Working on the AMAZING Face Mechanism On A Williams 1986 PIN BOT Pinball Machine - How To Repair 

Took this game out of my local Pizza Hut during COVID. I’ll miss it.

Man alive that takes me back to when I was a teen playing that game in our local mall arcade. What a blast!

Incredibly beautiful machine - worth all the pain. Excellent! More like this.

29:41 is maybe the funniest thing I've ever seen on a pin.

The art work is so awesome. I was at the Texas Pinball festival last weekend and they had several of these and several The Machines and one Jackbot. One guy had the whole family. Amazing how one stuck switch and wreak so much havoc. Thanks for the video.

Now I need to go play pinball this weekend

this is literally the coolest thing ive ever seen

It's great to see inside and have an expert walk us through.

Never really got on with Pinbot but great to see another in-depth System 11 video!

This is one of my favorites to play at one of our local places. It was the owner's first pinball machine that he bought. He had sold it to a friend, then bought it back again. Nice work fixing this one up.

I love seeing another PinBot back in action (just the attract music gets the hairs on my arms sticking up), one of the greats. Thanks Ron.

Pinbot is my favorite machine. My dad's friend had one in his auto shop lobby and when we would go there to hang out I'd play it all day. He'd even pull quarters out of it for me to use

I have to watch this later when I get home.

The sound was so much better with the glass on - couldn't hear the roll on the bed as bad. Such a cool machine and love the whole visor bit

Your talent and skill are amazing. This is not trivial diagnostics.

Great explanation of the Special Solenoids

Vielen Dank für deine tollen Videos! Ich hoffe eines Tages kann ich dich mal in South Carolina besuchen.

It's got heck of an attract mode. That music track is awesome, though short, but perhaps that makes it work.

My favorite system 11 and own one myself, much appreciate all the vids and repair tips

Read your response to my review and you're right Ronnie I have no excuse haha😄

Nicely repaired Pin*Bot. You need to get ball up to the ramp to collect Solar jackpot, when it says: "Shoot for Solar value".

Another amazing pinball machine saved. By Ron and his skills.

Three 1/4" or 1/2" plastic spacers will make that ball not get stuck when you go up the ramp. Good looking machine! I agree that all of them play better with the glass on and lights out!

This and your previous video about a stuck ball in a different pinbot you repair has helped me find problems that my 'new' pinbot has upon receipt of the machine. One of the balls got stuck in the pop bumper area in the same exact area and same exact way as that video 2-3 years ago (That one rubber ring that was resting against a 10 point switch failed and trapped the ball). I'm also having the same visor problem as this machine had but it's because the rubber ring from the blue plastic post snapped and got under the vertical plate that checks for obstructions for the visor mech. Though, I had a bit of a "Come on, people!" moment when I saw that the post directly to the left of the yellow visor target was missing...and it was played without that post, causing the pinball to strike at the ball guide plate on the right side of the eject hole. Sadly, I can only diagnose playfield problems as I have to get a lock smith to take care of the locks to the coin door and/or the backglass. At the very least, I still have the topper bar

i have a bride of pinbot, i love bride. i would love to have a pinbot. both are great titles from the past that are still great games.

26:40 "They opened it out of pity, I didn't hit all of those targets!" Actually after the chest lights are reset, if you hit one of the 10 targets while the corresponding line of LED's are flashing, it's a skill shot and will open up the visor immediately.

Some great trouble shooting on this one. Easier to figure out when things stop working but when wires have been attached in the wrong place that’s gonna be tricky. Enjoyed following your thinking to find the issues. Suspect it would have taken me a month of Sundays before I got there.

Is there a classic pinball you -=haven't=- ever worked on? You are a Wizard.

More great work Ronnie. … the best pinball videos on the net. Thanks for trying to teach us. ….I’m glad there’s not a test!

thank you for the upload, im gona get a pizza and watch this have a great weekend Joe´s classiv video games. Never stop :)

4:04 "I SEE YOU" LMAO thats freaky

I wouldn’t be able to film that video without wearing that Pinbot plastic as a mask hahahaha

I wish you won the Twipy Award this year. But noooooo. That dam Todd Tucky get's it instead. Next year, you got it

Great teaching! U D best,

That's an awesome game. Looks great in the dark. I remember playing this game at the bowling alley haha spent hours on it.

Hello Ron once again another great video. I agree with you 1 Lights Off 2 Glass In 3 Sound Up 4 Most Of All HAVE FUN PLAYING!!!!!!! just one small suggestion maybe put the camera up and more over the machine so we can see more of the playing field and the scoring if possible.... Hey No Complaining Here Love The Videos and All Thumbs Up Thank You

I loves me some Pin-Bot!

Sick machine

I’m curious on how many of these PinBot machines in working order there are left. My mom and I used to play this game on NES when I was a kid and she would talk about how she was a pinball champ back in her hay day. I want to get one for nostalgia.

Now. I. See. You.

I hated those special solenoid circuits because they were always getting burned up. But the System 11 era was still a good system, and had a lot of fun games. Seeing all the issues on this one makes me wonder how long it's been messed up. I bet the owner will really enjoy it now 🙂

Zaccaria's "Time Machine" had a whole circular section of the playfield on an elevator which would lift it up into playing position in the "future" part of the game. I believe this is the only game to have this feature.

What a great game Ron. I have been looking for one for the arcade and they are to find around here. With the prices of machines now I don't know if I want one now.

I Found A KEY SWEET!!!!

The (blue back strip) behind the “dim” greenish (or blue) lamps seems to have low voltage.

32:35 somehow these sounds remind me of Wizball on the C64. Not a pinball, but id did have a ball or two... one of my favorite games.

only issues with lights on with glass on cause it flex off to light n hard to see game n where ball go if you turn off light can see it super clearly where ball go look awesome and i think that spacer was on slide n falled off of it i dunno if was unbalanced

at about 19 min you where talking about how the coils are fired. Technically you where correct. terminology was off a little. The tip transistors (the one that shows 2 transistors in one package) is called a darlington transistor (made for high current applications). The second thing is all you have to say is that the transistor is turned on (not synch'ed).

So does that mean PIN-BOT been hiding the key the whole time? He probably felt guilty.

JOE CLASSIC, Can you explain how the special solenoid switches because they are controlled by the Blanking signal and also by Selector signal which bypasses the special solenoid switches. I'm not sure why they are using the blanking signal to control the special solenoid switches. I don't know or where the selector signals are coming from that bypasses the special solenoid switches. Somehow the special solenoid switches are triggered by the kickers switches or outhole switches which I'm not sure why they are. What is the purpose or advantages of using those special solenoid switches?

What was a good price for such a machine in working kondition?

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How many variations of Bot games where there hummm? Pin-Bot, Bride- o- Pin-Bot, Fem-Bot, Joe-Bot. I know there's more excuse my spelling great game.

if you where as good as playing that game as in fixing them. you would be broke XD

Looking good keep up the great work need your E mail