Can I get my old Junior High School scoreboard to work again?

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@JimmyZNJ Ай бұрын

We had the same scoreboard in my elementary school's gymnasium back in the 70's. Brings back fond memories! Thanks for sharing!!

@wmspins Ай бұрын

Pretty cool! I've known of you for years but never gave you enough credit for your ingenuity and ability to make things work. The fact that you make boards and controllers for this old stuff is amazing to me. Some real pieces of history there and I'm just sorry they didn't let you live out the idea for that space. Looking forward to next week already!

@uzi1951 Ай бұрын

You truly are an amazing Man.

@aaronbrandenburg2441 Ай бұрын

That power supply for the scoreboard control box that almost reminds me of the old ones used back in the day of when some telephones had the dials and you often see a small transformer like this plugged in somewhere oftentimes in the basement or otherwise and feeding power for a delay of dials on the telephones to the extra pair of wires. I remember once I got what seemed like a metric ton of those things from someone. If I remember there were six 6 volts ac. We're quite useful for various things being a maker and always building things. However there were some similar ones for other things and I'm not sure if indeed the one in in the video was a dial Transformer but it may be and considering about the size and look of it and what looks like almost like screw terminals those notches on the back of the power supply reminds me of this. definitely old school. I remember building little boxes to do things like that and much the same manner toggle switches indicators and so on build one off. Even getting something going for someone that may have just been displayed peace and to make it work even under manual control. And yes once build a scoreboard controller myself. Oh yeah somebody built this custom game machine as well add access to water pinball stuff as well and wanted to see if I could build some type of scoring system for him you better bet score reels and stepper units and everything help them out with the electromechanical portion of the game. It was so wacky I don't remember what it was really it was like every single mechanical game thrown into one it's more like sort of a Rube Goldberg game than anything Park pinball part something else and something else and something else that sort of thing. I bet you're a 10th of the wait of the thing was just power supply of course all Oddball stuff since nothing was designed to work together add to throw so many relays at that because of different voltages it was ridiculous. And of course half that stuff was not even designed for just relays and sockets everywhere right there was always stacks of relays if you could say just mounted on liberals wooden boards that could be lifted out just to do this the standard Ice Cube relays. But yet everything fully documented it took about 2 years to even get the thing even electrically operational one of a kind and it was also a bit of not just a game but it had some amusement stuff as well there was a one-off figure that could move and stuff too and was able to pick up and drop a ball in more than one spot it was just more to make things more interesting I think that was actually based on some sort of moving Christmas ornament if I'm not mistaken I don't think it was a Santa Claus but it was something else it was like an animal perhaps a penguin

@aaronbrandenburg2441 Ай бұрын

6:31 speaking of the buzzer. I remember at one of the schools I think it was one of the elementary ones cannot remember. What school or which grade or whatever. There was a junction box with a pretty hefty push button switch on the wall what this was you know there was no scoreboard this was used as the buzzer for games. Didn't get much use mostly people fooling around with it. Is an old gray I believe it was AT&T branded perhaps one of the others one one might refer to as a Claxton horn and it was a non-fire service I know this for sure. Regions Bank I didn't need to work on this one's for them. Somehow that nice heavy push button switch got destroyed cannot believe that it actually broke. Took care of the buzzer turns out it was not reliable anymore it had been used enough that the contacts were shot and pretty much burned up at times would be barely even a whimper versus 0410 or just sit there and Buzz at you as in loud 60 hertz hum. And the Transformer was baked undersized not sure what else is served but it did serve other low voltage equipment in the area I discovered it wasn't just a clue that there was Warren going elsewhere too long ago to remember everything however I know part of that was some low voltage switching and more my gas is hey we've got a transformer for one thing why not do everything with one Transformer kind of thing. There was also a pilot light that was always on at least until the bulb burned out I think at one point it was meant to call attention to something or other never did figure out what it was connected to. Also something intriguing my parents old church there were doorbells in the upstairs classrooms that were used for Sunday schools oftentimes however they were in the closets which is weird I'm thinking at one time it might have been sort of as a bell sort of like used like a school bell but unsure never did find what these were for and or where they were activated from the office up there but there's all sorts of things that were discombobulated give me some of those wires went to a button but later on I did find a button that was on on a wooden base with a nice cord and some sort of unidentified connector I suspect that might have been for this. Oh and yeah well I'm at it there is an old signal system that was kind of built like this control box for the scoreboard. The system was built with the old low voltage lighting relays to control freelance on 3 or 4 different boxes thread throughout the place possibly more of them. Powered by an old 24 volt another voltages multiple Transformer. Three momentary toggle switches on each essentially push it up light comes on on all of them but just the light above the switch. All three were controlled separately. Even happened to find the schematic for this. This of course was taken out when the construction was done and of course this got saved and salvation in the end. My father actually suggested keeping everything intact possibly using it for some practical purposes in the end wound up just using the parts was more valuable than the whole. And yes I remember old buildings that had the exit lights that were just literally costing illuminated 24-volt pilot light in red and having that narrow plate with that in the metal door jambs and having the room light switch on there as well all power button same system very much obsolete got a bunch of stuff from those systems as well always was getting stuff from different places and people it's always fun to see what somebody brings you