Customer Brought His BROKE Pinball Machine Back! Gottlieb BIG SHOT Repair

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@briank.3629 Жыл бұрын

I was at a local pinball "arcade" recently and thy had an old EM machine. I never was a fan of EM's until watching you and your true admiration for the engineering (and art) that went into those machines. I thoroughly enjoyed playing that thing! the bells and clicks etc... AWESOME! Ron, you do this hobby a great service!

@AlwaysAwesome001 Жыл бұрын

09:11 "As the score motor turns" My favorite soap show from the 70's. 🤪

@naytch2003 Жыл бұрын

Like sands through the hourglass..so are the days of our lives

@NivagSwerdna Жыл бұрын

We haven't heard from George in quite a while; good that he could get involved. The magical fading coloured wires... or that's how they appear to me anyway are an extra level of challenge.

@stephensejda5213 Жыл бұрын

All that EM soot collects on those cloth insulated wires. I missed the smell of that EM soot when the machines went solid state.

@LyonsArcade Жыл бұрын

George is always sneaking around

@senilyDeluxe Жыл бұрын

Any ink is invisible ink if you wait long enough... or is it?

@arthurmurfitt7698 8 ай бұрын

I don’t know a thing about electronics, except for basic soldering. I was born in 66 and grew up on EM then solid state machines. I LOVED arcades and I love watching you work on and explaining what you’re doing. Systematic troubleshooting. And listening to the sounds of the machines are a hell of a memory jogger. Thanks man!

@EsotericArctos Жыл бұрын

I remember you fixing this one up. You were really thorough on the score rails and switches. Not sure what happened. Maybe the weak spring was an issue and the person messed around with a few things before coming to you to fix it. I can't imagine you missed anything first time round. Some great troubleshooting there and a nice quick repair. I appreciate you taking the time to "film" this as I know it would have taken less than half the time if you didn't "film" it.

@dnbreyen Жыл бұрын

Wow! That’s what makes the EMs unique from the SS machines

@robertlipsett2535 Жыл бұрын

good job. with the resetting problem I would have pulled the jones plugs from the table and back box while it was resetting to see if the fault was in the backbox or playfield as a quick test to localize where the error might be real quick. I don't like to tighten springs too often, I usually think the sleeve might be worn or a little gummed. If I get it real clean then I put a little graphite into it to see if that loosens it up enough. just my different approach

@KentDiego Жыл бұрын

I love my EM machines but they are frequently in need of minor adjustments. I love fixing them. But if I needed a tech to come out the rate is $100/hr plus $50/hr drive time. Don't think owning an EM is smart idea for someone that cannot fix them. Keep up the good work.

@markjackson1444 Жыл бұрын

There’s an old joke which goes “How do you fix an EM pinball machine?” ….. Drive it around the block. ….. or you can take it to Ronnie, and he’ll make it an offer it can’t refuse. … really useful video, as a majority of issues with EMs are to do with the score reels. Keep explaining it Ronnie. I do my best to stay with you.

@LowSpecLinuxLaptop Жыл бұрын

Honestly, I would think stuff would get messed up during transport more often on those old electro-mechanical machines

@LyonsArcade Жыл бұрын

We usually are pretty lucky, plus the guy got it home and it worked for awhile...

@jtveg Жыл бұрын

Great work. 🏆 Thanks so much for sharing. 😉👌🏻

@pezjohnson Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much for this video. I've been having trouble with my Fast Draw not quite score 500 points on 3 out of the 4 100 point reels. Now I think I know where to look. That tension bar on the reels. I'll take a look and see and report back. Thanks again for doing this video.

@LyonsArcade Жыл бұрын

Thank you for watching, you'll get it!

@MrButtonpresser Жыл бұрын

One of my all-time favourite machines! Good job.

@fred_derf Жыл бұрын

Rather than cutting the spring, you can lock a section of it together (with a wire, for example) so that it doesn't separate, thereby affectively shortening the spring. P.S. The beauty of doing it this way is you can adjust it or even remove it.

