Schematics - Repairing A Few Issues On A 1976 Bally Captain Fantastic Pinball Machine!

ladies and gentlemen this is joe's classic video games back with another cool pinball repair video for you this evening we have been working on this fantastic captain fantastic pinball machine and the brown dirt cowboy i always want to say dirk brown cowboy and the brown dirt cowboy based on his uh album of the same name and his appearance in the movie the wizard is a very collectible machine we've been working through it and have done several videos on it so if you haven't watched those yet go back and check them out or you won't know where we're at we're right in the middle of things here but if you have watched all those videos here on our channel then you are in luck because we're finally to the video where we actually fixed the thing now we've done a video where we showed the shape it was in when we got it and we worked through the mech board on the bottom and then we did a video where we worked on the back box the lights behind the back glass the back glass is in perfect shape didn't have to work on it and worked on the insert panel uh with score reels and all of that in the back box so that was all cool and we did one where we worked underneath the play field there was all kinds of screwed up stuff under there we got it all cool and then we did one where we worked on the play field and we repainted part of it and all of that and i think there might even been another video in there somewhere we've done several people but we are now up to we're going to fix it so all of this time it hasn't worked when we first got it we plugged it up and we tried to start it just to see what the customer would be dealing with on their end and what happens is it resets the score reels and then it immediately goes the game over it's been doing this for five videos now and so as i cleaned everything the score motor the the score reels all of the relays the game over relay all of that crap right i never fixed it i cleaned everything and kept kept messing with stuff but i didn't try to look it up and figure out what the problem might be so just just by going through and cleaning everything we did not rectify the problem it still got the same problem so i'm going to write i'm going to show you exactly what it's doing um everything's on zero because of the last time we did it but let me let me add some let me add some points here there we go well somehow it it rang three times i think but we only got two thousand points what's up with that how'd that happen so we might have to look into that but here's what happens when you hit start okay so watch the scores reset watch it says first player one player can play will light up down here it might say ball one or something and then it goes to game over oh come on well now we know our problem with why we only got it twice the real hung so that's our first problem okay so the way it resets is there is a switch there on the stack see the one that says eight that you can see it's not lined up like the other ones that's the second reel uh there is a switch there in the middle the middle switch is the reset one so i don't think it was quite how it ought to be i don't think it was quite right let's try that again all right so it just shows you even us people that have done it a few times don't get it perfect the first time all right so the game over thing so let's do it again and you see what i'm saying just go straight into game over we get some of our lights on the play field okay straight to game over so that's our that's our main problem that's what it's been doing all of this time all right so uh i have a pad of paper here we're going to write down what's wrong with it and then go through and fix it there are a couple things that i already knew were wrong with it from earlier videos so one is this flipper needs adjusted it's just hanging a little bit flipper is hanging now this is uh our paper from our buddy mr mingus down the road here he has a printing company he prints paper stuff he always brings us by extras so we appreciate that all right so there's that and then there is uh there is a wire down in the bottom that came out of the jones plug jones plug wire i need some kind of connector i can put on it you could just solder it together but i want to have some kind of connector where it can be removed i'll show you that here in a little bit and then there was a wire for the counter right and then another thing if you didn't watch the previous videos someone has hacked this baby look what they did they cut the freaking stand up switches for the kickers they cut them short and then they put three sets of freaking rings on it they had rings all the way down to the on the on the play field just ridiculous and so the only way to hit that switch and make the kicker work is if there was another ring down here that it would hit so i've ordered four stand up switches to replace that so the four kicker switches by the way this isn't even our machine this belongs to a customer we're just fixing it for him but i can't let crap like that roll the kickers won't work i could put extra rings on it but that ain't right that ain't how it's supposed to be come on now so uh let me think if there's anything else um [Music] it's all that i'm aware of right now there may be some other ones that i forgot right um but we're making our list okay so we got to figure out this deal where it won't reset so let's get the schematics out and see if we can figure out why it keeps going immediately in the game over so our first clue we're looking at the schematics her first clue this is the light bulb the game over light