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Pinball Repair w/ Gavin EP.1

Dead Flip·video·1h 9m·analyzed·May 8, 2017
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TL;DR

Expert T2 pinball repair walkthrough: blown fuse traced to bad capacitor, switch matrix rewired, connectors cleaned.

Summary

Gavin, an experienced pinball technician, walks through systematic diagnosis and repair of a Terminator 2 pinball machine with unknown history. Starting from a blown line fuse, he methodically isolates the cause (a failed capacitor on the sound board), tests the power supply and driver boards, identifies a broken switch matrix wire causing top lane failures, and begins connector replacement and rewiring work. The session demonstrates professional troubleshooting methodology and reveals common WPC-era repair issues.

Key Claims

  • Domestic machines are rated 115 volts 60 hertz; overseas machines use different voltage/frequency (100V 50Hz for Japan, 230V 50-60Hz for Europe)

    high confidence · Gavin explaining how to identify whether a pinball machine was built for US or international markets based on power specifications

  • Bridge rectifier acts as surge suppressor; if voltage spikes above 135-140 volts, it triggers a short that causes the line fuse to blow, protecting the rest of the game

    high confidence · Gavin explaining the function and purpose of the bridge rectifier component in the power supply

  • WPC games use a color-coded switch matrix system: green wires with color tracers for columns, black wires with color tracers for rows, following ROYGBIV resistor color code order (brown=1, red=2, etc.)

    high confidence · Gavin explaining the Williams Electronics standardized switch matrix color coding system used across WPC games

  • Solenoid circuits in WPC games typically use blue and violet wires with color tracers; all eight solenoids in one bank share a common fuse, so if one locks and blows the fuse, all seven other coils in that bank stop working

    high confidence · Gavin explaining solenoid wiring and fusing architecture to diagnose why multiple coils might fail simultaneously

  • Terminator 2 always runs a calibration sequence when batteries are dead or removed; the gun must recalibrate multiple times (approximately 10 iterations) each time the game is powered on without NVRAM backup

    high confidence · Gavin and host discussing T2 behavior and noting that NVRAM chip installation would eliminate need for battery pack

  • Battery corrosion on WPC sound boards and connectors can cause slow, ongoing metal corrosion even if components appear to still work, eventually leading to flaky connections and missing switch rows/columns

    high confidence · Gavin explaining why corroded connectors need replacement despite potentially still functioning; alkaline material continues corroding without neutralization

  • Williams used tri-feucon connectors for general illumination circuits to provide three times the surface area and better current transfer compared to standard single-sided pins

Notable Quotes

  • “If that was the case, you could put another fuse in there and either it would blow it instantaneously or it would power up. But the thing is, with this not there, any voltage spike you get would damage anything further on the game.”

    Gavin@ 4:29 — Explains the critical protective function of the bridge rectifier and why identifying component failures in proper sequence matters

  • “The bridge rectifier is basically a surge suppressor. It makes sure you have excellent power. It's a delicious device.”

    Gavin@ 3:29 — Humorous but technically accurate description of the bridge rectifier's function; 'delicious' is a playful mispronunciation correction moment in the stream

  • “Once the magic smoke gets out, it's really hard to put it back in.”

    Chat participant paraphrased@ 31:11 — Common electronics repair phrase referring to the smell/smoke from failed capacitors; indicates community familiarity with catastrophic capacitor failure

  • “Harry Williams uses black and green for switches... It's the same as the color code for resistors. ROYGBIV.”

    Gavin@ 25:07 — Demonstrates how standardized color coding across Williams machines makes troubleshooting systematic and teachable

  • “If one of these locked on and blew a fuse, the other seven coils wouldn't work as well. It would blow one of these fuses up top.”

    Gavin@ 26:44 — Explains diagnostic logic for identifying which solenoid bank is affected by a blown fuse

  • “I usually don't ban people in my chat at all... If you have any questions, make sure they're in all caps so I know what to ask.”

Entities

GavinpersonDead FliporganizationTerminator 2gameUnderground RetrocadeorganizationWilliams ElectronicscompanyEmporium Logan SquareorganizationGalaxy WorldorganizationHalf AcrecompanyTwo Brothers Brewerycompany

Signals

  • ?

    community_signal: Dead Flip is producing educational live-stream repair content with hands-on troubleshooting, demonstrating commitment to pinball community knowledge-sharing and operator/enthusiast support

    high · Gavin systematically explains each diagnosis step, discusses standardized wiring systems, and provides practical repair techniques while chat asks clarifying questions

  • ?

    product_concern: Terminator 2's playfield has suffered significant wear but remains structurally playable; general illumination and switch matrix issues appear to be age/maintenance related rather than design flaws

    medium · Playfield described as 'dirty and worn but these were always played' and highly popular in locations; design uses robust standardized components but requires active maintenance

  • ?

    product_concern: WPC-era machines show recurring issues: capacitor degradation on sound boards, battery corrosion on RAM backup connectors, broken switch matrix wires from playfield wear, and disorganized previous repair attempts

    high · T2 machine exhibits blown capacitor, corroded battery pack contacts, broken green-black switch wire, and messy playfield wiring from prior repairs

Transcript

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0:00
Oh, by the way, Internet, exclamation point Gavin in chat, please. We love you, Jack. Thanks. Ask Gavin. If you have any questions, just let me know. All right. Well, I'm curious. What is the backstory of this machine? Ooh. Well, so the gentleman from Underground Retrocade who owned the stars that I shopped out, picked up stars, dropped this off, and said, unknown condition. Okay, so he picked it up someplace. I got no story on it. All right. He was concerned there was no keys. We got keys. Okay. That's a plus. So everything looks in order. I think when you last pulled this thing apart briefly, I didn't plug it in, but I can go plug it in if you want. Now, since we don't know anything about the game, we don't want to plug it in yet. Excellent. So I can tell the plug's been changed. Cool. I'm kind of curious. was a domestic machine, so at least that part's correct. Domestic? Yeah. So that means it was built for the United States. It was not sent overseas to Japan or Germany or England or anything like that. And how can you tell that? Because it's rated 115 volts, 60 hertz. Cool. If it was rated at like 100 at 50, that'd be for Japan. Like 230 at 50, 60, somewhere around there, that's usually Europe. It also has a service outlet on the inside. service outlet.
1:28
It's just what you plug your soldering iron into. On this box here. I plugged this in right when I got it. I'm like, yeah, who cares? We'll just see what's happening. Nothing happened, but I was able to plug something into the service box here, and it got powered. Okay.
1:44
First thing I do is look for the line fuse then, and see that it's clearly blown. So you just pulled that out of that box? Yeah. That's the very first fuse in the game. everything goes through that. So since that is blown, I'm curious to see what caused that to blow. I'll show you where that came from here. Internet. Sorry. I'm going to scoot around here.

