mrgone
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which ss/dmd pins are the most trouble free and which are the most troublesome/high maintenance?
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Data east pins are fairly easy and gottlieb system 80 pins are nightmares
Classic Bally SS pins tend to be pretty bulletproof once you get them up an running. The Gottlieb system 1, 80, 80a and 80b are problem children until you fix all the bugs the engineers left in them.
I've been told that old Atari's are the hardest to work on, the playfield doesn't lift up. You have to open and work from the bottom of the machine for any playfield work.
-Hans
All of the early SS systems have their problems and all are pretty reliable when ALL of the necessary work to make them reliable has been done. I find the classic Bally/Stern to be the easiest to work on and everything else is about the same with the exception of Gottlieb System 80B. If I had to point to one system being the most difficult to understand and fix that would be my vote.
EDIT: I might have to vote Atari instead with 80B being a close second.
80A's have to be modded before they're reliable. The fact that they make entirely redesigned PCB's to replace the crud in the back box should tell you something.
Actually all of the Sytem 80's machines have to be modded before they're reliable... Trust me I have 6 of them from all different eras sans System 3.....
Lindsey, what makes 80b harder then Sytem 80 or A or even 3 by chance?