solved the problem. I was pretty sure it was a relay that was causing my lights not to work, but I don't have schematics and they don't provide schematics, so I had no idea which relay it could be until someone just said, "Hey, why don't you look at the back of the board?" We got F lamp, which means freezer lamp. R lamp for refrigerator lamp. So, I'm pretty sure if I replace this $2 part on this control board that will get this board back up and working 100%. But it's taking me like a month to kind of get to this point. So, I'm being stubborn and I'm going to replace this part. Whether I stick it back in my tenants fridge ever or not, probably not. But I'll have a spare on hand just in case and just have potential satisfaction of knowing that I had solved the problem for a mere $2. Well, it would have been if I didn't spend all the other money on all the other things I tried. Okay, so I just uh soldered the wire. I moved it from the lug to the butt. I did it on this one. I've already done it on that one. And look at that. It's working fine. So, if any other lamps go finicky on me, then I'll just uh deal with them at that time. But there we have it. It is actually official now. So, I was just kind of staring at this drop target and trying to figure out why this one is being a problem. Does look maybe like it's resting a little bit lower than the other one. So that could be my problem. But that one is definitely having some real trouble. The rest seem fine. And it's not a drop target mech I have ever worked on before, but you know, can't be that complex. This latches just fine once I do it just manually. But you know this bar, it's a big mech and it takes both solenoids to reset. And I don't know. I don't know what it is. So I think at the very least I'm just going to like clean up these faces, these grooves. Pop these up and clean these plungers. outside of the plungers does not really affect anything. So, cuz I don't necessarily want to just take this entire thing apart and clean it and put it back together again. I probably should have, but if I can fix this to work 100%, then no harm, no foul. Okay, it may not look like it, but I did a little bit of cleaning on these drop targets, the bottom faces, the ledges in here, uh, these plungers, like I said, these don't really come very clean on the outside for whatever reason. But I did discover that these particular sleeves here, they spin on this guy, on this guy, and this guy, it spins. And this one that's sticky or tricky. It does not spin. But then again, this one doesn't spin either. So, these ones are not free rolling like these guys are. But, you know, I don't think it matters. This thing goes in and out. Goes through just fine and dandy. And, you know, it doesn't take too much effort to latch it in place. It's a matter of if it's going to stay up or not. So, I think I'm just going to stick the playfield in and see what happens because, you know, that's not any more or less awkward than if the playfield is in the cabinet. So, I did uh clean up the cabinet with the vacuum one more time cuz I made a mess in here. And there was some crusties on the sidewall there that I cleaned up. And I don't know if you remember this just big splooge of heat sink compound that was there. I cleaned that up. So, things are looking a little bit better. And I think it is finally time to reunite the playfield with the cabinet. Okay, this is a momentous occasion. Actually, you know what? If you're watching me from that angle, you're just going to see my butt. I know you want to, but probably also want to see the playfield. So, let's go with that angle and uh Okay, just watch me struggle for a little bit and I'll be right back. Playfield and cabinet united for the first time since the restoration since the head was a rotting piece of mush. Well, let's not muck around, shall we? Just turn this thing on. And in the meanwhile, I'm going to throw on the back glass. Okay, back glass is on. Just booted up. Let's close the coin door. Kind of get a general idea. Let's get this thing out of my way. Get a general idea of how this thing is looking. Oo, that looks good. I got to take a photo of that right now. Boom. That may be my gallery photo. All right, this is uh where some extra fun stuff happens, too. I'm going to put on the apron. I'm going to put on the back plastics. There is that switch that I have to rewire back up that was in the way of the clamp. I feel like I'm going to have some struggles with these drop targets. I'm going to put in some brand new shiny balls. We're going to play our first freaking game of Gamatron. Okay. So, if I need to mess with these drop targets for several hours, then that ain't so bad. Actually, that's