s***@handmark.com
2005-12-11 14:19:34 UTC
My friend and I are working on our first EM pinball. Picked up a Miss-O
for very little money as the score reel stuck and the motor wouldn't
stop running. We got it to my house, and then cleaned the score reel,
and found that one of the leaf swithces was not opening as it should,
and then we adjusted that and that seemed to get it working.
Now the ball count unit stopped reseting. So we took that appart and it
was very gummy. So cleaned it and it seems to run very smoothly now.
Balls reset and count as they are supposed to.
Cleaned the playing field, and then put everything back together.
So here is my problem.
After playing the game a few times, it seems that the bumpers don't
turn back off at the reset. If you have lit the top bumpers in the
previous game, they just stay lit until a free ball is won, and then
they reset. We investigated all of the leaf swithces, and found all of
them seemed to be correct, coils tested okay. I found switches
elsewhere in the game that did not close when they were supposed to,
they didn't seem to be involved, but I adjusted those. Now the bumpers
still don't reset, the score motor only resets every other time, and
occasionaly at reset 500 points will just score automatically with the
bell going off and everything.
The top pop bumpers should score 1 point when not lit, and 10 points
when lit. The top left and right bumper don't score when not lit, and
score 10 when lit. The middle bumper stays lit all the time, and only
ever scores one point. Oddly enough the left and right bumper pulse
together. I don't know if that is how they are designed to function,
but I didn't notice that before hand, so I don't know if that is how it
is supposed to work, or the result of something that I have done.
I have the schematics, and the manual, but they don't seem to be
pointing me in the correct direction.
Is there something simple that I am missing? Perhaps there is a tip as
to how to approach this further?
Does someone have a working Miss-O that they would be willing to email
me few specific photos from?
Anything anyone can provide would be helpfull.
Thank you,
for very little money as the score reel stuck and the motor wouldn't
stop running. We got it to my house, and then cleaned the score reel,
and found that one of the leaf swithces was not opening as it should,
and then we adjusted that and that seemed to get it working.
Now the ball count unit stopped reseting. So we took that appart and it
was very gummy. So cleaned it and it seems to run very smoothly now.
Balls reset and count as they are supposed to.
Cleaned the playing field, and then put everything back together.
So here is my problem.
After playing the game a few times, it seems that the bumpers don't
turn back off at the reset. If you have lit the top bumpers in the
previous game, they just stay lit until a free ball is won, and then
they reset. We investigated all of the leaf swithces, and found all of
them seemed to be correct, coils tested okay. I found switches
elsewhere in the game that did not close when they were supposed to,
they didn't seem to be involved, but I adjusted those. Now the bumpers
still don't reset, the score motor only resets every other time, and
occasionaly at reset 500 points will just score automatically with the
bell going off and everything.
The top pop bumpers should score 1 point when not lit, and 10 points
when lit. The top left and right bumper don't score when not lit, and
score 10 when lit. The middle bumper stays lit all the time, and only
ever scores one point. Oddly enough the left and right bumper pulse
together. I don't know if that is how they are designed to function,
but I didn't notice that before hand, so I don't know if that is how it
is supposed to work, or the result of something that I have done.
I have the schematics, and the manual, but they don't seem to be
pointing me in the correct direction.
Is there something simple that I am missing? Perhaps there is a tip as
to how to approach this further?
Does someone have a working Miss-O that they would be willing to email
me few specific photos from?
Anything anyone can provide would be helpfull.
Thank you,