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Author Archives: Matthew Mandarano
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So, blogging takes a decent amount of time and I’ve been super busy lately. To help streamline my repair posts and keep them more up to date, I’ve decided to start up a Facebook page that I’ll use as my … Continue reading
WPC Sound Board A-12738 Repair
These little sound boards in WPC era Bally/Williams games can be difficult to track down issues on and there are no inexpensive reproduction replacements, so the boards themselves are quite expensive if they need to be replaced. A client brought … Continue reading
1992 Data East Star Wars Pinball Repair
Out of the nearly 60 pinball machines I’ve owned, I’ve never had one burn up a connector enough to actually smell it until this one. I had my back line of games on and started to smell electrical burn, which … Continue reading
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Tagged burnt connector, data east, general illumination, NC, north carolina, Pinball, repair, star wars, trifucon
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1988 Williams Swords of Fury Refurbish
Not too long ago I picked up a 1988 Williams Swords of Fury machine that needed a little love, but overall was a pretty nice example of this cheesy, fun System 11 pinball machine. This one was going into the … Continue reading
Posted in Restoration
Tagged LEDs, pinball machine, repair, restoration, Shop Job, Swords of Fury, Williams
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1989 Williams Earthshaker Repair
This Earthshaker was getting an “Adjustment Failure” at boot-up. This warning message immediately signals to me that their isn’t power hitting the U25 RAM, which holds the settings, high scores, etc. for the game when the game is powered off. First … Continue reading
Posted in General, Repairs
Tagged Adjustment Failure, earthshaker, NC, north carolina, Pinball, repair, Williams
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WPC Dot Matrix Controller Board Repair
So, the components arrived for the down Dot Matrix Controller board that originally came out of a Party Zone. It was missing +62VDC which causes the display to come up as completely blank. Since Party Zone is a location game … Continue reading
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Tagged DMD, Dot Matrix Controller Board, Fish Tales, NC, north carolina, Pinball, repair, Williams, Winston-Salem
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2012 Stern X-Men, 1988 Williams Taxi and 1991 Williams Hurricane Repairs
These three games are located at the soon-to-open Abari bar arcade near downtown Charlotte, NC. The owner, Zach, is looking to open March 1 and with everything else going on for the big opening, looked to some outside help on … Continue reading
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1992 Williams Bram Stoker’s Dracula Repair
Quite happy to be typing this post. This one was a tough one that I thought had almost got me, but here we are typing up the repair log. I was contacted about a repair on a Williams Bram Stoker’s … Continue reading
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Tagged Bram Stokers Dracula, BSD, Mist Multiball, NC, north carolina, Pinball, pinball machine, repair, Williams
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2008 Stern Batman Dark Knight Repairs
I recently got this in a trade deal for my Williams Congo. Part of the trade deal was that there was a fuse blowing on the I/O Power Driver board, which was fine with me. F110 was the fuse in … Continue reading
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Tagged batman, dark knight, NC, north carolina, Pinball, repair, Stern, Winston-Salem
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1990 Williams Whirlwind Display Repair
Upon firing my games on, I noticed Whirlwind’s display was missing. Tried reseating some cables and doing easy checks first, no dice. Checked the fuses for the +100 and -100v circuits in the power supply, they tested good. Next was … Continue reading
Carolina Pinball Repair 