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Bringing 3 Classic Pinball Machines Back to Life! Panthera, Tri-Zone & Mars God of War!

Pinball Shenanigans·video·45m 13s·analyzed·Jul 16, 2026
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TL;DR

Restoration of three vintage System 80/6 classics with mixed electrical results and discovery of critical fuse/connector issues.

Summary

Mike Dus from Pinball Shenanigans documents restoration efforts on three classic machines: Tri-Zone (Williams 6, 1977), Mars God of War (System 80, 1981), and Panthera (System 80, 1980). He successfully gets Tri-Zone fully operational and Mars God of War mostly working after discovering incorrect fuse values and a missing connector. Panthera has persistent electrical issues with an overheating soundboard connector and non-functional solenoids, which he identifies and plans to resolve with a replacement soundboard on his next visit.

Key Claims

  • Tri-Zone is a Williams 6 with 7,250 units produced

    high confidence · Mike Dus states this while examining Tri-Zone at the garage

  • Mars God of War is System 80 with 5,240 units made, game number 666

    high confidence · Mike Dus provides this information while working on Mars God of War's electronics

  • Panthera is a 1980 Gottlieb System 80 with 5,200 units produced

    high confidence · Mike Dus states this while examining Panthera's specifications

  • Tri-Zone came with a Rotten Dog MPU 327 all-in-one replacement board instead of original MPU/driver board combo

    high confidence · Mike Dus identifies and describes the aftermarket board during backbox inspection

  • Mars God of War had incorrectly installed fuses, including a 35-amp fuse where an 8-amp should be, and a 10-amp where a quarter-amp should be

    high confidence · Mike Dus discovers and documents multiple fuse discrepancies during electrical troubleshooting

  • Panthera's soundboard connector was overheating and causing electrical smell; this was the primary issue preventing full operation

    high confidence · Mike Dus identifies the hot connector as the source of the burning smell after extended investigation

  • Panthera has been serviced by Dan Shadic and appears to have a swapped playfield from its original configuration

    high confidence · Mike Dus states he sold this machine to Shadic three years ago who did extensive work, including playfield swap

  • Shane Jackson of Maple Pinball said Tri-Zone is not a bad game and might be a good tournament game

    medium confidence · Mike Dus mentions this recommendation while testing Tri-Zone functionality

Notable Quotes

  • “I probably should have brought like a spare CPU because uh something burned up last time I turned it on”

    [name withheld pending review] @ Opening segment — Indicates prior electrical issues and need for specialized parts when restoring vintage machines

  • “Rob Vieira said, 'Hey man, you want this deal on this trizone?' I said, 'It's not too bad of a deal. It's got new displays and I think a new MPU.' So, I don't know. I just accepted delivery of it after seeing a few photos.”

    [name withheld pending review] @ Early in video — Shows how pinball transactions work in the community through personal networks and word-of-mouth

  • “Notice this game uses new programming methods. Thanks, Williams.”

    [name withheld pending review] @ During Tri-Zone inspection — Sarcastic acknowledgment of Williams' design choices in System 6 architecture

  • “This uh supposed to be 8 amp and it is 35 amps. Wow. Okay, that is uh solenoids. Great. That is a fire starter right there.”

    [name withheld pending review] @ Mars God of War fuse inspection — Critical safety issue discovery; demonstrates how dangerous incorrect restoration work can be

  • “I actually got this game for free like eight years ago and I had it in storage here forever and was planning on getting around to it and I never did. So, I sold it like 3 years ago to system 80 Shadic and he did a lot of the hard work.”

    [name withheld pending review] @ Panthera history section — Shows the secondary market activity and how machines circulate through the collector community

  • “It's a mix of artistic styles, wouldn't you say? Anyway, it's bright and colorful playfield.”

    [name withheld pending review] @ Panthera backglass commentary — Light commentary on aesthetic and artistic choices in vintage pinball artwork

  • “So, you just cut them all off. Okay. But look at this. I think that's a Dan Shadic thing. Good job.”

