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Picked this machine up today. Got it and a Bally Lost world.
He told me it didn't work, but wanted to show me while we were in his
garage. we fired it up, and by golly it actually seemed to work pretty
dang good.
Got it home and it wouldn't work at all. Go figure.
So I got into the backbox of it, and just went through and made sure
that all the coils moved freely, and that all the bakelite disks
weren't too gunked up. Plugged it back in and viola! it's back to
working again.
What I'm finding is that sometimes, when I plug it in, I know straight
away soumething is fouled up. It starts humming... not good. So I
unplug and just manually reset the disks in the backbox. try again,
and usually one of two things will happen. Either it will come on and
blink lights or it will not do anything at all (not a bad thing) If
it's blinking, it will also have released the balls, so I can launch
one, and as soon as it hits a scoring target, the lights quit blinking
and it plays like normal. If it's not doing anything when I plug it
in, I can hit the credit button and away we go. I don't know what's
making the difference between these two situations yet.
Second is that when the last ball drains, the flipper still work, and
it goes through an end of ball sequence, but doesn't seem to actually
end the game. Is that right? Should it still allow the flippers to
work?
This is my first woodrail, and i'm just getting to know the schematic,
but without knowing what is the correct behavior, I feel like I'm
taking a bit of a stab in the dark.
If you can tell me more about this game, I'd really love to hear it.
If you want to see pics of the game, take a look at
http://www.bigdaddy-enterprises.com/bigdaddyebay/?dir=stagecoach
MitchelWB
Picked this machine up today. Got it and a Bally Lost world.
He told me it didn't work, but wanted to show me while we were in his
garage. we fired it up, and by golly it actually seemed to work pretty
dang good.
Got it home and it wouldn't work at all. Go figure.
So I got into the backbox of it, and just went through and made sure
that all the coils moved freely, and that all the bakelite disks
weren't too gunked up. Plugged it back in and viola! it's back to
working again.
What I'm finding is that sometimes, when I plug it in, I know straight
away soumething is fouled up. It starts humming... not good. So I
unplug and just manually reset the disks in the backbox. try again,
and usually one of two things will happen. Either it will come on and
blink lights or it will not do anything at all (not a bad thing) If
it's blinking, it will also have released the balls, so I can launch
one, and as soon as it hits a scoring target, the lights quit blinking
and it plays like normal. If it's not doing anything when I plug it
in, I can hit the credit button and away we go. I don't know what's
making the difference between these two situations yet.
Second is that when the last ball drains, the flipper still work, and
it goes through an end of ball sequence, but doesn't seem to actually
end the game. Is that right? Should it still allow the flippers to
work?
This is my first woodrail, and i'm just getting to know the schematic,
but without knowing what is the correct behavior, I feel like I'm
taking a bit of a stab in the dark.
If you can tell me more about this game, I'd really love to hear it.
If you want to see pics of the game, take a look at
http://www.bigdaddy-enterprises.com/bigdaddyebay/?dir=stagecoach
MitchelWB
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