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I'm Mike Dus and this is Pinball Shenanigans. All right, back in the basement and uh the playfield has magically appeared in the cabinet of my Alaska project. And um there wasn't a whole lot of magic to it. I'll show you what happened. Here you go. All right, I think it's time to finally install the playfield into Alaska. Say hi, Mark. Hi guys.
Say hi Kevin.
Say hi Ray.
Say hi Eric.
Say hi Julie.
Hi.
Hey. There we go.
I'm kicking T-Rex's ass.
All right. Julie's kicking T-Rex's ass on Deadpool. Okay. Let's uh stick this guy in. Oh, you are this guy in finally.
I don't care for the shenanigans.
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There has to be some shenanigans. There we go.
Yeah, it's in. Okay. Was out too much damage. Oh, you can't even see. But here we go. Have a look. There it is. And we didn't even uh break anything. It was close, but all right, I can finally uh work on this playfield. But yeah, in order to install these back uh metal pieces, going to have to slide this right out. Let's see how this operates. Why don't you hit the prop rod here? Let's see if the prop rod system actually works. How far can this thing slide back, too? Uh, so let's let's lift it straight. Okay. So, it doesn't slide very good unless the prop rod is up, which is kind of weird.
It's fully angled.
So, that's just like complete garbage. So, let's put that back. And let's see. Uh, so the prop rod system actually works. Not really very trustworthy. Okay. Okay. So,
lift this up and pull this all the way back. And then we should be able to
slide up to this notch.
Yeah. Slide up to the notch. There's a little notch there. Oh, yeah. You got to get over the lip first. Once we get to the notch,
then now the playfield is accessible. And that's why it's on the lift cart and not on legs cuz I need all the height I can get so I can work on this thing. Okay, that's not too bad. So, there was a slight hiccup there and um almost broke the playfield, but everything worked out just fine. So, plan for the night is to remove everything from the top side of the playfield, which is going to be like 10 nuts and a few rubbers. That's about it. Clean everything up. R- rubber it. The biggest issue I'm going to have, well, apparently it's going to be these things. I can't Oh, there we go. Look at this weird rubber like interflip. Why you got to be so weird? Everything is weird, man. These guides here, shouldn't they just pop up? Why is that? So stubborn. What the heck? Okay, so I got to figure what the heck's going on with these things and why they aren't just popping up like, okay, maybe it's not going to be just as easy as I was thinking, but uh yeah, got a few nuts here and remove some plastics, clean everything up, throw in some LEDs, the playfield, which is plexiglass, what do they call it? Pyro cryite. No, there was some weird term in the manual. Cryopectite. No, that's not it either. Anyway, whatever it is, it's going to be the easiest playfield I've probably ever cleaned in my life. Use some like Windex and get a idea of the before here. It's not even that bad. And yeah, if I can get all that done. Uh I feel like how does this get removed? The apron. Oh, yeah. Of course, screws on the front. Sometimes there's screws on the top side, but I feel like the plunger kicker solenoid is uh seized up. So, I'm going to have to remove this apron, clean up underneath there, and then unseize this solenoid. Let's see if I can maybe even test that theory and show you right here. See that? That does not really want to budge. So, we got uh just this screw here and this screw here. This wire should not be underneath the apron here. So, excuse me. Have to remedy that. And I like the stars on these flipper bats. All you dragon owners out there, does Dragon have these stars, too? I can just ask um my buddy Dan Shadic, who bought five Dragons off my buddy Mitch Heirs not too long ago. A couple were parts machines, but you know how I've been looking for those clips on those relays? Well, my buddy Dan Shadic, shout out, has a parts bottom board for a Dragon. So, I'm hoping I'm pretty certain that it's going to be the same relay clip. So, he's going to hook me up hopefully. All right. So, I think there's going to be a lot of rust to deal with. Like this post here. I don't know how I'm going to deal with that. Maybe I might need to uh remove it from underneath. Might be a screw under there. And for all these rusty bits, this guy here, this guy here, this guy here. I might have to bust out the tumbler. Haven't done that in a while. And maybe the ultrasonic cleaner for the posts. These metals here. I don't know if I want to try and remove those or just clean them in place. It's probably the safer bet. These metals here, try and clean them without scuffing up the plexi. So, that is the plan of attack. If I happen to make good progress, then I can attempt to put these pieces back in the back of the machine. I also did pull this out of the rusty parts pile. I've got the screws for the apron metals back there and this was in there. So, clean that up. Have to clean up these screws, too. That could be tumbler stuff, too. Actually, I don't know where this rubber goes. probably one of those back aprons. And this was also found in the machine. Can you guess what game that is from? It's fairly obvious. Not a whole lot of skydiving themed pinball machines out there, but this was found in the Alaska. And I'm going to hang that somewhere in the basement. So, that's the game plan. Let's get started. When I was downstairs, I was going to do a shout out for a super thanks, but I forgot. Now I'm upstairs and Jamie's asleep on the couch. So, I'm going to do a whisper out to what have we got? What do we got? Glenn Carbalo 81. I think he's a repeat super