Let's fix This Electro Mechanical 1973 Williams Jubilee Pinball Machine!

ladies and gentlemen this is Joe's classic video games back with another cool pinball repair video for you today this is a 1973 Williams Jubilee pinball this is the same thing as a 1973 Williams darling pinball but a darling is a two-player and this is a four player but even the back glass is the same so well kind of the same and uh one of our viewers Randy was doing his darling a while back and uh he got is all fixed up and we've got this four player Jubilee so we're going to get this one fixed up too but I thought I'd film a video showing you what shape it's in when we got it this thing is pretty rough all of the white has faded to Yellow on the sides that's probably going to stay like that though somebody's painted the the legs blue looks like crap um back box is a little beat up the back glass has a little bit of flaking but it's not too bad her dress is all screwed up um and there's a little bit of their skin is screwed up makes it look like they've got leprosy a little bit but it's not too bad this guy over here same thing going on we had one of these a while back that someone had shot with a I guess a BB gun but in this guy's face there was a little hole and like a round spot where a some kind of bullet had went through and we fixed it so if we can fix it we can fix this one so the back glass isn't too bad the play field it's fairly rough it's uh got some bad touch-up paint on it so we'll have to see if we can get that looking better same thing over here and then somebody now I know Randy didn't do this to his darling but somebody has put an extra rubber ring over it so that the ball can't even go in the kickout so that's probably because that coils burn up or something I don't know we'll see um somebody had kind of shopped it a little bit back in the day so they put new pop bumper stuff on it pop bumpers look nice and clean and they they uh put new flipper rubbers rubbers on it and stuff and they they touched up the P play field a little bit so somebody worked through it a little bit and got it kind of doing its thing so hopefully it won't need too much but we'll see so the first thing I'm going to do is um I'll take the glass off and we'll pop the the hood on it and see what it looks like inside so here's what the inside looks like let's see if we see anything screwed up uh the lock relay is a little Smokey but they're always like that everything else looks pretty good looks like at some point they've replaced the uh the main power cable so that's good looks like they did a pretty good job on that uh except it's inside I might have to we'll look at that um all the coils look pretty good here's the Chimes they're going to need some work people I think somebody may have been messing with those that didn't know what they were doing yeah it's going to need a little work uh and there's a flipper rebuild kit here that they got from the pinball resource which is a good idea but when you rebuild the flippers taping them onto the Playfield that's a bad idea so that part there all of that's going to need to be figured out you're not going to get good flipper action out of that people but that won't be no big deal we'll fix that looks like the bushing is probably just screwed up or the wrong one or something we'll figure it out all those relays look good little stepper unit looks good Solen is pretty good pretty nice see if you can see anything in the back might be too dark for you back door's missing the back Channel's missing that's kind of a pain um I don't see anything missing you're obviously screwed up oh wait a minute I do see something let me pull out a little bit and I'll film it I'm not sure how bright this is showing up but um there's a little jumper cable on here but that's actually there's nothing wrong with that all they were doing was they were jumpering the switch together basically they were putting it on free play so nothing wrong with that everything else in here looks pretty clean so uh I think the first thing that we'll do is we'll pull the play field out and then we'll start working on cleaning up the inside of the cabinet and cleaning the switches and everything now you could just plug it in and see if it works and it probably half ass works but we sell them and we like them to be super reliable if we sell them to somebody you know so uh we go through everything so there's no use plugging it in because you're going to have to go through everything anyway so I'll take the play field out it just disconnects over here get it out of the machine and then I'll start working through all of these so relays and I'll let you see what happens okay so I've showed this like a million times on games but I'm going to show you on this reset relay how you like figure out what to do about the switches so usually you don't have to adjust the switches usually they're fine this is the reset relay and it's got all three types of switches on it let me see if I can get this camera to stop shaking all right so this reset relay has all three types of switches so over here there may be another type of switch that I'm not aware of but in general you have three types of switches so this one is a normally open switch so normally when the resets turned off it's open so watch this switch whenever I pull the reset in the relay in so it closes and see how the the short part