I usually wait till the wax fully dries before rubbing it in. then I"ll play immediately. In this case it was a few hours as after I waxed I had to leave to do some stuff outside of my house. but usually once the wax dries and I rub it in I play. I also got a tip from a famous pinball clear coating guy, use maquires quick wax (spray in a red bottle) every few month (in my case I use it whenever I remove the glass for any reason) it really keeps the games playing fast and nice. I usually don't do a regular wax except I always wax a new game before plyaing. and maybe once a year I"ll do a full wax, the maquires spray quick wax (in the red bottle) really is quite amazing. That was one of the best tips I ever got in terms of keeping things nice.

the maquires is just like wiping it down, it only takes like 2 minutes.

The timing resolution (X axis) adjustment, basically made each grid block a smaller time frame so you could see the fast movement. If you have an o-scope and are not used to it check out some of the learning to use an oscope videos on you tube (I don't have any) it will REALLY REALLY help you out. just need the basics. and very important practice on some known good signals (like clocks on a working board) before trying to repair a board, otherwise you'll be fightingg your tool rather than having it help you. It really really really really one of the best uses of your time to make you maximize your tool.

@arcade-cabinets thank you for the info! I have done all my repairs with just a logic probe, i bought the siglent sds1104x-e almost 2 years ago, just seemed like alot so i never messed with it up until now, "IN TRAINING" lol

@@jeremylester6537 it is one of the best tools you can have and I suggest you use it! but you do need to spend some time learning the tool or it will just cause confusion. spend 1-2 hours getting the feel of it and it will increase your repair ability 100x no joke.

@@MrTimsWorldTV nope I lost it years ago after a computer clean up / migration sorry.

@@arcade-cabinets I wonder if this can be emulated correctly on modern hardware

@@MrTimsWorldTV there's no need to emulate it. it's x86 it can run directly on hardware or virtualized. you just need to either add support for the hardware you use or use hardware it supports. The easiest way is to actually buy one of their USB IO boards and try to buy an old video card etc that's already supported. I have another video where I built one out of older hardware that was already supported using their IO board and stand alone monitor with 3M touch controller. monitors with supported touch controllers could be bought cheaply (like $99) a few years ago (like pre covid) and the IO boards can be picked up on ebay. with truly modern hardware it's an issue of getting centos 5.x to install on it and supporting the video card and tricking the installer to like your motherboard as if I recall they were hardcoded or used a list of boards that the software "knew" about and were allowed. I think I have a video on that somewhere... I could be wrong though I"ve lost track of the stuff I did back then

no they should never be pulsing when the game is fully working. only when the game is NOT working. if a game is NOT working AND it's NOT pulsing you probably have a timing chain (sync) issue or something related and it DEFINITELY needs to be fixed.

@@arcade-cabinets but at 4:00 you say the reset is good ...and its toggling..correct? You adjust the timing and it shows reset going hi/low repeatedly.

@@markherring3513 ah that means the reset circuit is acting properly (but the board is bad). Basically when fixing a board that's bad (at least in regards to the CPU/ not specifically the graphics or sound etc) the reset SHOULD be pulsing. When a board is working correctly it will NOT be pulsing. But a known broken board that is NOT pulsing means the RESET circuit is broken and it won't work correctly usually. so that should first be diagnosed. as the reset circuit fires ONCE a millisecond or so after the power is stable. without that signal it will not work correctly (usually sometimes you get lucky but often will have inconsistent results when turning on) TL;DR: broken game: reset SHOULD toggle, once game is fixed: it should NOT toggle BUT if a game is broken and its NOT toggling that reset circuit is broken and MUST be repaired before going any further

@@arcade-cabinets Thanks..i'll have to re-read this about 5 times to get it haha. So a working board will have a pegged HI reset? For example on an Asteroids, a working asteroids board the reset should not be pulsing and pegged hi?

correct. that said just because a board has high doesn't reset doesn't mean it's (the board in general) working. for example if the reset circuit itself is broken it might be high. So basically if a board is not working, a good thing to do is remove the CPU (Which will cause it to "Break") and make sure the reset circuit starts toggling. if it does not, you've probably found the issue to fix. (though might have more issues too ;)

I like zeppelin (premium) I don’t think it’s anything like high speed or HS2 or most other Steve r games thya usually have the same loops and center smash thing . Shots and fun and fast and flows amazing pretty open which is a change from his normal pit a smash thing dead center and the electric magic is a nice addition. (I guess it’s kind of a center thing but not a smasher) It’s a fun game.

It really does I’m also Amazed how most games play. For the most part when they run fast enough the physics really do match well I guess phsysics/math is math but it’s just surprised me how realistic most games are to their physical counterparts in terms of shots

There's no orange peel on this playfield?!? I mean it's not glass like a Buthamburg playfield which is like a pane of glass, but it's like any other Stern game it actually seems a bit better. I could care less about the toys or blades (I like mirror blades anyway, though I was surprised there was no mirror blades, or why the shooter rod didn't have a bond 60th plate which was weird, but This is one of the greatest shooters I've played ever.

thank you

honestly I don't remember. That said if it's not on youtube it's not on patreon. I no longer do patreon videos as it wasn't worth the hassle to maintain the two different things.

very cool I did not know that it could do othat, thank you. that said I don't really fix stuff anymore, but super good to know

Thx. I definitely enjoy the old games there’s something cool about them.

I don’t think I still have it