A new family member.... from the Twilight Zone

XNIF

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Got her last night.... my holy grail.

It has as some issues :
gives errors on several switches , like the geneva switch, but the gumball motor works great and all balls are loaded and also says the clock is broken, but the motor for the clock works great and all time detection works so might be a switch as well. Hoping for an not too expensive repair.

The cabinet is a little faded but the rest looks really great. The playfield is undamaged. I have looked at several TZ's but this one looked best and the price was right(2000 dollar)! Has a broken Magna Flip plastic, the rest of the plastics are good.

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Looks great! It's one of my favorites as well. Sounds like after some switch adjusting it will be 100%. Congrats!
 
I have just read the manual, schematics and looked at the errors. This thing is a monster! I have never seen such a complex machine! wow! Awesome! This is probably gonna take for the rest of my life to comprehend! LOL! Anyhow the errors are not that complicated thank god.
 
Awesome!

Twilight Zone was my second pinball machine, and it's still probably the one I've put the most time into over the years. It's such a cool game in all aspects (art, music, gameplay) and it's a HUGE hit with visitors.
 
Excellent choice! The play is extremely deep with some hard consistant shots. It looks like you have some work cut out for you, but that is 1/2 the fun in owning a pin (getting it to work perfect at the beginning, not having to always fix it!).

Hours and hours and hours of fun!
 
I'd get some new rubbers on there pretty quickly. Those look dried and cracked, which will lead to alot of rubber dust to clean up if you play on them.

TZ is the pin I'd like to have more than any other, so fix it and enjoy it.
 
Thank you all for those nice reactions!
I have ordered new rubbers, and new switches. And i have done research in the clock problem and i have discovered the only board that solves the design flaws, by no longer have the lamps on the lamp matrix but opto controlled. Expensive PCB but it looks really awesome! Handmade, and well designed. Also has warm white led and blue leds too. So i can choose :p I hope to receive it this week so in the weekend i can fix the machine!

check this out:
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It's Ingo K.'s design , the moderator from the german pinball forum called flippermarkt.de
They designed their own board because all the new designs did not solve any of the design problems, they just used LED's instead of bulbs and kept the design the same.
This is his page: http://german-pinball-modular.npage.de/final_tz-clock_pcb_english_27729393.html

I have send you a PM with his email. tell him if you order XNIF send you :) He's a great guy.
 
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