bulb so when the game is sitting there that light is on now how does it get power one side is connected to the transformer okay the other side is connected to the game over relay right and then through a fuse to the transformer so basically when this is tripped the game over light is on so what's happening is we start the game and that goes off so what does that mean means the game over relay is going back this way and then after it resets everything trip it trips again and the game over light comes back on another thing that we figured out before is if after you hit start and it's still resetting if you keep hitting the flipper button eventually the flipper will flip and then when it goes the game over the flipper is dead again so why why are we even checking all that it's because it's telling us that the problem is is that the game over relay is tripping right which uh ought to be obvious because yeah the game's over that's our problem but we're making it simple here so i can track it down and it's it's super easy to figure out so our problem is we need to figure out why is the game over relay tripping so now we've went from why is a light bulb coming on to why is the game over relay acting up okay so next on the schematics we need to find out what makes this work so here is the game over relay latch this is a little bit trippy pun intended because there is a game over relay trip and a latch okay so the latch is what happens at the beginning of the game and then it trips to go into game over mode okay so how does it latch well this is again kind of complicated but one side of the game over latch is tied to the transformer so it always gets power so if we get power to the other side of it it will latch right so how does it get power through the reset relay so when the game starts resetting the reset relay comes on and you see it resetting the scores and stuff it comes over here and as the score motor turns it pulses it blah blah blah blah right and this is like how that gets the credits then it holds itself on through this and etc etc okay so we know that's working because we see it going off right so the latch part is working but so when it latches it it physically holds itself in uh on the play field so one thing we need to do is go see if we can manually make it latch so let's go try that this is the game over relay the the game is on right now so i'm going to hit this sparks are going to fly and then it's going to trip again probably okay so this is the trip and this is the latch so we're trying to get at the latch i'm backwards this is the trip and this is the latch so we're trying to get the latch and it immediately trips again okay so let's turn off the machine and with the machine off it latches and stays it actually literally latches right so the trip what's going on is we're latching it and then the tr this is energizing and instantly pulling it in so it's an electronic problem an electrical problem it's not a like a magnetic problem or you might like if this plate was missing this wouldn't latch you could pull down on this and it wouldn't happen it wouldn't stay in so something is pulling this in after we do that okay so it's definitely a switch somewhere a shorted wire somewhere one of these switches might even be it it's something it's not a thing where it's incapable of holding itself on physically because it can do it fine whenever the power's off everything works great it's something uh something telling it to do it okay so here is the game over relay trip and this trips every freaking time okay how does it get power well one side of it is tied to this line this line gets power as long as the game over relay um how did we figure out that that's if it's latched so this can't have power until the game over relay latches like it's doing so again the latch is holding it in the re the trip makes it go back to how it is now right so trip is game over so it can't trip game over unless it's on so once it trips game over it moves this and this is open so this no longer gets power but since it's a trip it doesn't have to it doesn't have to hold power okay so when you hit the start button that makes the reset relay do its thing okay when the reset relay goes back to where it was it puts power on all of these by connecting this line to the transformer right so that's normally closed on the reset relay so when the reset relay pulls in it loses all this all this is turned off okay but then once it's done resetting the reset relay turns off when it does it connects the switchback which sends power up here through the game over relay which is now latched on because we hit the start button and so this has the ability to have power to it it also energizes the out hole relay the ball index relay the tilt relay the extra ball relay as long as the tilt relay is not pulled in it energizes the target number two the target number one the gate relay the target's down relay the bonus unit step up step up solenoid the 303 advanced relay the 500 relay blah blah blah blah on and on the 100 point relay all the relays on and on and on all right all the way around here to even the flippers okay so this whenever after everything resets which it's doing after everything resets the reset relay drops out and connects that wire and the game over relay is latched so that's connected which means that this has the potential to work because this side is connected so what makes the other side connect well one way is if it's so if we're adjusting sat on three ball or five ball right if we're on three ball if this plug is on three ball then when the ball count unit gets to ball number four because you can't have four balls in a