high confidence · Gavin explaining preferred connector types for playfield general illumination during repair work

Host (appears to be Jack)@ 5:58 — Demonstrates community-oriented moderation and engagement strategy for live repair content

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2:12
I'll try to make this as unobtrusive as possible. Please don't take photos. Yeah, so this is the filter box. The line cord comes in from the back machine, goes into here, and you've got your little fuse block there, which is the line fuse, locks in, so that's walled in. It goes through a line filter, helps suppress any noise. You've got a service outlet on there, so you put your side out. Out from there goes the transformer. That big old box right there. this box to this big coil of wire. I like it. So it's 115 volts going in. All these different wires here are for different countries and you jumper this for different countries. This is the USA jumper for standard wires. That's crazy. I didn't know that. Yeah, if this was for Europe there would be only one jumper instead of going from across here it would go across this side. Oh dang. So this half would be gone and these two would be together. That's how it cuts the voltage in half going into the transformer and you get the voltage you need. So we're going into the box. Yeah, I want to see if the barista is blown on this thing, which could be the case. What a barista does is it's basically a surge suppressor. It makes you excellent coffee. It's a delicious, darn good coffee. A barista.
3:47
No, it's with a V though. Oh, right. Are you guys doing the hero cake internet? Just let me know. Mr. Microphone's back there. Oh yeah, we should do that.
4:00
I'm already learning a lot. This is awesome. Cool. That's the point, guys. We've got the little box here.
4:08
This would be the barista right there. That little green thing? Let me zoom in on that real quick. It is not physically damaged? Oh, that little round green thing. Right, with the two red insulated wires. Cool. Usually when this is bad, you will visually see it bad. It will be blown apart. It will be charred. Sometimes the wires are off entirely. If that was the case, you could put another fuse in and either it would blow it instantaneously or it would power up. But the thing is, with this not there, any voltage spike you get would damage anything further on in the game. Oh damn, okay. That's what the whole point of this is. It gets above like 135, 140 volts, that turns into a short and causes this fuse to blow which protects the rest of the game. Awesome. Gavin's a little low. Might be a little closer to Kevin, but we're as close as we can be. I'll move that in a little bit. Alright. Yeah, we're gonna, we're also gonna try to cut this into a video for YouTube later so don't just have a random live thing. I'm just going to screw that back together.
5:22
Did you turn it on? No, okay. You power-cycled the game. Blow it instantaneously. That's right, boys. Gavin Hype, indeed. Yeah, it would be like a flashbulb when that thing would be power cycled.
5:53
You know what, Big Papa? I don't know. I don't know why someone would have been banned. That's weird. I usually don't ban people in my chat at all.
6:06
Yeah, exactly, Lange. If you have any questions, make sure they're in all caps so I know what to ask. All right. So let me grab a replacement fuse.
6:19
I can already tell there's a lot. This is going to need a lot of love once this thing's running. Yeah, Terminator 2's usually got a lot of play. A whole lot of play. Did you check the TCP IP connection? Yes. The router in the game has been worked. So I put the line fuse in. Yeah, Big Papa, go ahead and unban them. This is an 8 amp regular blow fuse that goes for that. It should say right there, 8 amp. The ones in Europe are 5 amp slow blows because they're using half as much voltage, or twice as much voltage, half as much current. So now we can plug this thing in. We have an outlet nearby. I have extension cables. I don't know. I have... actually I got something. There's one spot back there. There's this thing. We got all those cables. I got cables for day bowls. That's cool. That way it's a little bit of extra protection. Yep, that's fine. And make sure this guy is... Is this on? Alright. Get ready for the electrocution. Another thing I like to keep in my toolbox is just a power checker based on the Get ready for the electric u-shape.
7:53
Another thing I like to keep in my toolbox is just a power checker, basically a wall tap thing. It puts in 120 volts. You've got your three lights on there, two ambers, one red. And on there it tells you the whole code of what it's supposed to see. I've never seen one of those before. Yeah, you can find them in Home Depot stores or Lowe's or typical hardware places. Put that in and it should light up. I've got the two orange, which is good, which means the ground is active and you have a hot wire going in. So right now, doing that gets us nothing. Pulling the fuse out, we're still good there, so it's not the brister that's bad. Okay. You can just confirm that. It's not the barista. So what I like to do is just work my way down the line. So the next thing would be the transistor, or transformer, excuse me. I think I saw the lights pulse there. And then plug that in. Let's see. That still looks okay. Now you're playing with power. Yes, we are. All right. So we got the lights pulsing. Yeah, cool. I mean we're basically done with this guy now. So we know that works. Yeah. Cool. Do you need to discharge anything before working or use a wrist ground strap? Not necessarily. I've never really had any issues with that on these. When you get to the circuit boards, they can definitely be more delicate. As far as the stuff down underneath the playfield, it's pretty robust. I have not encountered any issues with static electricity and components on the bottom of the play field. Sure. All right. Next thing I'm going to do is go up into the back box here.
9:47
And where the transformer comes in, I am going to unplug a couple of these plugs. Yeah, T.O., go ahead and ask, man.
9:58
So. If the Internet doesn't sound great, let me know what the problem is, guys. Thank you. And I'm unplugging the AC power ends to the dot matrix controller, to the sound board, and to the driver board, which is where it converts all the AC voltages into DC. Awesome. The reason why I'm doing that is in case, if I plug something else in and then the line fuse blows again I know what it is. I don't remember if this is on or off. How do you know where the AC slots are? That does come from experience. The wiring diagram and the manuals will show you. you in there they're pretty clear about that the service manual for it so that is on I can actually very faintly hear the hum the 60 Hertz home so we got power going through there now it's off so we didn't blow the line fuse yet Tio says, I have a T2 at home. VUK underneath the endo skull is weak. It doesn't fire the ball all the way up the feed. Any usual suspects?
11:30
There's a few different things to look at there. A lot of times if it's not getting all the way up, it's alignment. Sure. Like it's not kicking the ball clearly up into the habitrail. Another thing you want to make sure is you have all the parts to the VUK assembly because it's a multiple piece assembly where it has this little plunger that comes up into a cup on the bottom that has this little flat plate and then there's a spring that goes between the two and that flat plate is what pushes down on the y switch tells it okay the ball is here i'll show you a little bit more in depth when we get to that part though but all right so we got the power off i'm going to plug in the power driver board here a cracked Coil sleeve, yeah, that could be. Yeah, very well. Or a missing coil sleeve. There you go. Sometimes people don't realize you need those. That is very true. The flat plate breaks a lot. There you go. All right, so on the power driver board here, it's what, J101 and J102. These are two of the ACs in. So you get, like, the one for the 5 volts line, and you get the one for the 12 volts, and you get the 20 and the 50. And we got another one over here, which is for the 12 volts. I believe this was the 12 volts unregulated. There's 12 volts regulated and 12 volts unregulated. So like the unregulated would go for stuff that doesn't matter, that it has to be such a clean voltage, typically optos, ticket mechs, or something like that. The ones that do require the clean 12 volts go to the CPU board for the LM339s and the switch drivers, and get more technical. I'm going to plug that in. It's possible to move the mic to the other side of the cab. Are you not hearing Gavin or is he too loud? That's my question.
