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gotta keep up my title, ya know? :rofl

 

Cherry Coke + quote = sticky computer screen

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This place is awesome. This is what I was talking about when I said I am always surprised by what people around here know. Seems like there is always someone with similar interests.
It is a 1986 Bally "Strange Science." Pretty fun game. We had lots of hours in on it when I was a kid. I have it working acceptably now, all of the pop bumpers and flippers do work, but they seem a bit slow to me. The main flippers used to shoot the ball up around the ramp at the top regularly, and they very rarely do now. I read some posts where people recommended different types of flipper kits for this machine, but I basically want it to be like the original as far as performance. I have seen flipper rebuild kits, but I don't know how to identify which ones to use with the current solenoids, or if it is even something I should attempt to tackle on my own.
The pop bumpers just don't seem sensitive enough, but maybe I am just being picky. When a ball rolls into one I expect it to fire, but it seems like it has to hit it with some speed. I was hoping there was something I could do to liven them up, or make them more sensitive without having to worry about re-balancing them or anything overly complicated.
I haven't done anything to the solenoids yet, so far I have cleaned and waxed the play field, replaced all of the rubber, and burnt out bulbs, adjusted sensors on the kickers because they were double firing, replaced the main ramp, and repaired the antigravity ramp with some stainless. That plastic has really gotten brittle. There is also a kicker hole. The sensor in that was worn down and wasn't sensing the ball, so if the ball fell in you had to remove the glass to get it out. I ended up gluing a piece of plastic on top of the sensor to bring it back up, and that is working well again.
This machine also has a neon tube topper that isn't working, but I am pretty sure that is a machine specific problem. I will have to do some research on that too, but it isn't as important to me as game play.

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...Don't forget the wet t-shirt contest....

 

Wow! This place is cool! Long live TSD! The best wet shave board and everything else you could ever want or imagine board on the planet!

 

you weren't s'posed to go to Micah's website!!!

 

depends on how many times you have to go pee....or change t-shirts....

 

Ok, so in an attempt to find some Christmas music I can tolerate I thought I'd listen to TSO's Carol of the Bells, which, admittedly is an awesome version of the song, don't get me wrong. However, the internet has tainted me to the point where whenever I hear the song, all I hear is "Ding! Fries are done. Ding Fries are done. Would you like an apple pie with thaaaat--Would you like an apple pie with thaaaaaat!"

 

wait a minute... how old are you, Rodd? I'm not looking for your specific age but for the general ballpark. 30s? 20s?

+10000.

 

Ironically, listening to "Christmas Eve (Sarajevo 12/24)" (the name of the TSO song) is what I use to get the "Ding! Fries are done" tune out of my head

 

too bad you missed all the "change the quote" fun last night