I actually got a chance last night to go over the new game quickly and fix a few little things, figure I better start a thread before I get too deep into it and get too lazy to tell you guys 
I'll start by saying that the game is "mostly" functioning correctly now and "mostly" playable.
The cabinet artwork is in pretty good shape but the cabinet itself has the back left corner splitting apart and will need to be clamped shut and either glued or screwed shut somehow.
The other part of the cabinet with problems was the coin door. Someone had taken a pry bar to it and busted up the coin returns and bent the whole door to the point it wouldnt close properly. I removed the coin mechs and banged it back to a point where it will at least close now. Still have to put the mechs back together again and steal some plastics from another coin door I have (hopefully they will fit)
Here are some pics of the playfield. There are 3 wear spots (up top on the police car, one by the left flipper where the ball drops and one by the right flipper where the ball drops).
When I first fired it up it kept kicking out balls and saying they were draining but it turns out there were 6 balls in it and there were supposed to be 4. I took the extra 2 and put them up in the captive area that is apparently supposed to have 3 but only had 1. Pretty sure the top and bottom balls are supposed to be clear so the lights will shine through.
Almost all the GI is out in this game but it appears they are all bad bulbs. I don't have enough laying around to fix them all so I'll have to put together an order of things to get. Couple playfield lights out but not many.
Ball shooter spring is shot, too many years of abuse and will need to be replaced.
Almost all switches in the game work. The one to the right of the 3 captive balls seems to be the exception but I haven't looked closely at it yet.
Right flipper was out, had a bad fuse in it.
Right slingshot is out, haven't figure out why yet. It had one wire loose and sort of wrapped around the coil but when I soldered it back onto the peg it still wasn't working. This will still need some attention.
Pop bumpers need some tweaking as they have very little action right now.
Had to remove the lock to install the translight as there was no key.
Helicopter doesn't turn properly and if you dont manually turn it, it wont pick up the balls. This is a big problem because it plays a huge role in the game play. Haven't had a chance to look at it too closely and how its supposed to work but the black rubber ring looks very worn down in a couple spots and has made it flat. Not sure if thats the cause of the problems yet or what.
Changed 3 flipper rubbers because I had some laying around. All rubbers will have to be changed as they are pretty beat up and cracked.
Manual is in French? sucks but is usable for now.
DMD seems to work good and is nice and bright.
Need to install taller legs as its got short ones on and my other games have tall ones. The legs on there look really bad anyways since they are rusty and old looking.
Spent maybe 30 minutes going over the playfield with novus 2 but will need more time to clean it up because of how dirty it is/was.
Thats about it for now. Probably get some more work on it today but wanted to document what I've done so far.
I'll start by saying that the game is "mostly" functioning correctly now and "mostly" playable.The cabinet artwork is in pretty good shape but the cabinet itself has the back left corner splitting apart and will need to be clamped shut and either glued or screwed shut somehow.
The other part of the cabinet with problems was the coin door. Someone had taken a pry bar to it and busted up the coin returns and bent the whole door to the point it wouldnt close properly. I removed the coin mechs and banged it back to a point where it will at least close now. Still have to put the mechs back together again and steal some plastics from another coin door I have (hopefully they will fit)
Here are some pics of the playfield. There are 3 wear spots (up top on the police car, one by the left flipper where the ball drops and one by the right flipper where the ball drops).
When I first fired it up it kept kicking out balls and saying they were draining but it turns out there were 6 balls in it and there were supposed to be 4. I took the extra 2 and put them up in the captive area that is apparently supposed to have 3 but only had 1. Pretty sure the top and bottom balls are supposed to be clear so the lights will shine through.
Almost all the GI is out in this game but it appears they are all bad bulbs. I don't have enough laying around to fix them all so I'll have to put together an order of things to get. Couple playfield lights out but not many.
Ball shooter spring is shot, too many years of abuse and will need to be replaced.
Almost all switches in the game work. The one to the right of the 3 captive balls seems to be the exception but I haven't looked closely at it yet.
Right flipper was out, had a bad fuse in it.
Right slingshot is out, haven't figure out why yet. It had one wire loose and sort of wrapped around the coil but when I soldered it back onto the peg it still wasn't working. This will still need some attention.
Pop bumpers need some tweaking as they have very little action right now.
Had to remove the lock to install the translight as there was no key.
Helicopter doesn't turn properly and if you dont manually turn it, it wont pick up the balls. This is a big problem because it plays a huge role in the game play. Haven't had a chance to look at it too closely and how its supposed to work but the black rubber ring looks very worn down in a couple spots and has made it flat. Not sure if thats the cause of the problems yet or what.
Changed 3 flipper rubbers because I had some laying around. All rubbers will have to be changed as they are pretty beat up and cracked.
Manual is in French? sucks but is usable for now.
DMD seems to work good and is nice and bright.
Need to install taller legs as its got short ones on and my other games have tall ones. The legs on there look really bad anyways since they are rusty and old looking.
Spent maybe 30 minutes going over the playfield with novus 2 but will need more time to clean it up because of how dirty it is/was.
Thats about it for now. Probably get some more work on it today but wanted to document what I've done so far.
