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Arcade Club - Bury/Leeds
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You should have nipped over to Retro Arcade whilst you were over Alan, only got 3 pins atm but you were close if at bury
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Arcade Club (Bury) have a maintenance guy now - me!
I've been doing it about 6 months, popping in twice a week. There's a lot of machines, that have had hard lives, and get a lot of abuse, mainly from the public. Sometimes even kids!
My mission is to get all the machines there working mint. Kinda impossible, given the state of some, but it's a goal I'm working towards, and I can tell you all about the machines there.
My favorites..... Scared Stiff, The Addams Family, and White Water - They are my favorites, and I look after them with a passion. These 3 have all been rebuild by me recently, and I consider them mint (except for the constant battle against flith). A few issues.... Scared Stiff doesn't always reconise a ball entering the lock (coffin). White Water - I've disabled the multi-ball, because it always gets 2 (or 3) balls stuck in the VUK, then it overheats, then I have to replace coils/sleeves/armatures again! I'll be making a thread about this fault.
Things that just work.... average/fine machines that need little maintenance - RFM, Elvira (Party Animals), Dr Who, Bram Stokers, BR, Metalica, TZ.
Things that need a little extra love.... HS2, STTNG, Roller Games, Mario - if you're ever there and these machines are playing up, turn them off and leave me a note.
In fact any faults (from the Bury site) ever need reporting, you can leave me a note in this thread.
I've been doing it about 6 months, popping in twice a week. There's a lot of machines, that have had hard lives, and get a lot of abuse, mainly from the public. Sometimes even kids!
My mission is to get all the machines there working mint. Kinda impossible, given the state of some, but it's a goal I'm working towards, and I can tell you all about the machines there.
My favorites..... Scared Stiff, The Addams Family, and White Water - They are my favorites, and I look after them with a passion. These 3 have all been rebuild by me recently, and I consider them mint (except for the constant battle against flith). A few issues.... Scared Stiff doesn't always reconise a ball entering the lock (coffin). White Water - I've disabled the multi-ball, because it always gets 2 (or 3) balls stuck in the VUK, then it overheats, then I have to replace coils/sleeves/armatures again! I'll be making a thread about this fault.
Things that just work.... average/fine machines that need little maintenance - RFM, Elvira (Party Animals), Dr Who, Bram Stokers, BR, Metalica, TZ.
Things that need a little extra love.... HS2, STTNG, Roller Games, Mario - if you're ever there and these machines are playing up, turn them off and leave me a note.
In fact any faults (from the Bury site) ever need reporting, you can leave me a note in this thread.
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Truggy
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Oh yea... I forgot about T3, because it's so boring 
We have a T3 too! Works great.
We have a T3 too! Works great.
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Also forgot about PZ and JD - it's a lot of machines to remember 
JD - good condition. A bit dark. Probably a bunch of bulbs gone - I'll rebuild when I have time.
PZ - average/poor condition - needs a lot a love!
JD - good condition. A bit dark. Probably a bunch of bulbs gone - I'll rebuild when I have time.
PZ - average/poor condition - needs a lot a love!
Oh please please PLEASE get that VUK on White Water fixed! It has been broken for YEARS!
You said you're making a thread on it so I'll wait for that - but I know that particular game's problem very well (as well as dealing with weak coils in many other games) and I'll have a list of things to try to sort it...
You said you're making a thread on it so I'll wait for that - but I know that particular game's problem very well (as well as dealing with weak coils in many other games) and I'll have a list of things to try to sort it...
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It's working mint ATM - with multi-ball disabled.
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Water White top VUK
Not the gold mine, the top VUK. The multi-ball lock. I've rebuild the entire mechanism (AGAIN), and disabled the multi-ball. Why disable? It will kick out one ball fine. Perfect actually - first time. But... if there's multiple balls in the lock, 2 balls will end up in the cup, and the thing...
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