Week of 3/16/2014

Skee Ball
I found one lane with a huge coin jam in it.  After digging out the quarters, I found pennies and nickels at the bottom of the jam.
I moved eight balls back into the proper lanes.

Toy Taxi Crane
It was rejecting all quarters.  I took the acceptor apart expecting to find a redemption ticket but I didn't find anything.  But when I put it back together it all worked.

Johnny Nero Action Hero
I just picked this game up in a trade deal and I am getting it ready for location.  It needs the standard cleaning, lock changing and bulb replacement.  It doesn't need a whole lot of work but I spent a few hours on it and I still need a way to stop the guns from hitting the floor. The location where it is going to has a lot of problems with damage to the games and if I don't protect the guns I will be replacing them in a few days usage.

Megatouch
I'm almost finished with the swap.  I've moved everything over and it works well but I still need to do some minor things like hook up the coin switches and coin door lights.  The old cabinet is ready to be disposed.

Skee Ball
I moved three balls back into the proper lanes

Rowe Change Machine
The Out of service light was on.  The status lights indicated that the P4 sensor was blocked, I pulled out the bill transport and found a redemption ticket in the path.  I removed the ticket and the changer worked fine after that.

Corvette Pinball
I found it with an out of order sign on it.  The upper flipper wasn't working but I spent a few minutes working on it and got it working.  The flipper needs rebuilt, pretty much all of the moving parts on it are badly worn.  Which is strange as I rebuilt it before I put it out on location and the other flippers don't show anywhere near the amount of wear that flipper has.  The weather is looking good for the next couple of days so I will just swap it out for another game as I have been trying to do for the past few months.  The weather has been preventing me from doing the swap.

Slam A Winner
I replaced the part that had broken.  One of the simplest fixes I have had to do in a while.  You just pull off three clips and slide the part out and put the new in.  The only minor difficult part was finding the holes for the clips in the new part.  While I was at it I also replaced the seven balls in the game with new ones.  The old balls didn't appear worn until I put them beside the new balls and it was pretty obvious which balls were the new ones and which were the old ones.  The new balls bounce around a lot more than the old ones did.

Western Train
Someone had put a ticket into the coin slot, it was just out of reach, I had to pull the coin mech out and push the ticket down through the coin slot to remove it.

Golden Tee Complete
Someone had stuffed around ten tickets into the Bill Acceptor.  I pulled the acceptor apart and cleared them out.  As usual the acceptor wouldn't go back online after pulling it apart.  I don't know if it is the acceptor or the game but this game frequently has an issue where the bill acceptor won't come back online after being serviced.  A power reset clears it up.

Garage clean up.
Since the weather has finally started to warm up, I can do some work in the garage where I store the unused games.  I spent a few hours moving games around and when I was done, the garage looked even worse.  I need to either get rid of some of the games or find some storage to house them.