@jockbeems4798 Жыл бұрын

the complaint is it won't score the thousands reel. Yet when you turn it on, it's broke! As Joe would say...

@anthonyscira2511 Жыл бұрын

What a beautiful piece.

@160rpm Жыл бұрын

Big Shot is such a great machine. Simple but quite addictive gameplay

@bigbow62 Жыл бұрын

Love that table, back in the day we had one in a little pizza joint a few miles from my house....I spent many hours beating that sweet machine 🙂

@LyonsArcade Жыл бұрын

Very cool, maybe this is the same cabinet :)

@user-sh9du2nv5y Жыл бұрын

Nice job tackling a em pinball you made it fun fixing it. Much better then Clayton Harrell of Michigan who does em game videos who insults others and people who use wd 40 for luburcation use.

@michaelvonharten7633 Жыл бұрын

Great work, facinating fault finding, I would love to have ago myself. Keep up the great vids

@michaeltroupe6058 Жыл бұрын

Have the same one at home still plays great

@izzynutz2000 Жыл бұрын

In the spring world I used to work at a place called Steedly spring, that made all sorts of different Springs compression retention etc etc on a retention spring they are determined by the hook the size and how many rounds, and yes there is a chart that exists in the spring world that shows you a formula how much retention X-length X wire size X rounds etc etc so you would be cutting out a couple of rounds and adding a hook

@LyonsArcade Жыл бұрын

Kim is basically saying that the strength has lessened because of the age of the spring, it's weaker now than it was originally so he cuts a ring or two off and makes a new hook to make it slightly stronger, hopefully back how it originally was.

@MRNBricks Жыл бұрын

Chasing “fixes” of the uninitiated is always the funnest part of machine repair.

@Robotron-zg6mf Жыл бұрын

Really enjoyed Thanks, can we have a tour of your shop one day

@TheRealScooterGuy Жыл бұрын

Whenever I look at these old electro-mechanical pinball machines, I always wonder about the design process. The artists probably came up with the concept and then the engineers had to make the design work and come up with a mix of "standard" and "custom" bits, and also figure out how these will be assembled, etc. Very complicated process for something that wasn't done on a computer screen.

@markjames8664 Жыл бұрын

It is amazing what people could do without electronics. IBM made a Selectric typewriter with proportional spacing for cold-type composition, and it was all electro-mechanical and packed into the same size case as the regular model. It was amazing to look at the insides.

@irieman442 Жыл бұрын

Gottlieb's horrible back glass strikes again. The playfield looks great on this game, the back glass is a wreck. Did Gottlieb make these things with disappearing ink? Still very nice for a '73.

@douro20 Жыл бұрын

Silkscreen with no clear coat. Without the clear coat it just flakes off.

@dannybryant8296 Жыл бұрын

Williams can be just as bad if not worse.

@privateparty4900 Жыл бұрын

I've got a Big Shot -- the 4 player version of Hot Shot -- and I can confirm... the drop target reset is pretty loud. I've startled multiple people by turning it on with the with the glass off.

@LyonsArcade Жыл бұрын

Somebody else was pointing out that they're 120 coils, plus there's FOUR of them, pretty wild!

@douro20 Жыл бұрын

If you want a vacuum for the shop...try finding one of those 1930s Air-Way uprights and make some bags for it. An old friend who passed away last year had one in his shop which still worked.

@akshonclip Жыл бұрын

To think that all of those switches and relays now fit into a chip the size of a postage stamp is mind boggling.

@Mad-Duk_Machine_Werkes Жыл бұрын

So, speaking as a small business owner - Was this a FREE warrantee repair, or was a new repair bill generated? In my mind, or at my shop - the customer would be paying for repairs again (as well as pick up and delivery) ALSO: when you discover and show the 2 red wires that were off and you had to fetch a different blade to solder them onto, (at the 47:51 mark) I notice a rather large Burnt spot a few inches up from the end on both red wires......