three ball game so ball one ball two ball three and then when it gets to four it connects through this plug and kills the game and trips the game over really but it's doing it for us on ball one like as soon as it starts right so if you were settling five five balls per game what would happen well this would go to one two three and start ball four which would send power to here but there's nothing connected to it so you would have a ball four and you would have a ball five and then you would get the ball six and it would connect and trip the game over relay so it's as if we're at ball four or ball six [Music] right so once that happens it ends the game like we're getting now another way that it can get power is through a open switch on the coin relay this is a possibility it could be the coin relay has a stuck switch but for that to work you would also have to have one of these two right so the ball count unit zero switch would have to be closed so what is a ball count unit zero switch there's a ball count unit that keeps track of what ball you're on so let's say you're up to ball number two well then you're off zero so this switch is closed so what why why is that like that it's because let's say we start a game and then i hit start again after after i uh start a one player game well that will start a two-player game with other machinery but they don't want it to trip the game over relay because the game's not over you're just adding another player so it will not trip this when the coin unit pulls in the second time you hit start the coin unit pulls in when you hit start button it will not trip this because the ball count unit is still at zero when it's at at i say zero it's position zero right uh if that was up to ball number three or whatever that would be closed and so when you hit it it would start a new game because you're not at the first ball and also at the player up unit zero so let's say you start a two player game and then the second player is playing well then this switch will be closed and when you hit the start button it will reset it start a new game right but that's probably not happening either right because the coin relay shouldn't be coming in what's probably happening is this lock relay so what is this for this is an interesting little switch see how it's normally closed when the game is off that switch is closed why is that it's so that if you stop a game in the middle of a game like ball three or something when you start the game back up like when you turn the machine back on that switch will be closed just because the relay is sitting there it hasn't pulled in yet and with that switch closed it will immediately pull in the game over relay if that switch were to always stay closed that relay would trip as soon as the reset relay fill out which is exactly what ours is doing so uh let me show you in the machine and then we can uh we can go over it a little again just so that you make sure you catch what i'm talking about here okay so here is the lock relay see how it looks toasty that's because it's on the whole time the machine is on and see how it only has one switch its only purpose is to kick the game and the game over if the lock relay should ever go off like for instance when the power is off so the power's off so the relay is not pulling in as soon as i turn the power on it will pull the relay in but the relay since it's off that switch is closed when you turn the game on power can run through that switch as long as the reset relay is not pulled in like we were just looking at and it will trip that trip relay okay so watch what happens when we turn it on it immediately pulls in and it stays in the whole time that the game's on that's why it's toasty looking but it is still working things get burnt looking like this it doesn't mean anything just means they've been warm that switch is separating so that's working properly okay so let me show you by looking over here so let's say we're in the middle of ball two in a regular game if it was working right and the game over relay hasn't tripped because it's not the end of the game okay so we turn off the game the next time we turn it on the lock relay pulled in and tripped the game over relay that immediately threw us in the game over because that hadn't pulled in yet okay so the good news is it looks like that's working just fine but the bad news is that doesn't fix our problem it could be that there is like a short on the wires back here or something i'll have to look to make sure those aren't touching or sometimes you'll get a solder splash connecting to the two blades together you know we were looking at that over here in the earlier video but everything looks good so i'll check on the schematics just to make sure those wires are fun and if that's not it we'll rule that out okay folks we're at the same place we're on that lock relay and i've checked and these wires here are not touching the two blades you know the the the two sets of wires connecting to the switch but check this out with the game off if i check between the two blades continuity it is shorted and if i pull in the relay it is still shorted so it's as if the relay is not doing anything so why would it do that well like we said it could be a short on the switch or something i don't see one or it could be that uh someone has disabled it in some way or something like that or it could be the way that the thing's wired it's one of those other connections um that we were looking at but we've we've figured out exactly why it's tripping it's because it's basically wired to trip immediately so something is shorted somewhere so we we continue to track it down so basically we