One Of Our Most Challenging Repairs Yet - Gottlieb "Spirit Of 76" Pinball Machine Left Outside!

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@pinball541 Год назад

I was born on July 14th, 1976!🇺🇲 Hello from Phoenix Arizona❕🔥

@LyonsArcade Год назад

Hello in Phoenix! And Happy Early Birthday :)

@pinball541 Год назад

@@LyonsArcade - Thanks Ron & Joe!

@naytch2003 Год назад

1976..my first year at school 😁

@haactgaming9687 Год назад

I was able to see a few days from that year!

@rickpatton8281 Год назад

"It's broke" He's not wrong....lol

@markjackson1444 Год назад

Great start on this winner from Gottlieb. As I was 12 in 1965 and 22 in 1975, I feel real lucky to have played most pinball machines made in this decade. The last half of the 60s was really swinging, and the first half of the 70s was the height of ‘groovy’ and everything was ‘far out’. This machine fits right in, and I remember playing this back in the day. It looks fantastic and it plays pretty good too. No wonder Gottlieb were in no hurry to go digital. They were kings of the world when this pinball came out. Looking forward to watching you rescue this playfield. It needs a lot of help, … but it’s come to the right place. Thanks for posting and sharing with all pinheads.

@LyonsArcade Год назад

We're going to do a Gottlieb Pinball Pool after this one and I'm going to talk about how Gottlieb went from top of the stack to dead in the water in like two years! It's crazy if you think about it, they were KILLING IT with the EM's and everybody even at the time knew they were the best, then a short couple years later everybody thinks they're the worst. Crazy times!

@markjackson1444 Год назад

Sounds great, …with your sweet southern drawl.

@JamesUK-je4ew Год назад

Sir, such a true philosophy at the end, and great way to look at things. Looking forward to the next part. Regards “PoundTown”

@kd6tas Год назад

I'm 59 about to turn 60. I played one of those when it was new. It was a popular machine at our local miniature golf course arcade. Having no kickers made for nice gameplay. In my experience kickers make the ball go side to side. When the ball is going side to side it tends to end up in one of the side drains. With no kickers you get more gameplay per ball, in my opinion. Good value is part of what made that machine popular. The shot making was relatively easy too. The way I remember it, all you had to do was concentrate on the drop targets. Each time you got them all they would reset. Eventually the bonus would max out and the extra ball and special would light. In a word, if you were at a level where you could trap the ball and shoot aimed shots, you'd enjoy this machine.

@kenlanier2131 Год назад

Ronnie, I think I got it figured out. After a couple of hours of watching the video it finally caught my eye and I realized the problem. It's BROKE. :) That never gets old. Thanks for the video.

@vstags Год назад

Great philosophy

@toolate1776 Год назад

Thank you for these videos👍. It’s a real pleasure to see these old Gottlieb come back to life.

@pauldzim Год назад

I think that's Davey Crockett on the backglass. He was the one with the funny hat I think 😄

@LyonsArcade Год назад

Killed him a Bar, when he was only 3

@seanjesso9817 Год назад

"""" Just want to say ,,,You sure have a HART for your work """"" People should Great full for Your work,,,,, Buy the way watching your show people can learn so much ,,,, Thank You """"

@LyonsArcade Год назад

When I see a Canadian Flag and Hart I only think of one thing. NATALYA

@naytch2003 Год назад

@@LyonsArcadeBest there is Best there was Best there ever will be!!!

@mram6311 Год назад

The good repair people realize they need the bad repair people to keep them in business.

@rcfreeman Год назад

"It's Broke" 😂 But we all know, after the video series, it won't be broke no more.

@Robin-bq4pt Год назад

Nice i got one of those too, was stored near by a carport, squirrels lived inside...

@wdavem Год назад

Good video! Since I call myself a repair tech, I hold myself responsible for most mistakes I make... which means I have to tell people about the bad ones to put pressure on myself. But it HAS to be ok to be imperfect. Most recently I scratched a roller in a professional Video Tape Recorder in which I was knee deep. Problem was I didn't protect the rollers with painter's tape as I took the mechanism further and further apart looking for a foreign object causing a jam. I didn't know this mechanism well, had no service manual access, but I know what I'm doing! "just lift the sub assembly little more and you'll find it, it's just a foreign object". NOPE! Saw the scratch on the roller and realized my brain was in fact in the off position. It's ok! This time there's a parts machine just like it already on the bench. The scratched roller then goes into the parts machine because it's bearings are still happy. It then gets put in a drill one day and gets polished, no parts lost. I could put it in the box of shame but I go easier on myself the I did when I started long ago.

