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Re: Saving another Richelieu

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Setback :x

I had a plan!
That plan was to cannibalize flipper brackets from Wms. 4 star and use the brackets for the Richelieu. My plan hit the wall when I compared the screw holes under the Richelieu PF.
50's Wms brackets compared to the Richelieu
50's Wms brackets compared to the Richelieu
Those brackets are way too long!

I guess I really need to find a late 40's junk PF or something with a flipper conversion kit I can use. I want to give this machine a second? (probably more like third, fourth of fifth) life so other pinball fanatics can enjoy this piece of canadian history once again but, for that, I need parts.

Before someone replies "Why don't I fabricate brackets". I am sticking to my original plan for this game and will only use genuine period parts the this Richelieu.
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This project is not dead! I'm just biding my time, still hoping to find the right parts for the Richelieu.

But heres an interesting tidbit of history, or at least another small piece of the puzzle of the North Star Coin Machine Company history.

Sea Breeze and Richelieu were made from refurbished parts and cabinets. On the flyer for Sea Breeze, they refer to a "list" of wanted games in the lower left paragraph.
I don't think anyone has that list anymore. Now I like a mystery as much as ne next dude and I've been intrigued by what model games the Tremblay brothers we interested in.

Image

So with the cabinet parts I had that I could see the old Gottlieb art under the flaking North Star Art, I started looking through all the Gottlieb titles of the early 40's and compared the art.
Sea Breeze door
Sea Breeze door
Flakey Richelieu cab
Flakey Richelieu cab
I found that my Richelieu cabinet was originally a 1941 Gottlieb Spot Pool

and the Coin door was from a 1941 Gottlieb Five & Ten

So that's a bit of the mysterious list uncovered :-)

Next....

The flipper theory. I've theorised for awhile that the flipper units for Sea Breeze and Richelieu were from conversion kits I've covered in this old post: Pinball History: The flipper Bumper Revamp Kit

I have recently found clues to corroborate my theory.

I got to look at a mostly unmolested Sea Breeze.

Here is a loot at the flipper unit:
From a Sea Breeze
From a Sea Breeze
G273 coil in Sea Breeze
G273 coil in Sea Breeze

And here's a look at a conversion kit flipper coil in a United Havana
Inside United Havana
Inside United Havana

Both have the G273 part number. It's the same kit. Cool!



In other Richelieu news:

I'm recently acquired a wood lockdown bar, I just need an experienced woodworker to reproduce it.



North Star Logo
North Star Logo
Slowly but steady 8-)
Wanted: Bally 20 hole Bingo machine: Orient, London, Safari, Super 7, Bonus 7 or Hawaii.
Bally: Mad World
Williams: Pot 'O' gold, Beat the clock
Rally Play Company of Nice France: Any Flip Tronic(s) era machine produced between 1966 and 1969


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-The Maltese Falcon

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I know for you this doesn't look a lot. For me this is the only thing I got"
-Yello - Pinball Cha Cha

"He who is tired of Weird Al is tired of life"
-Homer Simpson


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dang!
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Awesome.
Interesting research!

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Here's a really cool tidbit of information. I guess this post would be relevant in the flipper conversion kit alos.

I found in a Wiko corp. parts catalogue I purchased at the swap meet a full page ad for conversion kits. Apparently, they had flipper, thumper bumper and slingshot conversion kits.

G-273 coils were part of the Wiko kit.

It's great to see scans of ads online, but it's something else to hold the actual ad in your hands. That's a whole other kind of pinball archeology!

Now I just need to find a conversion kit to put in the Richelieu
Wiko catalogue cover
Wiko catalogue cover
converdsion kit ad
converdsion kit ad
Wanted: Bally 20 hole Bingo machine: Orient, London, Safari, Super 7, Bonus 7 or Hawaii.
Bally: Mad World
Williams: Pot 'O' gold, Beat the clock
Rally Play Company of Nice France: Any Flip Tronic(s) era machine produced between 1966 and 1969


"It's heavy. What is it? ... The, uh, stuff dreams are made of"
-The Maltese Falcon

"Every ball for me's another game.For you this always looks the same [...]
I know for you this doesn't look a lot. For me this is the only thing I got"
-Yello - Pinball Cha Cha

"He who is tired of Weird Al is tired of life"
-Homer Simpson


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a richelieu backglass was posted up on kijiji… https://www.kijiji.ca/v-oeuvre-d-art/lo ... nFlag=true
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Sparky wrote:DAMN IT... I would have jumped on this but I am in Moncton.
Pm sent

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Woody wrote:
Sparky wrote:DAMN IT... I would have jumped on this but I am in Moncton.
Pm sent
Go team!
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