Working On Williams Classic BRIDE OF PINBOT Pinball Machine 1 

Good memories playing this table as a kid while my mom was grocery shopping. I remember it being as worn as this table, and that was over 20 years ago!

Good day Ron 👋. I like the way you checked everything over, found a couple of faults but didn't make the guy feel like he'd done a bunch of stuff badly, unlike how some people pick holes in every damn thing YOU do, pick holes in how you talk, paint etc. By the way, you did an awesome job painting the flight 2000 👍

You had me at _"The Machine"_ After your December daily videos I wasn't expecting a new video so quickly in January, thank you very much for that.

It amazes me how these machines are now considered vintage (time flies too fast sometimes). My version of vintage was the old 1968 Chicago Coin Playtime pinball machine my dad had during my childhood in the mid 80s. By the 90s, I was a teenager and would regularly visit the arcades, but by that point I was already hooked on video games, so all the amazing pinballs never got my full attention. The closest I'll probably get to any of these amazing mechanical marvels is my virtual pinball machine I built recently. It's an adequate substitute, but boy do I want to get a few of these mechanical machines from the 60s, 70s, 80s and 90s. One from each decade will do for me!

I used to love working on this one back when my arcade had pinball machines. The other top fav's would be "Funhouse" and "Twilight Zone". About 30 years ago I took a job as just an arcade attendant. With my basic electronic background and mechanical background.. I nailed a manager/tech job in a few months and shipped out to Albany, NY to run my own store! I love doing pinball repair. Sadly most arcades no longer have pinball's. Most of the 'techs' get lost in the 'matrix'.... (Those that work on these games will get the reference.) Have a super New Years!

They make black cabinet art for bride, instead of purple. Just found that out yesterday. I just converted mine to LED last week and it is definitely worth it. So many colors on this machine. Also the heat was insane before LEDs. My pf inserts were all popping out, luckily not cupped or worn. Heat gun and piece of wood pushed em right back.

This is my holy grail! Love this! Thanks for sharing!!!!

This one is really really cool. I never seen this one before. Love the layouts and artwork ❤

The pinbot trilogy is on my must have list. You know, when I get some $$!!

In Clemson, there’s a bar called “Nick’s”. Back in the late 80’s, we played the heck out of an old “Paragon” wide-body. Dr. Wagner was tired of having it fixed, plus we could pretty much rack up free games all day on it. So he bought us a brand-new “The Machine - BOP” round about ‘90 or ‘91. Blew us all away. I played the heck out of that games while I was there for grad school. I read recently that they finally had to retire it, just couldn’t keep it fixed economically. I wonder what they’re playing at Nick’s now?

This is my favorite pinball. I’m yet to buy my first machine but this is on my radar.

The diodes on the coils are flywheel diodes. A coil will generate high voltage in reverse polarity when the power is released from it. These diodes allow that voltage to spin or freewheel through the coil and dissipate due to resistance instead of damaging nearby components connected to the same power circuits. Connecting power up to the coils backwards will basically create a short circuit through the diode and either blow fuses or burn up the diode.

Thanks for filming all these videos! I always watch to the very end😃

Another pinball machine I'd love to have...that was a fun one to play.

One of my most favorite pins of all time. Thanks for the video!!!

There’s an arcade here in Arlington TX that has this game. One of my favorites I would love to own. Oddly seductive

i have a bride of pinbot in my collection. it's a fantastic pin, i love that game. actually my "bride" asked me to find her one, so i did. we have had it probably close to 10 years now. also in my collection i have a 1980 firepower, 1986 high speed, 1988 jokerz, and a 1995 sega apollo 13. i put LEDs in ALL my games, including firepower. several reasons why i did this. 1. they typically last much, much longer. change them once and your usually done 2. less (or probably almost no) heat. heat destroys backglasses, translights, playfeild plastics, and GI connectors. i really hate the damage the heat causes. i had to replace the backglass for firepower and the translight on high speed. they were in really really bad shape. 3. i actually like the way it looks. nice bright uniform lighting on the playfeild. i have always gone with LED's that werent excessively bright, but the lighting is more uniform. the LED's usually mean you can avoid ruining things. i look at these games as timeless artwork, and i do what i can to preserve them. i bought the backglass and translight close to 10 years ago but i have over $500 into those 2 items. i installed a LED DMD in my apollo 13, and if the other displays fail over time, i will replace them with LED displays.

This is my favourite pinball. Play it at night with all the room lights off !!

Great repair videos as always Ron explaining everything in great detail!

That's a cool looking machine. Can't wait to see that one played.

Always workin….happy new year Ronnie. Thanks for the great video.

