Atari pinball repair guide

KenLayton

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Does anyone know what happened to the Atari Pinball Repair Guide at pinrepair.com ? All it goes to is an index of picture files now. It appears to have been this way for quite a while. As it is now this makes it useless.
 
Does anyone know what happened to the Atari Pinball Repair Guide at pinrepair.com ? All it goes to is an index of picture files now. It appears to have been this way for quite a while. As it is now this makes it useless.

Weird. Even the google cache version is like that.

Do you have a specific Atari question? I might be able to help.
 
A local guy brought me an Atari Superman pinball to fix. The only Atari pins we ever had on our route were the early ones like Atarians and Time 2000. I have never seen a Superman before. It's totally different than the early Atari pins.

The guy stated the coils were not working and he could not start a game.

From what I saw, I think it's coming up in an audit mode like a Williams. There a corroded battery holder on the cpu board minus any batteries. Does this game need a battery voltage before it can boot up? When i turn on the power switch, I get general illumination and the player displays all show 0000. The credit display shows 01.

Fortunately, the guy had the manuals. I will have to sit down with them and read up on the later Atari system.

I have never encountered late model Atari pins before.
 
The power supply board is just screaming to have LED's installed. Why didn't Atari think about power indicating LED's for this board?

I found a shorted 2N6041 driver transistor for the total play counter meter on the I/O board. Also found a bad MPS-A06 lamp driver transistor on the Superman machine I'm working on.

Surprising how little documentation on "Superman" there is. Atari built most of their own assemblies for the slingshots, pop bumpers, outhole kicker, eject hole kicker, drop target unit, and flippers. Parts for those are going to be tough to find. A suggestion to other folks needing parts for those assemblies is to completely replace them with common old style Bally or Williams assemblies.

Same goes for the standup switch assemblies. Junk the Atari ones and replace them with Williams ones. At least you can be assured of a good parts supply for many years by going that route.
 
Atari Superman fun...I wanna join in

I just started working on an Atari System 2 also. and got the info from Leons site, will attempt to burn my own test ROM. Thanks for the heads up on the I/O failures Ken, something to check (I/O failures) while i wait for a way to burn the ROM.
 
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