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I like how the stain came out on the Full House you showed from a few years ago. It fit the theme really nicely and made it look like the machine came out of a saloon.

A buddy of mine back in Tennessee is a collector and restorer. That's where I picked up Blue Chip and Capt Card . 2 of the rarest machines I have ever owned. I've been working on E.M pinball machines for 35 years now and really enjoy doing it .

Just have to say, the electrical mechanics of these early or any pinball machine is amazing. For you to be able to diagnose problems and get them working again is a work of art. Love your videos man. These were/are the games of my childhood. Keep them coming.

dang that old pinball game looks beatiful thanks for sharing

The electromechanical stuff from back then is so crazy. Jukeboxes are nuts as well

I owned a Williams Teachers Pet yrs ago that had this cabinet design. It was called an odd new cabinet design and only lasted for a few models . So far the best card themed pinball that I've played so far and once owned was a 1974 Gottlieb Capt Card . There were only 750 produced. I kept it for a couple of years and eventually sold it to Herb Silvers. I paid 450 for it ,and sold it for I think around 800. The machine was in poor working order when I got it . After some work and TLC , it was playing like a brand new machine. I loved the art work on it which was done by Gordon Morrison.

I have always been impressed by how jam packed some EM's compared to the technology that pinball designers had back in the day.

I like the artwork on the pinball machines they are beautiful works of art.

Played this machine when I was a kid at Eddie's Place in Ste. Genevieve, MO. One of the old drunks gave me and a buddy a dime each. Machine went crazy on me. Must have won 7 games free. Proprietor had never seen anything like it. Probably....1968.

Awesome, I just obtained one of these machines... Full House! All works great and it's a tuff machine to get to 2500/3000 points or bet the dealer. Thanks for the video Joe!

As usual an awesome explanation of how this thing works. Mechanical pinball machines fascinate me. I'd love to get my hands on one that needs work!

Beauty table.

I've been watching your em videos almost a week now, grasp something each video, you are by far the best teacher on em's that i have saw on you tube. 👍 keep up the great work my friend.👏👏

Our family had a Show Boat machine back in the mid-70's. You had to manually load each ball to the plunger by pushing a rod into the machine (you could actually see balls remaining through the playfield). It would lift the ball up to the plunger. It worked, but was missing some scoring lane trip wires. Score to beat? 1000 of course! Good Times...

Great schematic reading. Williams is the man there good. Hopefully you set the pinball to easiest for them

I have one of these machines, it’s a pity the case has been painted white... Mine has worn back glass - caused by the dealers hand lights behind the ace - the heat damaged the paint. I gave mine a full service in 2015 and replaced the bulbs with led’s replacements - yellow white for play field and white for back glass - the machine is a lot quieter as the transformer has such a light load on it now(less buzzing) - I have a copy of schematics and this helped fixing a silly problem that someone ‘fixed’ and got it working correctly.

Joe your an Awesome Teacher ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Very cool pinball machine.

Amazing how they designed the "house edge" with no computer chips.

Cool old game, like always its stacked for the dealer ,house mainly wins lol

Awesome stuff I love the whole electro mechanical genius of the pinball machines!

when something is magnetized the atoms (for a simple explanation) are in line when you heat (or hit with a hammer) you give the metal enought energy to allow the atoms to move and go random again

The old EM GAMES are pretty neat , and a lot more fun to play then you think. They can also be challenging.

Thanks for sharing. Similar to my Royal Guard pinball.

What a great machine. I have never played this. Silly sally always wins ..

Nice old EM and Interesting also to play 🖒

I don't remember the game, but I really liked the T V Show that spawned from it...

Your videos are very educational. We actually have one of these tables. There seems to be a major issue as the machine will not start. We have cleaned and lubricated all of the game/ball/score reels. I have the schematics and can not see what the problem could be.

I like Full House that was one of my favourite shows in the 1980s 😁

like how the modern 1990's fun house's rudy looks like the woman on the 1966 machine, funhouse(1990) is one of my all time fav pinballs along with dr who and the 1980's ? pinball 8 ball

@24:16 wants that game boy game Final Fantasy Legend & Thank you, Joe's Classic Video Games, much appreciated 1966 Williams Full House Pinball Machine repair.

TIL the operators can set the matching to liberal or conservative. Also learned that some games determine outcome by which digit is in which place in the score.

A unique and different concept for a game. I agree the original backglass looks outstanding.

wow, that looks so amazing great in wood optic!!!

Joe, what's a Shooter Tip? To change the light bulbs... I need one of those...LOL! I also need the plastic that covers the center wheel as mine is broken on top left corner. Finally, could the flippers be replaced with a 1/2" longer flipper or maybe installing a center pin bumper between flippers... just a thought... not sure because it changes it from original

That one was really interesting thanks for taking the time to post it really great

Just subscribed! I love your channel and I love arcades!

Thanks for the video.

The dealer has the cards stacked in his favor!

We used to call them the pull in and hold in coil or trash when the end of stroke switch failed and let the smoke out !

14:30 that's cool hadn't looked into it's mechanics before, kind of reverse of what electric toaster does

This is the pinball machine that is in the Home Alone basement.

When you started this machine the score motor at first started that go around and around etc.. I have the same machine with a Reel that keeps going around etc. Isn't this a score reset issue. On yours I think out tried to do the same thing

Very nice machine E&M, 1960 ! OMY ! ARCADEOLOGY

Where can we find those nice schematics for retro arcade games. I have Tetris and Road Riot.

