Saving a 1973 Gottlieb Pro Football Wedge Head Pinball Machine 

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A person has to really admire the engineers that designed EM pinball machines, so intricate, and almost bulletproof! Built to last almost forever! This machine looks to be in great shape mechanically, looking forward to the repair!

Hi Joe. After watching a half dozen or so of your machine repair series, you convinced me I was ready to make a long time dream come true. I just brought home a '71 Gottlieb "Home Run" machine yesterday. Then to my good fortune I came across this "Pro Football" video series this morning. The general design and play field are nearly identical. "Home Run" is also a center ball launcher. Anyhow, thanks for passing along information. You're an inspiration. This particular series is going to be a big help. I can't wait for the first time the chimes ring!

Thanks again for taking the time to give us this great maintenance tour. You get a big 'Thumb's Up' from me. I only wish I could give it two!

I spent most of my holiday money playing this table. The arcade where it was, in Cleethorpes UK used to pay you for the won extra games when they were closing, made a coin or two for the following day. The rubber bands across the top helped the ball pass across the top slots by bouncing off it and the posts.

I bought a Gottlieb CAPT CARD WEDGE HEAD I love it, it was clean inside too. I believe all Gottlieb wedge heads were one player games.

At 16:50 those metal parts are coin entry troughs. They screw to the back of the lockdown bar receiver. There's a smaller one and a bigger one. The smaller one fits into the bigger one to make a complete trough assembly.

I have one of these in my home, it is a great game!!! Your backglass is in much better condition than mine. Love seeing these old pins keep going!

10:30 Nice pom poms

Seems like I've got stuck in the past watching Ron at work (again). Still that's no bad thing.

The plastic Circle with the insert is the Mutliplayer/Single Plear credit start switch surround

Little fact for ya...I was Born in Ashtabula Ohio, my Grandparents had a Farm off of Lake Erie. We pronounce it "Ash cha bew la" lol. Cool vid once again.

Thanks for the new EM vid! Great work as usual

hi joe..thank you for another great video..... !! :) enjoyed much !! x

Looking forward to the troubleshooting!

Nice. Start for repair 😄👍

Just like mine, except I don't think I have that bonus mod. I got mine working yesterday. Burned bell coil, right flippers not working due to dirty contacts and points score relay clean and adjust got all the big problems fixed. The power wires to the credit delete coil were cut for freeplay and not sure if that stopped power to something else. It would have jambed to max credits eventually. Fixed that and jumpered the switch that closed when you get a credit for freeplay to work. Have to check how it was done to my MIBS. Mine is set for 3-ball so likely will go to 5. O-rings, clean/wax, new ball, flipper sleeves and bell coil are to do. I enjoy playing it since it is so different with the four flippers, veritargets and center launch/wider playfield. My back glass paint is not faded and less paint loss so just triple thicked so far. I learned a lot about EM pins getting this one working, your videos helped a lot. Mine came with a little set-up manual that gave the start-up relay sequence that makes trouble shooting that really easy. That manual said to set the 4 legs all the way down for 3 1/2 degree playfield for the best play-surprised by that. Is that common for this vintage? It can drain without scoring anything, but doesn't add to the ball count when no score. My inner flipper at rest position needs adjustment since they differ from each other. One lines up with the outer flipper and the other is raised a little like yours. I suspected raised a little like yours is correct since that side plays better. Anyway, going to watch how you set yours. Thanks for your video, fun to see this pin. I think they made 4500 and mine has 161 thousand plays on the clock-and counting! Someone kept it waxed so decent paint.

Best sad trumpet ever lol

As a German I am legally obliged to not like Football (I hate sports anyway), but this game does look pretty neat. I like the oldschool comic book style graphics. Looking forward to the repair video, anything EM is always interesting.

I have this Gottlieb Pro Football machine. Did you ever fix it? Mine is having a similar issue: it won't toggle start up, stuck on "tilt"

the heavy plate underneath was traced back to one distributors route in the US. I cant recall the state or name of the guy but search around pinside and you will find others that have machines from his estate and all had a large metal plate screwed to the bottom of the cabinet.

Cool man do you know wear I can get cheep arcade games

Are the metal things in the box coin chutes?

play ARCADE good video joe´s

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