13:15
Can you not hear Gavin at all or is he too loud? Can I download all the pinball knowledge from your brain onto mine, Gavin? All right. Yes. Cool. So we've got lights and it's in the general boot up right now. Oh, wait. So we didn't blow any fuses. So what did you do necessarily to make this go again? I'm sorry. Okay. I plugged the three AC inputs I had unplugged into the power driver board. I have not done the display controller board yet. I've not done the sound board yet. Okay. So that's enough to get it to turn on. If I plug this display controller one in and turn it back on, now I should probably get it to display. Yes. Wow. Beautiful. So that's working. And we'll plug in now the sound board. So we should get the little, and then the bong, the boot up bong. Oh, I love the bongs. Yeah. Who doesn't, right?
14:08
And there, we have a problem with the soundboard. That was exciting. So I haven't seen that happen in a long time. That was awesome.
14:20
So now we know why the line fuse blew. Okay, it's a soundboard. We have a soundboard issue. Cool. And now the room smells a little funny. Hooray! We did it, boys. We did it. Bye-bye.
14:36
Alright. YouTube hit. Well, it didn't burn the place down, so we're fine. Electroboom! Damn, that looked away. Tater, it's good. I hope we get an instant replay of that. That's pretty good.
14:55
Here, I'll move this. Okay. Might be a dumb question. I do upright arcade repairs. Do all the playfield terms use a common ground? Wait. All the playfield items use a common ground.
15:08
There is a field ground. The whole cabinet is. That does smell incredible. Yeah, that smells horrible.
15:15
So we have there. Hoo-wee. Yeah, I see some. Who's that? Right in there. That looks like a capacitor blue. Oh, damn. Where is. Oh, that little guy. That little guy right inside there. Can you show that to them? Yeah, I haven't seen that happen before, honestly. Yeah, let me zoom in here.
15:40
Yeah, take that light off of there. We can see it. Okay. So it's dropped it down a little bit. Right there, Internet. Between the two big filter caps, there's one. That little thing is dry. Yeah, and there's where all the sparks came from. That little capacitor just gave out.
15:58
So we will have no sound today. Okay. But it's not necessary to have the soundboard for us to work on the game.
16:10
So we're going to plug this other stuff back in here. So the game can still work without the soundboard. Right. You're going to get a soundboard interface error message pop up. It's weird that that gave me a boner. Yeah, it does. And we also have no battery pack on there. So every time we turn it on until we install it. So I actually took that off because it was so badly corroded. Yeah. So I took the batteries out. It was corroded. Then I pulled the pack off.
16:39
But also, like, it didn't look like there was too much damage of it dripping down. But I think you did pull some of those out to see there was a little bit of something going on in there. So if we can get the camera in there, you can totally see the corrosion on that plug.
16:53
I don't know if you need the light or not, but I see it. Come on, baby, get in there. Kill that light for me real quick. Alright.
17:03
Yeah, is it because it's green? Yeah, there's supposed to be silver and shiny like the ones on the outside. The green is the goo that came from the batteries themselves. Cool. So that's on the column drives, and it looks like it's on this one too, which is the cabinet plug So the wires that go to the coin door for coin drops the tilt mechanism If you had a ticket dispenser on there, the ticket notch would all go through this stuff.
17:35
So, that one's a little corroded. Didn't quite get it on there right. Ooh, man. The smell of electronics. How much poison is in here right now? Those connectors definitely need to be changed out for reliability issues. It might work, it might still work with them as they are now, but since alkali is an active material, it's just going to continue without it being neutralized, continue just to slowly corrode the metal in there and then you start to get flaky connections and then suddenly You have switch rows that are missing, switch columns in this case that would be missing, and then certain parts of the game that won't work. So, just double check everything there. All the bombs are plugged in.
18:29
So now I can turn this guy back on. It's the smell of audio. You can see the all-hold display here. Did I miss something? There we go. Bookkeeping. Yeah, you'll see this every time on Terminator 2, basically any WPC game that you turn on and it has no batteries and the batteries are dead. But Terminator 2 always runs this gun every time the batteries are dead and you turn the game off for some reason.
18:54
It always, oh, this thing. As it sits, this will just keep moving until you hit one of these buttons. It gets it to stop. Okay. The test report will tell you the time and date not set. It will probably tell you soundboard interface. Gun cannot find home error. All right. Gun cannot find home. All right. So we don't have any sounds here, because obviously there's no sound board, but let's go into the gun test
19:30
So right now it's coming up with the error that it's not finding the home switch because that would be home right there of it sitting in its base straight up and down. Right. As it's supposed to, yeah. Because it should have different size. We're also having the general elimination flicker in and out there, too. So we have general elimination problems with this driver board and probably connectors.
19:52
I wonder if... Let's see. We could pulse this manually and get it to the home position. Put it there manually.
20:02
You're home. Yes, that would be home. You see, now it just popped up as home. It knows. Yeah, so either the switch is lazy or it could be related to the fire that we started. Yeah, this connector is not very good.
20:18
This is definitely where having the sound here would be a nice thing. So you start wiggling some of these connectors, and if you hear it, they would make beep noise every time during switch test. Nice.
20:30
I don't need to move that now. Let's get back out of here. So it's going to calibrate gun. This takes a little bit.
20:38
It's stubborn that way. And the thing is, once we turn the game off, it's going to start all over again. Oh, really? Because we don't have a memory backup in there. There you go. I could solder a battery pack on there right now.
20:52
I took it off because I got scared it was going to ruin something. No, that one. As I recall, that one was shot anyways. Yeah, right on. It needed to be taken off. Cool.
21:02
It was pretty shot. This is a game that you could install one of those NVRAM chips that removes the battery pack. Yeah, that's what people were recommending. Oh, sorry guys. People were recommending that. So it's calibrating that gun right now there. Yeah, it does like ten times or something. I forget what. But yeah, to install an NVRAM, we require for us to pull this board out, Remove the old RAM chip with the desoldering gun. Put a socket in there and install NVRAM. So now we're done with the home part. I was like, I can't kick the cord out. Cables everywhere. That's a test. Where did that gun go? It's going to switch edges here. Let's try all the switches here. Run to Radio Shack and grab a cap so we can hear some sound. I probably do have the cap in the van. Yeah, this is switch test. Since this is also an early WPC game, it doesn't have the high-powered defeat on the door. So the coils are alive.