@LyonsArcade Жыл бұрын

We did charge them for this repair, but very little, we basically just charged them for parts and a little bit for labor, it was about a fifth of the original charge (and they brought it to us and picked it up). That little burnt spot i'm not sure what happened there but it was still insulated.

@ShawnBernard70 Жыл бұрын

@@LyonsArcade I gave you a thumbs up for taking the trouble to reply. You didn't have to do that ;)

@randycarter2001 Жыл бұрын

I noticed those heavy reset coils are powered on the primary side of the transformer. That means they are power directly from 120 vols not the 48 volts like the rest of the coils.

@LyonsArcade Жыл бұрын

Yup and there's two on each one, loud as hell!

@AlwaysAwesome001 Жыл бұрын

@@LyonsArcade 💥🤟🤪🤟💥 Too LOUD. Too OLD!

@calmarsh7853 Жыл бұрын

Nice job . I can hear that one has loads of mech noise. Made me wanna run for cover with ear buds in

@tntamusements Жыл бұрын

great video Joe!!

@LyonsArcade Жыл бұрын

Thank you Todd! Hope you folks are doing well!

@tntamusements Жыл бұрын

@@LyonsArcade Hey Joe...Things are just Booming! We are so busy! Thanks for asking

@Petri547 Жыл бұрын

Nice one. I think, I've missed some videos, 'cause I took ill.

@LyonsArcade Жыл бұрын

Glad to have you back on your feet!

@Petri547 Жыл бұрын

Thanks Ron!

@davidfrischknecht8261 Жыл бұрын

I have Big Shot as one of the available tables in Pinball Arcade on my Android tablet.

@LyonsArcade Жыл бұрын

That's cool that they make such an obscure title for it!

@jasonsteverson4609 Жыл бұрын

Hey Ron!!

@LyonsArcade Жыл бұрын

Hey Jason!

@ruaraidhmcdonald-walker9524 Жыл бұрын

Note! “It’s fixed. Then it’s broke”

@LyonsArcade Жыл бұрын

Yup!

@Pitbull0669 Жыл бұрын

OMG I WANT THAT COMET!

@LyonsArcade Жыл бұрын

Coming soon!

@dnbreyen Жыл бұрын

Ron talking about Zig Ziglar selling vacuums door to door. Another reason to subscribe to the channel…. Come On People!

@LyonsArcade Жыл бұрын

Zig was the man!

@dnbreyen Жыл бұрын

Lest we forget…Use the Amazon links in this video to buy Zig’s books! I don’t think Ron would mind. (You probably won’t find one of ‘those’ vacuums here.)

@retropalooza 6 ай бұрын

Guy brought in his pinball machine about 2 years ago with broken field glass and all four legs broken. I thought it just was damaged in a move or something, turns out he thought he was being robbed and it actually was cops serving a warrant in a wrong house because he just bought the house a week earlier and it turns out he was tossed across the room on top of the machine nearly 10 feet due to him being 5'9" and 150lb. He's now in a wheelchair with a maximum amount of a lawsuit to the city capped at 10k so he wanted to make sure his game got fixed, I did it for free, poor bastard

@SteveJones172pilot Жыл бұрын

On the 3000 point bonus, I didn't see any switches on the cam that had 3 cycles.. How is it scoring 3x per light when it's in 3000 mode?

@LyonsArcade Жыл бұрын

They use the 5 cam, and then open up switches on the other cams to cancel two of them. it's the craziest design ever. It hits the first one, then the second one another switch is wired in line and it opens at the same time the second one hits, so it doesn't score. Then it hits the third one, another switch opens for the fourth one to cancel it out, and then it hits the fifth one. I'm going to show how it works on a Target Alpha that we're filming at the moment, it'll be out in a month or so.

@SteveJones172pilot Жыл бұрын

@@LyonsArcade Awesome.. Looking forward to it.. That's kind of how I expected you'd say it worked, but wow... That's complex! Surprised they didn't just put in a cam w/ 3 closures, and/or change the rules of the game and just make it 5k! :-) This was good timing - I have an opportunity to buy one of these machines and spent a couple hours checking out your videos on it today.. Looks like a fun game, even though I'm partial to Williams and Bally.. Thanks as always for a great video!!