@tommylakindasorta3068 Год назад

As an unlicensed non-professional, I concur. This machine is broke.

@Cool_Retro Год назад

I remember seeing several Bicentennial themed pinball machines in 1976-1977. One of my favorites for sure.

@whiskyguzzler982 11 месяцев назад

At 29:27 I have the exact same issue with a Target Alpha. Several elements are so locked up from stiff lube that I had to work them loose with alcohol and then put it back together with some 3-in-1.

@TheLomdr Год назад

Yeah, I turned on my Pinbot on the day that we closed on the new house, though Williams games from that era have that one flaw with the lack of fuses for 2 of the bridge rectifiers that hasn't been fixed in the factory until...Fire of all games! AT the same time, I'm sure the number of un-fuse modded Pinbots are lesser nowadays, but we didn't have the machine on for more than a minute or 3

@LyonsArcade Год назад

I saw it do it twice in machines in the shop right in front of me. So it's definitely a problem... I also had a Williams Millionaire that it had done it previously, and I had to fix it.

@TheLomdr Год назад

@@LyonsArcade Yeah, I remember when you thought you were done with one of the Pinbots and then it caught fire during a power up sequence

@BaccarWozat Год назад

"Fred G. Sanford... the G is for Gottlieb"

@miguelrios4602 Год назад

Hey Ronnie! Love the video and your prospective. I don’t know what I’m doing; you don’t know what you’re doing. We’re all just doing what we can do! It is what it is people. :) I own this title by way of an old tech who got it from a woman who won it as some kind of raffle prize from The Silverball Museum in Asbury Park,NJ. Back in the day ‘75-‘82 I used to go there as it was an arcade haven. Just wondering if coincidentally I passed this machine in its heyday. Thanks again for the video, brother and catch you on the next one!

@gallimead Год назад

I think we all know, what is jamming, or wedged in that player unit... it's the RAT!!!

@LyonsArcade Год назад

WE'LL SEE SOON!

@vicferrarisgarage Год назад

Awesome

@AvengerII Год назад

Notice how Joe is ALWAYS right when he says something is "broke"? Very smart guy. He'll never be wrong! 😁 We could all learn that from him!

@_JellyDonut_ Год назад

It's a beaut Clark!

@TaxGuy Год назад

Ah 1976, the best year in history. I was 12 and my only concern was where to ride my Schwinn Stingray. Often to the bowling alley to play pinball. I'm sure I played this guy when it was brand spanking new!

@davidewhite69 Год назад

I was 13 in 76 and completely hooked on pinball, but not being an American I never saw this machine until in 1978 I went to England of all places, I have never seen one in Australia

@MrRTVtech Год назад

I was around, 1970

@ejonesss Год назад

it is ok if the video gets demonetized you charge customers for repairs, parts and sales so you can easily make up for it even by raising the prices. be glad your video is still up at all.

@johnmichael1979 Год назад

I remember playing this game "back in the day" when they were on location. Living on a farm and riding the bike into town .

@ericbentsen1785 Год назад

Just what goes through a repairman's mind when they encounter a hunk o' junk like this? It's fascinating though.

@irieman442 Год назад

Amazing none of the wiring was chewed up. Maybe that cloth insulation isn't as tasty as the plastic!

@cheeto4493 Год назад

Yeah, I've heard the new soy based plastic insulation is even worse. Car harnesses getting eaten up all over the place.

@LyonsArcade Год назад

I don't usually get a bunch of chewed up wire, but sometimes.

@naytch2003 Год назад

Two beer or not two beer..🍻..What a question 🙄🤪

@AvengerII Год назад

@1:10 -- It's the "Spirit of St. Louis" airplane flown by Charles Lindbergh, NOT "the Spirit of '76," Ron! Cunningham told me to correct you. The Fonz was busy fixing jukeboxes! The astronaut in the faceplate art looks to be wearing a Mercury astronaut pressure suit. Pressure suit is the correct term. The Mercury astronauts did NOT perform spacewalks. Those happened after the Voskhod and Gemini programs began a few years later. He might be modeled after John Glenn, one of our most famous astronauts. He's only eclipsed by Neil Armstrong in fame.

@LyonsArcade Год назад

Well clearly they must have performed space walks in a mercury suit you can see it RIGHT THERE ON THE BACKGLASS hellooooooooooo!