22:22
This is like this old house, but for a big ball. Right. Okay, I have nothing up here in these three switches. No top lanes, okay. And I'm almost certain that it's related to that connector issue. Okay. Oh, the one that looked a little fried? Yeah.
22:41
Like we have this one, isn't doing anything, but this is probably a broken wire because these targets get so smashed on this gear. Yeah. So I'll probably look underneath. Let's just do that right now. Because we can. And sure enough, right there is a broken wire. Oh, shit! Which is why that one switch doesn't work. As I was talking about the top lanes not scoring, all three were out, so I'm looking for what's common. And on all three of these switches, they all have the same color green wire that goes to them. Oh, so that one wire is probably the one. It's a green with a black tracer, which is right in the middle of the board. It goes green-brown, green-red, green-orange, green-yellow, and instead of green-green, because it wouldn't make any sense, green-black. It would go green-blue, green-violet, and green-gray. That's all in the switch matrix.
23:38
Anything with the green-black wire is not going to work either. This loop up here is not going to score. These aren't doing anything either. Let me go back up here and take a look at this plug. And the switch matrix, it's alright to plug and unplug with the power on. And the one dead center is green black. So that's why we have no switches working up there. Cool. So what's good that they color code them then like that so yeah, you can track that back to the back box So what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna change this plug out now I've changed the female end out take about three to five minutes
24:24
Plug it back into the bottom Yes, yes Sega Stern uses a lot the same too. The switch matrix, all the ones that tell for the scoring on here, have two colors. The ones that go in the columns are all green with a color tracer in there. And the ones that go the rows or the returns are white with a color tracer in there. And it's always in the same order, so it's just like brown, red, orange, yellow, green, blue, violet, gray. Brown being one, red being two. It's the same as the color code for resistors. Okay. If you go through electronics and study that, the ROYGBIP thing, as they say. I forget what it was. ROYGBIP. I'm trying to remember anyways. I just remembered the color code. Yeah.
25:24
So, yeah. So, Williams uses white and green for switches. You go all the way over to this section over here. Let me switch over here real quick.
25:34
This is on the driver board. Yeah. We've got this ribbon cable in the way right now. I'll hold that over here. Sorry, guys. This is the lamp matrix, which is set up similar to how the switch matrix is. You have red on one side, and these will be for your rows, and you have yellow on the other side, which are for the columns. There you go.
25:53
So, yeah, I've got the red over here and then the yellow. Cool. And it's the same thing with the color tracer in there. Red, brown, red, red. It would be actually red-black because you don't have the same color tracer as the wire. Red, orange, red, yellow, red, green, blue, red, violet, red, gray. It goes the same thing through that. For solenoids, they like to use the colors, was it blue and black and violet on here. And then they'll put a color tracer in those to indicate which plug it goes on. And then for the common, for all the solenoids, depending on what voltage they are typically, is a red wire, and I have red or red-white in this case, and then fuses because they put eight solenoids in one bank. Sure. As the common on there. So if one of these locked on and blew a fuse, the other seven coils wouldn't work as well. It would blow one of these fuses up top. Sure.
26:54
Or for some reason, somebody's working on there, hit the screwdriver against something they shouldn't have, blew the fuse, and if you're missing eight coils, All in the same row, like 1 through 8, 9 through 16, 17 through 24 would all be related to the fuse.
27:14
Awesome. Thank you, Gavin. I wondered that. Okay. Now I'm going to get back to the switch matrix here. I'm going to change that now. I'll just get my tools up. Awesome.
27:25
I'm going to be standing on this side. Are you going to be over here? Yeah. Internet, sorry if cuts and stuff are a little jumpy, I'm having to cameraman and change
27:44
the meetings at the same time. Internet, thank you for tuning in. I love you. 9-pin, perfect. So I have a 9-pin plug. Now, VUs, when they make a plug, they use
28:03
these they use the speed ones which just go in there and sideways and the wire goes in through like a knife and these are it just like splits it for yeah and holds it and holds it so these work okay I like to strip them and crimp them because that makes them a little more robust yo stripping and crimping Pull one of these keys out. Pagel Robinson says, I need to poop. Good luck, buddy. Thank you for the stream. No, guys, thank you for being here. Yeah, this is a if I had one more person here to help me do this, this would go a lot smoother. Yeah. So I'm putting a little key in the plug here. Every one of these, or the switch matrix, the row and the columns are nine pins and they put a key in there. So you can only plug this one in here. It won't plug in on this side because the key is in a different spot. And that's one of the holes is filled, right? Yeah, exactly. So if I show it on here. Yeah, that's cool. That looks... Come north a little bit. Yeah, you can see that second to the right is filled. Yeah. that matches up with here, that's pin 8. So 1 through 7 are populated, 8 is the key, and 9 is the next one that's free. Awesome. So I'm just gonna pull each wire out one at a time. I usually start on one side and work my way back. And then, string it all into the insulation on. Grab one of my guys on.
29:42
This is a little monotonous, especially if you're working on Gottlieb System 80 games and they have all sorts of connector issues. Dirty pinball hands, nice. Yeah, you know it.
29:54
What up, Wasp? Good to see you buddy. Pinballs are dirty. It is, this is what happens. One end, make sure it's not into the same hole off there. So I'm just gonna keep doing that. Go down to the next wire.
30:10
Strip it and crimp it. All right, B-Chat's intern, Stash Kid, let's go, buddy. I'm ready, dude. I need your help. I need your love.
30:25
System 80 machines need to die in a fire. Making connectors can be tricky. I think Gavin knows what he's doing.
30:35
Oh, what's up, Dan? Dan Brown. Alright, now I'll go to the third one. Come on down to the description. WPZ has to erase. It's true. This sound board still smells like crap. Yeah, that happens. Yeah, baby. Once the magic smoke gets out, it's really hard to put it back in.
31:15
Is Gavin related to Guy Fieri? Oh, come on. What? Guys. Venom's fighting words. Yeah. He's going to reach through the internet. Oh, jackpot. I'm going to pull a Jay and Silent Bob on you. There you go. Skylance with the five bucks says, Okay, here's five dollars to replace the cap so we can listen to the Terminator. All right. Thank you, Skylance. appreciate it buddy the mayor of pinball town can i get some hearts in chat please how's the play field of this t2 it looks pretty good it's dirty and it's got some wear but these were always played and played yeah played this was a very popular game back when it came out it's still popular man a lot of like i i see these at like every nasty dive bar I've ever been to. We've got one out in location in an underground lounge in Wrigleyville.
