Your Favorite Duh Moment

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Mine was recently when after having my Asteroids Deluxe for over 4 years and rebuilding the monitor and power supply and replacing the marquee light I realized that there is a blacklight behind the marquee light to highlight the interior cardboard bezel. I didn't remember it in the arcade. All this time playing the game with the blacklight out. Duh.
 
Mine was drilling a lock only to find out it wasn't even locked to begin with. The coin door was just bent, which caused the door to be wedged shut tightly. I could have opened it easily with a little more force.

After 20 minutes of drilling, I said, "Duh!"
 
Fixing my Joust cocktail game, i crimped on new pins and put on a new connector for the power supply board and tried to power it up, totally forgot that i had turned off the main on/off switch that is on the bottom of the game and couldn't figure out why it wouldn't work. Took me awhile to figure that one out. Duh...
 
Trying to get the marquee fluorescent to work on my Battlezone. I finally pulled it only to find that there were 2 fluorescents; one white one for the marquee and a blacklight one for the inside cockpit view. I had only had it for 24 years at that point and never noticed the blacklight wasn't on, DOH!

ken
 
Trying to get the marquee fluorescent to work on my Battlezone. I finally pulled it only to find that there were 2 fluorescents; one white one for the marquee and a blacklight one for the inside cockpit view. I had only had it for 24 years at that point and never noticed the blacklight wasn't on, DOH!

ken

Okay, you got me beat. 24 vs. 4. Still a nice surprise when you finally play it the way its supposed to be. I have a 1948 bucaneer pinball and often wonder how much different it played and looked when brand new.
 
Years ago I was trying to get my Tron going. I had a tested working boardset, but couldn't get any video out of it in my cab. I rebuilt the monitor and tested it on another setup--monitor worked great. After a while, I figured out that I had been plugging the video out cable into the player 2 control input (for cocktail tables) on the boardset. Duh!
 
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Mine was cleaning the Destroyer game when I got it and cleaned and replaced lights and the floor and after getting it all back together and thinking I was done, I looked around some more to see what else there was and noticed a black light way up in the cab I had to get too and had to take things apart again to get to it.
Funny, Another duh moment may be coming when after I get the board fixed (have to wait for spring-too cold out to shipp) I may be doing it in vain, since I'm a little green still the start button may work and there just might be nothing really wrong with the board anyway and I may be going thru all this check offs for nothing. I'm still a cadet at fixing games but I'm on my way and it feels good : ) since game still dont fire up at all, hmmm
I may be in for it over my head financially, but it still feels good, I don't want to let the game go not working.....
 
I'm sure most pin guys have done this many times. I take the glass off, take the balls out, lift the playfield, fix something, clean some stuff. Put the glass back on, glare guard, clean the glass, etcetc. Fire the game up...doh forgot to put the damn balls back in. This especially sucks if the machine is in a spot where you can't easily remove the glass hahaha
 
I'm sure most pin guys have done this many times. I take the glass off, take the balls out, lift the playfield, fix something, clean some stuff. Put the glass back on, glare guard, clean the glass, etcetc. Fire the game up...doh forgot to put the damn balls back in. This especially sucks if the machine is in a spot where you can't easily remove the glass hahaha


Done that a few times! Nothing more fun than seeing "pinball missing" when you hit the start button.
 
I'm sure most pin guys have done this many times. I take the glass off, take the balls out, lift the playfield, fix something, clean some stuff. Put the glass back on, glare guard, clean the glass, etcetc. Fire the game up...doh forgot to put the damn balls back in. This especially sucks if the machine is in a spot where you can't easily remove the glass hahaha

Guilty of that as well.
 
You don't have to take the glass off all the way to add the balls back. you just pop the lockdown bar, slide the glass out an inch or two, and drop them in at the top.

Add that to your 'duh list' too! :D
 
I'm sure most pin guys have done this many times. I take the glass off, take the balls out, lift the playfield, fix something, clean some stuff. Put the glass back on, glare guard, clean the glass, etcetc. Fire the game up...doh forgot to put the damn balls back in. This especially sucks if the machine is in a spot where you can't easily remove the glass hahaha

Yep...done it. Good news is you don't have to remove the glass all the way, just enough to put the balls back in.

edit: Darn you, Shardian! Scooped again!
 
Many 'duh' moments, but my favorite one came from early in my video arcade collecting days. I was working on a game, couldn't figure out why the controls wouldn't work, so I called up a friend to ask for some advice.

Me: "The controls don't work"
Him: "Do you have them hooked up?"
Me: (looks) "No."

:)
 
Hmm, I thought of a 'duh' moment. I was drilling a lock for the backbox of a Bally Playboy pinball machine. I convinced myself somehow that the backbox front should swing out like my Gottlieb cab at home did. Man I was getting pissed! Finally I realized the glass popped out... I felt like a real retard.
 
You don't have to take the glass off all the way to add the balls back. you just pop the lockdown bar, slide the glass out an inch or two, and drop them in at the top.

Add that to your 'duh list' too! :D

That's what I always do.. which is like 50% of the time :p
 
after my very first cap kit, i was so excited to try it that i hooked up everything except the anode cup...oh my!!!! look at the pretty electricity, just like on the frankenstein movie
 
Mine would be struggling to get the dog kibble and mouse homes out of the CS pedal compartment on my System 2 Paperboy by trying to weasel everything out through the tiny hole in the back. A couple months later, I realized I could have just unscrewed and opened the compartment from the front. Doy....
 
after my very first cap kit, i was so excited to try it that i hooked up everything except the anode cup...oh my!!!! look at the pretty electricity, just like on the frankenstein movie

Thanks for the laugh, that was funny. (Sorry, I am not laughing at you, just near you.) :D
 
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