Williams "Lady Luck" circa 67ish was my favorite EM game growing up! Love this channel, keep up the great content!
@LyonsArcade2 жыл бұрын
I own one of those, one of these days I'll do some videos of it when we fix it. It's in ROUGH shape though :) We'll save it eventually. Thank you for watching Skully!
@davidgreer47902 жыл бұрын
I love old-school electronics. Conceivably you could rebuild nearly any component in the machine.
@LyonsArcade2 жыл бұрын
Yup, once you learn how they work they're much easier to fix than any of the others mainly because there's not much to them that can't be repaired or replaced...
@markjackson14442 жыл бұрын
The washer on the flipper shaft is a quick, easy and effective solution to scraping flippers. I’ve also done this several times and it just works a treat. Not everything on a pinball has to be a big, complicated deal. Great job, Ronnie.
@heppo623 күн бұрын
Love all your pinball videos. I just bought a very beautiful Grand Prix. It has problems with the left bonus lights and bonus points. With your helpful videos I am sure to be able to fix it. Thanks.
@fred_derf2 жыл бұрын
I've been in the hospital! Hasn't stopped me from keeping up on your epic pinball repair series -- in fact it's one of the things that keep me from going insane due to boredom. Thanks Ron, Joe and anyone else involved.
@LyonsArcade2 жыл бұрын
Thank you for watching Fred, hope you're back on the mend!
@smittyt414ify2 жыл бұрын
Ha! I just got out of the hospital and agree. Only thing is I bet your hospital is a lot better than my hospital. Take care!
@gregm14572 жыл бұрын
I've seen simpler schematics on old elevator controllers :) very cool pinball machine, thanks!
@gorillaau2 жыл бұрын
I have seen less switches in a small country telephone exchange. :-P
@SpearM30642 жыл бұрын
That's a nice machine. Unlike a lot of other EM pinball machines, I actually remember this one, probably because (as you pointed out) it came out so close to the first solid state machines. I played it in the arcade at a KOA Kampgrounds in Oklahoma. EDIT: I can just imagine if Joe owned a Motel 6 with a pinball arcade. "Joe's Motel 6: We'll keep the lights turned OFF for you." 🤣
@LyonsArcade2 жыл бұрын
Damn Skippy :) I just played a pinbot with the lights on for a video, it was like torture. The game literally is half as fun with the lights on, people must be touched or something if they like them better with the lights on WTF
@MrRTVtech2 жыл бұрын
34:46 "And i caught it!" This is why i'm addicted to your video's. Troubleshooting 2.0! 👍👍👍
@PlasticImaginationWorkshop2 жыл бұрын
Excellent video, thanks for recording this. Have a great day.
@LyonsArcade2 жыл бұрын
Thank you Plastic Imagination Workshop, we appreciate you watching!
@richardsensabaugh13122 жыл бұрын
Wow, that was a tricky one! The old switch the rotor trick and they maid the same mistake not once but twice! You found it quick too. Very good grasshopper. Very gooood.....
@LyonsArcade2 жыл бұрын
It's fun when you track one down. We've been working on a Pinbot lately and found a bunch of weird stuff people had done to it...
@bogleman2 жыл бұрын
Love the content and electromagical explanations. Old school mechanical workings; visually you can see what is wrong, new stuff just replace the board. PS request for Come on people shirt; LOL every time you get going
@cthlhu2 жыл бұрын
another great video! Ron you brought back a classic from the pits to the checkered flag! Awesome job.
@LyonsArcade2 жыл бұрын
We're getting there, thanks for watching!
@arnaudmorand71833 ай бұрын
Th1nk's for these video. This is my pinball 🎉
@jamesf17952 жыл бұрын
Thanks for filming it !
@LyonsArcade2 жыл бұрын
Thank you James we appreciate you watching man
@DonnyHooterHoot2 жыл бұрын
LOL! You said Motorola! I heard you. Great Video!
@LyonsArcade2 жыл бұрын
I don't have anything against Motorola, they're a good company :)
@DonnyHooterHoot2 жыл бұрын
@@LyonsArcade Oh I love Motorola they made my old Amiga computer possible!
@pauz21752 жыл бұрын
Learned a lot on this one. Thank you sir.
@LyonsArcade2 жыл бұрын
Thanks for watching as always Pauz!
@kandyvickers2626 Жыл бұрын
This game was in my Dads store back in 1979.
