We Had To Repair Elvis' FACE on Our Stern 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 Elvis Presley Hunka Hunka Burnin' Love pinball machine for a couple videos now, and hopefully we can finish it up in this one. It is pretty much up and running, doing its thing. We played it a little bit in the previous video, but we have a couple light bulb issues. We need to test all of the switches, make sure we adjust anything that needs adjusted. And I had to order some things. so look at this now these people do not pay me to say this so take this for what it is but we ordered some stuff from good old Marco Specialties in Lexington South Carolina we are in Rock Hill South Carolina so one of the reasons we order from Marcos because they're right down the road so they we get it within a day or two so we've got some parts in our other favorite pinball parts place is the pinball resource we usually use them on older games which is what we usually work one. But we needed some little plastic pieces and stuff. So we ordered it from Marco. So we've got to do that. We also have to do some plastic surgery on Mr. Elvis's face there. He keeps hitting himself in the face with the microphone or he did at some point. So it has busted up his lip a little bit. We'll figure that out. Got to make sure he looks good. And so that's that. So that's what we plan on doing in this video. So let's take this package and open it up so I can remind myself what i ordered and what the machine needed so this is all i ordered a back box lock thing you know there's supposed to be one of those in each of them ours is missing one of these little spotlight things um there is a flasher light that shines on the Elvis figure and it's missing off of that i don't know if i've originally had one or not but it's supposed to have a 906 flasher so i got a led 906 flasher you know what this one's directional well yeah it'll work with this in there um so we'll see how that works out i'm not a lead guy but someone else had already put leads in the rest of it and then i got a few more leads because some of the leads are missing um and then i got these pop bumper uh bases because uh joey ran out of them when he was doing the playfield if you watched that video the first video in the series uh and then i got new scorecards these were yellow and they kind of look cool that way so i went ahead and ordered them instead of trying to print some out and then these were what i was kind of the only thing i actually needed these are little retainers that uh now i got no diode ones i believe that's correct basically this is what holds the bulbs in the bottom of the playfield you will see it soon some of these are cracked on mine so i need to replace them with nice new springy ones so that was the main thing so i guess we'll go do that first let's put pop up the playfield look underneath it and find all of the broken ones i don't know how many there were so i ordered a dozen or something 10 of them um and we'll go ahead and replace those now it uses insulation it's an insulation displacement connector which means basically you just skin the insulation off of the uh wire when you push it through the socket so let's go see what we can find so i've found three so far and what happens is one of these little things here that holds it in place breaks off and so then it kind of hangs in there weird and so this is one of the ones that was broken it was missing its lead so i put just a regular bulb in it a real bulb in it and um yeah so that's that so when i ordered these i ordered the ones that do not have a diode which means they have a little jumper wire so basically one wire connects here and one wire connects here and the wire that connects here is connected to that jumper wire which connects over to here and then on this side there are two holders that hold the socket jumps over to here where the wires connect so on these you actually need the diode though so that is how they originally looked so instead of a wire jumper there there is a diode there and it has the anode towards the where the wire is so we need to make ours like that so I pulled out the wire and put in a one in four 4003 is what was in it. Any of my work that went in 4001 would work. Pushed it down in there with the screwdriver So it's connecting here to here and it's got the anode towards the wire so I did a couple like that and I'm gonna slide a new bulb in it and Push the wires back down in place and that should get it fixed And now the reason I'm doing that again is because this little clips broke so they just hang in there weird This one someone had glued in there. Okay, so there was a broken one there a broken one down there there and a broken one here now you may have just noticed whenever i ordered the LEDs i accidentally ordered magenta LEDs so i put them in red inserts so you can't tell um there was also an issue where uh some of the so i didn't put these LEDs in here these LEDs in here somebody else did so these four up here uh were warm instead of cool so i took the warm ones out and put them in the yellow inserts just because it looked a little more like that color just so that all of those blue ones would be the exact same bulb so that you wouldn't be able to notice that they were slightly different uh so i think we got all that good uh every bulb appears to be working i'm going to look underneath there's some bulbs too or something just trying to make sure that's all right and then uh we need to test all of the switches just to make sure every little thing on this game is working i believe it is if you didn't catch the previous video we had a bunch of solenoid issues that ended up being broken wires and things like that so uh we worked through it a lot on that we also cleaned it up a lot i know it looks like