@AvengerII Год назад

@@LyonsArcade You're talking to someone that was a NASA nerd as a kid. Look it up -- NO SPACE WALKS during Mercury no matter what Bally/Midway, Stern, and Gottlieb pinball artists say! They hadn't developed the spacesuits and hardware for spacewalking yet. The suits the Mercury astronauts wore were to protect them in case the atmosphere inside the capsule leaked out. It was the same basic pressure suit test pilots wore; those suits wouldn't protect you from radiation and micrometeorites. There was no way for them to do a spacewalk from that Mercury vehicle. That capsule was cramped as it is and it would have been impractical to open the hatch in orbit. It was liked being stuffed back in your mother's belly and was tighter than a phonebooth! I think the average height of that first group of astronauts was 5' 8" or less. You're not going to fit anyone over 5' 11" in that capsule! Claustrophobic would be a good description for the Mercury capsule interior. The Gemini Program rehearsed the techniques they'd needed to perfect for the Moon and beyond. This includes spacewalks, docking with ships (they docked with rocket boosters in orbits) and rendevzous with other spacecraft which they did with Gemini 7 and 8 I believe. The core Gemini vehicle looked a lot like the Mercury capsule but it was stretched and significantly bigger to fit two people in. It was more like a cabin in a pirate ship with enough room to slap the guy next to you! You could spacewalk from a Gemini but it was still hazardous. They had procedures for "cutting the other guy off" in case he couldn't get back into the capsule! There was only so much oxygen supply for a spacewalk. So, something like the astronaut death scene in "You Only Live Twice" (a James Bond movie with THE BEST Bond actor, look it up!) was conceivable -- they just didn't have an industrialist working with renegade Asians to hijack national space programs. That's yet to come since Elon Musk is too busy trying to be a "legitimate businessman." Snap! We have no Lex Luthor yet!!! Gemini flights lasted upwards of 2 weeks and they had fuel cells to generate electricity to power their equipment. The breathable oxygen supply was also a lot bigger.

@MRNBricks Год назад

‘Merica, people. Deal with it.

@LyonsArcade Год назад

LEE GREENWOOD FTW

@pogostix6097 Год назад

Honestly, considering it was left outside, it could be a lot worse in there. That would be a death sentence where I live, we get snow up to several feet most years, it would rust to bits and the wood would bloat and rot... thankfully it's also a bit too cold for Hantavirus... I bet it would light up like a Christmas tree if you shined a blacklight in there though. You're braver than I am! Mice and rats DO make me squeamish, and I DO have a compromised immune system, I'd be like "Nah, burn it. Send it off with a Viking Funeral." Thankfully you can't get germs via RU-vid, I can watch you guys fix it up and deal with none of the poop :)

@LyonsArcade Год назад

This is all true :)

@ocsrc Год назад

Looks pretty clean for the age

@scotthamby Год назад

I have this game from a barn find. I think mine is past a point of repair

@XDminecraftpro 10 месяцев назад

Hey Joe! I was cleaning out my grandfathers house after he passed and found one of these inside! It would appear to have all of the original wiring and has sat untouched for many many years. I have no use for it and as its not working I fear nobody will want it. Is there any chance you would be interested in it for repairing or parts?

@waynegram8907 Год назад

All those stepper units use bakelite boards that are made out of "phenolic board"? the bakelite boards and phenolic boards look the same to me so I can't tell the differences

@jz7490 10 месяцев назад

Great videos! Huge help with my Spirit. One question, at approx 6:16 in this video, do you know what this is? Mine is missing (bright shiny metal, finger pointing right at it. 6:16

@wilholloway7876 Год назад

The plane is Charles Lindbergh's Spirit of St. Louis, not Spirit of 76.

@northtustinsteamworks5172 Год назад

Why would the score motor have a switch let alone switched off?!

@LyonsArcade Год назад

They call it a service switch I think it may help you test some stuff if it's turned off but I'm not sure, never messed with them in that way. Most of them had that, though.

@davidewhite69 Год назад

looks like a previous user taped something over the credit wheel?

@DoctorDetroit100 Год назад

I trust your instincts Ron, but why do you think someone was mess in with the machine that didn't know what they were doing? Could just be our Rat Friend. There are no mistakes, Only Happy little accidents :)

@scottbrady7499 Год назад

is it just me, or does this one have a bit of "deja vu" going on. ..or maybe one of the Spanish Sonic company machines had like some Patriots with a guy playing a Flute; go Ron's Recapacitance Realm