of the uh switch just barely moves whenever the other one hits it you see this one over here is doing the same and this one doing the same so there's three in a row there and see how the short blade moves that's what you want and then this one right here is a normally closed switch so it's normally together and when the relay pulls in it opens and then when see when it goes back how it barely moves the short blade that's what you want and then these two over here are make brake switches so see how the bar in the the blade in the middle is long and it's the one that gets moved by the relay and then it it it uh makes the connection on this side and it breaks the connection on this side when it pulls in see how it it's both of the switches combined basically right and see how both of the small blades are moving like see this one on the left it's really dancing good see how the small blade moves on each side as the Center blade touches it that's what you want so if you got it like that pretty much everything will work so I'm going through and when another thing don't go through and adjust every switch if you see it and it you can barely tell that it's barely moving and you go oh I wish it was moving a little better let me bend it you're going to screw things up don't do that if it's if it's just barely touching it and you can still see it moving just barely leave it alone um these things they get into a rhythm like once they're played they get the reason that you want it to move slightly is because it actually cleans it so the the two pads the two points touch each other and they they they move just slightly and it actually cleans it doing that but when you play these things they get into a rhythm and it just kind of likes how it is if you go through and you try to get everything perfect it will not work right you'll screw something up so and uh we clean them so I use like an old wornout file you just want to use something you don't want to get anything too abrc of where you're eating the coating off of the points but you just want to get them clean you'll see they've got filth all over them so I've done all of those I also did the uh score motor so now I've got these two stepper units here that I'm going to take apart so um I'm going to take the spider off and I'll show you what that looks like whenever I get it apart so I'll show you what we do on these stepper units there's actually two of them here that are very similar right and so you see I've taken the uh spider off of this one spider still on that one so you take the spider off and that gives you just a little bit of play in the in the shaft I usually try to get a little threein one oil down in there just to get it where it's lubricated a little bit if it's metal on metal if it's metal on U nylon don't put any lubricant on it cu the nylon it'll swell up a little bit if it gets too much oil on it but if it's metal on metal put a little bit of oil on it and then I clean these um bake light boards here to get the contacts nice and shiny and then on this side this is the tough the trickiest part when it resets so this one makes it go uh backwards so when it resets this bar should spin around and open up this switch but you have to get it where when it comes off of that it closes the switch so it's it's really hard to get that just right so you got to get it where it's in all the way one way it barely opens the switch and then as soon as it comes off of it it closes the switch you can see on this one how it's pushed the switch way down that's probably not right it's probably not supposed to be like that so I might have to look into that or actually that may I don't know so that's the tricky part is the switches on those and you need to of course Mark the uh Spider so that you know how it goes back on because it's really easy to put them on upside down and then nothing will work so we got to clean all that get everything lubricated and doing its thing um and you you need to get it where every time you pull in the plunger it steps up one spot and when you go the other way it either resets all the way back if that's how it's designed or goes back one spot so the the stepper units are really important and the the main thing that you have to get right all right these are the schematics for a similar Williams game four player and you can see this right here it says coin unit which is that that stepping unit that we're looking at on the bottom coin unit last position break switch and then under under that it says ball count zero breake switch player unit zero brake switch so what that's telling you is that when the ball count one which is the one next to it the one the first stepping unit there were stepper you know that we're looking at that switch should open at zero it should break at zero so whenever the whenever the thing rotates all the way whenever it gets to zero it should open that switch but it's telling you that this one the coin unit last position break switch should open when it's at the last position so it's completely backwards so that's why it looks all bent down it's supposed to be like that it shouldn't open until it gets all the way to the front not when it's at the zero position when it's at the last position okay so here is that switch so when you hit and reset the wheel that's the zero position which is actually the first coin that's the second coin third coin see it's