quarantine projects

[cait001]

What coin-op things is everyone going to be working on while we all do this social distancing / self-quarantining thing?

I have to redo the cables of my Tank Stick since the cat decided to eat them. Then setup MAME on a new laptop.
Also going to put a lighting kit into a pachinko machine.

My Regatta and Kick-Off also need some EM attention. Regatta I have to go over the reset sequence and steppers, and Kick-off needs a bunch of loose connectors and switch-stacks attended to,

[Sparky]

Still travelling and working. But that may change soon.

Hopefully. Lol

And if it does, World Series.

[semicolin]

Recapping the motherboard of my old xbox and duplicating the hard drive. The memory supercapacitor in these things leaks like a bad battery and chews up boards. Mine went but doesn't seem to have done too much damage. This is the best machine I've ever run MAME on... smoother than any other solution, and I have hundreds of games dialled in and working perfectly. I'd like to keep it going.

[Honey Badger]

Play enough pinball to learn all the rules to all my games...that’s my project!

[Mrhide]

Quarantine means work at home so actual work...

[Chnillapoil]

Thanks to a real good friend for bringing me this unexpected project.....

[Sparky]

Well, I have cancelled all my trainings for the next 2 weeks. So I will have time to catch up on paperwork.

But yeah. World Series, and a bunch of small repairs.

[cait001]

Well, I have cancelled all my trainings for the next 2 weeks. So I will have time to catch up on paperwork.

But yeah. World Series, and a bunch of small repairs.

Very selfishly excited about the World's Series progress. Let's all just keep our heads up and post updates on here as we work. Continuing our comradery over AX relays, split cabinets, cupped inserts, and surface mount capacitors will help us all get through this.

[uberhare]

I have 2 boards to repair. System 80 and System 6A. Maybe I'll get to them now!

[mrmikeman]

Thinking I could tackle the re-decalling of my newest addition doctor who. I have at least 3 weeks at home. But really I’d only have 5 days to do it. It’s my gf’s new favourite game. She actually kept hugging it. LOL. No way she’d accept not playing it on the weekend lol.

Have to admit the Pinsound makes all the difference in the world

Maybe I’ll just tune it and install the shaker I got for it.

Think I’ll start with my topper for RS and programming the Pinsound I have for that.

Maybe DW next week.

[Xylog]

Not quite done with the playfield repair but I says F-it and reassembled Mousin' so's I could play it while 'working from home'.

Damn it's playing so smooth and looks purdy!

[Dave W.]

Not quite done with the playfield repair but I says F-it and reassembled Mousin' so's I could play it while 'working from home'.

Damn it's playing so smooth and looks purdy!

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Cool! When did you pick that one up Rob?
Always loved that game

[Xylog]

Cool! When did you pick that one up Rob?
Always loved that game

Picked it up from our dear Cait aboot a month ago. Have enjoyed fixing it all up & tweaking. It had some playfield damage along the apron area that I'm touching up, but that's on hold so I can enjoy playing. Almost done & then I'll clearcoat the area & make it look brand new.

It has a full playfield protector on it as a bonus. Fast & smooth!

[cait001]

Two things I picked up before the quarantining...

My daughter immediately dibses the slot machine glass.

[Pinoffski]

in AU no official quarantine shut down of the country ATM
only self quarantine for 14 days
project would be unfortunately on the home (been in renovations for at least 10 years +)
but would like to repaint the cab on Centaur as i have got some new stencils

[HPR Pinball]

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Thanks to a real good friend for bringing me this unexpected project.....

Sérieux tu l'as acheté?

[Chnillapoil]

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Thanks to a real good friend for bringing me this unexpected project.....

Sérieux tu l'as acheté?

Yessssir !

[HPR Pinball]

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Thanks to a real good friend for bringing me this unexpected project.....

Sérieux tu l'as acheté?

Yessssir !

Ca m'a tout bien l'air d'un beau projet!
Top 3 single ball of all time

[Joce]

Just relax in my game room !!!

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[cait001]

Just relax in my game room !!!

Sweet lineup! Corvette is such a fun game.

[Xylog]

Spending time futzing around my basement, reorganizing machines & busy work.

Tis a pleasant place to chill.

[Marsupial]

I had updated the computers of both my mame during the holidays, and started acquiring updated hardware to work on one of them.

Actually waiting for better weather to work on the control panel.

This week I made an addition to the lounge where the arcades are: there's a bar area now.

There's other stuff to fix in the house and I can work from home during the apocalypse, so progress is slow.

[cait001]

I purged + sorted all of the upper cupboards in the kitchen and purged/optimized our spices collection.

[R.A.B.]

Started evaluating this next job at work today and won't get to it again until the 13th of April if I am lucky, and I am.

So this work project is technically quarantined.

The wonderful thing is that I found one of the last meter readings on a small paper inside, and to my surprise the date matches from 32 years ago (which incidently is the reverse of 23) to the very fucking day we learned that we would be shutting down this wonderful shop that I have obviously grown attached to.

Don't tell me that bingo techs aren't lucky, with numbers at least.

So if I am reading the meters correctly, 90444 credits played and bought. Payout meter seems unreasonable low, but possible at 730 credit cncelled. It is a 1975 bingo machine, and seems to have been retired in 1988.

OOPS, just realized that we are the 24th today. Should of started this project yesterday. So that blows my lucky number theory in a way and the theory about bingo techs, but you got to admit, it was a pretty good story.