Somebody Screwed Up These Spinner Mechs! - 1976 Williams Grand Prix Pinball Machine Repair 5 

I own one of those, one of these days I'll do some videos of it when we fix it. It's in ROUGH shape though :) We'll save it eventually. Thank you for watching Skully!

Thank you Plastic Imagination Workshop, we appreciate you watching!

Thanks for watching as always Pauz!

Thank you James we appreciate you watching man

Thank you for watching Fred, hope you're back on the mend!

Ha! I just got out of the hospital and agree. Only thing is I bet your hospital is a lot better than my hospital. Take care!

I don't have anything against Motorola, they're a good company :)

@@LyonsArcade Oh I love Motorola they made my old Amiga computer possible!

I have seen less switches in a small country telephone exchange. :-P

Damn Skippy :) I just played a pinbot with the lights on for a video, it was like torture. The game literally is half as fun with the lights on, people must be touched or something if they like them better with the lights on WTF

I haven't paid much attention to the Chicago Coin ones but I'll remember to check that out when we get to this Rawhide we're going to be working on soon... I wonder if the Sam Stern connection had anything to do with that? (was the president of Williams, then bought Chicago Coin years later)

It's fun when you track one down. We've been working on a Pinbot lately and found a bunch of weird stuff people had done to it...

It's getting there :) Thanks for watching A Janitor!

We're getting there, thanks for watching!

Yup, once you learn how they work they're much easier to fix than any of the others mainly because there's not much to them that can't be repaired or replaced...

next video we're going to figure out the bonus units once and for all

Thanks Petri547!

It dragged at the bushing, not just at the end so it wasn't from being bent... I think that style of flipper must be for a different machine that has a different bushing that sticks through another 1/16" or so.... Thanks for watching Kent!

No I never found where it went.... it looked just like the brake switch on a score motor but it wasn't from this machine. Maybe they're reproducing when nobody's around????

@@LyonsArcade When a mommy brake switch and a daddy brake switch love each other very much...

You must have skipped the part where I put new bushings in :)

Absolutely, that's what people do a lot of times but for whatever reason they never marked this one when they took it off! Thanks for watching Jeroen!

You could also use sandpaper, that would be great for thinner clearances

I was thinking about one to polish guitar frets

When I was a teenager my brother and me used to go to the arcade all the time, one day they had a game for sale in the back so we called our dad and he said we could buy it and he'd come pick it up in our van. So we had an arcade game in our house as kids, it broke, we figured out how to turn it into another game and then years later I saw an ad in the paper for a job collecting money from arcade games. I sent in my resume and they liked that I had one at my house, hired me, and I learned a lot more working for them running a route with stuff breaking all the time. As the time went on I worked on more and more of them, bought more, etc. and eventually started making videos. Thanks for watching Vince!

@Joe's Classic Video Games Cool story! I gotta know what was the game you dragged home?

Might have been a Bally Fireball or a Williams Triple Action

@@gopernoperstrains3160 Fireball ! I think that’s it ! Oh yeh Gorgar was badass and The Black Knight also Funhouse what great old machines.

I won't be doing that, thank you for watching though!

Good point, you watched the whole video and found something you don't like.

@@LyonsArcade I just noticed that it seems like they built it like that. Some games do that a lot more than others. I wonder if they were designed to do that. If the economics change or the vendors get requests for machines that don't play as long. On video games a lot of them have difficulty settings in the dip switches or software. So if an arcade wants people playing shorter games, having to spend more, the company or vendor might have had a sheet that said these three pinball machines have the shortest play time because the ball goes in the out holes quicker. I don't know if they did that, but it makes sense they would have to please their buyers It is a great game, with a lot of cool features.

Your comment sucks. That said, I like spinners too

I have never seen that one, but that's my style of game. I like those the best. I'd have to order the schematics to fix that one, they don't have them on IPDB.org which has a lot of the Williams ones... you can order new ones for about 15 bucks from www.PBResource.com though, they have pretty much every schematic. Here's the thing though, although you'll be at a little bit of a disadvantage because it's your first game, as you probably know they're all similar, especially by the same company around the same time. for instance, schematics are online for "Full House" which came out 3 months after that one... www.ipdb.org/machine.cgi?id=961 Lots of the main 'workings' will be exactly the same as Full House, since they're both Williams 1 players made 3 months apart, they were probably sitting on the line next to each other. The two player and four player games will be fairly different though. We did a video on that one too, I really like that era of game. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-9Rr93527eH4.html Thanks for watching!

@@LyonsArcade Ah thanks so much! Great info, and very appreciated. I can't wait to get started. Thanks again for the in-depth reply. Have a great day

Looks like a game targeted to girls.

He doesn't mess with the pinballs much :)