32:15
Emporium Logan Square has one. I was just working on it today before I came here. Emporium Logan. There's a few others I know of in the city. Places that names escape me. All in varying condition.
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Yeah, I don't know. I was actually considering going back to college to take electrical engineering. There you go. Move this back out of your way here. Alright. Yeah, sorry, there is a cable between your legs. Okay. You'll be fine. I grew up playing T2 in arcades in Chicago. Hell yeah, Boomer. Come back. Yeah, I remember playing it on test. Well, actually, T2 wasn't on test at the time. But I remember playing the test T2 at a test center. It was Galaxy World and Karel's Stream. And the only reason they had still had it there is because I'm guessing Galaxy World bought it after the test ended Because it was doing so well for them I know and so it had some slight variations in the plate feel artwork and stuff I'm gonna go over look at that's thought it like as a young kid is like that's so cool
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Just it's not the normal t2. Yeah, man playing test game like oh, yeah Ready there she is of a five or four beer. So they'll buy it with five dollars to save three of a five or four beer. This time, get Gavin the beer. He's already drinking it, boys. Yes, that is true. He's already drinking it.
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Yeah. Daisy Cutter. Brought to you by Half Acre, who still has yet to give us free beer for mentioning them on it. Come on, Half Acre. You know who does give us free beer? Freaking two brothers. Nice. Yeah, we got a good we get we get pinball beer now when we want it All right. So now I've changed that I'm plugging that guy back in
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See if I get these lanes back. Yep. Look we got The top lanes again, so we have all the stuff with the green black That's the other thing. I really like about Williams is a Program there. It's in the switch test. These are all abbreviations of the color of the wire. Oh green black So you hit this one, so it's a white with a blue color and green with an orange. So as we hit these guys up there white blue so it in the same row So that white violet and this would be white and gray But they all green and black So we get those back. So that took care of the switch matrix problem. Dude, you're a beast.
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Williams equals smart. Mostly, yes. There's a few times here and there they've made some mistakes. so another issue it that needs to be tackled as if you notice as we were working on that this half side is lit up and kept going off yeah this side's not on at all and this is not all be on okay this mess here oh this is definitely not how it comes from the factory look at this is a big mess of wire and I'm trying to figure out exactly what this other people were doing here. I thought you're handling it like you would see in an infomercial they're like what can I do with all these wires? Yeah so yeah this was the playfield plug. We're doing that and we're getting some of the back box ones. That's the playfield. I don't know what somebody did here but they made a big mess and you look here so oh that definitely has to be repaired. That came right off the board. Yeah, because they came off the board and stuck, it's burned itself into the connector. This is a replaced connector, this is replaced, but it looks like they only used the basic pins, I like to use what they call the tri-feucon for the general illumination, which means they have three sides instead of one. So you get a lot more surface area, a lot better current transfer. For me to fix this though, we're going to have to turn the game off. This side I could do with power on, but the other side, not so much. So you've got all that extra wire and wire ties and stuff. Jeez Louise. So this is kind of funny. And since that pin pulled out, I'm going to have to pull the board out too. Oh, to put a new pin? And replace that. Oh wow. Oh yeah, that one little freaking thing popped off. A little more light. Way to go. I might be able to cheat it, since this is the one, so this would be white and brown. that would go to that. Or the brown line, anyways. The brown line. So I could just put that one plug in the top instead of the bottom. Shaggy says, could that be why the soundboard blew? No. That's a different section of the game.
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So I put it closer to its threshold of what it can handle. And then, of course, they were left on for hours upon hours. LED that, mother? I mean, I am going to shop it out, so who knows. Do LEDs look good in this game? Yes. Okay, well, then we're going to LED the crap out of it, Internet. Because this is a cold metal futuristic game. You know what? I didn't even think about that.
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Steve Ritchie, what he's always liked to do is use a lot of red in his games. Yeah. As far as lights. When you put red LEDs in these guys, and the pop bumpers in the lean, they just really pop. Oh, yeah. These would scream with a red LED. Yeah. The arrows, too. Get those teeth glowing. I like putting the green ones in the lock because the green LEDs are so vivid too. That's awesome. Really pop that way. Yeah. That connector is... yeah, dude. This is... Vape nature, bro. Not how they're supposed to come. Alright, so this is gonna be a bit of a mess.
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Let's get a cooler shot of this. If you're going to work over there, I'm going to tilt this down. So I need two 11 pins and a 12. Internet, hopefully this isn't too jumpy or jerky and stuff like that. I hope everyone's having a good time. I love you.
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I'm trying my best here, kids. Trying my best. Human eyes pick up green better than any other color. There you go, Tassie. Interesting. Is that why you changed your name to Green? I might have to do that.
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All right. One, two, three. Key. It's like reality TV with shaky cam. Yeah. The Blair Witch Project. Yeah, no shit. I'm loving the stream so far. Don't forget to put it on YouTube. That's why we're not playing music.
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I'm going to monetize the shit out of this. Yeah. We'll give Gavin $1. per $10 we make on a video. So there we go, we got three plugs now.
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Again, these are also keyed, so they can only go in a certain way. These two here are keyed identical, and sometimes people are like, I don't remember which one goes where. Honestly, it doesn't matter. So you actually have different connectors that have different key sets in them, or are you able to move the two? No, I have a bag of keys, and then I get blank connectors, so I get to choose which one is keyed. You get to choose where to key it, That's smart. That's why I do it that way. Is Gavin a certified electronics tech with schooling, or is he self-taught? Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering technology.
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I've worked for places that refurbish machines for a long time. I've worked for distributors. I've done my share of board work.
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And I'm a pinball junkie, which is why I got in this line of work. Yes, he is. Aren't we all? Yeah. But that's how we ended up here. Kevin how did I meet you probably playing pinball someplace almost certainly I don't think it was from a service call no it definitely was not a service call yeah I was just trying to remember that like where the frick did we run into each other yeah just careful that we came to you see what that angle looks like just going brave here and cutting these wires I'm gonna push this aside now. I'm gonna, this, these big fat ones here are for the play field. There's six of those. Yellow, green, violet, and white, yellow, white, green, white, violet. He's gonna body-shame those wires. Yeah. I like them big. Let's see, get this out of the way here. How long have you guys known each other? Oh man. I would say five years at least. At the very least, definitely. We've, shit, I don't know.
