Week of 5/18

Shop cleaning
I rearranged in the shop and pulled a few games out and took them up to the storage location.  It is nice to have some room to work for a change.

Dr Who
The motor came in and I started to replace it before getting pulled into something else.  It is almost back together.  I need to search the game itself to see if I can find some of the missing screws from the assembly.


Skee Ball
Moved nine balls back into the proper lanes.

Movie Stop
I pulled this one off location this week.  When I went to collect from the location, I found it unplugged.  When I asked why I was told if I wanted it plugged back in I had to give them a new game.  With the narrrow doorway at this location and poor earnings it was
an easy decision to make and just tell them I will be picking up my game instead.  It was interesting to see the person that most likely caused the situation with try to talk me out of it.  I was in and out of the location with my game in under five minutes.

Touch Tunes Jukebox
I pulled this one out of storage and Plugged it in to see if I could find the reason for the intermittent lockups.  I left it do its updates and put it in free play mode and have been playing it in the shop and it hasn't locked up yet.

Jackpot Crossing
Someone has started peeling the laminate off the side of the game.  I glued it back on. 

Space Jam
I got a call from a former manager from an old location, he was looking for a cheap display for his Space Jam Pinball.  He went on to tell me about how he was trying to sell it and had a guy that said he would buy it but then saw that there was a line out in the display and back out of the deal.  We talked for a bit and he offered the game to me at a great price so I bought it.  It isn't the greatest game in the world but I frequently have locations that want a Pinball machine along with other games and it doesn't make sense most of the time to buy a $6000 game for what is pretty much a filler piece.  So, I am always happy to buy games like this one.  It is dirty and needs some work but it should clean up well and work fine for what I need it for.


Skee Ball
I moved four balls back into the proper lanes.
I installed the display board that I had worked on, held my breath and powered it up.  It came right up and looked good.  I had to replace one bulb but there was no fireworks or sparks, so the Skee Ball techician was right about what part I needed.
On a side note I did find out that a powered off Skee Ball lane with an out of order sign on it and no display installed in it can still pull in decent money per week. It irrates me knowing how hard I try to keep the games up and running and find out that clearly non working equipment still brings in almost as much as non working.

Air Hockey
I found and cleaned some sort of sticky substance off the surface.

Drill O Matic
It was doing the standard start and make the grinding noise and repeat process again.  I reseated the power cable and it came back up but started to dump out all of the tickets.  I powered it off and did the jackpot reset trick and the game then seemed fine.  It really is time for this game to move out.  I am looking for redemption games to replace it and a couple of others.  But for now it is OK.

Shaq Attaq
I found a coin jam caused by a folded up ticket being in the coin slot.  It took forever to fish the ticket out.  I was close to pulling the coin door apart to get it loose when I managed to finally get it out.  I decided that I should carry some spring hooks in my tool bag to make this process easier. 

Johnny Nero
In an effort to keep the guns from getting smashed, I had run the hoses through the gun holders to keep them from hitting the ground.  What is happening now is that the kids are grabbing the gun hoses and pulling them till the guns smash into the holders.  It looks like I need a better solution but I have decided that this will be the last gun game that I am putting in this location.  I don't know what changed but the kids at this location, just won't leave the guns alone on the games and it results in enough damage and time spent repairing the damage that it makes no sense to put them there anymore.

Corvette Pinball
I pulled the racetrack out and installed the replacement boards that I bought at the Allentown Pinfest from Great Plains Modular.  The install was OK, I had to bend one connector a bit to clear the one part but nothing bad at all.  I put it back into the game and powered it up and went into the track test and it failed.  Then I remembered to close the coin door and it worked perfectly.  I did take the opportunity to repair the screw holes that hold part of the track down with some wood putty, the holes had gotten enlarged and the screws weren't holding at all.  Once that dries, I will install the screws and see if that holds.  This game needs shopped, I hadn't noticed it on location but there is some dirt tracks on the playfield in hard to reach locations.  I'll put it on my never ending list of games that need shopped.