Let's Finish Repairing this 1989 Williams Bad Cats Pinball Machine!

ladies and gentlemen this is Joe's classic video games back with another cool pinball repair video for you today we are working on this Williams bad cats pinball machine and uh in the first video we worked on the boards the board set got everything up and running we haven't uh finished the first video yet but you get what we're doing and uh if you haven't seen that video go check it out first because we're going to upload it first but now we're going to film a video as we work through the Playfield on this thing so we bought this years ago looks like it's up and running but it's filthy so this is what we're starting with we're going to start tearing it down see what we run into there's a little bit of wear over here right and there's a little bit back there just a little bit and this down here is a little r looking but we're going to see how well it cleans up and we're going to uh get everything off see if anything's broke if anything needs replaced get everything cleaned waxed put back together so we'll uh we're starting with this we'll start tearing stuff down so we've been pulling everything off of it we're not going to take every little thing off but we took all the posts off and got it down to basically the wood and we left a lot of the metal posts whenever you take these off a lot of times they'll uh depending on the game they'll have locktite on the screws so a bunch of the screws broke while we were taking it off you can heat them up or try to heat them up and uh sometimes you can just carefully go back and forth and get them out but usually you're going to break stuff so we broke a bunch of screws so we're going to have to order some screws but they're not that expensive and uh we haven't cleaned anything yet so this is what it looks looks like filthy it's a little deceptive though like I I tried cleaning off this a little bit by just rubbing it you can see a lot of this is going to come off people I think we're going to get it looking pretty good here's all our stuff sitting on these couple machines that we're working on next um the wraps were in pretty good shape most of the Plastics are in pretty good shape I've got in my remade plastics for the for the uh slings so that's good so we're just going to have to clean clean clean so next up I'm going to gently wipe down everything everything and try to get just all of the loose dirt off and then we're going to lightly hit it with a magic eraser and some alcohol but we're we're going to go easy on it I don't want to go too crazy on it you can see this little that up here where that stain was that I didn't know what it was it's I believe I got to look it up in the manual but it looks like this um shaft here has some kind of rubber ring that's supposed to be on it and when this pushes it pushes against the rubber ring and Spins this which spins the little plastic piece which I don't know if it's broke or not but spins a little plastic piece through that encoder so I'm going have to look all that up and see what's missing on this these little NY liner bushings have popped out so that's going to need a little work definitely but I think it'll be I think it'll be rebuildable but other than that I don't really see much that needs attention the wheel the motor in the middle might be messed up or might need some oiling or something so I don't know about any of the motors there's that motor and then on this one there's also a couple Motors in the back I think she swats the cat with that broom and I think both of them have a motor on it so I need to look into that but uh yeah it's a it's a pretty it's in pretty decent shape so I'm going to start cleaning cleaning cleaning but I'll just do like a rough cleaning first and we'll uh we'll come back and show that so the initial cleaning this is what I was able to get off with just um a wet rag basically got a little bit of wear on his boot a little bit of wear on this one's tail little bit of wear around that insert dragging out of of that out of that kickout hole there and just a little bit up there by the fish like we've been showing soing I didn't get all that off yet so now I'm going to go a little harder on it with the Magic Eraser and see if we can magically erase what's left you can see how nasty this thing is I think it I think there was a rubber ring of some sort on there that melted and then what happened was it all kind of puddled down on the Playfield you saw it sitting there and it's been like that for years I suppose right so when I took it off all of that crap just took like it was like a like a goo it had basically had some kind of chemical reaction with the paint and the the as the stuff came off the paint came off with it and it didn't chip off or anything like that it was like it was all one thing so if you've got this game you might want to check the rubber on that back piece back there because if it starts leaking on your Playfield it'll eat right through the damn paint now luckily it's all gray so I no longer have an option of not touching up the Playfield I'm going to I'm going to have to at least touch that part up so if I get a good gray that matches up here I can use it down here where you can see it a little better and then right there too and that won't be too big of a deal I don't think we should be able to pull that off but um the top part here is getting