need to just look around until that no longer happens to where the lock relay uh whenever it opens the resistance goes high and voila so what we were just checking is this wire and this wire are shorted whether this switch is open or not so anything on this wire would probably be what to look at because the yellow wire goes to a million things right so this green wire it's green and red it should only go to the ball count unit okay it should go to the game over relay it should go to the balls per game adjustment it should go to the coin relay so if you track that around and go everywhere that goes you may find that it's shorted to the yellow wire at some point okay folks so using the multimeter like i said if you pull in the lock it's still shorted because somewhere that green wire is shorted yellow and so we discovered it can do it there the coin relay at three or five ball adjustment possibly at the game over relay itself maybe and at the ball count unit right so i tracked the green wire and it comes over here to the coin relay it's not shorted too it comes in down here it's not shorted to the yellow wire there everything looks good no problems track it over here to the three and five ball selection plug everything looks good no problem keep tracking track it over here to the game over you know remember that one part it has to run through here or something before it gets to it or something like that i didn't see anything wrong and then here's where the wire goes and then there's one more wire see how that's doubled up so basically if this wire gets shorted the yellow it turns this on right so there's one more wire runs all the way back runs over here to the ball count unit everything looks cool but just for giggles i took the wire loose so with the green and red wire no longer connected to the ball count unit when you check the lock relay now whenever it pulls in you get resistance between the two things so whatever is shorting it to the yellow wire is on this ball count unit because if the green and red wire is no longer hooked to the ball count unit whenever the lock relay opens up it's no longer shorted like it should be okay so moving right along boy you're bright moving right along this wire is shorted to the yellow wire it can do that through the ball count unit disc because if the ball count unit is up to ball six for instance if it's set on five ball if it's up to ball six this will be shorted to the yellow wire okay if you remove this wire this is no longer shorted to this when this switch opens i'm trying to make it pedantic i don't want to lose anybody i don't want to lose one of you hope i didn't lose anybody and all you people that that get it take it easy on a slow folks right so if we're disconnected from the ball count unit we no longer have a short when this opens but we have a short when it's closed because it's supposed to be like that okay so what does the ball count unit do well it counts the balls literally so whenever you so ball one ball two ball three ball four ball five in a five ball game and then when it gets to ball six there is no ball six it's a five ball game it shorts yellow to the green wire and kicks the game over relay which is exactly what's going on right now right so why would that be doing it right now okay so this is the ball count unit disc remember earlier how we said the reset relay resets the coin unit the game over latch right it also resets the ball count unit reset solenoid so when the game resets that should reset the ball count unit so when it resets the ball count unit this wiper will go from being at position 6 back to position one while everything else is resetting right so while the reset is resetting this isn't closed which means that the game over trip relay can't work so until that gets back to one it could trip that if you weren't resetting so at the end of the reset trip it's tripping that because of something to do with the ball count unit that's what we've figured out so far right so the ball count unit if you look that's where the green and red wire was and notice there is a blade on it that's because it's still at position six this is the reset coil it can't reset because the wire was loose so the wire connects down there and had broken off so with this off this can't reset so what's going on is when the game resets it's not able to reset this because it's not wired so this can't reset and move that off of the all six so what should be happening is at the beginning whenever it's going clackity clack clack clock clockity clack clack clack and it's resetting all of the uh score grills and it pulled in the game over latch it should pull this one in and so when it would pull that in it would have done that which would mean that you're no longer connected to the green wire because you're no longer on ball six so now we're on ball one ball two ball three ball four ball five ball six okay if you look the wire is on that lug but if you look in the schematics this position and this position are connected together right so our whole problem is wire broke on the ball count reset unit and i didn't catch it when we went through it and cleaned everything in the bottom but that's probably going to fix our well can't start a game problem so let me solder that back together i'll put it up on ball six just to make sure that it's resetting properly and uh we'll see if that fixes it all right so i soldered the wire that i took off back on and then i soldered the wire that either i broke or i think it must have already been broke because it's had this problem you saw it from the very first day it came in soldered it back on uh and then we've turned it back on