    [name withheld pending review] @ Panthera volume pot discovery — Acknowledges solution-oriented approach by experienced technician but also humorous about the brutality of the fix

Entities

[name withheld pending review]personRob VieirapersonShane JacksonpersonDan ShadicpersonCasey ButlerpersonTri ZonegameMars God of WargamePantheragameNightmare on Elm Streetgame

Signals

  • ?

    restoration_signal: Multiple safety issues discovered during restoration including incorrectly valued fuses (35A vs 8A solenoid fuse, 10A vs 0.25A connector), overheating components, rerouted electrical connections, and burned components requiring board replacement

    high · Mars God of War had dangerously oversized fuses; Panthera had overheating soundboard connector and blown solenoid fuse; both required investigation and parts replacement

  • ?

    restoration_signal: Vintage System 80 machines commonly receive modern component replacements including recap work, new MPU boards (Rotten Dog), power supply replacements, and LED conversions during restoration

    high · Tri-Zone had new displays, recapped power supply, Rotten Dog MPU 327; Panthera had new power supply, LED conversion, serviced driver boards

  • ?

    product_concern: Pre-existing incorrect fuse installations appear to be a recurring problem in vintage pinball machines coming into restoration, potentially from prior amateur repairs or inadequate service documentation

    high · Mars God of War had multiple incorrectly sized fuses (35A for 8A solenoid circuit, 10A for 0.25A); original fuse box contained wrong values and deteriorated components

  • ?

    community_signal: Trusted technician names (Dan Shadic, Brent Casey Butler) serve as community markers of quality work, indicating strong interpersonal trust networks in the pinball restoration community

    high · Mike Dus explicitly notes 'that's definitely good news' upon discovering Brent Casey Butler's service marks; references Dan Shadic's work positively despite complexity

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Transcript

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0:03
All right, another day, another dollar. I'm heading back over to the Daimus garage to try and get all these games working. I've got Nightmare and Elm Street set up and um pretty much good to go, but I still got to clean it up and check everything. I've got Mars God of War. I got to connect all that. See if I can get it working. Pantherra, I got to connect it. See if I can get that working. Oh, you know what? I probably should have brought like a spare CPU because uh something burned up last time I turned it on and I'm not sure what it was, but that's all right. I've got my thanks to fish my LEP to-do list. So, I will write down anything that I uh need to bring with me next time. And then I've got this trizone that I bought sight unseen. No, that's not necessarily true. I seen photos, but Rob Vieira said, "Hey man, you want this deal on this trizone?" I said, "It's not too bad of a deal. It's got new displays and I think a new MPU." So, I don't know. Um I He I just accepted delivery of it after seeing a few photos. First time setting it up yesterday. Barely looked at it. So, we'll see if that thing works. So, it will probably be Nightmare and Elm Street will be quick and easy. Try Zone shouldn't be that much trouble. Then maybe Mars God of War will be the next easiest and then Panther. That's what I'm guessing. Anyway, I'm going to go over there, try and uh get things as uh working as I can with the tools that I brought and then we will go from there. I'm Mike Dus and this is Pinball Shenanigans.
2:10
All right, made it over here. Got my bucket of tools. We'll see how far I can get with what I've got. So, like I said, I haven't connected the back box yet with all the wires and whatnot for well any of these three machines. So, I don't know. Maybe I'll start with Trizone cuz I think it'll be the path of least resistance. Let's take a quick peek at condition here. Uh we have a little bit of scotch tape trying to hold the delaminating together on the side. That's very leppy. What is this? A little attempt at a cheater button, but the button is gone. And at some point, it looks like someone did rubber this machine. Well, we know it got some love because new displays and it kind of looks like new pop bumper skirts, maybe bodies and caps. Who knows? Maybe a new plastic set. These appear to be in nice shape. Corners aren't broken.

  • “This board at some point has been serviced by Casey Butler. So, that's definitely good news.”