That's an awesome pinball, I would rock led in it too

I wasn’t expecting a video today but… man. You stepped it up today.

Joe - one upgrade to the power board (yes, I know another shop did the work on it) is the ezSBC LM323k replacement voltage regulator. It's a digital regulator, so it emits very little heat, and it produces a much more stable +5vdc. Also works great on Skee-Ball CPUs.

What a way to start off the new year with a hot piece of pinball! :D

This is a nice machine. I kind of want to go back and watch one of your Pinbot ones through and then watch this one through, just to see it all in sequence :). Such a nice looking machine for its age though.

This is my favorite pinball and I’ve been waiting on you to do a video on it! I finally bought one in July and I love it!

One Amazon Purchase :) Thanks for the videos.

Nice looking machine, looking forward to seeing how the LED conversion works even though like yourself I don't personally agree with doing it. But, still, not my machine so not my decision!

if i could afford it, i would have bought this one, rough its 2k here, working condition depends on the condition its from 5k-10k here. i grew up with this one, local after school program had one

Oh well there goes the Disney rating :) Nice pinball machine. Cant wait to see how the faces revolve in game.

Love the look of this game, great start to 2022, Ron.

On System 11 using LEDs for GI and replacing the plasma displays takes a chunk of load off the power supply and stress off the wiring etc. I would assume this is also the case with WPC. Also… (Not directed at you Ron) but when y’all rebuild flippers replace the bushings, it’s a two dollar part!

Nice BOP, my Firend have one play on that pin is nice and fun! 😎👍

Funny that Williams only made 2 high production WPC Alphanumeric machines, and you have both of them there! BOP and Funhouse are some awesome machines!

I played one at Pittsburgh Replay FX a few years ago that was completely tricked out with LEDs and it looked awesome.

Greetings from the Netherlands, love your videos!

Happy New Year Joe... a great video as always. I'm excited to see this one all the way through, looks like a very fun pinball game.

Nice video as usual! Looking forward to seeing the rest of this project. 29:55 - with NVRAM you lose the clock and thereby a fun feature: The birthdays of the developers are stored in the game and the machine plays a happy birthday tune and shows a message on the respective days (but this needs the clock to work, obviously). Also, it is normal that the head spins a couple times during startup until it finds its home position. The game can only "identify" face 4 by a switch on the head box; all other positions need to be derived from that. The cabinet art is really pale as you can tell by the heart around the start button which should be red. Maybe consider using the "BOP 2.0" style decals that I personally think look so much cooler than the original ones. Cheers.

There we go. I had been waiting to see this one after taking a close look at it when you had it in pieces. It will be interesting to see how she turns out.

What a series 🙌🙌🙌 i saw a fun house ( my favorite)

I've played Pinbot many times, many places, somehow I've never run across the bride of pinbot. I'm a big fan of LEDs, especially the colored ones. I have an Aztec EM. The letters in AZTEC were all white. What was the manufacturer thinking? I put red LEDs in all the A's, blue in the Z's, etc. When you light up all the letters in AZTEC the machine looks fantastic!

And happy new year on January 1 2022.. To Ron Joe and everyone in the comment section.. Fingers crossed for 2022 not being a train wreck.. And everyone gets everything they want..

My favorite show on RU-vid! Stay awesome! Happy new year.

One of my favourite games. I'd love to have this with the 2.0 kit installed. 'I can speak!' 'oh no....'

I suspect the issue may be one of several things. 1) The position sensor that determines which face is being shown and relays the information to the CPU is not working properly or is incorrectly aligned leading to the motor being in a loop and not stopping. 2) There could be a Problem with the motor control circuits. 3) I wonder if there could be a switch stuck on that is causing this.

Love this game. There is one locally and not in the best shape. But hey for a quarter I’ll play that game anyday.

Normal issue with the head. Homing switch either broke or is misaligned to prevent to center to home position.

Great pinball machine. What about all those CRTs down on the floor at 1:02 though?!? Have any for sale?

The face is suppose to stop when the robot face is up. It could be that a switch is no good or that it is not there. Or could be that sus wiring that had tape one it. I saw at least two places it had electrical tape on it. I would check that and then put heat shrink tubing after figuring if the wires are all correct.

This is a cool machine. I have never seen this one before. Looks like it may have been inspired by Barbarella (probably spelled that wrong).

I don't think there's much argument that this is one of (ONE OF, people, not necessarily THE) greatest pins ever made. I know for sure if I could afford and have the space for a real pin, it would be this one ( or Addams Family Gold edition)

Yes one of my favorite pinballs. I also see that super GT in the background nice. I have the same game but the red cabinet version

What a great looking back glass

Now we're talkin. This is a beauty

A 2 faced bot is a dicey thing .. 4 faces? .. “come on people!”