probably better than the way it was. So, now I can reattach this switch and then do the top side stuff. Okay, ball walker switch is installed. So, next thing on the docket is these playfield hooks. They are really warped. So, I'm going to remove them and straighten them out. Okay. I just used various different things like door frames and random corners and scroll saw edges to kind of hammer this straight. And I think that is going to work a lot better. So, I'll rinse and repeat for the other hook, reinstall, and then see if the playfield sits in nice. There's your before and there's your after. All right, let's see how these latches now fit. Okay. Need to just twist this guy just a little bit. But that's better. I think I hear someone. Allie. Hey, there you are checking out the Deadpool. Okay. Well, what do you think? It's better than the old one, eh? See, there's the shaker motor. There's the full original goodie bag in there. Yeah. What do you think? You approve? I think she approves. This apron is a POS. There are four stupid latches. One, two, three, four. And they all got to go in simultaneously. and synchronistically. And guess what? They don't. Well, I fought the good fight and I won. The apron is installed. You can see how they line up so nicely. Now, I actually had to um Dremel this edge a little bit out that way because this was not aligned properly. And you can't just move this latch over like a 16th. They just don't really work that way. I did loosen the screws and try and force it over a bit, but I also had to um this 90° angle wasn't so 90. It was like fanned out a little bit. So, I had to like actually it was pushed in a little bit. I had to like pull it back out for these uh both sides here. And once I did that and stuck in the two screws, it fits perfectly. So now let's see if we can No, we can't do this because we got to pull out the shooter rod and then do this. Look at that. We have apronage. All right, let's put on these back corner plastics. And I noticed that my surgery on the corner there was a success. So, few screws and uh one post Okay, that's basically done. This plastic I think is broken actually and it doesn't quite sit like it used to. So, I think I'll just sort of maybe dremel this a bit. I could drill a hole in there. Dremel that so it sits flat, screw it in, and that might be a good solution. Okay. in sort of the same vein that these two connect. Now these two connect and it's flush and I'm happy with it. Okay, I was just sitting here polishing my balls with some novice. See how nice and shiny these are? By the way, these are available at pinballledds.ca. These are Eddie Dazzio's again, but you do not want to use these on machines with magnets cuz these are like the ninja style balls and because of the extra shininess, they get magnetized. So, you can't really use these in any games with magnets. So, perfect candidates for Gameatron. But I remembered and realized that I actually do need to align and tighten my flipper bats and add some flipper rubbers before we can uh get to the play testing. So, I'll do that next. Okay, I got my flippers tightened and aligned, and I'm pretty happy with how that went. I just got these sort of light blue flipper rubbers on there. temporarily until I get my dark blue flipper rubbers. They do kind of match sort ofish, but I think dark blue will look better. And uh now I think we might see if we can play test this game. So, I'm going to set up the tripod and see how far we get before we run into uh issues probably with the drop targets. All right, this is a kind of a zoomed in view. I don't got the back glass or anything, but we're just focused on uh the playfield right now. So, let's see if we can uh garbatron this up for the first time. Uh I thought it was the other drop target that I was having troubles with. It's number three this time. We are officially live, though. So, let's just uh try and ignore that. And uh Oh, let's try a flipper or two. Feels good. All right, here we go. We are officially playing Gameron, boys and girls. We got to be like 90% there. And considering what we were starting with with the help of Kevin, it's been pretty uh monumental project. It was a little intimidating. all these connectors and wires everywhere. But, you know, one at a time, one wire at a time. Kind of just slowly started figuring things out, but Whoa. Oh, yeah. The inlanes spot the drop targets. Here we go. Let's try the ball walker back. That's a good start. I'm kind of in uh in shock right now. This thing is basically working. Couple minor glitches. I mean, it's got a reliable board set, so you know, I think our electronics are sound. Don't think I'm going to have to be worrying about