    [name withheld pending review] @ Panthera board inspection — Recognition of trusted technician's work in the community as a marker of quality service

    • Pinball Shenanigans
    content
    Daimus garagevenue
    Rotten Dog MPU 327product
    Williamscompany
    Gottliebcompany
    Maple Pinballvenue

    market_signal: Machines circulate through multiple owners and technicians in the collector community, with private sales enabled through personal networks; same machine can appreciate/depreciate based on service quality

    high · Panthera: Mike bought it free 8 years ago, sold to Dan Shadic, Shadic sold to customer, customer sold back to Mike at a profit; demonstrates active secondary market

  • ?

    operational_signal: Complex multi-machine restoration requires systematic approach: starting with simpler machines (Tri-Zone) before more complex ones (Panthera); parts inventory planning critical due to tool/parts limitations

    high · Mike prioritized machines by complexity; ran out of correct fuses mid-Mars restoration; needed to plan future visits with specific parts list

  • ?

    design_philosophy: System 80 machines (Mars God of War, Panthera) have more complex electrical harnesses and connector arrangements than earlier System 6, making restoration more error-prone and requiring careful documentation

    high · Multiple undocumented connectors found on both System 80 machines; Mars God of War had rerouted fuse clips and missing connector; Panthera had three rogue wires and jumpered switches

  • ?

    restoration_signal: Original soundboards in System 80 machines frequently fail, with overheating connectors and capacitor issues; rare sound chips (SC-01 in Mars God of War) are expensive to replace ($100+)

    high · Panthera's soundboard connector overheating and causing burning smell; Mars God of War has rare SC-01 chip; both machines have potential soundboard issues requiring attention

  • ?

    restoration_signal: Even machines with similar age/theme can have vastly different playfield conditions; original rubber compounds deteriorate unpredictably; LED conversions and playfield swaps common in restoration

    medium · Mars God of War had mint inner backglass and original rubber mix; Panthera had completely swapped playfield; both required rubber/component assessment

  • ?

    product_concern: Pinball machines frequently transported with balls left inside, risking switch activation and potentially damaging sensitive electronics; requires careful transport protocol

    medium · Mike noted balls left in machines during transport twice; Mars God of War's balls activated coin counter during transport; recognized as 'pinball 101' oversight

  • ?

    community_signal: Vintage pinball machine connectors and electrical configurations often lack clear labeling; restoration requires institutional knowledge held by experienced technicians rather than documentation

    high · Multiple unlabeled connectors on all machines; Mars God of War had mysterious disconnected volume pot; required hands-on investigation and prior experience to solve

  • ?

    restoration_signal: Solenoid circuits particularly susceptible to fuse issues and component burnout; incorrect fuse sizing can cause catastrophic failures; requires meticulous testing before full operation

    high · Mars God of War's 35A solenoid fuse (should be 8A) identified as fire hazard; Panthera's F6 solenoid fuse blown; both required careful fuse replacement before solenoid testing