@edptrs90402 жыл бұрын
Nice, thank you. Notice the drop target mechanisms look a lot like Chicago Coin. Interesting
@LyonsArcade2 жыл бұрын
I haven't paid much attention to the Chicago Coin ones but I'll remember to check that out when we get to this Rawhide we're going to be working on soon... I wonder if the Sam Stern connection had anything to do with that? (was the president of Williams, then bought Chicago Coin years later)
@simondempsey12 жыл бұрын
As you said Ron a very complex EM. Looks good and sounds great. Nearly done now. Nicely repaired.
@LyonsArcade2 жыл бұрын
next video we're going to figure out the bonus units once and for all
@NotsureOk2 жыл бұрын
Awesome it's alive:)
@LyonsArcade2 жыл бұрын
It's getting there :) Thanks for watching A Janitor!
@Petri5472 жыл бұрын
Nice video. I like lot of these old EM.s Keep up your good work.
@LyonsArcade2 жыл бұрын
Thanks Petri547!
@kandyvickers2626 Жыл бұрын
I own this game it is a fun game to play.
@KentDiego2 жыл бұрын
Great video. Learned a few new things. Never saw a washer in Williams flippers. I think the real issue was the bent foot you discovered. I would have just bought new flippers but the washer worked too. Looking forward to next video.
@LyonsArcade2 жыл бұрын
It dragged at the bushing, not just at the end so it wasn't from being bent... I think that style of flipper must be for a different machine that has a different bushing that sticks through another 1/16" or so.... Thanks for watching Kent!
@yuwish63202 жыл бұрын
I think I posted it in another video. But I'll repeat here for other viewers who may not have seen it. Contact cleaner is great for friction switches, like linear volume sliders. It doesn't do well on simple post contacts like relays. Ron's got it right using some sort of mild abrasive to clean relay contacts.
@EsotericArctos2 жыл бұрын
I am wondering if the same switch you messed with on the left Bonus is faulty / misadjusted on the right bonus unit. It seems it works when it is using the left unit, but not when it switches to the right unit. I agree with you on the contact cleaner in this situation. I think you need an abrasive cleaner when they are this sort of switch. Contact cleaner is more for switches you can't physically clean due to them being sealed o difficult to access. I will watch the rest of the video now and see how things go :).
@paulvernon41602 жыл бұрын
An alternative to those sanding blocks would be an old fashioned double ended eraser, the one end was made for fountain pens, it contained abrasive and actually rubbed the paper away, ideal for hard to get to places and uneven surfaces
@LyonsArcade2 жыл бұрын
You could also use sandpaper, that would be great for thinner clearances
@doctoribanez2 жыл бұрын
I was thinking about one to polish guitar frets
@samuelcolvin49942 жыл бұрын
Those spinner units vaguely remind me of 8-track track changer units...
@patrickradcliffe38372 жыл бұрын
As much as I love watching these videos, my suggestions is get a video capture setup for when you're referencing schematics on your computer instead shaky cam'ing it. My favorites have been the astroids repair and bride of pinbot.
@LyonsArcade2 жыл бұрын
I won't be doing that, thank you for watching though!
@scottgm3212 жыл бұрын
I may have missed it, but did you ever find out where that broken switch, that was laying in the cabinet , came from? Love the trouble shooting and solutions. Thanks for the video.
@LyonsArcade2 жыл бұрын
No I never found where it went.... it looked just like the brake switch on a score motor but it wasn't from this machine. Maybe they're reproducing when nobody's around????
@pcachu2 жыл бұрын
@@LyonsArcade When a mommy brake switch and a daddy brake switch love each other very much...
@vincediesil2 жыл бұрын
The more videos I watch, the more I think I might be learning how to actually read the schematics. Thanks! I've only been watching your videos for about a year, have you ever said how you got into fixing these machines?
@LyonsArcade2 жыл бұрын
When I was a teenager my brother and me used to go to the arcade all the time, one day they had a game for sale in the back so we called our dad and he said we could buy it and he'd come pick it up in our van. So we had an arcade game in our house as kids, it broke, we figured out how to turn it into another game and then years later I saw an ad in the paper for a job collecting money from arcade games. I sent in my resume and they liked that I had one at my house, hired me, and I learned a lot more working for them running a route with stuff breaking all the time. As the time went on I worked on more and more of them, bought more, etc. and eventually started making videos. Thanks for watching Vince!
@vincediesil2 жыл бұрын
@Joe's Classic Video Games Cool story! I gotta know what was the game you dragged home?
@davidewhite692 жыл бұрын
Williams really cheaped out on playfield 'art' in that era. that said, Spinners are probably my favourite pinball feature. especially with advancing lights
@LyonsArcade2 жыл бұрын
Your comment sucks. That said, I like spinners too
@Jeroen_a2 жыл бұрын
@25:11 would a (permanent) marker work to mark the plastic thing and the shaft?
