supafraud
New member
First of all, hello! I'm Steve and I've recently expanded my retro gaming to compulsively buying broken pinball machines headed for the landfill in the hopes of fixing them up. At any rate my only working machine (which seemed solid up until it stopped giving me new games) was a 1974 William Skylab.
Problem:
Basically it powers on when you press the left flipper, I hear the buzz of the lock relay and all the lights come on. It refuses to start a new game however. The Tilt lights up in the backglass but I don't remember if this is normal.
What I've tried:
There is a loose wire behind the coin door, however at some point before I owned it somebody rigged this up for free play and I don't know if it was always like that.
(I have photos but I don't see where I can attach them so I hosted pics here
http://supafraud.com/newtemp/pin fix pics/010.jpg
http://supafraud.com/newtemp/pin fix pics/013.jpg
So next thing I did was I made sure the tilt mechanism wasn't... ..tilted, that seemed ok.
I manually advanced the credit wheel to see if that would help, but nothing changed.
I'm a total noob but I intend on making the preservation of EMs part of what I do. I hope this forum helps out with that. From the posts I've seen there are some knowledgeable people on here. Glad to be a new member!
Problem:
Basically it powers on when you press the left flipper, I hear the buzz of the lock relay and all the lights come on. It refuses to start a new game however. The Tilt lights up in the backglass but I don't remember if this is normal.
What I've tried:
There is a loose wire behind the coin door, however at some point before I owned it somebody rigged this up for free play and I don't know if it was always like that.
(I have photos but I don't see where I can attach them so I hosted pics here
http://supafraud.com/newtemp/pin fix pics/010.jpg
http://supafraud.com/newtemp/pin fix pics/013.jpg
So next thing I did was I made sure the tilt mechanism wasn't... ..tilted, that seemed ok.
I manually advanced the credit wheel to see if that would help, but nothing changed.
I'm a total noob but I intend on making the preservation of EMs part of what I do. I hope this forum helps out with that. From the posts I've seen there are some knowledgeable people on here. Glad to be a new member!

