Repairing the Motor City Madman Ted Nugent Pinball Machine from Stern 1978

ladies and gentleman this is Joe's classic video games back with another cool pinball repair video for you today we have yet another Ted Nugent pinball machine in our shop that we are going to repair this isn't the same one that we recently did a repair video on it's another Ted Nugent pinball machine he got brought us this and he said it won't kick the ball out which is always what everybody anytime a pinball machine is not working people always describe it as it won't kick the ball out or they'll say the flippers don't work so that can mean anything really so he brought it to us and he taped some kind of seat cushion that's filthy on the back glass so it wouldn't break so hopefully that back glass is fine we'll figure that out here in a minute but we figured we'd film a video of us figuring out what's going on with it and what's broke on it Ted Nugent this is actually a really cool game so what I'm gonna do first anytime I get a game in that I don't know the details of I look inside of it first because basically you just want to make sure there's nothing inside of it that's touching the power supply it's gonna fry everything when you turn it on if I just plug it into the wall it'll probably be fine but if the you know while they were moving it if the board fell off the back mounted in the back box down and now it's resting on the power supply or something I mean you could fry stuff turning it on so I'm gonna answer that phone and then we'll open it up and see what the inside looks like so looking inside the body there's nothing out of place or anything that tilt has been disabled we've got it sitting on this card it's not on this leg so it's it's flat so it doesn't have the proper angle for the tilt to work right but it's been disabled so it doesn't matter and we took the back glass out and inside everything looks good so we've got our power supply over here a little rectifier board solenoid board with new caps and stuff it's been serviced it's got a brand new mpu board in it there's the whiteboard this is Stearns soundboard that they used in Nugent and then we've got our five displays so there's nothing there's nothing obviously wrong with it so we're going to plug it up and let's see what happens when you turn it on all right so let's flip the switch if I can find it two three four five six seven I said seven but it was actually I said I mean I can todate but they're on those new boards the first little flicker that you get on the old boards is a full-on flash so there's one flash and then seven more all right so we are up everything's running on it I heard a coil lock one which is probably the point door yep so on these they have a coin door a coil on the coin door here that comes along and sometimes it'll buzz it's buzzing right now it basically pulls the little thing back so that you can put quarters in it and then you can hear a little bit of a hum inside but that's just the speaker all right so here's our displays we're on 0 credits but let's see if we set it on free play or not you know what I bet that's what's going on it's not on free play anymore because a stern game I don't think that that board can set a strong game on free play so let's see if we can add to credit I hope they didn't bring it all the way back to us because they couldn't figure out how to add a credit to it all right so I've added a few credits ball kick down I [Music] can't play it too good cuz it's flat you know alright it landed in the hole but we're not you know what I'm gonna prop it up a little bit I'm gonna put slide a board under the end of it so it has a little bit of angle because you can't play it perfectly flat the ball won't roll right okay so on the cart I split a 2x4 under the back just to give it a little bit of a slope and it is when the ball lands in the out hole it's not kicking back out so the guys description of the problem was dead on the money right so the ball was landing an out hole but it's not kicking back out I'm messing with the switch all right so it's just a simple switch problem okay I'm gonna take the glass off will pop playful it up and see what's going on okay so I've actually had this happen before basically when the when the play field is shut the switch for the out hole is right here so it hangs down a little bit under the door so if you mess around in here you can actually hit that switch accidentally or if somebody's putting something in there whatever so I found that there's a there were some pennies and stuff on the lockdown bar and just some little pieces of toys and stuff like that so I think to make the kids have been messing with it a little bit and so somebody has reached in there and I believe what happened was that they pushed that switch out of place just inadvertently so basically this little switch is what the ball lands on it should be up in there and over here it should be through this little loop a little bit so I'm gonna fix that and Allah I'll show you how it ought to be sitting and and come back and show you how how it should be set up when it's doing its thing right and then we'll test it a little bit so it just clipped right back in place so basically that wire goes through a hole on the other side and then through the hole on this side and then this center piece fits behind that little bar there so it's all like that see how it's hanging down now so the springiness of of the Switchblade holds it up in place and when the ball falls on the playfield it sits on that wire and pushes the spring down connects the blade together and so that's how it knows that there's a ball in the out hole so basically the ball was falling in