Its road trip time!!!

[JammaBuilder]

I'm so excited

I'm about to embark on an 8 hour round trip across the UK to pick up my first in what I hope to be a long line of pachinko machines its taken me over a year to finally find one at the right price condition and age (I'm a bit picky and I wanted a project not a toy!!)

Any way wish me luck and I will post detailed pictures once I'm back and have had a chance to do a happy dance


J.

[JammaBuilder]

I'm back!!!

Weather was terrible and the traffic hell but who cares I'm now the proud owner of my first pachinko machine here's a quick pic
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It's in way better condition than I thought it also came with a couple hundred balls some rusty but hay can't have everything needs a good clean and check over but that's tomorrow's task I will also take a good few pics to show it off as well

[Peteybob]

Hi J, that's a nice first machine I enjoy the road trip going for new toys!
Do you have a spot picked out to display it? Remember they can multiply quickly

[JammaBuilder]

Thanks peteybob it was fun and I'm super excited right now. I've got the perfect place for it on my dining room wall but need to build a cabinet to mount it in luckily theirs room for a few more along the same wall once I've got this one in tip too shape I will begin the search for another one

[Peteybob]

It is a fun hobby no matter what level you take it to. Did I hear someone say addiction??

[Spyder138]

Congratulations. Welcome to the addiction, er, I mean the club. Yeah, welcome to the club.

[Moparformances]

nice find

[Drunkenclam]

Rusty Balls

[JammaBuilder]

The balls are looking much better now I've obsessively spent the day tumbling and polishing pachinko balls so cleaning the machine will be tomorrow instead with pictures of everything and probably a ton of questions for you guys posted with them.

J.

[JammaBuilder]

Hay guys I'm having a play around with my machine today and I've got a couple of pictures of the condition its in right now


Some pictures of the machine

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Issues with the machine

Rusty chrome
broken front glass top right corner (and by glass I mean plastic!!)
Dirty really dirty!!
sticking tulip (probably due to dirt)
dirty playfield (may need to be replaced)
loading tray ball emptier switch sticks half open
faded plastics
jackpot issues
1 seesaw reset issue (bit in consistent)
2 jackpot doesn't reload (works if you do it manually)
3 multiple jackpots jam the seesaw
lights don't work
1 needs new bulbs
2 broken wire on the jackpot leaf switch

good points

ball loader works well
fires balls well
jackpots pay out randomly and after manual reset but it pays out
upper ball tray works
ball feeds work
and last but not least its a pachinko machine and its mine!!!!

Next I'm stripping the back down for a good cleaning session while I'm doing this I should get a better look at the jackpot problem any advice?


p.s.
while writing this and uploading pics I noticed their was a rusty ball stuck in the tulip which ive now removed and cleaned the tulip and it now works

[Tink]

A good cleaning will make a world of difference in the operation, you may not have a jackpot issue after. GelGloss Cleaner/polish should clean up your playfield nicely. The Sanyo's I have seen & done have the "Spotless" playfield, so water staining is not so much an issue, now fading? that's a whole other story on the Sanyo's

[JammaBuilder]

My job for the weekend is stripping and cleaning the machine needs a solid good clean spent yesterday watching mopars videos from the stickies and the animation someone did forget who now but I now feel ready to strip it and way more knowledgeable on the machine and mechanisms in general

And the best bit of advice I've read is to photo every step so I can look at them and reverse the process when putting it back together so fingers crossed ��

[JammaBuilder]

Cleaning has started been at it now for 12hrs and my arms feel like their going to fall off!!

started with the front striped the ball loader tray and chrome frame off and went to town on removing the rust looking good now not perfect but ok while the plastics where soaking in warm water I got out the cotton buds (q-tips) and began cleaning up the playfield slowly but surely its looking much better now as well

I would post some pics but my phone has decided not to save pictures today!! so you will have to take my word for it

[Drunkenclam]

Wait till you try polishing all the nails with a bit of brasso on a lrngth of string wrapped around each nail in turn.

[JammaBuilder]

Been doing that since my last post about half way through but now I cant feel my fingers!!

also borrowed my wife's phone to take a quick pic

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Anyone know why my pics end up on their side when I post them!! I must be doing something wrong somewhere

[Peteybob]

a naked pachinko! It is looking better all the time

[Moparformances]

looking good..

[MrGneiss]

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Anyone know why my pics end up on their side when I post them!! I must be doing something wrong somewhere

Its not your fault!! The site software currently doesn't recognize the auto rotate stuff all cameras and phones have these days so it just posts portrait pics in landscape..

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[JammaBuilder]

Thanks guys I really feel like the hard works starting to pay off I doubt it will ever be perfect but hay!!

Thanks for that MrGneiss I will have to stop posting direct from my phone and sort the pics first then post

[JammaBuilder]

Ok so cleaning of the front done in 2 days not bad

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Managed to fix the issue with the ball tray dump into bottom tray slider as well it was rusted shut so cleaned it up a fitted a new spring works perfect now also killed all the rust in the front panel and frame still need new glass for the front so plastic back in for now.

Started stripping the back down for a good clean now and I think I've found my jackpot issue its looking like Tink nailed it as the moving ramp which the jackpot balls drop on to is very stiff and gummed up so hoping a good clean will fix the issue. the only thing worrying me at the minute is I found this hiding behind the ball catch tray.

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Any ideas what it is or where it goes?? I cant see a place for it at all.