We bought A 1978 Bally Strikes And Spares Pinball Machine Out Of A Carport - Full Of Spiders!!! 

OMG IT IS HAPPENING!!! I've seen that machine in the store for soooooooo long and couldn't wait til ya started to work on it. 2 themes of pinball machines that are ALWAYS a win, pool/billiards, and bowling. I LIVED bowling til I fell ill and lost my mobility. I can't wait to see all in the series on this machine, gonna be awesome. Great video as always Ronnie!! :)

I love these Bally machines artwork. They are always one inch above trashy! Can you imagine the artwork that they rejected? LOL Like I said before, then understood their core customer!

You can use a small paint brush zip tied to the hose.

THANK YOU. I'm a lefty and struggle with those crimpers. I'll be switching those jaws around tonight.

Love your videos! I especially love the shango and electro boom reference... come on people. Cant wait for the next amateur repair time

I love that you watch Shango too.

''Shango level, messed up'' Cooool!

That was my first pinball that I bought in 1980 when I was just 17. I had it in my bedroom with 2 caberet vids. Every time my mom had company, they would end up in my room playing the games! Paid a whopping $200. BTW, Pinball Life sells the transformer and rectifier board as a whole thing.

I wonder if anyone uses Imron coating anymore? Sun Process (which is still in business) held a patent for a multilayer clearcoat for pinball playfields which was marketed under the name Diamond-Plate. The process was developed in conjunction with DuPont and apparently it was expensive enough back then that they made only 200 playfields per year with that coating.

Something else of note, In your back glass is the little CREDIT sticker in the window. My OG Glass had that, But on the other hand glass was peeled so bad, Red had some major skin cancer going on, most all the flesh color peeled off. Only her eyes were left, like I dream of Jeannie eyes on the bottle. The replacement back glass was another one from years gone by but it did not come with the CREDIT Decal in the window. No clue why a glass on one game would have CREDIT decal and another one would not...

Spiders look like common southern cellar spiders, which are super useful for controlling other pests. But these look like food has been scarce and many starved to death. They won't have done any damage other than leaving behind dust and old webs and such.

Im a elect. Tech with over 42 years experience and counting. I really enjoy your videos. Not a lo of people like to share their knowdledge like you do. How do you about reconditioning the play field back to original...?? Repaint?? Sounds like quite the operation... Repaint??

A 4am video..it's broke 😮

Come on now, these guys are going out of their way to provide us with awesome content, 4.4k views but only 403 likes, hit that like button and show your appreciation 👍

Hello Ron and Joe ever think about a live stream. And always to say I love watching you guys do your think can't wait to see your vids

What an enjoyable first video on this classic. Even though I’m strictly an EM guy, I almost feel like I could do an early solid state machine, ..and all from watching you bring back several early Bally digital games. The girl on the backglass has legs going from her feet to her neck! Fantastic, and I think this game is gonna play great. Thanks for the education Ronnie.

I like how the whole power assembly is in the head. And comes out easily. Later machines in the cabinet are harder to work on. You can actually get this whole assembly with transformer new. And yes like $350. My KISS machine transformer boiled the wax out and got real hot.

That is a cool back glass Nice playfield

Nice game. My favorite era of Pinball.

Strikes And Spares was a very common game in Australia. It was a favourite, that art work is iconic.

I turned the score over 17x on one of those machines at a skating rink in Macon Ga . Early eighties My favorite pb machine.

Looks like this one has great foundation to build a good Strikes & Spares. All the important and hard to repair stuff is in good shape. The rest can be fixed - and makes a good video.

My Strikes and spares has mylar over the wear too. I have seen a few others like that. I'm thinking this is a warranty type repair/fix. Hey Bally the paint is getting removed in front of my sling shots... We will mail you two half moons of this clear sticky stuff, it will fix your problem.

When you opened the back box, it sounded like one of those old creepy haunted house doors

Love this machine. Best backglass ever. I need to get mine working already.

I also reversed my crimpers too since I am also Left handed !!

So I was totally prepared to rebuild my rectifier board. I was going to even mod it to re-inforce the 12v lines by adding jumpers, etc (which are terribly designed on the original board). After I added up the cost of the upgraded bridge rectifiers (35A) and the replacement fuses, fuse holders and such, it was CHEAPER to buy the reproduction rectifier board for $60. AND they redesigned it to upgrade it to beefier traces for the voltage. So for me, I chose to replace the board.

"...electro-boom situation..."? In 30 years, I have never heard that term. ty for the laugh.

Talking about the voltages, we here in Finland had 220Vac for ages, but some years back it was jacked to 230Vac.

Great video Ronnie, Love the step by step. Power is everything in pinball machines. Does in matter if the solder touches each other when you redo the joints? Thanks for filming and see you on next video.