out hole and so it didn't know that that it was sitting there it must be designed in the software where it kicks the ball out at the beginning of the game even if it doesn't see that the balls in the hole so that should fix it up so what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna clean it off a little bit we'll put the back glass back on it I'm going to test it yeah let's let's test it to see if quarters drop that'd be a good thing to show make sure he can put credits on it alright so here's the coin max let's see if we're jammed up or not I found like there were like 10 pennies underneath the lockdown board yeah we're Jim I can see a penny hanging out of it I shouldn't really be able to move like that because it'll make it where it won't line up with this thing it might be the wrong type of MEK recorder that good like that more pennies they've been they've been using the Motor City Madman as does the penny Bank yeah see it's it's coming down this isn't completely lined up with the Meg all right let's see the other Sam that one is for alright so we're at six now seven nope oh it's set on 50 cents per two eight nine ten okay yeah it's set on 50 cents for two plays I got to try to get this I guess I could just that seems like it's gonna stay there that one moves too I think I just need to bend this a little bit I can't tell if it's been out of shape I think we're good I'm gonna whenever he comes in I'm going to show them just how that stuff works so that he can either hit the switch to add credits or drop a quarter through they have these little plates over the coin switch so that you can't stick something in and just hit the switch because kids they're done a lot so but if you know exactly how it is you can just touch this there's a little thing here on the back that rotates and so if you know right where that is it's real easy to add a credit so I'll show on that little trick when he comes in so what I'll do is I'll turn the tripod around will put the glass back on we'll play it a little bit just to make sure that everything's working right and then we'll call the customer because this was an easy fix all right so there's not a very good way to film any of this stuff in one shot because it's so long so I figured I'd film it like this since it's just a repair video we don't have to film it the way we usually do maybe you'll see maybe you'll enjoy seeing the back glass a little bit more so let's try it out ball kick down you couldn't see that though it's out of shot now for the sounds people I would kick it back out okay so our switch is working so for the sounds people I mean this is an old game when this came out what year was it it doesn't say it had to be 78 79 something like that right maybe 80 it says copyright but it doesn't say that day I'm sure you're all yelling at me what the year was right now but when it came out you know that the sound systems on these things just weren't very advanced that I couldn't play you know humming and try to play right down the middle alright that was pretty pathetic let's try another one we should be able to play off these credits it's simple there's a piece of trash LeBron the playfield I need to clean that off for the guy [Music] Oh saved by the save about the center post remember I have the legs on it either we're gonna blame it on the legs legs on people other than that trash rolling around the play field I think we're we're pretty good let me grab that office driving me crazy then we'll play another game since I'm in that car yeah I can kind of tilt the entire machine and the tilts been disabled so I'm gonna have to just start cheating we go it's got a nice satisfying spinner shot on it look at that Oh what should have tilted it we're rocking people we're rocking oh let's let it right past me and again horrible Oh a gave me the ball back because I was so weak that I didn't hit anything oh yeah we're beating up the banks collected my bonus like it should have it's good Oh in through the out door the wrong band there's another piece of trash on the play field down by the left kicker alright folks so there you go it looks like we've got it working again so we'll uh we'll call up the customer tell them it wasn't no big deal come pick it up he'll be happy to get it back to his game room leave your comments below make sure to give us a thumbs up for taking the trouble to film it for you and basically whenever we get something in like this where it's just a minor little repair we always try to film it so that we can say hey look this game popped up wasn't that big of a deal you can do it too we're trying to encourage people to save these things you know now this one was already in pretty decent shape so it wasn't that big of a deal to just fix a little switch and then pull some pennies out of the coin max but if you've never done that before like the guy went through all the trouble to pack the thing up bring it over here to our shop and everything if you would have messed with a little bit he probably could have figured it out but he brought it to us because he didn't want to break it any worse than it already was I can't really blame him but if you're watching this video you can fix yours right so huh hopefully if you see enough of this little stuff like this you'll think well you know it's not too big of a deal something's acting up we can just logically go through it and figure it out so leave your comments below give us a thumbs up for filming it for you make sure to subscribe to us if you haven't already we filmed videos on pinball machines arcade games jukeboxes all the time even trucks sometimes but not too often so leave your comments below and we will see you on the next video