any of the electronics. soundboard. It wasn't technically rebuilt, but you know, if it ain't broken, I ain't going to fix it. Look at that. Second walk for our ball walker. Let's uh try and hit this drop target. Oh, so the Wow spots a countdown target as well. Yeah, that guy. Number two this time. Upper drops seem to be pretty good. Okay, this is ball three. Let's uh try and get this M top right lane. We just need the R and the O. Oh, that's cute. Slipped through the oneway gate there. So, I still have um custom apron cards coming. Care of Bigfoot Bruce. I've got a coin door decal coming. Care of Bigfoot Bruce and spinner decals. The new pop bumper cap. Flipper rubbers. [Music] The final touches. So, what episode is this? Like maybe 14 or something. I really hope this does not go above 20 episodes because that means I will have encountered a hell of a lot more problems. Give me that free AR. No, no, I I'm not. No, not happening. I have to cheat. I have to cheat right now. We need to get multiball on our first play test game here. So, it looks like I need the R orange target on the left to get this multiball going. So, try and get that. I mean, for Flight 2000, all I literally do in tournaments is just go left spinner, right spinner. So, I never play for multiball. Uh, I do think you need to spell blast off. And then, um, hey, I see uh where I missed a putting on a rubber right here. Oh, just gave myself a free drop target. Okay, we'll add that to the list. That our target, eh, that's tight. Boom. Okay, now we got a new orange light on the playfield. Lights, all systems go. Fire missiles, lights after. Oh, number one lock. Number two lock. 30,000 points. Let's just hit the shot and see what happens. Not all systems go yet. Okay, I think we got to go uh drop targets next or inlanes. I could just shats my way to victory, I believe. Oh, no. This one is Oh, yeah. Spot countdown target. Let's try and shat it. Can you guys believe we're playing Gamatron? Can you believe we're not playing Gamatron? Oh, okay. So, the uh the green light is on the top left now. So, I must have spotted enough drops. But yeah, those two drops in the middle are being problematic. But the ball walker. Uh-oh. Oh, almost blew it. Is this it? Just savoring. Oh, the sound. I saw that happening. Just savoring the little audio track there. Okay, so we got some lights lit in the middle now. Oh, wait. They're just unlit. Oh, I collected the wow at the out lane. There's a wow in the middle right there. So once I collected in the out lane, that turned off. So now our left spinner is lit for 500 for each gamutron letter. That's kind of cool. That wasn't lit before. Now remember this is the exact That was horrible. Same code as flight 2000. 2000. Oh my god. No, no, no, no, no. Yes, I saved it. There's literally no difference in the code. So, there's no different rules. There's obviously different settings, but you know, some smart dude ran a binary code test or whatever it was called and deemed that the code is identical. So, I mean there is some custom code out there where it does like allow you to have speech maybe like I think it just it might even be just one word only. Might just be gamatron once you uh start multiball. Okay. So, haven't been paying a whole lot of attention to the middle drop targets. Are they pretty consistently screwed? Yeah. Number two. I haven't even, you know, really ripped that left spinner. Like that's that is uh the thing to do. I haven't done it once. So, I'm not going to rest tonight until that happens. And at the what rate that I'm shooting, might not be getting to bed anytime soon. Um, collected another. Wow, there we go. That was an accident, though. That doesn't count. So, I was noticing. Hey, there we go. So, is that free game? Is that points? I have to check my settings. Oh, that's another thing I got to do. Uh, that didn't count. is there are in the instructions the recommended settings. So, I should see what they recommend and mess with some settings. Um, what else I was going to say is that on the artwork by the red drop targets, it says uh where does it say? Oh, right here. All targets in one shot is 50,000 points. So if you sweep the drops, did you know that was a thing on Flight 2000? Oh, I hit the drop the spinner there. But that would have been pretty sweet if I swept the drops right on Q. You know, if you're a good player, you should never really miss the same shot more than twice cuz you uh you know, find it. That is not really the case right now. Come on. Woo. That was weird. Tell you that is way early. So, the flippers feel great. They're uh holding their position. They're not slipping on me. Fresh rubbers. Fresh rubbers. Oh my god. Still