let me go ahead and put some more points on it like we were trying to do the other day remember it wouldn't reset right notice i didn't hit the same relay as before all right so we got a couple points on there and i left it up on on position six okay so we want it to reset the ball in play unit to one reset the score to zero and then stay in game mode here we go holy crap i did it matt i fixed it finally oh the flippers even flip holy crap all right so we got her to come up very cool so there you go but here's what i want to do we got to check to make sure that lock relay is working right so you can see exactly what i'm talking about after i've been saying it i've told you how it works for 25 minutes now you know i'd talk a little slow that's what makes my videos so great everybody knows it hold on a second let me answer the phone on camera joe's video games man we don't unfortunately i haven't had one in a while that's it all right good luck man all right guy was looking for a game boy micro you want to sell him yours matt i'm good thanks all right matt's a jerk you won't sound about his stuff okay so what is the lock relay for it's so if you're like me and you're in the middle of a game and you turn it off well i'm going home tired of drinking tonight and then you come back the next day and you turn it on oh snap it's in game over mode so you saw how that happened it did that because of that lock relay right so let's try to reset it one more time this time we don't have any uh we don't have any scores and the ball count unit is already still at position zero the original position because remember we never even i never even shot the ball so we haven't played up to ball two or anything all right so we're still in game play okay so that was that problem so you know what we need to do now mark it off the list i never wrote it down yes i can read that look it says things to do so let's see if we can start a four player game so you just hit start again see how it says two people can play down there three four now remember on the earlier video we were talking about that switch on the coin unit it should uh not allow you to start a five player game and it doesn't so that's good perfect all right so we're four player game we're going to act like we shot the ball then we're going to score some points here so what's this score 10 points so i'm going to see if we roll over to 100 we do and the chimes are working too isn't that great okay and then this says lit rollovers advanced bonus so let's try that see the bonuses on a thousand i don't know if the top ones do they don't oh it's pretty cool i think when you hit them it turns these off or something yeah the top ones turn those lights on and it's doing something here or was it maybe not yeah there we go hey we got our pop bumper lights i was worried i was wondering about that um i wonder if they're different values if they're lit or not hey let's find out if they're lit they're 100 if they're not lit they're 10. wow man they were really getting i mean this is remember this is an electromechanical game so watch how this works they're not lit you hit them they light you but you only got 10 points but now every time you hit them you get 100 but this one's not lit if you hit it you get 10 points but then it lights very clever all right let's make sure this rolls over it did if you're if you don't like hearing clack noises i can see matt over there he's already getting frustrated you're going to hate this video because it's going to be binging and banging and belling and bonging for quite a while oh it's the well that explains how they did it it's it's not it wig wags love that phrase on the 10 point so when you hit this you score 10 points but then the next time you hit it you're scoring 100 so it doesn't do it but if you hit the 10 again very cool all right see what this one does awesome 10. everything looks cool all right then we have these stand up switches here oh they're giving us a thousand rolling over well perfect all right everything from here up seems to be working fine oh we gotta see three says opens gate when lit but it's not lit okay the gate is here if that opens it's easier to not lose your ball okay uh these say three bonus advance when lit it's worth 7 000 right now so we're at seven we went to nine and and we have a thousand hmm oh no wait a minute wait a minute i was reading it wrong we were at eight and now we're at 11. i was reading it wrong okay same here perfect okay um and then i also scored a and b when i went through those which is a and b lighting a and b lights double bonus so a and b are just marked as those rollovers up there okay boy everything's looking great 303 bonus advance it did give us the three did it give us the three bonus advance i didn't see no it didn't 300 3 bonus advance let's write that down 303 bonus advance doesn't work you know i don't have to write doesn't work because if i'm writing it down it doesn't work i'm not gonna write it down next time a hundred it's working a hundred [Music] you gave me two but i think my finger was sticky okay and then the kickers uh we talked about that earlier we don't have the right switches on those yet i guess i could hit one and just see if we get the points so it is kicking it just can't um it can't the ball can't hit it because of where the switches are okay uh that leaves us with the drop targets let's try this again it's around five thousand not working okay um i think the only thing we haven't messed with is the drops so the target score 500 each all targets now and score 3 000. all targets down when lit scores special okay so this one should give me 500 then 3 000 so we