Friday I saw a CL ad for an Earthshaker within about 20 miles from my house, no photos on ad, said need all art, needs scoring LED, and state spliter isn't working asking $400 obo. On a whim decided to drive out an have a look, at least see what it looks like, turns out side art worse than I had imagined, but playfield was really pretty clean (just one worn area- see photos, yellow arrow on left lane and some bubbling under laminate). No display at all, on powering up just some GI, didn't even recognize credits. No action, no sound, nothing except GI. Considering how burried it was in this guys garage I was pretty much over it, then as I am walking out he says how about $300 to me. I was ready to walk at 4, even $350, but knew I'd be kicking myself tomorrow if I didn't get it. So after a long time trying to get it out, finally got it home.
Got it home, didn't even plug it in, started going through it, looking for obvious fried things on the boards, checking connections, fuses, etc. Everything actually looked suprisingly good, plugged it in to check out how many bulbs need replacing... fired right up, full display, credits, all flippers working, shaking motor is great, audio cranking. Played it for hours, love it.
Got it pretty well cleaned up, except side art and legs, just two issues left... states (CA and NV) are not splitting, the motor works and tries to go, but seems to get "stuck." there is a little black plastic piece that seems to get stuck in the closed stage, see photo I can reset it under the playfield but after about 3 games it will lock back up, any ideas?
Also the score display is missing a few lights, ie instead of reading 3 BALLS PER GAME, I see 3 BALLS PEP GAME. Pretty minor, only effects like 3 small parts of display, wondering though if I can fix that or need to replace entire display, thanks everyone for all your help.
Got it home, didn't even plug it in, started going through it, looking for obvious fried things on the boards, checking connections, fuses, etc. Everything actually looked suprisingly good, plugged it in to check out how many bulbs need replacing... fired right up, full display, credits, all flippers working, shaking motor is great, audio cranking. Played it for hours, love it.
Got it pretty well cleaned up, except side art and legs, just two issues left... states (CA and NV) are not splitting, the motor works and tries to go, but seems to get "stuck." there is a little black plastic piece that seems to get stuck in the closed stage, see photo I can reset it under the playfield but after about 3 games it will lock back up, any ideas?
Also the score display is missing a few lights, ie instead of reading 3 BALLS PER GAME, I see 3 BALLS PEP GAME. Pretty minor, only effects like 3 small parts of display, wondering though if I can fix that or need to replace entire display, thanks everyone for all your help.