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Yeah, that makes sense, about five years. Gavin and I have some very incriminating photos together wearing women's tops. Not at all. I'm just kidding.
41:41
Hey, Jack, shout out from the bar yesterday. Brian with the mask on. Oh, what's up, B-Dicks? Yeah, how did yesterday's stream go? It was good. and we have a video of the game restarting. So I can send it to Dwight. Okay. Because the game literally says, restarting game. Yes. Like everything will go dead. Yeah. And then you'll get the Stern logo. It was right when we started and Jason Werdrick was playing. He like made a shot and he's like, ah, damn, he like drained or something. And then all of a sudden it's like, restarting game.
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Get in a little. Crimp, cramp, boys. I'm using the bigger ones. These are the Tri-Fu Cods, the three-sided connectors that crimp on. The Tri-Fu Cod. That is patent pending. That's a Mouser term, I believe.
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Officially, that's what they're called when you order them. They have that little registered mark on them.
42:43
Gavin, does any game stick out in your mind as particularly unreliable? Star Wars Trilogy. Oooh. It was from a tough time when Sega was making pinball. And the market was starting to take a little bit of a dive. And then the money was coming from Japan. And then the Japanese CEOs kept saying, well, now can you make it cheaper? So they would start costing things out. They eliminated things like the Playfield slide rail system, the second speaker in the back box, general illumination sockets that you could change the bulb from underneath the playfield, whatever they could do to save money, and they did that. And unfortunately, that interfered with the integrity of the game and the ability for it to be serviced.
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So that's one of my least favorite games to work on. Gottlieb System 80s were just a nightmare from the start. There's plenty of stories from operators back in the day that couldn't even give away like a black hole or haunted house
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They were just so problematic the good old days, that's why they made that whole this old pinball series with fixing those games
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And it was like a two DVD set instead of just one Jurna 1979 says I'm 100% positive this game won't work in the end Joke's on you, it already works. We're getting there. Throw it off the roof. Now I'm doing this by memory because I've changed so many of these. That there's a certain order that these go into their connector.
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It's all written in the manual. The manual that Gavin has remembered in his head. So yeah, I got it. Because these would be brown, orange, yellow, key, green, violet, white, brown, white, orange, white, yellow, white, green, white, violet. How the crap do you remember that? When you see it on just about every service call.
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So these wires are a little bit shorter. I can plug this one in here down on the bottom one, though, because since we lost the pin for the brown, when I pull that plug out, this connector doesn't use it. So I'm just going to go around it for now. Yeah. All right. Oh, so it really didn't matter honestly that that broke but it should be there because you should be able to Just kind of go either or so we have brown and orange these two are for the back box Brown orange white brown white looks like someone got lazy and just clipped
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These these side is shrink tube this side is electrical taped So, yeah, here you go, this is all to Zoom higher.
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So. All garbage. Some lucky winner today. Hooray! We're doing a giveaway, folks. The wire management. You mean the lack thereof.
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Gavin's going to make it pretty. Trying to, anyways. Yearny. Got it, buddy. added one more user to the raffle wait i have a raffle system set up okay well internet type exclamation point raffle the bot will go crazy but i ain't doing nothing that's a sad mess of wires yes it is
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gavin will you fix my car please what kind of car is it there you go go. cram cram cram Gavin what's the biggest pinball purchase you've ever made? I bought 20 machines from an operator once. Ooh.
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That was probably six, seven, no, seven, eight years ago. I didn't even have room for them all. I had to take three trips to the guy's place to get them. Damn. And that was like the weekend of Pinball Expo. Oh, Chicago. Yeah, Chicago Pinball Expo. I planned it out that way. So I had brought everything to Expo and half the stuff I priced at like six, seven, eight hundred just to get rid of it. You're like, I can't drive it all home. Gotta get rid of it. So Star Wars Trilogy was in there. Harley Davidson was in there. A couple of Judge Dredds, a Whodunit.
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Those were all like the bottom tier games I was clearing out. I think I got $1,200 for the Harley. But yeah, Judge Dredd for $600. I wish. You know, thinking about it now, wow. But yeah, in that batch was also a Shadow, a Monster Bash, and a Scared Stiff, and I kept all those. Oh, nice. I mean, even back then you know what games are the hot shit games. I priced those ridiculous at the show, and some guy came up to me with a coat, and in his pocket he had $4,000 in cash asking if he could take the Monster Bash. So I just looked at it and said, do you have another pocket? Yeah, right. How many pockets do you have full of $400?
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Four grand. Oh, forget it. There you go. No, I wanted to keep that because I knew at some point down the road I was going to need some good games to operate.
48:33
Sign me up for the 20-pack. I'm working on a deal with another operator right now for 10 machines, which is Central Illinois.
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Unfortunately, the best title on that batch is Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. It's more like clearing out this warehouse.
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Pinball undesirable says do you have any good got bit by the machine stories? You mean like I like to zap? I guess. Yes, I think so. The scariest one I ever had was I was working on, this is when I was working American vending. I was working on a customer's Operation Wolf, which is a gun game that Tato made. It had an affixed Uzi on the top. And it's a big long cabinet so it has a monitor on the bottom that projects up off a mirror and gives you a longer range when you're looking in there. He was having some board issues with the game that were related to a connector I believe. So I had to climb inside the machine. I was kind of messing around with it trying to find it. And then the cathode on the monitor fell off and hit me. And that's like 20,000 bolts on that thing and all of a sudden just POW and freaked me out. Dude, yeah. Like all of a sudden I couldn't hear anything except my heartbeat. Boom, boom, boom, boom. And it was like, ahhh, basically knocked the wind out of me. That's freaking terrifying. It didn't make any noise or anything, I just felt it and all of a sudden I'm in awe. And I jumped out of the game and I took like the next 15 minutes just walking around the shop in the building. I was like, the first time I got electric, flashing in front of me. The first time I got electrocuted by a pinball machine was Gavin's, uh, skate ball over there.