there's a lot of black soot on it all of that is actually what's left of what we cleaned up um so it's doing pretty good so yeah let me look underneath the uh back box the the back part there to make sure everything is lighting up as it should back there and then we will move on to uh checking switches okay so i believe we've got all of the bulbs working the ones in the back kick panel thing are working everything's working um this is the little flasher that shines on the king see if we can get this to fit on there please don't break on me it didn't break on me it listened to me okay and then we'll see if we can get a little flasher bulb in there please don't short out on me mr flasher bulb down in there far enough i believe it is there was something about does he kick that when he goes by or something i think he doesn't quite hit it i don't know we'll see so uh we got that there's a bulb there there's a led bulb here okay um so yeah so we need to go into the um the flasher test okay so we've got it cycling all of them so there's that one there and there and there appears to be one there our new one here is working look it even lights them up perfect uh there's one on the hound dog somehow no that's the same one um the one back there one back there one back there one up there um there may be some under the playfield i just don't know about but it looks like they're all working it's doing all of them didn't it do it though in the solenoid test i think too um how did we do that we went in the coil test single coil test let's see what it labels them as flasher slings times two okay i think we saw that flasher the elvis spotlight all right the elvis spotlight is working great it's brighter than the rest but uh to be honest shouldn't it be it's the spotlight stepper motor which is what makes him move flasher what did we miss we went right by something optional coil okay we don't need to worry about that upper right flipper times two yeah there is two aren't there one there okay flasher on the spinner that's and it doesn't say times two flash on the back panel taking care of business that's there in the middle flasher back panel times two i think that's it all right yes that's all the flashers okay so let's put it in switch test and check all those all right so let's see if we go to previous it should get us back out of here go to switch test okay so let's see if i just hit a switch if it will tell us left out lane cool return lane right return lane right out lane sometimes you'll do this and you'll get it say like six different switches so you know that there's problems if you look on the up here that shows four of them are actuated plus the one at the four here plus this one so those are switches that are closed right now the four are probably the four balls in the out lane i mean in the that's interesting so in the out lane there is a spot for a switch but there's no switch there so i don't know if that's messed up or not no we'll check everything and then we'll go past that okay so there's there is an optical switch down there i wonder if that you know that one of those is the ball sitting in the optical switch that's one shot other left slingshot other right slingshot spot note stand up hound dog switch left ramp exit to the heartbreak hotel the upper play field left ramp made top hotel bottom hotel hotel door right ramp center saucer orbit oh when you hit that it automatically opens the right gate so you can make the whole orbit that's pretty cool right orbit um e c b bottom bumper left bumper right bumper looking pretty good folks uh we've got the drops if you worry about inner works probably a couple I'm missing but I don't see them um okay drops Elvis is in the building okay that's everything so I want to look at see how we've got the ones that are permanently stuck on so four of them are the balls in the ball trough one of them must be the optic and the optic in the ball trough uh there's the five drop targets and then there's one more I wonder what that's all about so I want to look at the shooter lane there is a space for a switch but I don't see any switch so there might be something going on there okay so i reset the drop targets and i removed the four balls and those two are still stuck on so uh one of them it looks like is the shooter lane looks like that switch is broke or something it's stuck on the wood or something so we got to figure that out and then the other one there is this optic here um i wonder if it's there i wonder if that's not lined up right trying to stick my hand in the way of it and see if it triggers it yeah there we go four ball stacking opto so actually it's working fine all right so let me look in the manual and see if i can figure out what those uh two are that are stuck on it, one I think is going to be the shooter one of them's probably this one, so that looks like when Elvis is all the way back he hits a switch and it's stuck right now, so that's probably that one so if you look in the manual it shows the switch matrix and this one is on the Elvis home switch, that's that one we just found and this one is on the hound dog switch so there's something going on with that sucker where is the out the uh shooter lane switch, there it is, so we got a problem there, we got to look at it next I guess, so the top one's the Elvis home switch this bottom corner one is this hound dog switch, it's acting up a little bit, if I hit it it works but it's I don't know if it's shorting out or if it's partially engaged I try to unplugging it, if I unplug it it goes out okay so if I lift up and I think the switch is bent so basically right now the switch is on, oh I see what's going on, when you the switch is wired backwards on purpose so when it goes up the switch is off and when it goes down the switch is engaged so