Ever have a machine Pin, vid, soda Catch fire?

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Just one of those random thoughts. ever have a machine catch FIRE, not just a lil puff of smoke then fuses protect, but melt down. start to burn cab or electronics beyond repair?.
If so interetsed in details and pics if ya got em :)
 
Only once.

I had a Star Trek Voyager go up in smoke at a bowling alley.

No pictures but the game was non-repairable.

We never did find out the true cause.
 
Never saw it happen in 30+ years running a route, and never heard of it happening to another operator. I guess it's possible if a spark lands in a pile of paperwork or a rat nest, but you can take a propane torch to plywood or particle board for a short time and all it will do is smolder, then die out. If one burns up totally, I would suspect lighter fluid, a match, and a pissed off player were involved.
 
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Aside from one or two G07 flybacks filling a room with smoke, no. Never seen a game actually cause a fire. I've seen plenty of "fried" parts, but I've never seen it spread to the cabinet.

-Ian
 
i dunno, that one always had more of a Ozone, Kinda odd to describe but different.
now with my sinus issues since the huge Orange county fires I cant smell but here n there.

Maybe I'm just reminiscing about some crappy bumper cars that were about to catch fire.
 
Just one of those random thoughts. ever have a machine catch FIRE, not just a lil puff of smoke then fuses protect, but melt down. start to burn cab or electronics beyond repair?.
If so interetsed in details and pics if ya got em :)

You obviously don't own a Tempest do you? I don't have the pics any longer that was a few hard drives ago.
 
I seem to remember reading a USENET thread back in the day where a guy sprayed contact cleaner in an EM Aztec pin and didn't let it air out before "firing" the game up. I think he ended up parting the game out.
 
There had to be a reason the G-08 garnered such a reputation as a fire hazard.

I was told by Gary of Funspot about the day back in the 80s when one of theirs caught on fire. (I believe it was a Star Trek).

Darren Harris
Staten Island, New York.
 
My Ms. Pac cocktail recently blew out the flyback.

The wife and I sat down to play it, and when we turned it on, I saw and smelled magic smoke.

I turned it off, opened it up, and looked for any visual cues where it might have burned up. Not finding anything I powered it on briefly to see if I could spot the problem.... and the flyback was arcing. The room lighting was dim... it was very pretty.

No flames... but pretty.
 
I seem to remember reading a USENET thread back in the day where a guy sprayed contact cleaner in an EM Aztec pin and didn't let it air out before "firing" the game up. I think he ended up parting the game out.

Oh, there have been plenty of game fires. Burning games is one thing, games lighting *themselves* on fire is quite another. Spraying flammable solvents into any piece of electronics and turning it on is a pretty good way to set just about anything on fire.

And, there's the classic story posted on r.g.p many moons ago of a guy that was removing day-1 mylar from a High Speed pinball playfield. Two traditional methods of removing mylar are heat (blow torch), and solvents (naptha). Of course, you're not supposed to combine them. Yes, he took a torch to a playfield that he'd just gotten dripping with naptha.

Last I heard he was still looking for another playfield.

-Ian
 
I had a Star Trek Voyager go up in smoke at a bowling alley.

No pictures but the game was non-repairable.

We never did find out the true cause.


Gee, that's reassuring since I still have a sitdown out on the street ;)

-MIke
 
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