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Reached in, touched where the power came into the fucking cabinet. Yes, that. And it threw me to the floor.
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Yeah. I've gotten minor zaps before. Sometimes like a, uh, most common one would be working between two machines and once missing the ground plug. Oh, and you feel that little, like you hit the metal on this one, hit the metal on this one at the same time and since they're not ground since they're not sharing the same ground one's floating at some random voltage and it's it's very low current but you still feel the bite it's like it's like getting bit by a fire or something it's very unpleasant all right so this is the brown the orange and the white brown the white orange this is for the back box i'll put that one into this connector here all right now this is the harder one not looking forward to doing but yeah these all come from the transformer this is the the AC in for the general elimination they use this bottom one here is the same color combination as the wires at the top this is what they call the ground reference on here so this one bottom pin on here It's the same as the tracer on there and just kind of keeps you from, I guess keeps the transformer from somehow causing the bulbs all of a sudden to get short if you hit something else and make all the light bulbs at 75 volts and everything goes burned out. I have done something like that before on another game and where I got the plug wrong by a pin or something. I forget which game it was, but I think it was a Bally machine. It was one with a 20-pin plug on the transformer, and it just blew every single generation bulb in the game. That fun All right We should be back in action Where does Gavin buy his repair parts from Several different sources
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You missed a webcam spazzing out. Yeah, that's all you missed. We're fine. Okay, we're back. Sorry about that, isn't it? Very sorry. So sorry. I'm so sorry. Sorry about that, internet.
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You just dropped it. So here's what's cool about this. I could do this. Like, so Gavin's working on this thing here. It's so stupid.
52:50
That right speaker does look wrong. No, these are correct, actually. There you go. Williams was not using stereo at the time. This is the Yamaha. This is pre-DCS. But even the DCS, well, I guess it's technically stereo, but they didn't use it as stereo.
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What this is, this is a tweeter. Basically, all the tinny stuff comes out over here, and this is more mid-range. Cool. That's what their idea was at the time. I've got to get a longer cable for that camera behind you, dog. Okay.
53:22
Where does Gavin get his pin removal tool? Where'd you get that pin removal tool? It somehow ended up in my toolbox at some point. There you go. Please apologize one more time for producing this awesome stream. Retzel, freaking ban yourself. Someone mod him so he can ban himself, please.
53:46
T2 sound is trash. What? My least favorite thing about Terminator 2 is when some ding-dong walks up to it, plays one ball, and they're like, Oh, I dragged. I guess I'm done with pinball. walks away and that freaking beeping doesn't end ever the gun ever ever ever are you guys BFFs yeah or BFFs I could go to more Burning Man stuff with Gavin yeah yeah we have but we have Brokeback Mountain we'll always have Brokeback Mountain
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All right. Ban the Retzel. Nice try, buddy. You're not a mod yet. Idiot. So I'm trying to, like, switch off the camera so I can adjust the cameras and come back to the cameras. And it seems to be working okay. All right. Just trying to keep this production quality looking. Fire. Fabulous. We're looking good. Ask Gavin to make it say, fuck you, asshole. I can't do that today. Does that require a ROM? Yeah, there's a story behind that is, that I've heard anyways, I could be wrong, but they had Arnold Schweizerneger come into the studio and record audio for the game. So all the sound calls on here are specific to the game. And when they were goofing around, I guess when they were telling him to say stuff, one of the things they asked him to say was, fuck you, asshole. Fuck you, asshole. And he did. really thought it was funny. Dude, hell yeah. So they're just joking about it. So they didn't use it in the game anywhere, except for one special chip they burned for the people that worked at Williams. Ah, sneaky shit.
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That's awesome. So they did it as a joke, put it in one of their machines, see if anybody would notice. But yeah, it never went out in production. At what point does he say, fuck you, asshole? Like, what's the circumstance in the game? you shoot the database and you get the board with all the things listed one of them is fuck you asshole that's amazing and it wards you absolutely nothing that's great zero zip nada do you have a ROM burner? yes I do I'm sure you do I want a ROM burner I'll be back let me get them so why do you think they added all that extra wire i mean you're starting to run a little low on cable here uh they just decided to would be my guess please give your shirt Gavin give me your shirt and it's a good shirt it's vintage that's for sure what's ottery what's ottery yeah so instead of get out it's get oh instead of get out it's fuck you asshole no it'll still say get out as I recall get out but it's just every now and then that's one of the awards You'll have to play it probably like 20 times before you even get there. Oh, right on. So it's not one of those things that pops up normally.
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Get out. It's not a Doma. Shoot for the super jackpot. They are about $100, Jack. We'll take up a collection and get... Internet, you know what I got today? A freaking P.O. box. Oh, yeah. Send me all the shit. I will give you the address right now. I'm setting up an Amazon wish list. I'm ready to take all your stuff from you.
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All your base are belong to us. All your cash are belong to Jack. There should be a jiggle all the way machine. You know what? I wonder, like, how, okay. Because I know in the pinball browser, you can change stuff for, like, the newer sterns and shit. Can you do that? and like re-burn old ROMs for... Yes, it's... Jack's going full cam girl. It's old school code. I remember when I was working at RJB in the early 2000s, I started to play around with the EEPROM burner because you could actually individualize the code for you. And pictures just don't make any sense. But text is actual text. So I went through and changed a few things around. Like drugs are real. like yeah the Gavin is real or drugs yeah age is real yeah and just say no to Gavin that's what was Dale is real enjoy thing is I didn't know how to do anything further than that so it would come up with a checksum error when you use that software oh it's still kind of funny yeah that's this uses what a 6809 processor in here for the board set so you're talking Motorola 6800 series Ooh, hot. Yeah, it was cutting edge back in 1982. Is there a decent working medieval madness in Chicago?
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Not yet. Yeah. I know I've seen some pop up on location here and there, but they're not on location anymore. So there it is. Internet, AIDS is real. Protect yourself.
59:44
