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Stopped at Amusement 20/20, good place to kill 40 min Kids did most of the racing game. Try three pinball machines, they were clean but no saved ball...

Foo fighter: Didn't like it. not fan of the art and gameplay. too noisy to appreciate the music, probably better at home.
TMNT: multi-ball festival, with so many balls around, hard to learn the shot
Mandalorian: longer playtime on this one, many shots on it, it's hard to miss something... it was ok

Tested out the Scanjet 4670 I got on eBay for the hobby. It’s for scanning pf, bg, cab, whatever. 8.5” x 11” though.

Works great! Woot!

Working on Gottlieb Egg Head. Used some paint stripper (briefly) on the backbox to remove latex and expose the original paint in a few places to get colour match and prepare for scanning to create laser-cut stencils.

I'm working my way through the motor board, these Gottlieb parts clean up nicely. What is the gold-coloured plating they have?

Bought $100 worth of slotted nickel-plated wood screws to replace existing screws.

Speaking of HP ScanJet, I'm booting my old Windows laptop again and applying endless security updates so I can use the scanner. Doesn't work on the Mac.

In case anyone is wondering, the scanner does work on Windows 11. You just need to install the Vista 64bit driver through compatibility mode and then it works.

Almost done fixing a Gottlieb Jacks Open. Replaced all drop targets, tightened/adjusted all contacts.
Initially drop targets did not score any points with no top inlane scored. Did some troubleshooting and found that
the score motor 4B NC switch was open. That switch is very difficult to see and access. Buried! Fixed now.
The drop targets sequencing on this game is quite an ingenious and fun design, impressive for an EM !

mrmikeman wrote: ↑Mon Sep 04, 2023 3:37 pm Tested out the Scanjet 4670 I got on eBay for the hobby. It’s for scanning pf, bg, cab, whatever. 8.5” x 11” though.

Works great! Woot!

how do you use an 8.5x11" scanner to scan a pf or cab etc?

cait001 wrote: ↑Mon Sep 18, 2023 8:29 am

mrmikeman wrote: ↑Mon Sep 04, 2023 3:37 pm Tested out the Scanjet 4670 I got on eBay for the hobby. It’s for scanning pf, bg, cab, whatever. 8.5” x 11” though.

Works great! Woot!

how do you use an 8.5x11" scanner to scan a pf or cab etc?

According to Pinside this is how you do it.. I haven’t tried yet.

Use HP flatbed scanner with 20% overlap, lets Photoshop easily stitch the scans together.

is your scanner such that the glasses are touching? Or is there an air gap between your scan bed and the piece you're scanning? And how does that effect things?
Have you tried any tests yet?

cait001 wrote: ↑Mon Sep 18, 2023 9:10 pm is your scanner such that the glasses are touching? Or is there an air gap between your scan bed and the piece you're scanning? And how does that effect things?
Have you tried any tests yet?

I have the HP4600 and, years ago, I did a bunch of cabinet scans for Pinball Pimp. It's great but I found that there's a slight blur and one has to be very careful with placement when letting it scan; make sure it is very level or there's distortion. Scans are not perfect with regards to colour and/or replication but it's great and handy. Heck, what else is there? Maybe the HP4670 is better. I dunno.

Put the summer game room back in the storage unit for the winter. Siiigh.

I did the largest arcade exploration yet, documenting all the machines in a 1992 documentary on the worldwide origins of pachinko, featuring some of the most famous collector/historians of the 20th century.
exploring the arcade in 1992-01 TVムック故郷は欧州　意外なパチンコ進化論 / TV Mook Mystery Journey: Surprising theory of pachinko evolution
https://pinballnovice.blogspot.com/2023 ... -mook.html

There is a link there to watch the documentary. It took me a long time but me and some friends translated it. Main post on that here: https://pinballnovice.blogspot.com/2023 ... stery.html

put up a new scan of a Japanese book about the global history of pachinko
scan: ヨーロッパに生まれ日本で育ったパチンコ百年史 [A Centennial History of Pachinko Born in Europe and Raised in Japan] (2002)
https://pinballnovice.blogspot.com/2023 ... hinko.html

I was consulted about this article in Poland on the history of table games for PSX Extreme magazine: https://pinballnovice.blogspot.com/2023 ... telle.html

This is one on my favourite "reading" spots...
On the move again soon for transport to MTL...

