Bingo
pinballs
Created on 06-30-2003
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
the 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 positions \, and one sw will
only move the numbers one position. I open the coin door and looked at these
mechanisms 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 than 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 ~
|
…does Phil
Hooper read your website and email you, well as a matter-of-fact` …smile` ~ |