@jasongreene303 Жыл бұрын

You better watch for copyright issues, I think that's how Mambo #5 starts lol

@LyonsArcade Жыл бұрын

Won Too Three Fo Fie

@dirkkrohn1907 Жыл бұрын

I remember playing this in a pinball simulator.

@LyonsArcade Жыл бұрын

That's pretty cool they would do a kind of obscure title

@MattMcIrvin Жыл бұрын

Farsight's "The Pinball Arcade" used to have it.

@wackyworldofwindios3476 Жыл бұрын

Morning Ron

@LyonsArcade Жыл бұрын

Good morning Dano!

@GothiicAngels Жыл бұрын

I love pinball machine, but I think if I got one , my neighbours would complain about the noise

@matthewrobl9659 Жыл бұрын

Any way to touch up the back glass, or just leave it alone?

@LyonsArcade Жыл бұрын

It can be done, but it's hard to get the new paint to be the same translucence as the original paint, so you see all of the touchups.... here's a video we did on it : kzfaq.info/get/bejne/gNOqaNV527CwnGg.html

@scifimodelsandstuff3211 Жыл бұрын

Wait, my local pinball repair has a huge youtube channel?

@LyonsArcade Жыл бұрын

Where Have You Been?????!!!!!?????

@MrUSFT Жыл бұрын

"Pinball traveller" lol

@LyonsArcade Жыл бұрын

@naytch2003 Жыл бұрын

Owwww my poor wittle ears!!! Hahaha noise happens people deal with it!! 😆

@ovalteen4404 Жыл бұрын

Still, that deafening buzz sounds like worse than a loose coil and more like a relay that is actually oscillating. And if that's the case, there is probably at least one set of contacts that won't last long.

@LyonsArcade Жыл бұрын

You think so ?

@AvengerII Жыл бұрын

You know, these videos go faster if you play a soundtrack in the background, People! (I listened to Lupin III tracks while watching this fixer-up.)

@davidz121 Жыл бұрын

Did Joe leave you a note that it was broke?

@LyonsArcade Жыл бұрын

Yes of course he did!

@midnightrunner0478 Жыл бұрын

I once bought sand from Zig while I was walking in the desert.

@LyonsArcade Жыл бұрын

Zig is still selling me stuff and he's been dead for 5 years!

@gorillaau Жыл бұрын

"Music to my ears" That would be the Sound of Silence?

@OhRonaldo Жыл бұрын

Another Broke one? No! The SAME Broke one! A comeback!

@LyonsArcade Жыл бұрын

Uh Oh, Uh Oh!

@kepler240 Жыл бұрын

My God, that's an annoying sound. You did warn us though

@AlwaysAwesome001 Жыл бұрын

Tech tip. 💥 Plug the machine into a REMOTE PLUG OUTLET.

@DwayneNixon Жыл бұрын

If Zig Zeigler came knocking on my door I'd run like hell, he's been dead for 10 years

@michelvan97 Жыл бұрын

KZfaq are your mental Sick ? ever 5 minutes interruption with double ads in this Video, ZWELVE TIMES for 58 minutes...

@LyonsArcade Жыл бұрын

They do them every 8 minutes, kind of like how t.v. commercials used to be

@lileveretteyoakumiii Жыл бұрын

Hello Yodelayheehoo

@naytch2003 Жыл бұрын

You think so?

@LyonsArcade Жыл бұрын

Yodelay Hee Hoo Lil Everette!

@summerlaverdure Жыл бұрын

spamton likes this one

@bryangilmer671 Жыл бұрын

MACH 3, Mad Planets, Q*bert, Reactor …

@johngilles9371 Жыл бұрын

dropped a dime in ? lol god you ARE old! lol jk

@PWN_Nation Жыл бұрын

Hate "boomerang repairs"...