In this video, I show my first impressions of the Daiichi vintage pinball machine. I know absolutely nothing about it, but it could be a very interesting project.
Hey Boss. You've got a type B machine. Put a collecting cup in the backside just under the middle "spout." Type B will process out winning and losing balls to a storage area. Type A recycle balls. I think you've mainly got it figured out. You just need a lot more balls in the machine to make it run properly past the no-ball status. No electrical components are needed to work the game. The wiring just makes the lights come on with a win. Feed in balls to fill the machine from the very top hopper. Play balls from the middle front tray to the flipper as you discovered.
Thank you for the information, as I've heard, you do have to manually recycle the balls. It came with a baggie with 30-40 more steel balls, so hopefully that's enough. I've heard that the electrical system just runs lights, and can be powered by 12V AC or DC. But it's good to know you can use the machine without the electricals working.
It is called a Pachinko machine. The lights run off of 6 or 12 volts (depending on the light bulbs installed). Press the lever on the front down than let it flip up to launch a ball. You will be amused by this mechanical wonder.
Thank you for the comment! It is a pretty cool mechanical system. Do you have any more information on this machine? I'm assuming it would runoff battery power.
@@Differentthings2006 when looking at the back of the machine, I believe the power terminals are on the upper right area. There should be two metal posts sticking out of a plastic block mounted to the back wood surface. The contact posts were not very strong so they may have been broken off, hence the long wire hanging off the back of your machine. I ran mine off of a two amp 12 volt transformer. Ac or Dc is not important as light bulbs do not care. There are no relays, solenoids or circuit boards, only lights and switches. The switches get dirty easily as they have exposed contacts. I think there are two switches, one for minor jackpots and one for major jackpots. A few lights stayed on all the time and some flashed on when you hit a jackpot. When you are issued your winnings you hear a bell ring. The bell sounds as the balls strike it as they come out. Your bell sounds well beaten. If you take the back off you can see the bell. You can rotate the bell so the balls strike a fresh spot and that will give the bell a brighter tone. I once had a Pachinko when I was young and spent many hours taking it apart to see how it worked. I will assist you to the best of my recollections. I put a plastic container under the outlet on the back to catch the balls as the came out, if not they go everywhere. A small magnet on a stick is also helpful for retrieving jammed balls. You also need to keep the balls clean or they will transfer dirt onto the play field which is hard to clean.
@@thisoldminewithlars5324 Thank you so much for the information. I'll have to see if I can find those Terminal posts I'm assuming this was meant to be mounted to a wall or another immovable object? Is there supposed to be retrievement system for the balls that get shot out the back? Or would they just go into some container that would get manually emptied, as you said? Also, how does the bin on the top work? Are those balls put their supposed to feed in automatically?
@@Differentthings2006 The machine was usually mounted between the studs of a wall. A Pachinko Parlor would have dozens of machines lining the walls. Originally this was a gambling system like our slot machines. The wall normally had a retrieval/recycling system built int it. Some places had false walls with attendants on the back side monitoring the machines and restocking the balls. The bin on the top is the balls you get when you win. You will have to manually restock it or build an automatic restocking system. If the top bin goes empty the machine will close off the ball feed so you can not shoot anymore balls into play until the top bin is replenished.