nice and clean you can start to see some of Python's crazy artwork they look serious don't they and this one for some reason is throwing darts there's probably a plastic up there that makes that make sense this guy looks absolutely devious he's cooking chicken and hot dogs hot dogs get it this guy's over here he's rocking all right so I'll uh I'll CLE magic keep magic erasing okay so it cleaned up pretty good with the Magic Eraser I'm happy happy with it at least I think uh we're going to put a little bit of touch-up paint on it and then we'll uh wax wax wax wax wax it and it'll look really good pretty clean original game really I think it's it's I think it's been worked on a little bit because there's some touch-up paint on it so like for instance if you look right there at some point that got chipped and then they touched it up with the wrong color orange they could have done that in the factory but I doubt it because somebody has touched up this up here too and that ain't Factory sometimes though you get little tiny stuff like that that they did in the factory wen't any more big surprises this part here is not great like the ink or the paint is a little messed up here but I think I'm just going to have to leave it wax the crap out of it um I'm not I'm not trying to repaint all that I wouldn't be able to make it look better than that so when it's got just normal wear like that I just leave it but you know this place up here definitely needs new gray I'm trying to decide if I'm going to reink the black lines around that too I'm already going to be doing that and that so first thing we're going to do we've got to do some touch-up paint so I'm going to mix up some gray and uh see how close we can get it okay so I'm mixing this up and I don't know how well this will show up on the camera I'm looking through the viewfinder and I mean through the um I'm looking at the display and it looks like it's showing up pretty good but so basically I need to get gray so I mixed a bunch of white with just one drop of black and I got a you know fairly gray looking color but if I put that on there it if you look it's not a good match so you have to get good at like kind of being able to eyeball it and see what the deal is so it looks to me like it's too blue like it's got a little bit too much blue in it it's more blue than the the gray in the background which is actually a little more green so I'm what I'm going to do is I'm going to add a little bit of green just a little bit and uh see if that'll green it up a little bit more and make it a little bit more like that gray so you just have to keep messing with it messing with it messing with it and when you get it mixed you want it to be slightly lighter just barely lighter than the paint that you're trying to Max match because when it when it dries it gets a little bit darker so I've got some blue looking gray and I'm going to try to make it some a little bit more green looking gray so I added one little drop of this kind of light like pea green in it and you can see that that made it much more accurate it's much more like the gray so I'm going to I'm going to try that so I'm going to paint just a little tiny spot probably up there at the top where it's going going to be hit a little bit better with that and see if it and let it dry for a few minutes and see if it dries up and looks pretty pretty close and if it does I'll quickly before this I didn't make too much of it before this runs out I'll quickly touch up the the few little gray spots that I need okay so if you look carefully at the Playfield that where that gray is it's there's actually a couple it's it's a little bit different color in different places just because it's faded so I messed with it and messed with it and messed with it and it worked good here and then it was a little off there and worked good here so here's his shoe his gash I was able to repaint that and there's a little bit of the gray has been repainted around it but I just kind of touched up the little dots that were that were uh gone to try to hide it instead of repainting the whole area and then the cat I had to I had to uh repaint the cat back in his uh you can see both of his left legs were messed up but got them back in the orange was a pretty good match now perfect but pretty good up here I repainted that whole part that was missing it's slightly off if you really look you can tell just slightly off but it came out pretty good I believe so that's definitely passable so it uh every oh and I repainted the tail just a little bit I just barely covered it up with a white it's a little bit off but again if you don't know it's there you're not going to be looking for that that so I'm going to clear coat that stuff a little bit very minor I'm not going to clear coat the whole Playfield I just spot clear coat whenever I do it so I'm going to just use literally clear coat in a spray can and just do the little area that I've repainted mask off the area around it and then uh we'll start waxing it after that but I think we uh I think we came out pretty good oh and I I used the black to reink the squares around these inserts which look a little rough there's some other stuff going on like around his eyes it's not perfect but I'm just going to leave it alone because this is all so busy you can't really tell that there's anything wrong with it that might change when it lights up but I I think it