@LyonsArcade2 жыл бұрын
Absolutely, that's what people do a lot of times but for whatever reason they never marked this one when they took it off! Thanks for watching Jeroen!
@deborahchesser73752 жыл бұрын
There’s a machine that was notorious in my circle for eating quarters without many rewards. It had a red turntable type component in the middle and made it impossible to judge the balls direction after it came off that spinning disc. If you figure out which one it is I’d love to see a vid on that beast.
@gopernoperstrains31609 ай бұрын
Might have been a Bally Fireball or a Williams Triple Action
@deborahchesser73759 ай бұрын
@@gopernoperstrains3160 Fireball ! I think that’s it ! Oh yeh Gorgar was badass and The Black Knight also Funhouse what great old machines.
@ocsrc2 жыл бұрын
The balls wind up all the way on the right and left an awful lot going down those out chutes, where they drop into the drain
@LyonsArcade2 жыл бұрын
Good point, you watched the whole video and found something you don't like.
@ocsrc2 жыл бұрын
@@LyonsArcade I just noticed that it seems like they built it like that. Some games do that a lot more than others. I wonder if they were designed to do that. If the economics change or the vendors get requests for machines that don't play as long. On video games a lot of them have difficulty settings in the dip switches or software. So if an arcade wants people playing shorter games, having to spend more, the company or vendor might have had a sheet that said these three pinball machines have the shortest play time because the ball goes in the out holes quicker. I don't know if they did that, but it makes sense they would have to please their buyers It is a great game, with a lot of cool features.
@elysiom_original2 жыл бұрын
The washer is a good quick fix but I wonder if it's got the wrong bushings installed - like from a Bally or some other machine.
@LyonsArcade2 жыл бұрын
You must have skipped the part where I put new bushings in :)
@waynegram89072 жыл бұрын
JOES CLASSIC, I'm confused why does the Bonus Unit have 3 coils instead of 2 coils? Coil#1 steps up advances up the bonus unit, Coil#2 resets the bonus unit one step back, Coil#3 resets the whole bonus unit. I'm just not understanding why they added a 3rd coil when most Bonus Units have 2 coils. What do you mean by when the pinball game is computing or counting because "without" the score reels the score motor would just be sending impulses so the only thing that is keeping track of the score motor impulses is the score reels. So really there is nothing really computing or counting because its just impulses sending to the score reels. The Score reels is what is counting all the score motor impulses? nothing else is sending impulses to the score reels to count only the score motor?
@robertsaw8412 жыл бұрын
Hey Ron, really enjoying your videos! I love your relaxed style of teaching. You've given me the confidence to buy my first pinball which should turn up in a few weeks! Do you know where I could find the schematics for a Williams Teachers Pet? I feel i'm going to need it! Big thumbs up from London England
@LyonsArcade2 жыл бұрын
I have never seen that one, but that's my style of game. I like those the best. I'd have to order the schematics to fix that one, they don't have them on IPDB.org which has a lot of the Williams ones... you can order new ones for about 15 bucks from www.PBResource.com though, they have pretty much every schematic. Here's the thing though, although you'll be at a little bit of a disadvantage because it's your first game, as you probably know they're all similar, especially by the same company around the same time. for instance, schematics are online for "Full House" which came out 3 months after that one... www.ipdb.org/machine.cgi?id=961 Lots of the main 'workings' will be exactly the same as Full House, since they're both Williams 1 players made 3 months apart, they were probably sitting on the line next to each other. The two player and four player games will be fairly different though. We did a video on that one too, I really like that era of game. kzbin.info/www/bejne/b4PVamZrZ5yYfpY Thanks for watching!
@robertsaw8412 жыл бұрын
@@LyonsArcade Ah thanks so much! Great info, and very appreciated. I can't wait to get started. Thanks again for the in-depth reply. Have a great day
@douro202 жыл бұрын
Looks like a game targeted to girls.
@bobcorwin93144 ай бұрын
Where is the best place to buy parts for this machine?
@GHILLIESARCADEANDMORE2 жыл бұрын
Cool
@katenunyabizness92212 жыл бұрын
It was probably Joe that screwed them up ;-)
@LyonsArcade2 жыл бұрын
He doesn't mess with the pinballs much :)
@lileveretteyoakumiii2 жыл бұрын
Yodelayheehoo
@robertcecil73292 жыл бұрын
Come on, now, people. :D
@AaronYeoman2 жыл бұрын
Wow first comment. Can't wait to catch up on this 👍