still connected and then fourth coin now it's finally open so that's how you can get it where you can press the start button four times but you can't press it five times so that's exactly how it's supposed to be so we got everything clean we uh got this two stepper units doing our thing I cleaned the Jones plugs and plugged them back in put the play field back up in had it tilted back uh cleaned all the switches cleaned that stepper unit over there put it all back together um there was a wire that was loose on the uh one of the pop bumpers put that back and uh I wanted to show you a couple things things one thing is they've done this little upgrade on some of the sockets these old sockets get all worn out where the uh basically they dry out and the fitting the way it fits together isn't what it once was so the the way it originally was like on this one the wire comes up to this little blade which through a press fitting there's a little uh piece that moves in the middle of it so when you push the bulb in it can move um which gives it a little tension to hold the bulb in place but after a while that all gets corroded and blah blah blah so one way that you can go around that is you can jumper a wire from that blade to the very tip the part that moves you can see it coming out a little bit and so if you do that it makes it a really stable connection so they did that on almost all of the bulb sockets that's pretty cool but the weirdest thing they did was they had this flipper bushing here and they had all of this tape on it they had taped it all in place I guess because uh the screws let me get this stuff all off of me the screws on it had came loose right so it looks like they've been trying to glue it and everything else see how the holes are all screwed up but folks you know if if it won't hold like that anymore why can't I just turn it like that all you got to do is turn it a little bit folks come on now so I'm going to turn the bushing slightly and then put the screws in brand new wood and then not have any more problems for the rest of Eternity uh so that'll be easy to fix so we'll we'll get that back up in there um The Flipper plunger someone had replaced so that's good those are must replace and then they didn't replace the one on this side it's the original one but I've still got the rebuild kit here and it's in the rebuild kit so we'll rebuild it by putting the new plunger on it it looks like they must had some kind of problem with this flipper because they replaced the coil and everything but uh we'll get that bushing in there right and get everything tightened up where we can put the flipper back through the play field um and then that'll be about it for underneath the play field so now it's time to look in the back box and start working through all that stuff okay folks so it's several hours later and we've went through and cleaned all of the little stepper units that one was filthy I mean filthy um but it's all the same stuff you just do the same thing over and over again you get all the stepper units stepping you get all of the U all of the switches Changing State so whenever it pulls in whatever it pulls in whatever the relay pulls in it goes from open to close or close to open or it makes and breaks like we were looking at uh you clean all of your Jones plugs so we can just take a little sandpaper and clean them up here's more relays down here um you've got this big huge unit here I think that is that the 09 match unit I believe it might be um and then all the score reels uh I took off and uh just wiped down they had a lot of black soot on them but I didn't I didn't go crazy on it I just cleaned them as good as I could and uh cleaned all of the little all of the little um switches on the top so that they open and close like they should and there weren't any broken wires like I said this thing somebody has already gone through this thing I don't know how long ago but they've uh it's in decent shape already so the next thing that I'm going to do is uh I'm going to drop this light box here and replace all the light bulbs in the light box and pull the back glass out because we have to do some work on the back glass but um I'll show you what the front of it looks like so we found something pretty interesting in the back in the back box they have replaced some of the bulbs with colored bulbs so I replaced all the clear ones they got a few here that aren't as bright if you ever get one that's not real bright just twist it a little bit see if that the whole socket see if that helps you out like that one's not bright Bam um so I replaced all the ones that uh were not um colored but I left the colored ones and the reasons that the reason I left and these two so whenever you've got a socket that's round like that it's because it's supposed to have a flashing bulb in it so 450 uh they usually put those behind the name of the game and it'll Flash and kind of give a little animation to the back glass okay so the reason that they put the colored bulbs in it is because of the black back glass that had flaked and look at this so they have put colored film on the back glass when the back glass is flake you get one of two things happening um either big pieces flake off or you just get little tiny pieces that flake off like and that's what's happened to this one little pieces that flaked off and the reason that it does that is because of it's