Legs

Posted: 23 April 2012 | Author: | Filed under: Devil Riders, General | Tags: , , , , | 2 Comments »

So now that I moved to my new place and I invited a bunch of friends over for a little house-warming, I found the need to get my pinball machines in my little game-room. The installation of the Pinball Champ was easy enough, but when I wanted to set up the Devil Riders I noticed that I hadn’t started on the legs yet.

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Legs before cleaning

So I quickly got out my metal sponge (the one you use after failed cooking experiments 😉 ) and got to work.

The rust came off very easily and in a matter of a few hours this was the result:
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Legs after cleaning

I got some new levelers and chrome leg bolts and now the Devil Riders is back on it’s feet again.

Now if only I could get that bloody CPU board to work again…

Humpty Dumpty back together again

Posted: 18 October 2011 | Author: | Filed under: Cabinet, Pinball Champ '82, Playfield | Tags: , , , , | Leave a comment »

It’s starting to look like a pinball machine agian!

I’ve put the playfield back together and noticed that the left top flipper didn’t work and the right top flipper was weak. A quick pass with some sanding paper between the leaf contacts and they’re both tiptop again.

Playfield completed

Here are some detail shots. Remember, I’m making this pinball playable, not perfect.

Playfield detail

Playfield detail

Playfield detail

Then I turned my attention to the neck. In my previous post I mentioned I was going to use a toothbrush to get the white spots in the black paint, but when I was at the store to get some more ground paint for the legs, I saw a black paint spray can that already had the white spots in it. It’s called “Granit” effect. So I bought a can and here is the result. I used one coat of black and one coat of the “Granit” black.

Neck

Neck detail

Neck detail

I like it!

Next where the legs. I got the two back legs back from the blacksmith and they were perfect (at a cost of an amazing 5€!). So I sanded them down, gave them a base coat, two coats of glossy black and new levelers (with rubber protectors).

Legs sanded

Legs primed

I also had a look at all the ground wires. NONE of them were connected in the transformer casing. That’s fixed now, my hair no longer reaches for the sky when I press the flipper buttons 😀

So I’m almost there, but not quite. The CPU board still needs work and the driver board still needs a thorough overhaul. In the mean time here’s a picture of where I am now.

The result so far.