    • 3:31
    So overall, like look at these lane guides. I don't think those are original. Those have been replaced. They look good. And playfield condition. Pretty nice actually. Backlash condition. Back glass. Not glass. Backlash. We do have some chafing cleavage going on here. That can happen in, you know, these temperatures. It is like a cooker today. I should check the actual temperature, but it is effing hot. Good thing. Got a little fan. That will help. So, yeah, we got some flaking of the back glass.
    4:20
    Overall though, not too shabby. So, let's start with this. I will uh connect everything up. and we'll turn it on. Notice this game uses new programming methods. Thanks, Williams. Anyways, this Trizone is a Williams system 6. They made 7,250 I think I read. So, that's a lot. So, here's where I'm at. Firstly, there would have normally been an MPU and a driver board, but I've got an all-in-one replacement Rotten Dog MPU 327, so that's quite the bonus. I do remember this from the photos. Looks like we've got NV RAM as well. Oh, no, that's a lie. We've got a coin cell style battery. We've got uh Check this out. Someone has recapped the power supply. At least these three. And this soundboard. New, new, new, new, new, new. Oh, okay. See this X here? I don't know if they put X there to say, hey, X marks the spot or X, don't use this connector. But I think it's more X marks the spot. So, I got to plug that in there. Uh, for the life of me, I can't find the other end of this connector. But this is good. This is good. These guys are good. Uh, oh, also here are the new pin score displays and master display. So, that's a nice bonus. Check it out. They put the uh
    6:28
    thing right there. It's called a thing. PS8,000-P. It kind of looks like from Marco or maybe just pin score directly. Uh, one thing I don't know is what the f these things are and where they might go. I don't see another end to these. So, I got to figure this out. I got to figure this out. And I got to plug this in. But all in all, it's looking good. Back here. There's a little fuse description here. And this one on the bottom left. General illumination 20 amp. That is this guy here. And that is a heavy duty looking fuse. I'm assuming if someone went through all the trouble to recap boards, they probably have the correct fuse values in here. I would hope. Anyway, I think I'm going to have to lift the hood to try and find where this goes. And hopefully these aren't needed cuz I don't see the males for those. I stuck my arm in there quite a bit. But look what I found. It was here all along. All right. Now for the moment of truth. Let's turn this on. See what blows. Oh, what? Nothing. Oh, did I not turn on my power bar? Let's do that first and try that again.
    8:20
    H the master display player one. Player one's missing a digit. And maybe that's where these things come in potentially. Am I missing a wire? Is it down in the body somewhere? Anyway, I got to at least throw in a ball. Maybe it wants a ball. Okay, I threw in a ball. And just in case this works. Yeah, I didn't think so. Okay, so apparently all I had to do was turn it off and on. And now we've got a track mode.
    8:57
    It's kind of weird. I don't know if it needed the ball in there to boot up, but Oh, look at that. Got all of our displays. All I did was put in the ball, turn it off, and turn it on. Okay. I like when fixes are that easy. So, let's hit the start button and see what happens. Oh, we have no credits, right? Okay. Uh, that didn't seem to do much. Or it is adding credits, but we have no sound. Oh, 16 credits. Okay, got no sound. Let's try this one more time. Oh, no adding credit sound. Okay, that's fine. It's too old for that. This is like 1977. Okay. Uh, let's set up the tripod. Okay. I can't exactly take off the glass just yet till I move stuff around. So, there might be some glare. Yep. Some very, very horrible glare from the back box cuz I don't have the back glass in. But this is just a quick little play test. I see that the drop target in the middle has popped up. That was down. The rest are up. So, that's good. All right. Here we go. Try zone. I honestly don't even know if I've ever played this game.
    10:30
    I think Shane Jackson of Maple Pinball said that it's not a bad game. Might be a good tournament game.
    10:58
    Let's go for uh middle drop. Oh, I hit all drops. So maybe this era they don't pop back up or one of the switches isn't working. Right orbit shots kind of fun.
    11:20
