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One day I mentioned to Phil, That on “power on” the ball automatically lifted on my Big Time
and that it didn't wait until the coin sw was triggered before doing so. hi
danny, depends
on whether you completed the previous game.
if the shutter is closed and you shot five or more balls, then the
game should not raise a ball at power on.
if it does, you'll need to check trough switch #8 and the timer disc
(make sure the timer disc is fully reset). One
thing I am also unsure of is if you should be able to add coins and increase
odds after the initial coin loading and then having shot a couple of balls. I
am a little confused if this is suppose to be allowed. I think so the the Big
Time doesn't allow this. After you have shot a ball, tripping the coin sw
throws the game into reset, opens the shutter, and whamo - say la vee right,
and cycling of the machine after shooting the first ball results in a reset
until you get to extra ball mode. the
games that allow increasing the odds after shooting the first ball normally
have it as a light-up feature called "stop-n-shop score
booster"....cypress gardens had this feature. phil The advice was good, so I kept emailing………smile……… Today I replaced ther coin sw in the Big Time and it fired
right up as expected and now it's all back together. The only thing left to
do here it looks like is to replace a few of the non-working lights behind
the backglass and get the up/down lifter sws working. Out of the 5 sws - one
won't move any numbers on it's row, 3 of them will move the numbers 2
positions only verses 3 positons \, and one sw will only move the numbers one
position. I open the coin door and looked at these mechanisims and they look
pretty crude, so hopefully it's just dirt related problems effecting the
electrical contacts. hi
danny, people
seemed to like to spill drinks on the buttons, so cleaning the contact plates
and sometimes disassembly of the entire wiper unit to clean/derust is
common. I've gone through four big
times...they were all cruddy. I
probably repainted the metal mounting plates on three of them. you'll
also want to clean the plugs connecting the switches to the cabinet. when
the game is reset and the magic lines feature isn't lit, the rows should home
in the center position. I kinda
recall that they do that even if the magic lines are lit, and when the first
ball is shot, they then will adjust to the position of the knobs. if that's not happening, something else
is not getting reset properly. The
Hi-Fi is still pretty much odd, only has 5 balls but still plays, always
tries to lift 2 balls, the shutter won't close, and the metal on the front
end near the coin door is trashed. you'll
probably need to pull off the ball trough and clean/adjust the switches. it's just a wood screw on one end, and a
metal screw near the lifter. the
metal screw can be tricky. often is
easiest to just use some needlenose to pull out one leg of the trough switch
rollover wire that is blocking the screw head (the leg nearest the head...you
can't pull the other one out!). then
you can shift the wire enough to get to the screw easily. then just flip the entire trough over. actually,
before doing that, check the timer unit and make sure it's resetting all the
way. may have crud on the contact
plate keeping the wipers from rotating all the way home. this will effect the shutter as well. it
tries to raise two balls every time the ball lift motor turns on? Phil
~ Check out the turn-screws in the center of left pic - A bit
hard to see, but Phil was correct these were Abused –
There was gunk-and-crap down in the holes and everything was mired
in sticky-gooey filth. I cleaned the turn-screws and hosed out the holes and switches mounted in the cabinet and
everything starting working. The movement of the lines in the bingo card was completely functional, other then
being a bit sluggish at times, which I fixed by lubing the mechanics of the main card with a very-light coating of 3-in-One
oil. – Then I was good to go! ~ Since then I’ve learned that surface dirt and corrosion cause
quite a few errors on these bingos ~ ~ That and intermittent mechanical connections in areas like the
“Jones Plugs and fuse banks ~ ~ Don’t just assume your dead bingo has a major problem! ~ ~ The dead Surf Club I just bought I cured by correcting the
wrong number and size of balls in it ~
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