This is the wire. Pugs, not drugs. Yeah! This has got extra goop on it. Scrape of the goop. Yeah. This is unfortunately not the most sexy work to do to a machine, but it is important. Jack, I'm going to have to send you more beer. I got smashed last night on Velvet. Dude, that 11% beer, I'm almost certain I peed my pants when I drank two of those. What were you drinking? Ball and Desirable sent me a couple of beers from wherever you guys are located. I'm spacing on that right now. But crap did that stuff mess me up.
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Is this Velvet Merlin or something? Velvet Evil. Wow. Let's see here. So how much does Gavin charge per hour? I don't know if that's anything you'd like to discuss. Unless you want to work with him then just send him an email.
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instant pee pants beer yes Huntsville Alabama straight to ale nice yeah haven't been to Alabama a perfect overclock is 11 Hertz instead of 8 Hertz and Sonic 2 runs without light. What the fuck are you doing? Wait, I missed a conversation. I think so because I'm not even sure what that's referring to.
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Shout out to my brewery bros, hell yeah. How many games does Gavin currently own personally and how many en route?
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That's a good question. I will say, I bet Gavin doesn't know. I have close to 40 machines out on route. Holy, on route? Yeah. On location. I guess that's also counting those two. Yeah. That's not what I'm planning on operating. Right. That's one of my personal thoughts. So that skateball is actually Gavin's personal DD. If there comes a time I might put it on route, but I have no plans to. Yeah, that's Gavin's baby. That was just one I was looking for for the longest time, because, well, I've always wanted a skateball.
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All right, this wire's a little too short. Erg. Erg. Yeah. Ger. Erg. Erg. When was the last time Gavin installed a ticket dispenser on a WPC machine, if ever, and does he still remember how to do it? I never have. There you go. I've installed the card dispenser.
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Oh, yeah, the playing card dispenser. Yeah, but that's about it. I'm going to keep that splice because I'm really short on wire here.
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I prefer to do it, but it'll probably be all right. I may be able to give this some slack here so you're not... There we go.
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Let's let this dangle. There you go. You won't be tripping over that. Dude, you'd be tripping. Dog! He'd be tripping.
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Best pinball deal Gavin has ever come across. I don't know. That one dude, Roger Samson in Nebraska, who I stole a bunch of games from out of his barn.
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No. I'd say my best pinball deal was when Wonko gave me that break shot after doing well at Pinbird. Wonko, you the man. Love you, Wonko. That's a pretty good deal. also this $200 cabaret that I bought that I will do something with eventually internet I've just been busy I want to break shot pretty bad dude break shots great has Gavin preferred does Gavin have a preferred machine brand to fix I've worked mostly on Valley Williams stuff there you go so the WPC that's pretty straightforward rarely do I ever have really tough issues so gooey so they use masking tape to label a few of these wires in here oh wow it's since masking tapes been on there for years flammable yeah what in the world were you trying to ask me oh you're not talking to me pinball prices in Chicago are dirt cheap.
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They might have been in the past. I don't know. Is your toilet running? You better catch it and lift the handle. I just left the handle. Okay, internet, here's the... They can hear that? No, I just set it up. Oh, okay. I was like, if somebody posted that, that'd be crazy. Internet, here you go. No, that's just the bathroom cam. Send all your hot nudes Polaroids to deadflip at P.O. Box 18236 Chicago, Illinois 60618 I also accept wads of cash and diapers for a one year old. Thank you. Because wads of cash have been becoming diapers. It eventually becomes diapers anyway. This is like a PBS ad from viewers like you. Thank you.
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Wonko says that he's able to buy pinball machines here, ship them to Seattle and make cash on them there. My man. Yeah, you're taking up our stash, Wonko. Isn't that the address from Carmen Sandiego's TV show? You guys shut up. Maybe. Scruff McGruff. Yeah, that cable should be out of your hair now. It looks a little better. Looking good, Bubba.
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Now unless if there's some board damage here, when we turn the game back on we should see pretty much all the general illumination. Hot. As Paris Hilton would say. extra burn connector and wires and crap. Oh shit, I forgot to turn the camera off when I moved it. Yeah, the worst person.
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I'm trying guys, calm down. We'll get a camera guy for the next time we do this. Yep. Huh, frickin' zah. Both strings in the back, all three on the play field. What a monster. So, looks like we don't have to really worry about that board. technically be fixed because that one pin and because we don't have batteries this is gonna be doing this for a while oh you get out of here just by hitting but it'll do it now so oh it's also saying revision l2 they have plenty more software updates oh so this thing's behind yeah this is what your operators can have chip burners yeah nor do they care yeah unless there was something thing that was really bad. Dude, she's working. Cold start. So we got the lights issues taken care of and the switch issues taken care of. Switch issues. Can we put a thank you to Gavin and Dead Flippin? We'll figure that out. Time and date and I said I'm not changing that. No, it doesn't even matter because there's no batteries. Tests. So let's try solenoid tests. Let's see what we got here.
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Gun motor. They're all firing. Holy crap. Looks like the solenoids are... Jeez Louise. Yeah, that's a nocker for you. Let's try the flashers. No, let's actually go into...
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This is the one I prefer. Lamp and flash. Lamp and flash? Flash me, daddy. Every freaking bulb is working. Well, we got several burned out. Oh, that's just a broken bulb in there. Holy shit. That happens.
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We're missing a bunch of these. I'm guessing they're just burnt. Because if you're missing a whole section, you would see some kind of stuff. We could go back here and go into single lamp. Multiplier 2x. That's out. Three. Four. So we know the yellow-brown line is good because everything... Oh, right. Because that's also talking about the... That's smart. We're going to go back here because red-brown is one we have out. Yeah, Kiel, we're going to be shopping this game out next week. Red-gray is another possibility. Red-brown is working here, so the red-brown is good. So it's definitely that ball that's better. Cool.
68:56
How difficult is this game to pull apart? Gray is working. So that means the red and gray work. So all the red wires are good. Let me just go through. Yellow, orange. Orange works. Green, blue, violet. Yellow, black. We've got those on.
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Then yellow, green. We've got a few of those on. Yellow, blue. We've got a few of those on. Yellow, violet. Yep. One of those. There's a lot of bulbs out on violet. Yellow, gray will be the last one. Yeah, looks like it's working. So the board is working fine. So it's just bulbs. Cool. Could be connectors on a few of those boards, but usually it'd be all the bulbs missing