    That was a good sound. Oh, I like the spinner sound. everything is pretty darn functional. You got to like it when that happens. Let's try a another ball here. Maybe a bit different of an angle. See if that's any better. Probably not. It just looks like looks horrible, really. So, I'll make it quick. I just wanted to test the functionality of things and I haven't noticed anything not working. Wow, that one sound is obnoxious compared to the others. What about the left slingshot? I haven't seen that yet. Right sling I just saw works for sure. I think all the pop bumpers are working. Yep. Look like they might need to be tightened up a little. You're a little jiggly. Oh, this could be a shotsing game. Let me I just want to see the left slingshot and then I'm happy. Okay, I got to just flail. Come on. There we go. All right,
    12:45
    that's pretty good. I think it's time to move on to uh let's see, Mars God of War.
    12:58
    So, I put the back glass back in and thought, I'm going to play one more game before I move on. Plunge ball hit both flippers at the same time and it reset. I spoke too soon. Boo. Okay. Mars God of War time. Got Lee System 80 widebody. I had one of these before and did a thorough shop job on it inside and out, top to bottom, electrified it. I beautified it. I LEDified it. And it is a looker. Got the uh double back glass infinity thing. And often times the inner back glass is completely roached cuz it gets so hot in there and it melts the paint right off. And this back glass is mint. And the playfield too is in pretty nice shape. Look at that. All original pop bumper caps. Don't know about drop target status, but they all look red. So, it's a start. Oh, we got a busted rubber, old rubber, newer rubber, even newer rubber, very old rubbers. We got a mix all original flipper bats, so that's kind of cool. And the cabinet, it's better than the one I had. Not too shabby. All right, I got to remove the inner glass to access all the connectors and then I shall be back. All right, there's a few more connectors on this system. Got some hackery going on here.
    14:56
    Ground wire. This original driver board looks okay. original MPU. The display connector is a little bit off. We got a battery that is at least off the board. The original battery is gone. Original power supply. Whoa, there's some leopardy going on here, especially with this. That's amazing. I might have possibly a refurbed one of these power supplies. If so, I think that could potentially be in order. Uh, where does that go? Got the soundboard. These soundboards have a chip on it. Is it like a SC-Z1 or something? I think it's this guy right here. SC01.
    16:01
    If you were somehow missing the soundboard, these are pretty hard to find. Think there is a reproduction available, but it might set you back a 100red bucks. So, rare chip. Doesn't look like anything's been done to the soundboard. Original caps. So, well, I'm going to connect it and see what happens. Oh, quick little side note. got, you know, had a numbering system for all of their games and their game ROMs. And uh Mars God of War happens to be number 666. And you can see that here and you can see that on the soundboard. So yeah, this game came out in 1981. Got made 5,240 of them. So, that's a decent run for sure. Uh, someone was kind enough to bust out the label maker and label connectors, even though some of them are labeled, but they do fall off. So, it is uh handy indeed. So, I'm down to these last two connectors here, which I have deemed go to, you know. Oh, who's calling? All right, I probably should get this cuz it might be important. One moment. Okay, that was either spam or wrong number, whatever. Parent parent service manager for a gas company and was wondering about the survey I was doing, which I was not. So, sounds fishy. There's like this connector here. Look, I don't know why this is going on here, but I believe that that is correct. And, you know, hopefully nothing blows up, but we'll find out shortly. I think I've got everything. So, let's turn it on. All right. I was just looking for the balls, but I think they're actually in the machine. I didn't take them out when transporting. It's pinball 101, boys and girls. Oh, look. There's one right there. Okay, there. This is what a three ball game. You can get a two ball multiball or a three ball multiball. All right, here we go. Let's uh turn it on and then go have a look at the boards. Oh, let's uh plug it in. I'll be right back. It's not plugged in yet. Well, it is now. Okay, let's try that again. Here we go.
    19:04
    three of five displays. Wait, only four displays. And it should technically be kicking that ball out, I would think. Where's the credit display? I had this game. I own this game. Oh, yeah. There it is. Right. Uh, okay. Well, I don't think anything's really going to happen here. Oh, this is good. This is also good. Let's see if I can Ooh. I hear a noise. This This is familiar. There is a coin counter in here. And uh very aftermarket. Check it out. I'll hit the button and we can watch and hear it count up here. I'm going to hit the switch.
    20:00
    I'm adding. So, we're at 364300. So, 25 credits I just added by one click. Look at this. This is some good handiwork here. Cap on cap. Oh, wa. That might be our problem. What is that fuse do? Uh, says right here. Let's see. That is F two. No. Well, that is