looks really good so I'm just going to leave it the uh since this was Square you could tell that it wasn't Square anymore so um but I think we're uh I think we're looking pretty good I think it's ready to uh we'll like I said we'll put a little clear coat over what I just painted and uh then we'll uh we'll uh start waxing it once we get it waxed we can swap the light bulbs and start putting everything back together clean every little part and put it on one by one that's always my favorite part because you start seeing it come back you know and look brand new or not new but close enough to do all right we've got everything waxed up got all the light bulbs swapped out doing their thing looking good starting to put together our stuff up there around that touchup spot which is the worst spot putting posts on etc etc so it's all starting to go back together I think his boot turned out really good the cat's pretty good so we're going to start putting stuff back together okay so one issue we ran to on in on the Playfield is that uh the little screws that hold the window in in the middle uh couldn't tighten up because the te- nuts had fellen fallen out of it so uh these are little tiny te- nuts on this you can see a um well I don't have one around but an average size teut is is like twice that size and so um a number six t- nut is is much bigger than that so I'm thinking that's like a number four so I'm going to see if you can even order those but you can see where three of them have fallen out and I can't find them in the bottom of the cabinet so uh they must have fallen out in Antiquity but I've got to get those back in there so that I can um have nice little screws on the on the top to hold it in place I'll show you the these are the little screws that hold it they've got a flat top so that it holds the the plastic one so I'm going to see if I can order those I've got to put together an order for some little incidental stuff anyway so we'll see so this is where we're at cosmetically as we wait on the parts we still need to wait on that little those bushings for that little where is it where is the damn thing so we need to wait on the little bushings for that we ordered those from Marco they've got them thank God if you don't know we're in South Carolina so we're right up the road from Marco Specialties so whenever we order stuff from them we always get it in a day or two so makes it pretty easy because they've got just about everything usually so we'll wait for that to come in um and because I can't put that in that goes here I can't put the plastic on that goes there and because I can't put the plastic on that goes there I can't put the big ramp on that goes there and because I can't put the big ramp on that goes there I can't put the Fishbowl ramp on that goes there so we've gone about as f as we can go on putting stuff back extra credit if you know what that's from um I've got to clean up the cabinet a little bit here on the side somebody touched it up and looks pretty bad and then I've got to put the decals on so I think we're going to go ahead and do the decals so uh let's do we'll do this one over here first um there's a couple bolts here here I need to take out so I'm going to take those out the lock is up here and it's the old lock that we don't have a key for so we'll take that out I'm going to never mind I was going to say I'm going to sand that down but that's actually flat I thought it was raised up um we'll hit it with a little bit of sandpaper just get the rough stuff off but um and then we're just going to get the decal wet get this wet put it on squeegee all the water out and then trim it so I'll uh I'll take those bolts out of the back and I'll take that lock out get it nice and flat and we'll see what we can do so I got my two bolts out and I took the lock out even though you could probably just do it over the lock but because it's recessed but uh found one awesome thing underneath one of the bolts it hadn't faded because the sun had never hit it so it was originally orange which I figured but now I know so I ordered I was able to get the license stuff but I was able to get them to send me just a head de decals and you can't tell on the camera but it's a little bit off just barely but it's close enough that I'm not going to worry about it um and then I'm going to get it wet which will make it where I can actually move the decal around until um I squeeze the water out of it some people don't like doing it like that but that's how I do it and then uh these register Marks here on the sides are actually line up pretty good so if I can get it where those are about right it should fit right on and it's if you look it looks to me like they've got the scale perfect so it's exactly the right size in my opinion so I'm going to clean that up a little bit then I'm going to get it wet I'm going to peel the sticker off put it on there I'm going to slide it around till I get it perfect then I'm going to squeeze all the water out of it and I'll come back and show you what it looks like [Music] [Music] [Music] okay folks so as you saw I got it really wet which allowed me to just move it around wherever I want wanted and then you can I used a credit card wrapped in a paper towel to uh just squeegee all the all the uh uh wind I just used Windex squeegee all the Windex out now uh because the um adhesive on the back of the paper is a little bit wet it's not