should end up at 34 840 37 840. perfect now it says all targets down when lit scores special this also says special when lit so we are at two games two credits that did not give us anything oh you know what wait a minute hm yeah we should be able to score remember we can't they cut the wire on it or was it this one they did that one yeah on this one they've removed the wires so it doesn't subtract credits but you should still get credits the special may be set up for an extra ball though but it doesn't say same player shoots again so the special isn't working special doesn't special i don't have to write that down oh you know what uh i did it again this is working fine we're at 15 you can't go any higher than that i forgot about that you can only get a 15 000 point bonus so the reason that that's not working is because we're maxed out so this one says extra ball when lit let's see if that works well i hit the flipper same player shoots again and then the dun dun dune is you're getting 300 points and it's trying to give you three more bonuses but it can't because it's a 15 there's only 15 positions on the bonus rail it's a little clunky because you would think that it could keep going but that's just how it's designed uh so we're looking pretty good let me well we still need to test that just to make sure but i believe that's right um what else can we test oh all targets down when lit scores special that probably won't that bottom drop target doesn't drop very well okay we're still on two credits [Music] we did not win a free credit okay so uh we're getting there same player shoots again let's drop the ball out and see if it gives us double bonus so we should get 30 000 points and it should stay on player one and it should stay on ball one so thirty thousand we should end up with seventy four five forty still on player one still on ball one same player shoots again is turned off very cool all right so see if we get our three now perfect i thought that seemed a little weird because whatever you have on a playfield something like up here it gives you three bonus advance when lit and then down here it gives you three bonus advance only it's the same thing they just they wire at the same so it's very strange for one to work and one not two all right so we can mark that back off but we need to break down the bottom drop target okay so i've got flippers hanging the jones plug wire that we were thinking about the wire for the counter the four kicker switches that we're waiting on the special doesn't work and the bottom drop target is sticky okay uh and i need to walk through it all to make sure all four players play and check the other players score reels and stuff like that so i'll do that and if i run into anything weird that will come back okay folks it seems to play pretty good uh this left pop bumper coil is real sluggish sometimes if you hit it dead on it doesn't even pop um so we need to adjust that but one thing that i noticed when we were working on it before is there are diodes on these two pop bumpers and no diode on that one so i want to see if somebody's added those or if they had started using them by 77 whenever this came out so i don't know um how it should be from the factory so let's look in the schematic see if we can figure that out okay yeah so this is one of the ones with a bridge rectifier so the court the uh pot bumpers and the right and left slingshots run on dc voltage so there should be a diode on all three of the coils so i need to add one onto that one um center thumper bumper should have a diode right the thumper bumper should have a diode left thumper bumper should have a diode here's the bridge rectifier okay there's a cap as well and wait am i correct here yeah the yeah so the slings that have them too but the slings don't have diodes all right let me add a diode to it okay folks so in our first video we found there was a wire broke in the jones plug so i have matt here with me who is an engineer now he's not an electrical engineer so he's basically useless in this conversation but we're going to act like i consulted an engineer what do you think that'll work okay that's how it works everywhere okay so that damn wire has a 15 amp fuse on it all right it burnt up the jones plug because it just it's for the lights in the back box okay a lot of little light bulbs okay now i actually lowered the amperage by 40 because i replaced all the light bulbs the actual draw at least with leds no i replaced them with uh dimmer bulbs gotcha so instead of 47s or 44s no instead of 44s or 47s okay so i have a wire that is burnt up the jones plug and i can't replace repair the jones plug without replacing the whole thing okay okay so i'm going to put a little connector on it so that it can be removable like the jones plug so they'll have to remove the jones plug and a little plastic connector molex connector all right okay i have the molex connectors right here they are series 1545 and they have two circuits the safety agency ratings 15 amp according to the csa and you said that is who uh that is some canadian standards agency i think i'm not 100 he thinks it's the canadians we love the canadians by the way don't take that as a slur if that is canada okay so that's the safety ratings but this is the molex rated voltage it can hold 12 amps okay it's got a 15 amp fuse in the cabinet so my theory is is that it's running at 12 amps or probably or maybe even less or they wouldn't have put a 15 amp fuse they would have put a larger fuse so like if it was running at 15 amps it would probably have a 20 amp fuse in it right that's what you think yeah about about 20 overhead is what you want i think i've heard