    20:41
    pretty rough. So, that's F1. And that is backbox lighting, which we've got backbox lighting. We just Oh, I must read that wrong. Cuz we have all our backbox lighting. Anyway, uh can we start a game now? Didn't think so. Okay. I will uh tinker around a little bit. And there's a fly that just keeps tickling my calf nonstop and he must die. All right, I got the hood up. This playfield's so heavy. You need this, you know, two prop rod system. Uh just noticing some more leopard going on here. electrical tape. Tape tape tape tape.
    21:37
    Uh, well, at least all the feet look like they're there on the drop targets. They're often broke off. I don't remember this board on my Mars God of War. But I discovered two things. Check this out. This fuse clip has been rerouted over here. So, they put a new fuse clip here. Oh, that's Holy That is hot. Um, that is probably not good. But that is new fuse clip. So, that's why we have backbox lighting. That's just weird. That shouldn't be I shouldn't like fry my skin off. Uh, the other thing I discovered which might be a problem or a solution, there is one connector back there that I missed. So, maybe that's for our solenoids. We shall find out shortly. Okay, this connector is pretty warm. This connector is pretty warm. I don't like any of it. So, I turned the machine off. I don't know what is going on there. Maybe it's over amped and a few should be blowing, but it's not. So, I'll have to check on that. But, uh, it's definitely not cool. But, at the very least, I'm going to plug in this connector. Where does it go? Oh, and also on a side note, a good one. I heard the attract modeling I am supreme call out. So, we got sound. Uh, yeah, there's our connector. Okay, connector is connected. I did remove the balls. Let's stick them back in and hope that when I turn on the machine, we hear them fire into the trough. Also, I did receat player one display. And, uh, I think it's good to go now. So, let's see what happens. up down ramp flap moves. But that happened before. Player one display is looking better. Oh, look. Credit display is working. Lights are working. Attract mode's working. We have credits. I don't want to keep this game on too long until I figure out what's going on. Got some glitchiness going on on those displays. But before something blows, let's just see if we can start a game.
    24:19
    Balls are kicking down. Drop targets are resetting. We got sound. We got flippers. We don't really have pop bumper action.
    24:32
    Oh, we do. They just need to be adjusted. Look at that. Slings are working.
    24:44
    Displays are going crazy. That's a good start, but I am going to check on all the fuse values before I leave this thing turned on much longer. Yeah, first uh yeah, first fuse I pulled the 15 amp supposed to be 10. This is the box that came with the Mars God of War. And um I think the number of fuses in here is somewhat telling. That one don't look too good. Here's the original battery, too. Oops. That is garbage. Spare shooter tip. All these are the these the 455 Whoa, very crusty. 455 blinker bulbs. These are not supposed to be in this machine. Yeah, look at that. N5.
    25:43
    I don't know what that is, but uh these are pretty much garbage as well. These fuse values are all over the place and I'm trying to like scrge and find correct values, but this one takes the cake. This uh supposed to be 8 amp and it is 35 amps. Wow. Okay, that is uh solenoids. Great. That is a fire starter right there. Here's how you tell what these fuse values are. You got to decode it like this. Boom.
    26:33
    So, this 10 amp fuse here. Check this out. That was here supposed to be a one quarter amp fuse. It's 10 amps. Holy hell. Okay, that's about as far as I'm going to get on Mars God of War cuz I didn't bring my fuses. And I need two 8 amp fuses and a quarter amp. I did check the primary fuse and this fuse and they check out and I did enough shuffling here to make this a 10 amp and this 7 and 1/2 amp is actually an 8 amp which is a little over but it's good enough and should be fine. So moving on to Pantherra now let's take a quick peek at Pantherra before I connect it. This is interesting. Maybe a drink holder. Uh, I actually got this game for free like eight years ago and I had it in storage here forever and was planning on getting around to it and I never did. So, I sold it like 3 years ago to system 80 Shadic and he did a lot of the the hard work. got it up and running. He actually swapped out the entire playfield. This is a new populated playfield, not the one that was originally in here, got it all working, sold it to a customer. Customer had it for a couple years, and then uh put it up for sale, and I ended up buying it back. So, this is my old Pantherra with the system 80 