early. Wow. Oh, that drop didn't even register. I thought that I might be fighting with the ball walker mech of all things, but so far, other than a missing rubber and the drop targets and my aim, things are looking up. Oh, need a little more up on that one. Okay, I should try uh some tap passing. See how that works. Whoa. I wonder if it's harder to tap with the like high voltage switch contacts. Okay, I'm going later this time. Oh, it's pretty pathetic. Pretty pathetic. Oh, okay. I'm not quite ready to wrap this up yet cuz I am having fun. And I'm going to find that shot. It's the last thing I do. There it is. It's really late. See, that's where it feels like it should be. But oh, you know what I also didn't really notice is any ball hop. Like look at that. That's pretty freaking smooth, eh? See, it really just is not on the spot on the flipper that it's supposed to be. I can't get in the same spot. Hallelujah. Okay, I would say I found it now. Whether I can hit it again, who knows? But okay, it's all over. And I had the multiball ready. But we have a freaking Gamatron, boys and girls. Okay, I got to figure out what I'm going to do next. Ellie, aren't you excited? Gamatron is alive. Aren't you excited? Okay, so I'm starting to create my finetuning list here for the last 5%. Um, one thing was that the shooter spring was pretty strong and um I just felt like it was kind of smashing into that gate there unnecessarily hard. So, I put on a less strong shooter spring. And um Camtron, you're you're kind of getting annoying, but here is the new spring. And I put in a new green shooter tip. There's not really a lot of green on this machine, but whatever. It beats this. So, that is garbage. And now, let's check out this plunge. Oh, you want to check out the plunge, too, Ellie? All right, here we go. Yeah, that I like better. Okay, next on the list, I do find sometimes the ball stays up in that pop bumper area quite a bit. Uh, drop target number three was uh occasionally not registering. So, I cleaned that switch and um I clean number two just cuz there. Let's see. That makes a nice sound effect. Let's try number three. uh is good to go. And then uh this center target I found when you hit it with the flipper most of the times it would not register. So I added a capacitor to it. One of these guys. I can't remember the value, but they're used on most machines of this era for that reason. Um, target that is somewhat close to the flippers. It gets nailed hard needs a capacitor to help it register. So, let's try and boom. No. Yep. All right. So, that is good. And so fix drop targets obviously maybe put in a knocker. I got to mess with the settings. Missile switch. Oh yeah, that was the other thing. The one time it dropped in here and didn't register. Hey, just like that. Oh, that's weird. Why did that happen? I thought I fixed that. It's going to work nine out of 10 times. Okay. Well, that is still uh potentially needing addressing, but until it happens again, I'm not going to mess with it. And uh clean adjust drop target switches, especially number three. I can cross that off the list. Missile two switch done. Ball not kicking out into the shooter lane. That's happened a couple times. I'm not sure what's going on there. Center target not registering hard hits. That is resolved. Oh, you know what? I got to write down. Fix head lamp. It's kind of was like the light was fluttering from time to time. So, I like kind of pulled it apart and in doing so, I broke it. So, I think I um probably yonked on the wire a little too hard and need to get in there and try and fix it. So, I'm using this dumb little one that I had from before. Nowhere near as bright, but it's better than nothing. So, that is all I'm going to do for tonight. I will be dealing with uh Oh, you know what? Two things. One, I made a post on um the Gamatron thread here to see if anybody has any suggestions on the drop target issue. So, hopefully someone has run into that problem before and has a solve for me. And I just saw it right here. Check this out. If you are in the London area and or close by on November 16th, we are having a pinball sale at Fork River. There is going to be probably 20 to 30 pinball machines there. It is from Sunday at noon to 5:00 p.m. So, if you want to buy a pinball machine, all eras, all price ranges, then um come on down and check that out. So, I think on that note, I'm going to wrap this up. Uh Ellie is uh also ready to wrap things up, aren't you? Okay. Well, let's go upstairs, Ellie. All right, we'll see you guys on the next one. Garbatron is alive. Why doesn't it do the sound effect on the first player? Cuz drop target. That's dumb. Let's try that again. Garbatron is alive. [Music]