Today I finished dialing in the new addition to the line up. Labyrinth is a whole lotta fun!

mrmikeman wrote: ↑Fri Nov 24, 2023 7:09 pm Today I finished dialing in the new addition to the line up. Labyrinth is a whole lotta fun!

So what’s the verdict? How’s the gameplay?

Brutal outlanes. No physical adjustment on them either.

Hard game play but so immersive and fun. WIN!

It's so beautiful

Made some space in the garage yesterday and put my summer garage project on legs

Ready for spring I guess

Azatotht wrote: ↑Mon Nov 27, 2023 11:33 am Ready for spring I guess

*checks forecast*
I've got some bad news for ya...

Built a tester for 6800 CPU chips.

Weather was good today so I went in the garage and got my Arena displays going !

Feels good

Picked up the new addition today.

Nice one, I read it’s fun, any comments yet ?

Super fun so far. Needs a bit of tweaking. Will do that tororrow.

I've been posting a bunch o stuff.

Scans:
1903 Mills Novelty Amusement, Skill And Vending Machines Catalogue https://pinballnovice.blogspot.com/2024 ... skill.html
Mills Novelty Company 1912-3 Catalogue https://pinballnovice.blogspot.com/2024 ... 912-3.html
Canadian Coin Box 1984-12 & 1985-07 https://pinballnovice.blogspot.com/2024 ... 85-07.html
Z Machine and Kasco ~1990 catalogue https://pinballnovice.blogspot.com/2024 ... e-and.html
建築設計資料集成 第1 (Architectural Design Data Collection Part 1) 1942 https://pinballnovice.blogspot.com/2024 ... -data.html
Buggy Race (バギーレース) & U235 Meltdown https://pinballnovice.blogspot.com/2023 ... tdown.html
Pinball - An Illustrated History by Michael Colmer (1976) https://pinballnovice.blogspot.com/2023 ... ry-by.html
The Canadian Coin Box and Vending 1948-02 & 1948-05 https://pinballnovice.blogspot.com/2023 ... nding.html

lots of Arcade Explorations
Exploring the arcades in ザ・スーパーガール The Super Girl episodes (1979) https://pinballnovice.blogspot.com/2024 ... -girl.html
exploring the arcade in the 1928 movie 十字路 (Jūjiro aka Crossroads) https://pinballnovice.blogspot.com/2024 ... ujiro.html
exploring the arcade in... まむしの兄弟 懲役十三回 (1972) aka Mamushi no kyôdai: Chôeki jûsankai (The Viper Brothers: Prison Gang 13) https://pinballnovice.blogspot.com/2023 ... hi-no.html
exploring the arcade in 湯の町 夜のひとで (1970) aka Maruhi yu no machi: Yoru no hito de aka Secret Hot Spring Resort: Starfish at Night https://pinballnovice.blogspot.com/2023 ... hi-yu.html

I worked with a team to translate a Japanese pachinko documentary from around 2000
映像が語る パチンコの歴史 (The history of pachinko through video) [with English subtitles] https://pinballnovice.blogspot.com/2023 ... -with.html
(this is different than the OTHER pachinko documentary I posted about above)

Finally got around to shopping out my Tron LE. Is there a dirtier game than Tron as a result of the black disc? The black stuff gets everywhere. So with around 3k plays it was time. Fortunately it is a relatively easy game to disassemble. Replaced all the black rubber with black silicone, replaced the GI bulbs with LEDs, added plastic protectors, cleaned everything, a few coats of wax and back together. Didn't need to completely rebuild the flippers as they were still good, just replaced the coil sleeves. Now just waiting on the clear disk before I fire it up again. No way am I playing until that black disk is removed.