shadic shop job. And it is uh lual automatic. I need that plaque for my collection. I can't get that with my bare fingers. Uh anyway, this is a 1980 Gotautle system 80. They made 5200 of these, so it's pretty popular. I mean, got a cool chick on the back glass with some panthers that probably sold the machine right there. She's scantily clad with some like, you know, just sort of drawn on like it's like kind of like realism except for certain parts like the helmet and the bra shields. Like here, she's like all kind of realistic. And then that's just like poop. Just draw that right on there. Same with her attire here. Sword there. Her boots. The boots kind of look not as bad, but it's a mix of artistic styles, wouldn't you say? Anyway, it's bright and colorful playfield. wide body again and it's actually a decent game. It's got uh all memory drops so believe you know 4 812 extra solenoid so it remembers the status of your drop targets and resets them from ball to ball to where you were progresswise. You got a Panther spinner, Panther pop bumper caps, which are, you know, custom to this machine only. There's the remains of the other pop bumper cap. Dan fully LED this machine. So, it came back to me in much better condition and I didn't have to do all the hard work. But, uh, I know when I turned this on at the customer's house, it started smelling not a good smell. So, I'm going to have to figure out what that was all about. Anyway, Pantherra. Pretty cool. Let's connect it and see what happens. Okay, so someone did some color coding on this one. We got blue dots, green dots, red dots. Oh, we got yellow on all the chips. Wonder if this is Dan Shadex's work like marking them as good or whatever. Oh, this has been repinned. That's a new connector. And brand new Rotten Dog power supply, so that's good. Uh, this chip has been replaced. Panther is game number 652. Not as cool as Mars God of War. And look, I'm even remembering to plug this connector in this time. All right. So, oh yeah, this has the uh just soundboard. So, it doesn't have that rare chip, which is like a speech chip um that Mars God of War has. So, we got no speech on this one, but I don't see any signs of burnage
    31:52
    yet. So, whatever I fried uh still yet to be found. Hopefully, it wasn't the power supply. And hopefully Dan checked all the fuses on this one and they are correct. So, I think I'm about ready to turn this on. All right, I had the back box door closed. Then I realized I really should um keep it open so I can see any activities that may or may not be happening. Hey, look at this. This looks like maybe a Dan Shhatock thing. Uh, no, it's original. I think feels original, but definitely didn't fade like the other paperwork. But that's all the information I need almost right there. It's a lot of lot of good info. Anyway, and looks like I transported this with the ball in. Very leppy yet again. Uh this time I'm going to remember to plug it in. One moment. All right, here goes nothing.
    33:04
    General illumination. Nice LEDs. We've got blinkage. Let's turn off the flash. Can kind of see. The displays are so dim. Every single one of them except for the credit display.
    33:27
    Interesting. So, something going on there. We've got a track mode though. Hm.
    33:37
    I don't think that uh the game is going to start though. What do these lights say? Oh, I'm smelling it. Electrical smell happening again. So,
    33:56
    I think uh I probably should turn it off. See if I can feel for any
    34:14
    Soundboard. I don't want to touch. I'm afraid to touch things. Going to burn.
    34:26
    Well, something is cooking. I just don't know what. Maybe it's inside the cabinet. We'll have a look. All right, I got the hood up on this one. Same Playfield system.
    34:41
    And she's a little rusty inside. I don't know what's going on here. We got three rogue wires. Oh, that's the volume pot. Why is that disconnected? Honey, can you turn down that pinball machine? It won't go down. So, you just cut them all off. Okay. But look at this. I think that's a Dan Shhatock thing. Good job. Changed the uh main capacitor. And look at this. These fuses look new. So, I think they are probably correct. Uh, we got a little leopardy going on over here. Not sure what problem that is trying to solve. Like a switch not working and they're jumpering it to another switch. I think those are diodes for switches. Xener diodes. Tilt Bob was off, so I just installed that. Not much else going on around here. So, I'll have to keep investigating. Well, this ain't exactly cool.
    36:11
    So, that's going on the LE to-do list. So, I'm going to turn the machine back on and sniff around and feel around. But, I just discovered this. This board at some point has been serviced by Brent Butler. So, that's definitely good news. Okay, I just turned it on for like 3 4 minutes and these two chips here getting pretty warm and so is this one and the sound ROM chip.
