Purchased Sammy Satomi Miracle Arrange Ball

[sparky kilowatt]

Have you decided what you are going to do?

No, been too busy playing it! Plus my daughter just flew out to visit this week, she's here for 3 - 4 weeks, so no "projects" right now. I saved your post about de-pinning the lock, then perhaps I can put some sort of modified latch on the back and inside the cabinet like you did on your Speed Racer.

[Silverballs]

100_4524.JPG100_4525.jpg100_4526.jpg100_4527.jpg100_4528.jpg Found this over the weekend and no loose or burnt or broken wires/capacitors etc that I can see. I drop a token in and game will not reset/start. Hmmmmmmm. Any ideas gang?

[sparky kilowatt]

Congratulations on your new arrangeball!

I didn't have any tokens when I picked mine up, so in order to start it I had to push down on the wire to the microswitch that sensed tokens (see picture). Next thing I had to address was low voltage. The step down transformer that came with mine wasn't very good, so I purchased one Wayne-Ooo suggested on Amazon, puts out a good 100v now at the terminals in my other picture. Last but not least, the previous owner only had a couple of balls inside of it, you need 16 balls for it to play properly.


I'm a rookie when it comes to troubleshooting arrangeballs, but there are plenty of people on this board with vast experience who I'm sure will chime in. In order to get more visibility, you may want to start a new thread with the subject line requesting help.

[emmadog]

gently pull and re-install any wire harnesses/plugs, check any fuses for continuity with a meter and look for broken traces on the circuit boards. those are just some basic things to check but it could also be any component(s) on those old boards. for example, the caps may look good but are no longer holding their proper value, etc.

[Silverballs]

All 3 caps bad! the 1000 was off the charts dead and the other two are on the fence. Power supply/transformer within specs but replacing with the 100j I see Sparky using, just in case.. It's a start and fingers crossed. Thanks you all!

[takethecastle57]

Yeah, Really old electronics need always to be Re Capacitor

[SibSr]

When I started taking this apart, I noticed the ball feed lever had multiple cracks running around where it pivots on the brass stud, I checked all my pachinko machines, none of them had a lever that could be used to replace it. I was contemplating slathering epoxy on it to reinforce it, but in talking with Wayne-Ooo, he graciously offered up a "spare" he had in his treasure trove of parts. Big shout out of "THANKS" to Wayne-Ooo for providing me with a part that works perfectly.

I saved the original, didn't put any epoxy on it, perhaps some day I'll have a 3D printer and use this one as a starting point to create a reproduction piece.

In the 12 machines I bought in Indiana in April was a machine from a manufacturer I had not heard of.. a Kyogoku. When I was checking it out recently I noticed the load lever was unique, and reminded me of this thread.
It looks like the same part. Since I have one, I can copy it and send you one with the other things if you still want one.

Indiana Kyogoku load lever.jpg

[sparky kilowatt]

In the 12 machines I bought in Indiana in April was a machine from a manufacturer I had not heard of.. a Kyogoku. When I was checking it out recently I noticed the load lever was unique, and reminded me of this thread.
It looks like the same part. Since I have one, I can copy it and send you one with the other things if you still want one.

Indiana Kyogoku load lever.jpg

Thanks, Wayne-Ooo had one he wasn't using that he sent me and is in the machine now. If it's not too much trouble, it would be fantastic to have a spare in the event mine fails, I hadn't seen one like this before either.