it's supposed to be like that, so it's it's supposed to be on and when you hit it it literally knocks them up in the air and like if i was to hold it in the switch would be off so that's how it's supposed to be so it's normally wired um closed that makes sense all right so we're good with those so we need to mess with the uh shooter lane one okay so i took the switch loose and the little actuator was broke on it so this stick this wire sticks up through the play field and that's what the ball rolls over to push down this blade to make the switch work you can see so this one was missing broken off put a new one on it got it doing its thing now you can uh you can buy those switches new too and i think you can buy the little wire new as well so that should have been the problem with that so i'm gonna mount it back in there how it goes and we'll see if that has repaired that problem there is some lane wear for sure in this thing it's been played oh lordy about shocked me uh the switch is working the auto eject uh uh just happened okay so i guess we don't need to go into switch test my finger can tell you for sure somebody mentioned on one of the other videos that they uh they heard that the music from this was from a uh bootleg elvis concert well i don't know it's it's certainly licensed elvis presley enterprises is got a copyright here you know obviously it's going to be licensed um and uh yeah it is from a live concert but i kind of i kind of like that i mean you know the game is like you're playing at a concert you know there's an encore up here and all this so it's it's that's what Elvis is all about isn't it his live performances so yeah it does do some of his concert music and it's not from one of the the big concerts that were released um as one of his big things or like a little Aloha from Hawaii or anything like that um but I like that I would have done that if they could have picked anything I think it's cool that they use the concert that people don't get to hear that much and kind of wrap the game around it by the way this game was designed by Steve Ritchie the king of pinball is his nickname right so I've got a the flyer over here that he autographed it says uh the king of pinball meets the king of rock and roll let me show it to you I can't get it off the wall okay I got it off the wall dust off of it a little bit here many years ago Steve Ritchie I think was on the outs or something with Stern I can't remember he might have told him to go screw himself anyway he uh you could buy stuff on his um personal website and so I bought this from him which is one of the flyers or it might just be a printing of the flyer I don't know but it's autographed by Steve um and it says Elvis Presley the king of pinball meets the king of rock and roll so this has been hanging on my wall here in the shop when we first opened our store it would have been about 2009 um we just needed some decor so I bought this he was selling these at the time for like 30 or 40 dollars or something like that, and I bought it off of him, and hung it on the wall, just so that we'd have some cool stuff hanging on the wall, and so it's been hanging on the wall ever since, so 17 years, it looks a little faded now that I look at it, so maybe it's just a print or something, but it's pretty cool, so I guess we'll try out the game a little bit, there's no glass on it, Steve Ritchie would be the first person to tell you that a game plays better with the glass on it, and I'm serious about that, and one time in an interview, he said that back at Williams in the day they would take the play fields and screw them into the the boards on the side just to make them more solid he said they played a lot better and i don't know how to play anyway so and the game won't start what the there we go now it may block some of this because of the copyright stuff we've still got to paint elvis's face too by the way we're just looking for little issues that pop up. They got a voiceover guy that sounds like Capone and it plays CC Ryder when you start all the time. But that's right there's something weird with the flippers I want to look at. The right one you have to push in farther than the left one so the switch needs adjusting or something. Extra ball is lit. Yes sir. Ball one is locked. Oh hell. It's kind of hard to get two shots at that ball sometimes depending on what it hits i like the old school animation on the dmd i didn't do too good all right so i'm going to see if i can figure out what's up with the the flipper switches see if they're slightly off and also i'm going to um oh we need to touch up his mouth all right so i checked out the switches the one on the right was just adjusted a little farther out so i adjusted it a little farther in so elvis here needs some help um i'm going to clean off his hands they just look a little messy i don't know if that's just dust and dirt the microphone it looks like maybe has broken at some point but if you watch whenever it does it now it doesn't actually hit him anymore they only go up like this you know they don't go like the thing has been hitting him but it looks like it was whatever was however they had it before like it doesn't do it now so uh it looks like the top of the microphone is slightly different so i don't know if they've repaired that or what you can actually buy this still this this molding but he has two prop three problems one he's kind of dirty looking so i need to clean off his skin tone there two the black on his lips um is because the the skin tone has been knocked off the molding itself was black and then three he's cross-eyed now i don't know how that happened but he didn't come on people that ain't right i mean somebody did that as just a way to mock him i think that's wrong now uh if you look at all the other