that before so uh i think so they're saying that you can run 12 through these molex connectors it's got a 15 amp fuse in it i don't really know what amperage it's got on it i don't have an amp meter i guess i do but i don't feel like messing with it so i think we're good yes 40 no 30 overhead yeah yeah so i think we're good people well if that's what it is well we don't know it might be we don't know what the average is at well i'm saying if it's if it is 12 amps 15 would be 30 overhead so okay so you're saying that we're probably running at 13 if they designed it right right but they wouldn't have used a uh 14 they wouldn't have used a 14 amp fuse and that's also too that's the absolute max rating so that's like when all the lights are on that's true so i think we're in the ballpark here people so i think i'm good to use this little molex connector to connect that wire so we'll do that so here's the meter they had a wire added to it they had cut this wire so that the meter didn't work when it usually does and i had i added a wire to it with a diode on it completely unnecessary especially since we're on free play now so i removed that but those two wires were why you couldn't unplug the thing so now you can i put the little connector in there so now you can take it out completely unplug it and remove it you got to take the jones plug loose and that connector loose now usually you don't have to take that out anyway but i just hated that it was permanently taped together so now they can remove it all right so uh we can mark those off of our list i added the diode two on that one and on this pop bumper i adjusted the switch closer so hopefully those will play a little better we'll try it out here in a minute all right so next up we are working on the special that doesn't work so they're the easiest way to test it is this bottom left thing whenever you hit it it's scoring points but it's not giving you the same player can shoot again i ch i checked the setting it's set on same player can shoot again which makes sense because in a home game you don't really want to win a free game they're all free but it's better if you win a free ball right um so we've got the special set on a free ball and it's not working so if you look there are two switches that it hits whenever it goes down okay this one gives it the points that top one is the one that should give it the special and it's not doing anything okay so if you look in the schematic left bottom lane switch right that's this switch so when it closes it should send power from here up through here through the target number two sequence relay now the target number two sequence relay means all the targets have been knocked down if you remember whenever we messed with that you knock all the targets down and then it they come back up and it has lit that right and there's different settings you can do if it's set on liberal or conservative just depending on how off how easy they want to make it for you to win the special but that one is also the one that lights the light okay so uh bottom special lane is turned on by the target number two sequence really so that relay is in right now that's why that light is on okay but it could be that switch is off maybe but if that was true then this switch would be the only one that didn't give us a special but remember the drop targets also didn't give us the special right so we got that then it comes up goes through that and then it goes through this connection we've got it set over here on liberal so it's just connected straight through so you don't have to use the alternate if it's on conservative the alternator relay will jog it back and forth right but it's connected straight through over to here right and when the other one makes the thousand point relay come on it makes this stuff work right it connects over to here connects over to here and then i didn't write this on the schematics by the way somebody else did it it should connect through a game over relay a normally connected switch here right to this little jumper and this jumper is over here on extra ball okay and an extra ball should connect to this one which goes over and does a bunch of stuff so basically that switch is disconnected if this switch is screwed up so on the game over relay there is a switch with a red and green wire on one side that connects to 43 on the legend here says green and yellow wire and then on the other side it is a 31 which is a yellow and red wire so green a red wire and a yellow red wire with a green wire in the middle blah blah blah blah a red and green wire so that switch if that's not connected right now it'll never work and sure enough short as you're born it's again on the game over really let's see if i can get a light on it we can sit pretty good [Music] might be too much you may be able to see it too well this switch oh i hope i don't get electro shocked this switch right here should be closed look at the contacts up at the end of it see how they're moving it's because it's not actually connected so i gotta bend that a little bit get a little bit better and we'll test it all right we're gonna try it again they're lit same player shoots again oh it's working but let's try it again to make sure that the drop targets are working okay so we're gonna go back through i figured out the okay so let's see if it does it same player shoots again when we get all the drop targets down and i figured out part of the problem is this isn't falling especially if it uh with tables up you know you need a little bit of gravity to make that fall so i'm going to oil some of this okay you see how the one drop target just didn't give me points it's