been stored uh in the cold usually once it once uh you get it where you've got it in a a climate controlled environment it doesn't get any worse so you can triple thick it but it's if it's just the little tiny pieces flaking off usually all of them that are going to flake off have already flaked off so I was going to touch it up but now I'm kind of curious to see how the hell it looks so I'm going to pop it back up in there and I'm going to leave the colored light bulbs right where they had them they're not LEDs they're actually like incandescent bulbs and we'll see if it lights up pretty good or if it looks like crap if it looks like crap I'll probably have to paint it h well I got to give it to them it looks pretty presentable like that it's probably I don't think I could really make it any better with paint whenever I paint it they it always looks splotchy but they've actually got it pretty good when whenever you you uh have the paint flaked like that the when it looks bad is when you can just look through it and see the bulb or whatever but they've actually got it looking pretty good so whoever that is out there that did this I think I'm just going to leave it like that looks pretty good certainly passible hey let's turn the lights off don't y'all love it in my videos when I go turn the lights out let's walk over here to the light switch what do you think focus is off a little bit let's get it to focus I I kind of like it I don't think I could really get it much better with paint so I'll think about it a little bit people I might decide to repaint it but for now we're going to leave it like like that so I'll turn the lights back on and then we'll uh I've got everything cleaned and everything so we'll try to start a game and see if it's going to even attempt to play so I set it on free play and I'm just going to hit start and see if anything happens I haven't tried anything yet we'll see if uh we get anything now basically if we've got it right all of these scores will reset I purposely left them all on one or that one on two just so they had to reset uh for the game to start so we we'll see what we get the zeros on all of them are dummy reals they're fake sounded pretty good let's see what coils locked on something's buzzing what is buzzing it's this [Music] [Laughter] one okay so there's a relay stuck there which will be because of a stuck switch on the Playfield H all right so basically the reason that that's buzzing is because somewhere on the Playfield there's a switch stuck and so it's like 10 points or something and it's stuck on all the time let's see if I can find it real quick might be that one well maybe we'll look at the schematics see if we can track down or maybe it's this Advanced one H do you hear it hit the uh oh look we've got a clue there's a clue folks it's got 200 points on it so it's something that scores 100 points it probably doesn't even say on this no um 100 points when lit that's on the pot bumpers H well let's look in the schematics see if I can track it down so I looked on the schematics and basically it's just the pop bumper so I don't know I think one of them was stuck down I started it over again and it's not doing it now but we'll see if it sticks again um so we're back at the beginning of a game everything zeroed back [Music] out let's counted down our bonus it looks like um I'm going shot the ball back back out says we're on ball two I can't really play it because uh woo the flippers are quick I don't know how they played it with that rubber ring there I mean what what do you do whenever that happens that's weak [Music] so we need to work on that definitely right so all of that stuff that we need to mess with when we clean the play field go back in there all right so it looks like it's doing its thing ball number three let's see if it'll if that's the last ball or if it goes to ball number five I mean if it goes let's see if it has a if it's that on five balls Ball Four you know I'm a three ball type of guy I realized a lot of the P balls are supposed the older ones are supposed to be five all right ball four and ball five double when lit and we got our game game over that's great all right so basically I think we're up and running we might have to troubleshoot it again a little bit later but I think we've got it all fixed up where it's at least uh playable I don't want to play it too much though cuz the play's filthy look at that crap so anywh there you go all right so we worked through it uh what I'm going to do now is I'm going to start tearing down the Playfield and do all the Cosmetics on the Playfield it looks to me like they've clear coated this thing look see that they have clear coated this thing after they touched it up but the touch Up's pretty weak so I got to touch it up again what are they doing to me tell me all this dirt isn't underneath the clear coat I think all that dirt is underneath the clear coat what the hell are are they doing so we'll do that in the next video so uh we'll wrap it up at least we got it up and running tried to show you what we kind of worked with and we may still have to mess with that back glass I don't know if I'm going be happy with that or not but uh we'll do that on the next video so leave your comments below what you think about it so far give us a thumbs up for taking the trouble to film all this for you and we will see you on the next video Jubilee