Playfield Teardown and Cleaning A Bally 1985 Eight Ball Champ Pinball Machine - Great Condition!

[@midnightrunner0478]

Is this where we all comment about lights being out? Just kidding. It looks like another great game. I can’t wait to see how it turns out. Thanks for filming it. You didn’t have to do that.

[@markjackson1444]

I think the two most enduring themes for pinball would have to be Cards and Pool. This looks like it’s gonna be an awesome game to play. …great way to kick off December with Joe and Ronnie. Thanks guys.

[@ManChicken]

I have one of these sitting in my livingroom in pieces at the moment! Just got one of the NVRAM boards for it too.

[@EsotericArctos]

As much as I like all the technical stuff and all on the new machines, 1985 would probably be about the newest that I really like in pinball machines. I just feel the heyday of pinball was earlier and later ones just ended up with too many gimics in them. This one looks really great. Sure, you have ball swirls, but from the distance you are at when playing, it is barely noticeable. This one could almost go out on site with how good it looks. Thanks for showing this one off as it is, and I look forward to seeing it fully restored again.

[@LyonsArcade]

Yeah I'm kind of the same. I mean yeah I'd want a Twilight Zone or an Addams Family but these older ones are 'real' pinball to me. A lot of people don't like this particular era of games because they took a slight step back and simplified them again, but I kind of like the abberation there. There's a little bit of time there where they just tried to make good shooting games without many extras and they resembled the late 70's games a little bit because of it....

[@janderakaleroydavis]

When I was in high school, there was one that was in a bowling center. After our marching band night practice, several of us would go there and play games. A friend and I played it one Saturday night, we rolled it over a couple times. Longest game on one machine back then. Galaxy was another one we rolled over few years later at the arcade. Edit: one I was thinking of was Eightball Deluxe.

[@dnbreyen]

I FOUND IT! After seeing all the work you guys did on this, I wanted to find one in my area. Driving around town and using the pinball map app, I came across this machine in a record shop. Went out of my way to play it! Great game, will need to go back again.

[@dnbreyen]

Ron, you and Joe must really like that music! You guys work sooo fast when it’s on! Great shop Joe!

[@airbornelocksmith]

I really appreciate and love how you showed the cleaning and polish process yall uses. Even just the time laps is super helpful. Thanks

[@SamA-bi4ly]

Quit Talkin and Start Chalking was Cue Ball Wizard with the voice that sounds like Clint Eastwood

[@WreckDiver99]

...and now 53.2K! Go Ronnie Go! I remember this game. It was a lot of fun. I do like the older 8-Ball though, and would like one of those of my own...SWMBO said "NO". :(

[@naytch2003]

I don't have that problem anymore

[@WreckDiver99]

@@naytch2003 Congrats or my condolences...

[@naytch2003]

@@WreckDiver99 condolences..bowel cancer..Christmas ain't a happy time for me..I have 2 brothers like Ronnie does and they don't speak to me so..is what it is:)

[@WreckDiver99]

@@naytch2003 man, that's rough. Sorry to hear.

[@naytch2003]

@@WreckDiver99 shit happens:)

[@dnbreyen]

Nice Addams Family reference!

[@danijelcar5184]

Playfied looks nice!😎👍

[@chadmisner8356]

The ball flipper

[@naytch2003]

Nice looking game..trying to learn schematics etc off you Ronnie...starting to make sense slowly 😄

[@ziero1986]

Looks like a fun table. Great video. Thanks for the time you put into this stuff.

[@bootskanchelsis3337]

i play the hell out of this table on future pinball.

[@stephenvose6359]

Ron and Joe, I discovered your chanInel last year and have watch most of your repair videos. Great Stuff! Its inspired me to obtain my first pinball machine. I have an opportunity to purchase and Eight Ball Champ. However, the seller stated the machine has an intermittent reset problem. Are pcb repair and replacement resources readily available for this machine type?