thanker. And he says, "Nice work on Alaska, dude. Have a cold one on me." and I replied that I will certainly do that tomorrow at our Fork River tournament. Thanks again, Glenn. Very much appreciated and I hope you enjoyed your whisper out. Okay, so I found my problem. Those lane guides are actually screwed in. You can see the six screws there and here. So, not just as simple as sliding them off like a gotle machine. So, here's my playfield hanging system. Hopefully, it doesn't decapitate me while I'm working on it. Okay, I got these lane guides removed. Those bulbs are going to be a little bit of a challenge to replace. I guess I could remove the socket screw. That's probably going to be my best bet, actually. And hopefully the LEDs fit in this opening. Some LEDs are thicker than others. So, we shall see. I don't know if gotle style lane guides are going to work to replace these. And like some of them are just flaking apart. So, I guess I could maybe inquire about 3D printing these. But even if I do that, these are very weird rubbers. Where where is one going to find these rubbers, you know? So, if you have any thoughts on any strategies regarding these lane guides, let me know. They're going to be a bit of a challenge. I I think unless I just go to my other one player Alaska and steal all the good ones off that. But I need one, two, three. See, there's just they flake right in the middle. Why is that? I got like No, they're all crap. So, I need a solution for that. I was just thinking maybe if my buddy Dan Shhatock has um a spare playfield for Dragon, maybe I could steal some lane guides from him. But this is a Dragon photo I found on Pinside. Look at this. They went with steel bars, so that ain't going to work. Oh, here's another little Easter egg that someone else pointed out. I forget who, but so Interflip logo, like I said in a previous video, the Spanish name for the distributor or manufacturer is Recreativos Franco. And you can see in the interflip, the R and the F are enlarged for that reason. Pretty cool little Easter egg. Oh, and to answer my own question about the stars on the flipper bats, it's really really hard to see, but I do believe if you look at this the right angle, you can see Yep, there's stars. So, that answers that question. Okay, next up, these posts. It does look like moisture, maybe like condensation. uh you know accumulated on these posts and then it sort of dripped down through the plexi onto the playfield. So there actually is a little bit of damage there. Sadly it's minor but that makes sense. That particular type of metal and that is just prone to um condensation in storage in bad storage conditions. But so yeah, I'm gonna remove these guys next. And well, this game being made in Spain. Where did my quarterinch nut driver go? Guess what? No work. So, got to bust out the old 7 mm driver here. Fortunately, I have the metric. Uh oh, there goes that post. Oh, nothing in the back to catch that. So, uh, I got to go fishing. Hey, there it is. I thought it might have taken me a while. I was going to bust out the magnet and everything. There we go. Also, another weird looking rubber, but actually, no, that's pretty standard T- rubber. Yeah, I've got those in stock in white. The next one's fighting me. Guess I'm going to have to get uh Oh, wait. Might actually come. Okay. Remember I said this might be a pretty easy uh project here to deal with this playfield. I take that back. All right, let's try this. There we go. Okay, before I drop the pliers, I need my hands back. All right, that worked. And look, someone put their T rubber on upside down. Must have been Friday at the factory. This one's on upside down, too. What gives? That one's correct. But, uh, guess what? Here's where my nut is. And uh so I have to remove this and then fight that out of the way. All right. So I removed the wire bundle and look at this. These wires been rubbing on that screw over the years and it could be broken through. I'm not really sure. But if so that's going to make these lights at the very least not work. So, I got to dig a little little deeper, cut these ties, and uh investigate. Okay, I removed some of this twine to get some slack here. There's really not much. So, I wasn't really able to cut the wire and then reconnect it better, so I just added a little solder band-aid. That is how you leap something up, boys and girls. But you can see here a couple nicks in this blue wire from this switch. A little bit of I think that's not a problem. But where those wires bend and have been bent for 50 years, a little bit of wear there. And then on this blue wire, there's a little gash. Where are you? Right there. I think from maybe hitting this switch. So, everything's tight quarters, but I'll just uh zip tie this back up in a manner that is, you know, not going to be rubbing on stuff and uh put a little bit of electrical tape on that band-aid. And then I can get to my screw. All right, band-aid applied. Zip tie attached, screw removed. Now moving on to the other one, which is right here. And look what else I found. Tucked away, a broken wire, which might be not used or it could possibly go to that switch. Not really sure, but I think I might need to remove the switch to get at that so I don't break any more wires off. Okay, switch and post removed. So, you know, feel like I've been down here for about an hour and I have removed some lane guides and posts. making great headway, but I should at least be able to remove the plastics and the rubbers without too much trouble. I had Jay the neighbor over uh the other day and I got him to try out my new ashtray that I installed. Oh, look at that. Oh, someone I bet you. Is that Jay's or Jamie's? Okay, I've got Jay the neighbor over and uh for the first time, we need him to test out the new ashtray.