as sticky so you can just slide it around so you can see like down at the bottom it's not even attached so we got to wait for it to dry a little bit so I'm going to wait a couple hours let it dry where it'll stick a little bit better and then I'm going to trim it and put the screws back in it put the uh lock back in it and that'll be that side and then we'll do the other side so today is a happy day so Marco came through with the NY liners that I needed so n liners are these little tiny see the little white bushing through the metal there so there's two on this one on the back one on the front and they just snap in there and it holds that shaft in place so the way the thing apparently is designed you hit the face of course you know mine had scrap all over it so I cleaned it all up you hit the face and it pushes the rod back however far it goes depending on how you hit it which makes it spin this little rod with two rubber rings on it and the rubber rings had melted that was what caused all the trouble and then it spins this little wheel which goes through this optic here and there's Cuts in the wheels so it can tell how many times it's bun and all that but on M the optic is a little it's not centered right but I couldn't figure out a better way to do it there's a little washer that goes on the inside there that's how it was set up and I looked in the manual and that's how it's made so it appears that it's working good it just um oh and the spring on the back is held on with the c clip it appears that it's working good it just uh from what I understand by reading other people talking online it's not a perfect type of thing so it it just does what it does it's not a it's not sometimes they say you can hit it all the way and you only get like one point or something or one light but so I believe that it is working how it is intended to work so we're going to screw that back in and we'll have our fish bonus thing working right again so that's cool so the other thing I wanted to show was check out our back box decals they came out pretty good we we repainted the black trim too so I let it dry overnight on this side at least and then pounded the bolts back in and tightened them up whenever you do decals you always have to worry about twisting it and messing up the the uh the vinyl putting a ripple in it so try not to do that but I think it came out pretty good it looks a lot better it's not a perfect match of the bottom but the original ones weren't either so it could be that somebody swapped the head off of another machine off of a decaled machine but that'd be a lot of work and the whole thing's in pretty good shape I think it's just in the C in the uh Factory they just had parts and they ended up putting a head with decals on it on a body that doesn't have decals but we've at least got it all close to the same color now it's not faded so I'm very happy with that so last thing we need to do is start putting the Playfield the rest of the way back together and then cosmetically we'll pretty much be done we already did the electronic stuff so we're on the uh home slope here people all right so I think we're about done we've just got a couple little things but uh it's up and plain so we got the back glass back in it looks great we got the ramps all back in in it looks great there was one little spot up here look at this now I looked on a bunch of other ones too this post doesn't line up with the plastic but they're all like that if you look at everybody else's they're like that too so they must have at some point had to post over a little bit and then they decided that it was in the way so they moved it over but they didn't fix the plastic so in the design so like this part here if you look if one was right there and if it was laid out exactly the same it would it would fit the plastic but it's off a little bit that was one little thing I noticed um so yeah I think it turned out pretty good really now we will probably do another video showing us playing it and everything there's my little uh fish bonus that works good we'll probably do another video of us playing it but we got all of our cosmetic stuff done looks great I've got I'm still waiting on the little T nuts that I had to order so I have to replace those three T nuts and I'm missing one screw scre so I got to go to the store and try to buy a screw they may sell those at Lowe's or something it's a it's a 440 and it's 58 of an inch long and it's got Bad Kitty Bad Kitty and it's got a flat head on it so it's one of those I need one of those but anyway I'll start it up just so you can see it working badat bad cat [Music] waa I lost the ball [Music] people I love the sound of it and everything [Music] oh nice [Music] [Music] [Laughter] [Music] [Music] plays pretty good with one [Music] hand I like the little cats on the back on the display too [Music] cool cool game all right so I'll do a separate video of us playing it like we always do about this time one more time one more time but uh I hope you enjoyed us doing the Playfield and the Cosmetics give us a thumbs up if you can for taking the trouble to film it all for you cuz that was a big pain people and leave your comments below what you think about how it turned out artistically and uh look for our other video of us actually playing it so we'll see you on the next video make sure to leave your comments below we want to know what y'all think about it