Neat! Looking forward to this one. If I can make a suggestion, it would be helpful to name these with Part numbers. Part 1, Part 2. I've been going back and watch the older videos and it's a little difficult to determine the order.

'look people, I didn't design it!' is usually the point in the conversation where my lovely bride throws a punch at me...just sayin' folks HA!

Very classic pinball game. I never liked it much though, probably because by the time it came out I had a job and was adulting, so not much time for games. Most of my money went to Black Knight and later on F-14 Tomcat anyways. Thanks for sharing! I really enjoy watching the process of restoration and repair, and a trip down Nostalgia Lane...

Happy new year!

Yes.. LED's are a good thing :)

It's 2022 people....cmon people it's 2022...cmon Now....lol thumbs ☝

'Bride Of Pinbot' and 'Xenon', the two sexiest pinballs out there. On another note, it's nice to see that you've got more subscribers. I remember when the counter was at 15k or something. Thumbs up Ron and Joe!

I would keep the LEDs out of the flashers and the headdress. They won't look right with them. The most complex playfield feature Williams ever developed was the robotic glove in Johnny Mnemonic. I would imagine that was easily a $10,000 pinball back in 1995 just due to that.

Another great project. Can't wait

Happy new year to u joe and your family 🇬🇧🇬🇧👍

Nice. I use the superlube on the bakolite (or whatever it is called) discs like for the player up unit coin unit match unit on the EMs. I have never used it on SS games. I was wondering if you ever used it on the connector plugs/headers/edge connectors? I would think it would help with slowing oxidation/corrosion. but am a little afraid of it causing shorts between the pins/edge connectors.

Happy 2022...love the videos

Never had a chance to play bride of pinbot. Or jackbot.. oh for the few years. Never knew jackbot even existed.

Remind me of the robot woman on lost in space that like doctor Smith

Why do i feel like i aquired an artbook that illustrated this kind of pinball machine? Chromed out robo girls doing whatever, i think one page had her on a bike, sold it to a friend of mine so- neat seeing something like this now

My wife made me choose which pinball machine I wanted to trade in. My black rose. Or the BOP. Still got the bride

I assume he discovered you after he sent out the boards, since I've seen you repair a bunch of boards.

But looking forward to whirlwind and fun house on future videos..

I'd love to own a Pin Bot

I think I see where Jeff Bezos got the inspiration for his rocket. Look at the dark ship on the left ramp. 😂. Great video!

It's cheaper to make 1,000 of board type A than to make 500 of type B and 500 of type A. Not only in the manufacturing stage but in the parts inventory stage.

I'm no expert but I don't think those flippers need the conical spring on the plunger. These Wpc have the return spring on the outside which is better and will do the job. Just upgraded my system 11 flipper mechs to the wpc style and got rid of the potential problem of the conical spring binding things up

Cool

hi like your video

And beware of ghosting with LED. Maybe the CPU ROM L8 I saw installed solves this problem. And a major bug in the game also.

The playfield looks kinda creepy

wow I've never even seen this game ‼️®™️

In the molex connector exactly how are you getting the wires to jump to the next slot? thank you

Ron, Im foaming for that Sega GT in the background...…are you going to fix and sell?

Thinking jubilee? If that's correct..

Yay! Love my Bride💜

JOES CLASSIC, Any reasons why they are using TRIACS for the GI Lamps?

If just like to ask how much would this machine co st the operator to buy no in the day and is it worth more money now as a collector's item sadly I never seen 1 over here in he UK in the flesh love your channel is put new power supplys in the old 1s try the boards lol

Thumbs up! =)

Joe you need to make another t shirt that says deal with it people

If a coil locks up and blows a fuse on the way to the board can it still damage the board and or transistors that drive the coil? Thank you

Bride of pinbot almost lives.. But that grinding or extra noise Not quite.

Happy New Year, Joe

Happy New Years Ron.

why would the light baffles for the legs (back glass display)have cracks in them❓ they don't sit on anything do they❓❓❓ GUESS it gets warm, so many lamps❓❓

They only made 8100 BOPs.

Ya I fixed your roads its mike from Sealand

I have to ask.. What was the video you first mentioned python Angelo.. I'm thinking it's an EM machine.. I can't remember correctly.. But on the back glass it showed a snake character.. and somehow connecting to python Angelo.. Did he do the artwork for em machines? Or was it too early? On the timeline.

Definitely indexing to its home position, and not finding it. Should it be that loud??!!