RussMyers
New member
A neighbor and friend of mine has just started to relive his youth by getting into pinball.
He picked up a Sinbad from a local guy - great cosmetic condition, but almost totally dead, only GI would come on at power-up.
I had never worked on anything of this vintage (1978 Gottlieb System1) so it was a challenge for me.
The Power board was hacked to crap and had "No Good" written on it. The MPU board had some hackery and obvious battery damage.
After doing some reading at Pinrepair and posts on RGP I decided to go with a new Rottendog Sys1 power board (65.00), a Ni-Wumpf Sys1 MPU board (175.00) and a set of new Power-MPU and MPU-Driver interconnect cables from Docent (about 35.00)
Did the ground mods on the MPU and Driver boards (the rottendog is already grounded to the metal backplane by design) following the installation instructions very carefully and hit the power button.
Fired up 100% on the first try. Light-shop out: new rubbers, clean and wax playfield, replaced burned out bulbs and were were rocking the Sinbad.
Not a bad game at all - total bill was about 600 bucks for the game and all parts.
Needs a little more tweaking, but very fun, and my friend was very happy.
RussMyers
He picked up a Sinbad from a local guy - great cosmetic condition, but almost totally dead, only GI would come on at power-up.
I had never worked on anything of this vintage (1978 Gottlieb System1) so it was a challenge for me.
The Power board was hacked to crap and had "No Good" written on it. The MPU board had some hackery and obvious battery damage.
After doing some reading at Pinrepair and posts on RGP I decided to go with a new Rottendog Sys1 power board (65.00), a Ni-Wumpf Sys1 MPU board (175.00) and a set of new Power-MPU and MPU-Driver interconnect cables from Docent (about 35.00)
Did the ground mods on the MPU and Driver boards (the rottendog is already grounded to the metal backplane by design) following the installation instructions very carefully and hit the power button.
Fired up 100% on the first try. Light-shop out: new rubbers, clean and wax playfield, replaced burned out bulbs and were were rocking the Sinbad.
Not a bad game at all - total bill was about 600 bucks for the game and all parts.
Needs a little more tweaking, but very fun, and my friend was very happy.
RussMyers