versions of this pinball machine he's not cross-eyed so i don't know why our particular doll is cross-eyed but um i guess i'll try to touch that up with a white with some white and black paint i don't know we'll see if we can make him not cross-eyed so this is going to be a very simple touch-up using a toothpick or something if i can find a toothpick something like a toothpick so i'm try to i'm going to try to wipe him down first to clean it up his hands and stuff a little bit and then i'm going to use something a skin tone color that's some something similar to that and then a uh a toothpick with maybe a little white paint on it a little black paint on it to make him less cross-eyed i think it's horrible i don't think it's right elvis and then they left you like it i just don't think it's right i have some paint here the color is camel and it seems to match the closest that i've got to his skin tone it might be a little dark but since it's just a little bit maybe you won't be able to see the difference i was getting a little uh little dental work there i mean that would be embarrassing to hit yourself in the face with a microphone let's see if we can get anywhere you probably can't see it too good sorry i'm left-handed round two elvis you know elvis was all about fashion and looking good which isn't necessarily a vain thing not necessarily vanity nothing wrong with wanting to look your best especially if you're famous i saw something recently of all people Miley Cyrus talking about that and she said that um she um she doesn't let fans take pictures with her she said that sometimes you know she's going through the airport or something and she just uh she's on she doesn't mind talking to people and stuff but she doesn't want to let them take a picture because she might not be looking her best and she kind of presents an image where she wants to look a certain way and blah blah and I'll bet Elvis was the same so I'll bet he would be very happy that we just fixed his mouth now he doesn't look quite as cross-eyed for some reason now that we've made that look less goofy so let me see if I can get some just a little bit of white paint and move his the iris of his eye a little bit so this white part I think is gonna be the trickiest because it's just a little tiny spot and you don't really want to get it on anything but his eyeball see if I can get just a little bit of white on there unfortunately a lot of my paint has dried up some of it not all of it and my eyesight is not as good as it used to be but we'll see what we can do hold still Elvis got a little bit of it on its cheek is there any white there i can't tell if i even got it on what we were trying to do gotta try it again Elvis all right so that makes them look a little creepy and i accidentally gave him gray hairs he really wouldn't like that i'll bet the good thing about acrylic paint is you can wipe it off with does it look any better i think we need to give them a little more of an eyeball now and i think it'll make them look less uh cross-eyed so let me get just a little bit of black paint i've got a little black uh paint pen paint marker that i can probably do that with i've got these little Posca acrylic paint pens but we just need the smallest little bit that come out all right i think it did that's a little better isn't it what do you think i like that i need to if i could clean off his cheek just a little bit more to get rid of that little hint of white i think we'd be done all right so we got the instruction cards on and here is his face you tell me what do you think now remember you're looking from up here i could obviously tell he was cross-eyed before uh we fixed up his smirk so that's good like don't look about the same as they're about the same right and here's a close-up of his face so you can see if i got him cross-eyed fixed his cross-eyed i would say his right eye or his left eye looks as good as his right eye so i don't if i could if i could ink in his eye shadow or his eyeliner a little bit better it'd be a little better but i don't have the ability to do that that's awful small but i think that looks pretty good his mouth that certainly looks a lot better there's actual uh some of the stuff is gone off of it so i like you know it doesn't have the the it doesn't have the uh the sculpt that it should but it's the best we can do folks looks a lot better i think worth all the trouble okay so i think we're about done we need to work on the cabinet a little bit we need to uh put new leg levelers on it we need to try to clean that up a little bit that wear is pretty bad right there make it look a little better um and that's about it so we'll play it a little bit and uh we'll have joey cosmetically fix up the cabinet a little bit and it's about ready to go i think okay so we touched it up a little bit we got rid of the topper thing or piece of the topper that was still on the top it wasn't an official topper it was just something somebody had taped on the top of the cabinet and everything seems to be playing good so we'll give it a little test play now it plays his music really strongly in this which means it's probably going to hit some copyright strikes which means part of this video is going to disappear so if you only see a little bit of the gameplay that's because youtube if you don't know how that works i'll explain it real quick okay so we just made what a 30 40 minute video about this working on this pinball machine if i play seven seconds of one of elvis's songs now elvis doesn't get the money by the way i guess his granddaughter gets some of it so that's good but um if i play seven seconds of a song they take all of the ad money that this video makes all of the uh youtube premium money that this video makes and they give it to whoever the copyright