I think it is fine job😊

If you got someone to clean your meter and a maid outfit you'd have to have it on video.😂

Lookn good guys👍👍

No basements in Texas either but that looks' familiar....

Hey Ron!!

5 footer?? Maybe a 6 footer!! LOL, Soon to be Lyons Perfect.

Bridge rectifiers usually only die if there's a fault on the DC side. I used to fix a lot of TVs, and if one of the mosfets which run the backlight would fail and short out, it would take out the bridge rectifier as the short would cause so much current to go through it, and then it would pop the fuse on the AC input.

I work on the principle that it is only original once. Keep as much as possible original.

AlltekSystems is the maker of the Ultimate MPU Replacement Board for pinball machines.

0:08:00 shango066 cathode ray tube resurrections, weird to mention on a Good Friday, most ordinarily features one dehydrated spider inside, once the TV's back is removed. always one someplace.

I wish they would have used the square pins instead of the round ones. Which have more surface contact and usually doesn’t burn like the round pins.

Rectifiers are interesting. For a single-phase, full-wave rectifier, you only have 4 diodes. But if you are rectifying 3-phase AC, you'd have 6 diodes. Each of the 3 supply wires would get an anode of one diode and a cathode of another. So 3 pairs of diodes with an anode of one and a cathode of the other wired together. Then on the ends of the diodes opposite the AC power, you'd wire all the cathodes together for the +, and all the anodes together for the negative. (Yes, that sounds backward, but the anode and cathodes are marked in reference to what the diode needs, not what it gives off.) And that is what they do inside a car alternator. It is interesting why cars use alternators instead of the old generators like the old VW Bugs used. If you are working with DC from a permanent magnet, it is hard to regulate it. They have voltage and current relays inside. There may be a resistor to where the relays don't trigger, but if they do trigger, you know the voltage and/or current is too high. But high current DC will damage the contacts with time. So with an alternator, they don't use permanent magnets. Instead, you have a field coil that is powered by the battery. So newer voltage regulators adjust the field coil voltage. The stronger the field, the more current is produced and no field voltage at all means there is no power being produced. So it is easier to work with less current and to control it before it is produced than gating the power on the high current end once it is produced. But it produces 3-phase AC (Delta wound), and it uses 6 diodes to rectify it. I also described a 2-diode full-wave rectifier in the past. I had someone argue with me that it couldn't be full-wave. It is, but you sacrifice 1/2 the voltage. So if you have a 12-VAC center-tapped output, you could use the center wire (or "neutral") for the ground. Then attach the "anode" of a separate diode to each of the other 2 wires. Then join the cathodes and attach the positive output wire there. What you get is 6-VDC, full-wave. I don't know why one would do it that way as opposed to omitting the neutral and wiring both outside legs to a bridge rectifier. But I guess that could be cooler as both halves are only being used at half-efficiency. But it is balanced as opposed to half-wave rectifying from the outside lugs only which could put noise on the line current side.

Those old transformers and power boards last forever. Unless you get a direct lightning strike. But I always ground my electricity to Earth ground. FPL has Surge Addon for a FEE Also. Surges and water damage are the main problems with any electronics. If you notice most new stuff has no ground wire which is stupid.

your crimper's looks like a T-REX.

A varistor simply slows down the inrush current at startup. It warms up and essentially removes itself. capacitors can suck a lot of current when instantly turned on. Not good for the cap, and it can blow a fuse. It gives you a slower initial startup.. just a few seconds. It could act as a fuse, if under sized. not its purpose.

Hey Ron, send me all the old pinballs. I would like to restore them. I could pay for shipping.

Pin soldering question. I've never done this before, so it's interesting watching you discuss the process. But it looks like a bunch of the backs of those pins are all soldered together. And some look isolated from each other. Can you explain that for us? I guess its intentional.

🎶 Transformers, pinbot in disguise 🎵

Looked like there was a nail in the plug not plugged in above the first plug you replaced the female pins

Yikes. Looks like a rat has chewed on that power cord. I feel your pain.

The leg bolt's connected to the, leg bone

Fuses aren't different sizes because of different voltages, they are different sizes because of different current limits. Eg it doesn't matter if you have a 4 amp fuse and you are running 1 volt or 200 volts through it, as long as it doesn't exceed 4 amps.

do you use trifurcon connectors?

‘70s women were so hot!

Old iron core transformers has higher no load voltage compared to nominal load voltage._

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If youre not cheating you're not trying..-Eddie Guerrero-

!000000 On that is amazing...

Hey I sent you a private message about an arcade machine that can use your love.

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You should keep a box and put all the old pinballs in it instead of throwing them into the trash, that way when you have enough weight saved up you can scrap them at a scrap yard and get some monies back. Please try this as that is precious metal thats getting tossed into a landfill.