because i dropped it before the score motor had gotten back to where it's supposed to be okay so on the fifth one we should get that bam same player shoots again baby okay so we fixed the special okay so one of the flippers is hanging a little bit it's just a little bit too low see that a little bit of play in it but even if you adjust it up it won't really you can't get it to adjust in just the if it's just off a little bit and it's been like that a long time sometimes it's hard to get it to adjust just a little tiny bit so i'm going to show you a way you can overcome that so i'm going to take this flipper bat off and i'm going to take that flipper back off okay so whenever these things get a little old you can buy new ones if you'd like these are the original ones but they get a little there's a set screw that holds them in place and what happens is you get this groove worn into the thing like that from the set screw in the side of the pawl okay so your problem is whenever you go to tighten it up what happens is the set screw wants to go right back in the same spot it originally was so if you put it if you try to put it just a little bit off it just goes clean and falls right back where it's supposed to go and you can adjust it 100 times and it'll land on the exact same spot every time so what you can do is if you take the one from the other side it won't have the same it i mean it'll have an indention but it'll have it from the other side so whenever you go to tighten it up it won't land in the same spot and you can adjust it how you want so that's what we're going to do so we're going to swap the two and put it all back together and see if i can get it adjusted a little bit better and there's different theories about where you want to adjust the flippers just adjust them how you like them okay okay so let me show you what i'm talking about with the flippers all right the flippers are there's two ways of aligning the flippers now originally if you look on the flyers the flippers were a little bit we'll call them droopy on the older games so there is a little dot all right when you kind of you're supposed to make it where the end of the flipper lines up with the dot or whatever the center of it points at the dot i don't really like doing them that way i always make mine just a little bit higher because i like lining them up with the in lane so basically if the ball rolls off here onto the flipper in a straight line you got a really nice shot but on the older games in particular they would make it where it was slightly if you look on the flyers instead of it being straight like that it'll hang a little bit so the ball rolls off and it kind of rolls down the flipper drives me crazy i don't really like it but that's technically how it's supposed to be set up so you can set yours up however you want but i always make mine a little bit higher you don't lose the ball in the middle quite as much because the flippers if they're higher they're actually actually a little bit closer on a game like this where you've got a scissor so basically when you hit the left flipper both of these go up which creates a hole there that you can lose the ball through call it scissoring it so you kind of it messes with that a little bit because i've got the angle of this one up too right but it's all personal preference people just do it the way you want to do it all right that's how i do it though okay so uh we got rid of the flipper drag um i think maybe we play it a little bit oh another thing if you're if you are installing these make sure that you leave them where you can pull up on them a little bit basically if they're if they're too tight to the play field they'll drag on the bushing when it tries to uh kick the flipper and you'll lose a little bit of power so you want them a little bit loose up and down through the playfield just a little bit just so you know whenever it pulls in it has a little bit of wobble room it won't hurt your power the bush the uh the flipper the links that i was showing you if they're worn out it'll hurt your power that's how we're going to leave them i like it that's much better than how they were before they were they were just too droopy all right so let's look at the list i think we may have just finished everything all right the flipper is hanging we fixed that the jones plug wire we fixed that the wire for the counter we fixed that we're waiting on our four kicker switches but i think we can play it without those okay uh the 303 bonus thing we figured out that wasn't a problem the special didn't work we fixed that the bottom drop target i fixed that they needed oil basically so i think we're about ready to play it we can test it out a little bit and see if anything else pops up and we're waiting on the four stand up switches for the kickers joe's test playing it for us what do you think joe works great works great he says boy it's noisy with the glass off it's the only way you get out of score he cheats people he cheats all right leave your comments below we'll do another video where we play it and uh look over the rules and all that stuff but i think we got it fixed make sure to give us a thumbs up taking the trouble to film it oh i put the switches in for the kickers too make sure to give us a thumbs up for taking the trouble to film it [Applause] i thought it was going to eject the ball oh you jumped it nope you got it same player suits again [Applause] all right folks so let us know what you think and uh i hope you enjoyed us fixing it up we'll see you on the next video we'll uh we'll do a longer video where we play through it you can see a little more of the gameplay but we'll see you on