holder is, okay, of the whole video. So the other alternative to that would be, well, we don't run any ads on the video. You can't do that. YouTube runs ads on. If I get anybody to watch this video, YouTube will put ads on it and then just keep all the money. So if anybody's going to get the money, I should get the money because I made the video, right? But if you play just seven seconds of a clip of a song, they will take all of the revenue for the whole video and give it to someone else now we're not talking about a ton of money but it's you know it's enough that i keep making videos by the way so um it's just a they need to figure that out where if for the last five minutes of the video of a hour-long video it plays music give people the revenue from that part of the video but it would probably be very complicated to keep track of all that so they just screw over the whoever created the video all right but that has nothing to do with elvis himself so uh let's play it a little bit i'm not any good at it but we'll knock the ball around yeah so just the melody is probably going to get us copyright struck i like the little the little uh the girls yelling his name that's pretty cool so the goal is you're trying to do certain things so let's go over them featured hits completed start all five song modes the hound dog shoot the hound dog target blue suede shoes shoot the center loop with the upper right flipper. Heartbreak hotel, shoot the balls into the heartbreak hotel on the upper play field. Jailhouse rock, shoot the balls into the jailhouse eject hole. All shook up, shoot the all shook up shots. Gifts from Elvis completed, shoot the Elvis drop targets to light gifts from Elvis on the top eject hole. Top 10 countdown completed, shoot the lit music notes to advance the top 10 countdown. Skill shot, plunge the ball into the WLBS top lanes or Elvis drop targets mystery ball and the pop bumpers will change channels until all three tvs match okay extra ball shoot the right ramp to light extra ball tcb complete tcb to double all scoring encore spell encore the letters lit in the back panel to earn an extra multi-ball after the game i think that's like a holdover because it was on e and c while we were working on it and then somehow we've turned on o okay see that says rock again there we go no folks i like the live version better i just think it fits the pinball better what is gonna get me bigger than hell look he's wearing the uh he's wearing the comeback special jumpsuit too while he dances lost a couple of them i missed the shot and i don't know that my hound dog is working right it is working okay i need to do he's working i need to do blue suede shoes do the heartbreak hotel it didn't go all the way missed it i thank you elvis yeah it's copyright strike the crap out of me so the reason the video was likely real choppy just now was because i was cutting out all the songs one more game if you press the flippers while it's in the track mode he says things to me it won't let you do it over and over again but it's like if i hit the left flipper yes and if you hit the right flipper i won't do it i think yeah you have to wait 60 seconds or something all right let's start another game i keep i'm slow on the trigger we started that one at least yeah it is missed it again let's try that again right folks there you You go, you'll have to find some video with someone playing it that's better at it than I am. And they've probably done gave me 15 copyright strikes. This may be our last video if they copyright strike the crap out of us. Now, if it weren't different, like if Elvis himself called me and said, hey, brother, why don't you take that down? You know, I'm trying to make a living out here and I don't want people just stealing my songs. You know what I'm saying? And I'd say, yes, sir, Mr. Presley. No problem. I'll take it down. But that's not what's going to happen. It's going to be some dude at freaking, you know, CBS or something. i don't know anyway folks i hope you enjoyed the video what a cool game we're going to put this up for sale now you may be wondering what's something like this cost um we're going to we're going to advertise it for sale for 64.99 it's a fairly expensive one when it was new i think it was about 5900 and um um i think that's about what it's worth that's you know you can get them cheaper than that but we're retail so we're not going to be the cheapest one you can find but we're also not going to be the most expensive one you can find. So it's going to be about $64.99. Now, we'll probably sell it by Christmas, I would think. We're a couple months ahead of Christmas right now. This time of year, people often are looking for big purchases. So maybe someone is an Elvis fan and they'll be wanting this thing. So we will see you on the next video. We have a lot more games, of course, we're going to work on. We just got three EM pinball machines in off of a gentleman that he needs us to fix for him that are freaking cool. Three really cool games. So One of them is a pitching bat. One of them is a really cool pool game. And the other one is a big chief. So that'll be cool. So we've got those to work on. We've still got a bunch of other stuff we're going to work on. So plenty more videos coming. And we have made a lot of playlists here on our channel. So we'll pop one of these playlists of some of Steve Ritchie's games that he's designed, not just this Elvis pinball machine, but some other ones that he's designed. We'll put the playlist up here on the screen, and you can check it out. there are a couple hundred playlists on our channel now so make sure to check those out if you haven't seen them and we've got them sorted by topic so hopefully everybody will enjoy that and we will see you on the next video thank you very much