Here we go. Let's throw on the flash now. Yeah, check that out. All right, you want some time lapse action? First of all, let's see if my 7 mm guy Oh, it does fit. Okay. All right. Let's uh see what happens here. actually. That went pretty smooth. Check out these plastics. The art is great. Look at this. Got this dude. It's like pink and green paddling in a kayak. I just love the colors. We got the pink polar bear. Another iceberg. And then uh this dude just going fishing. And we got skydiver. Uh yeah. So only one post was stubborn. It's pretty filthy, but that will all clean up very nicely. And check out the uh the lane guide here. I think that's another thing I might want to throw in the tumbler. Is this something you would tumble with this finish on it or that get rid of that finish alto together? Maybe I'll consult the pros and see what they say. Uh and these are very interesting scoop covers, eh? Never seen that before. So, let's pan down the playfield so I remember the orientation of the rubbers. Got one here, one here. Symmetrical, so you only need to know half. This guy kind of loops around. And there we go. Got some more ball guides to uh clean up. It's not 100% symmetrical. So, it was pretty close though. Any poo. It's pretty crusty. And let's see how the operation changing bulbs is going to go. It's going to definitely need a good cleaning of the sockets for SMGs. Let's just see if these bulbs will even fit. I think I went natural with everything. Natural white. Okay. Well, I think the ones that protrude out going to fit, but these guys here uh might be a little more challenging. So, we'll have to figure that out when the time comes. Let's remove these rubbers and see how they feel. Sometimes they're gummy, sometimes they're stiff, sometimes they're spongy, and sometimes I literally have to take pliers to them, like on little posts, and squeeze them until they explode. I have documented that before. These are disgusting, though. and uh be happy to throw these out. There we go. Oh, wait. Hold on. One more. Hey, I was going to say, look, there's an LED in here. But that's cuz I installed that one from underneath. So, we got one top side LED done. How are these sockets looking? I just feel like I'm going to be fighting bulbs. on this machine for uh eternity. But there we go. Rubber's removed. All right, let's see how stubborn these guys are going to be. I ran into another hiccup. Like I want to remove all these posts to give them an ultrasonic cleaning. But um how am I supposed to remove this? It's not something I've seen before. There are a couple divots. So, is there some special tool that I can get in there and turn that? Another curve ball thrown at me by Interflip. Oh, shoot. There was a washer on that. Oh, now I got to really find that because if I don't, it's certain to short something out. So, let's not lose this washer. It's definitely uh not in good shape, but hopefully I can clean it up. Okay. All right. Who wants to play find the washer? First one to find it wins. All right. So, let's see. The hole that it fell in was here. Oh, maybe it's in the drop target bank. Lighting's not great, but that could be in there. Oo, it's really zoomed in. You're not going to find anything like that. All right. Uh, I think we all lose. I just wrote down lost a washer on my to-do list and was going to give up on it, but I thought I'd have one last look. And look at that. John Youssi it? Let's try and fish that out. There we go. Yay. We're all winners now. shenanigans we can't resist. Best YouTube channel you don't want to miss. No matter how you look at it.
All right, I removed the bulbs that I could. Pretty amazing condition. I managed to get them all out though with a little help of this guy. with scoop lids or roofs. It'll be good for the tumbler. The other lane guide and pretty much done. If I can figure out how to remove these posts, that would be helpful. Otherwise, I'll just have to clean them in place, which is not the end of the world, but ultrasonic cleaner would be ideal. So, that's where I'm at. And I'll just keep plucking away. I'm going to wrap up pretty soon, though. All right, let's remove this apron together and see what it looks like. Someone's already been under the hood because I removed the screws, and they're two different kinds. One's machine, one's wood. But let's see what we got under here. Is there clips? Yep. All right. Oh, not much. Fairly standard looking stuff. All stuff that's going to need a good cleaning. So, I will u take a couple photos. Oh, wow. Look at that rust. and free this guy up. Probably run this all through the tumbler. But, uh, yeah, there's that. Got the trough pieces removed. These screws felt like they were bent a little bit. And these holes, they're a little bit weird. It's like they drilled them in the wrong spot initially and had to redrill them. That one was fine. But I think the issue with this or part of the issue is that I feel like this um arm here is Whoops. bent down significantly. I think that uh that shouldn't have that downward angle. It should probably be straight, but what do I know? I'll have to throw a ball in there and find out. But most likely this pivot point at the very least is very um gummy. So I'll have to take this all apart, clean it, and then see what's going on with that. But I think I am going to wrap up this episode for now and I'll finish off on a gold ball note. Me and my buddy Amir, you may have met him in one of my videos. interesting character. Uh his nickname is Gold Balls. And uh we went to the slots again and I got a couple or one little clip of the action. So enjoy. Gold balls. Gold balls. Gold balls. Gold balls. So many gold balls. But we wanted more. What do we get? 3150. No, wait. Hold on. There's more balls. More gold balls. Come on. We need every last ball we can get. 3750.