Joe, so my Full House machine has a slight indentation over the two rollovers... should I use Mylar tape. Also, my dealer hand changes at the ball drain not when it passes through the top three lanes. Can this be corrected... when my ball passes through the top three lanes, the dealer's hand goes dark. Also, the right flipper is sticking in the "Flipped" position. What could be the issue here?

Joe, I'm heading out this morning to look at the Jungle King I mentioned before.... the man said he plugged it in and everything seemed to light up as it should... but the ball would not load. Any ideas on what I would have to look at to push the ball to the plunger? Also, he seemed to have lost the key... I'm sure you faced a lost key in all your experience. Sorry to post here, didn't know if you had a forum/blog.

A good friend of mine has this machine. It is a fun game(he doesn't like it). Too bad the back glass is totally trashed.

We own a Full House machine but it currently has the same mechanical problem as the one in the video. The ball falls into the apron and the score motor would constantly turn. We cleaned all switches in the score motor and particularly in the outhole relay. We believe that the switches of the outhole relay maybe out of line. What is a good guide for positioning as it is not in the schematics?

I just guess I overlooked about this pinball machine; thinking that it had a strong reference to the ABC comedy series called "Full House," knowingly they have the same title.

One of my favorite things to play at arcades. By the way its David this is my alt.

I wonder if the old slot machines work on this principle? I have repaired the old slots which are relay controlled and could not see a way to adjust the odds.

Hitting a piece of metal can also *magnetize* it, but relatively weakly, because the magnetic domains align with the Earth's magnetic field (which is pretty weak). I get the impression that you're talking about undoing a far stronger magnetization than that.

I think the worst machine I have worked on was a Gottleb Big Brave That's the first time I had to replace a drop targets. It had been sitting up in a tractor shed for a long time. A friend of mine had bought it and got back to his place. I had a Bally Amigo that I traded him for it later .

going to watch this again tonight..!! i have a 1969 MISS O ...i got a question about flippers...for my MISS O .. caN YOU HELP?? IT IS THE SAME TIme period as this one. (or close to it)..

If the metal is magnetized, you could also heat it red hot with a blowtorch. Metals have a "curie temperature" which, when reached, will cause it to lose its magnetic field.

Looks like he set the tilt plumb Bob to prevent it from triggering , he must like playing aggressively , ie lots of english .

So you have two coils on the flipper, one coil gives you a strong "bat" effect and the second coil is for "holding" the ball at a reduced power so the main coil is de energized and not stressed, as this is AC, have people not used an RC network to act as a "snubber" which will prevent an arc from forming and reduce contact wear ? this is a system often found in "relay" circuits that operate very quickly ( as you want this too) again to prevent excessive contact pitting.

Just think about this. All of the logic to this game is done with point to point wiring. Game difficulty adjusted by potentiometers. Add a few light bulbs, some electromecanical devices, some painted art, and you have a very cool pinball machine. No PCBs, no computer programming, and the official KERR-CHUNK sounds of yore. Man we have lost so much with modern tech.

JOES CLASSIC VIDEO GAMES< what type of lube or grease are you using on the metal parts for EM pinball games? I'm guessing synthetic lube and grease doesn't cause future problems of the pinball games metal parts from jamming up or getting stuck from the gummy lube grease through aging? Since the grease lube is synthetic the lube and grease through time doesn't harder causing the metal parts to get jammed up and stuck? Do you use a ultra sonic cleaner using simple green to clean the pinball games metal parts when taking them apart to clean the springs and metal assembly parts?

Determined to find out how the house stacked lol

JOE's CLASSIC, 1.) Why are you trying to "demagnetize" the solenoids plunger? because I would think you would want the plunger to be magnetized so it can be able to be pushed and pulled in by the coils magnetic field. 2.) What are these Dealer Units, Match Units, are they a special type of mechanical switch because the schematic shows the dealer units and match units as a square block with multiple taps I'm not sure what it is? 3.) The Flippers Solenoid is sparking on the switches because there is no Added Diode or Capacitor I have seen on some pinball games? 4.) The Flippers Coil is stacked so you can hold down the flipper and it won't burn out the flippers coil. I'm not sure if I understand this because when you hold down the flipper it still going through the coil#1 so I don't understand why it doesn't "burn out" the coil#1 when coil#2 is turned off by the end of stroke switch? Because I would think it would burn out the coil#1 in the flippers coil since its being held on.

So when playing this game what song should be on. The who Pinball wizard Or Kenny Rogers The Gambler.

The house always wins.

card term put a rabbit out of the hat= win a round unexpectedly

You're correct that there are 2 windings on the flipper solenoid, but your explanation of operation is wrong. There is a low resistance power winding and a high resistance hold winding. The hold winding is initially bypassed by the closed EOS and when the flipper button is pressed, all current runs through the low resistance power winding giving the flipper a strong kick. At the limit of flipper travel, the EOS switch opens (and the other MB switch closes) and now current runs through BOTH windings. This limits the current through the power winding so it doesn't burn up while holding in the flipper button. Other vendors simply used the EOS switch to shunt the hold winding during the power stroke and opening it at the EOS to connect the hold winding, eliminating the need for a MB switch.

Shortly after I posted my comment I took a small break to go outside for.a quick cig . I was out there for about 2 minutes when I heard a blood curdling wail I immediately knew what it was and quick went back inside. That was around 12 midnight. I live in Washington State and this place is home to a certain type of wildlife.For any non believers out there, trust me it exists. I apologize for the non pinball comment, but I thought I would share this

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I'd sell my soul for an original Flip A Card.

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I wonder what percentage of pinball players are female?

That sure is a neat old game. I hope to run into one someday

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