    36:48
    So, I don't know what is going on. Soundboard looks serviced. This looks like a new uh cap. Also, the pop bumper driver boards under the playfield, they've been serviced. I highly doubt, but the sound Oh, that connector. Oh, wa. Wow. Oh my god. That's it. I think that connector is hot. What the f is going on there? That's weird. So, maybe the soundboard is frying. I think we found our problem. Why is that happening? Okay,
    37:35
    that's sort of good news cuz I found the issue and I think I have another one of these soundboards. So, I feel like we should be safe to unplug this and proceed. So, I better put that on the list. Okay, I've got the machine turned on. This is disconnected. It's not getting hot, unfortunately. Still feel some heat on these chips. Don't love it. This one especially. So, before something else blows up, see if I can actually uh start a game. All right. Do I got credits? The displays are slowly coming back to life. Yeah, I got six credits. So, see what happens.
    38:37
    Almost looks like the game has started. But got no solenoids. I think that might be what has happened. Let's see if the flipper works.
    38:50
    No, I don't think anything's working. Oh, wait. Switches. They're a little slow to react cuz I'm going so quick.
    39:06
    But we are playing a game technically just with no solenoids and no sound. But look, we do have points. So that's something. Let's check on this chip again here.
    39:24
    It's warm. If you know, let me know if this is supposed to be a little bit warm or if that's just perfectly fine and dandy. This guy here is fine. But yeah. All right. I guess I'll check on some fuses. Okay. The um F6 fuse was blown, which is solenoids. I have a 5 amp slowb blow fuse. So maybe if I turn on the machine, it might just blow it right away. We'll find out. Let's turn off this light, too. and we can see. All right. Are you going to blow? Why did you blow in the first place? Do you think this has anything to do with the soundboard shenanigans? H doesn't appear to have blown. So, let's try again. Those LEDs are bright. Oh my god, this display is doing a little dance. Last digit. Anyways, so let's hit the start button and see if anything happens.
    40:42
    We have life, more life until the solenoid fuse blows. Let's try each solenoid twice. Then we'll know what is straining that fuse.
    41:01
    So now if I do this again and it doesn't work. Okay, that's not the issue. Pop bumper. Ooh, what's going on here? This pop bumper is not working. Okay, that could be suspect. Let's try these guys.
    41:38
    Maybe it's a switch thing not registering. Okay, so we got to check on this. Check on this. What about this guy? What about this flipper? Is that going to break everything? I don't think that's the soloite fuse, though.
    41:59
    coming up. Okay, it's somewhat telling. We're We're getting there. We got score happening. Things are happening, but uh I'm going to wrap up very shortly. So, um I'll be back in a minute to wrap up. Okay, so I went under the hood. I added some screws to that flipper bracket from my old parts black hole playfield. So OG screws and everything. This switch was stuck closed and this was too open. So let's try this pump now. What?
    42:44
    That surprises me. Might be the pop uper driver board. Then let's try these guys.
    42:51
    Going to come up now. Going to come up now. No, they did not come up. Are you going to come up? Okay. Something wrong with this. Something wrong with that. Could be a fuse. Could be switch. Could be solenoid. Could be transistor. Could be pop bumper driver board. Not really sure yet. But everything else is sort of working minus the sound. So I will bring a sound board maybe tomorrow. But I think that is it for today. Never did get around to Nightmare on Elm Street, but that requires the least amount of work. But uh it was a decent little dent in the workload today. So we'll see you on the next one. Bonus footage.
    43:47
    It kind of works. So, before I go, let's uh flap the flippers once or twice, or flip the flappers, however you say it. Uh-oh.
    44:02
    Pinball's just a little less fun with no sound. Look at that. Especially when there's nothing uh going on shotwise either. Hey, there we go. Oh, look at that. The inlanes spot that colored target. I forgot this is kind of like countdown on steroids
    44:28
    with a cooler theme. Of course, you got Panther chick. What do you got on countdown? Some like astronaut dude. This chick is way cooler.
    44:42
    So, I think I'll bring a soundboard tomorrow, hook up that volume pot, and like I said, my goal is to get these to be functional projects. Leave some uh something to do for the next guy. I want to at least get them somewhat playable. So, darn near achieved that. Just need to get some sound.