[@LyonsArcade]

Yes the Bally stuff is pretty easy to work on, We have a couple video's of a eight ball champ on here also Thanks for watching, we appreciate it!

[@dnbreyen]

Wow Bally likes Pool themes. Eight Ball, 8 ball Deluxe, EBD SE, and this one.

[@saskia6750]

My brother in Utah owns one of these,loved playing it when new,but for me wasnt as appealing as Eight Ball Deluxe......which is probably one of my all time fave Bally 80s machines....Really looking forward to seeing this one being bought back to life again ! Thank you guys !! x

[@Nunya_Bidnez]

What a beautiful machine. I love it

[@LyonsArcade]

Yeah wait till you hear it :)

[@pl5624]

Always liked 8 ball deluxe.

[@markcnc]

Nice looking game field. Should be Good series. Oh yeah, CHANGE THE FREEKN BATTERY 😘

[@frankgagliano9677]

Great video, Joe did great a job on the playfield. Looks great. Can't wait to see the computer work. Thanks for filming Ronnie.

[@jasonsteverson4609]

Hey Ron!!

[@mattdixon2571]

Woot 2 new Videos in 2 day's!!! Got any more videos you have been Holding onto?

[@LyonsArcade]

Yesssir we have many many many of them :)

[@jamesjackson9383]

Have this game in my collection right now have had it for about a year, it is very unforgiving. I wouldnt say the shots are hard as much as the outlanes are gobblers. Love it though. The posts on the g shot get beat up pretty bad though, always gettting hit full force, mines a little wonky need to fix it soon

[@randywilliams9531]

You may have to repaint whole sections

[@MrClickbang357]

lOVE IT - "MAKE SURE YOU GIVE US A (BEBEEP THUMBS UP ... even the oinball agrees on the thumbs up111!!!

[@kelvinhoughton7953]

I regret selling my earlier but similar 8 ball Deluxe Ltd Edn that said 'Quit talking and start chalking'

[@BazerrkInsaneAsylum]

So how long did it take you to clean the playfield? And on average how long does it take if it isn't to bad? Basically a clean and wax no retouching with paint?

[@LyonsArcade]

Usually four or five hours, the longest part is cleaning each piece before you put it back on the playfield.

[@rickeymh]

How many plays on the counter do you consider excessive?

[@cadman10000]

Lol, he said "ball track" he he!

[@lovethebearded9506]

Did they ever make a pinball machine where the ball shooter was on the left side of the field?

[@jimkramer]

Hey Joe - are you going to sell this machine when you are finished? I'm interested.

[@lileveretteyoakumiii]

Yodelayheehoo

[@LyonsArcade]

Hello!

[@emprsnm9903]

_Sump pump, now w/Bluetooth!_

[@waynegram8907]

Joe's classic, on most pinball games when the battery is low it doesn't store letters or characters into the ram chip only certain games do cuz I would think that when the battery is low it would just store garbage and just anything I didn't know that only certain games store garbage and others don't it must be in the wrong programming that prevents that from happening I guess on certain games to be loading garbage into the NV ram?

[@paulclarke7571]

Wait a minute.....Joe disappears at 22:35 for a bit too long. Either lunch or a nap. ;)

[@darren1720]

Are pinball machines still quite a lot of America because not so much in UK now

[@LyonsArcade]

Do you mean are there a lot of them around? Yes they've kind of had a resurgence, they're in most bars and entertainment places now again.... and you can buy a lot of them they're for sale used and new, however the prices are through the roof. So there's quite a lot of them, and they're quite a lot of money! Thank you for watching Darren!

[@MRNBricks]

Ronnie, they’re playing ads for Alibaba on your videos. Come on now.

[@LyonsArcade]

I can't tell if they just don't understand, or if they're actively trying to resist, LOL Hey sometimes you have to buy China, you can't afford any better or they're the only ones that make it so I get it. I have people use Amazon, at least on there you can get SOME U.S. made stuff....