Dan Fixes Coin-Ops4d ago

I need to find the thread where I bought this thing but I think it might've been two servers ago. Very long story made very short: I got a Firepower for $250
* Although the backglass survived, its head was destroyed so thoroughly that I ended up fabricating a new one from scratch
* The boards have gnarly battery damage
* The playfield art was roached beyond even the most optimistic hope of repair (and I've restored playfields with a LOOOOOOT of mouse piss soaked in) so I got a still-fucked-but-less playfield and restored that instead

Anyway I started the underside today. All that stuff has to come off and get put on the new playfield

Show threadDan Fixes Coin-Ops4d ago

The sheer Volume of wire in this thing

Fun fact: if you took all the wire out of an 80's-era pinball machine and laid each piece end to end in one straight line, I'd be really mad at you

Show threadDan Fixes Coin-Ops4d ago
Alright, it is done, all the stuff is off the playfield leaving only the GI braid behind
Show threadDan Fixes Coin-Ops4d ago
If the new playfield already had its GI braid in position we could just schwuff all that stuff over to the new playfield and start screwing/soldering it down, but I gotta transfer the braid too. So for now everything's in a big pile inside the cabinet
Show threadDeborah Pickett
@ifixcoinops There’s a subreddit of volunteers who will untangle that for you, I discovered this week.
May 27 at 9:42pmWeb