Stripping, Cleaning, & Repopulating the Entire Playfield of a 1986 Williams Pin*BOT Pinball Machine
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I remember playing this in the UK at the University bar in the 80s - it was a fun game. Enjoyed the restoration Ron!
Sort of funny where you're taking it apart while it's running... Picturing Pin*BOT singing "Daisy, Daisy" like the HAL-9000 in 2001.
I haven't' thought about that in years!
I can see why Pinot has such a solid reputation. Good looking, and interesting playfield. Never played one but I will if I get the chance.
I dread to think how many hours my mates and I put on the Pinbot table in the student union bar when I was as uni back in the late 80's.
Those sounds and lights bring back some good memories!
It's a special one in a lot of people's memories!
The timing of your videos is great. I always look for them first as I sit down to lunch ET. Thanks for all the hard work!
Thanks Jim we appreciate you looking out for us!
What a beautiful machine! Never saw one in person, but used to play Bride of PIN*BOT in the shopping mall's arcade near my house, it was very cool too!
Our buddy Matt thinks that's his favorite, he's always telling us how cool Bride of Pin*Bot is!
This is one of my favorite pinball machines. Thanks for taking the time to record all of this.
Thanks Travis we appreciate you hanging out with us!
Of the many pinball machines you've fixed in these videos, Pinbot and High Speed are my favorite so far. I'm a freak for colored and flashing lights. I like everything on the playfield. The vibrant and interesting color combinations, backglass artwork, the ramps, the robot head, light patterns and the android woman. Great video!
Thanks Melanated Prose, yes this is one of my favorites too :)
@ 17:45
That play field is AMAZINGLY next to new !
Makes for an easy clean up.
It came out pretty nice!
It's cool looking at how pinball playfields evolved over time, from mostly flat with a few bumpers to stuff like PinBot. Personally I'm really a fan of games like this one, the more 3D ones, the ones with ramps and tunnels and other fun gubbins. It makes them harder to fix but so much cooler to watch.
Don't be surprised if when you get older you start deciding you like the older ones better :)
Ron, great looking machine. Looks like a lot of work taking all the playfield apart, but definitely worth it. I love playing this machine. Thanks as always for taking us along.
Thanks TCB we appreciate you hanging out with us :)
Well done! Hit like button 5 times on this one my friend.
Dissembly lights on? Music selection? Bravo! Got my dancing in my chair.
All the cool music comes from www.BenSound.com ....
Hey Joe I love you jukebox and pinball repair videos and best of all you always got the coolest music 🎶 to play when you clean something 😊👍
Good music to🎶👍👌
Definitely!
Great series as were the others. Hope you will be doing more. Thanks.
Definitely more coming!
Great video 👍. Thanks for sharing. Great song in the begining of the playfield stripping it was like pinbot was having sergury and you were bringing him back to life. You are awsome at what you guys do with these machines.
Thanks Robert, we appreciate you watching! Glad you enjoyed the music!
Great series as always Ron! Watching Donnies channel as well.
Thanks Davidz121 we appreciate that!
Great video ron
Thank you AC!
Nice!...cheers.
Thanks for watching as always, Andy!
Thank you for doing this! I have one in which somebody else stripped the playfield.
Maybe that will help you put it back together! Worst thing ever is to take it apart and wait a week to put it back together you’ll never get it all back right if you don’t take pics or video...
I'm digging the music at 19:20.
I believe that's called "Endless Motion" available for free at www.BenSound.com .
You should add a second camera for a wide shot of the repair process because you spend so much time away from the camera, and put the one of the playfield in a PiP window.
I was wondering why this guy who knows his stuff, would attempt a repair with the system powered on, thanks for explaining that you understand the risk, doing it was just for show!
Also, Thanks for the tips on the light specification, i always use the same part number when replacing, but i was wondering why some lenses where melted and some where not. So i guess i should have referred to the manual because i did not realize that I must have replaced some with the same incorrect part... Oopsey-Dazy!!
How about I film it however I like and if you don’t like it, you go watch somebody else’s videos?
Mine's in the living room, ready to strip over Xmas. Perfect video Timing.
Very cool Bill, good luck with it, the screws and nuts under the mini playfield are tricky, take extra pictures of it :)
@@LyonsArcade thanks Joe.
The 1st thing I had to do - and recommended with this age of machine, is to fuse the bridge rectifiers - which weren't protected on this age of machine. (I bought a mini board from Holland - search Inkochnito)
This is because the first thing the machine did for me on setup (well, 3rd game) was to burn the main wiring loom from a dead rectifier to the transformer. Once replaced it swiftly became my favourite player.. time for some proper tlc..
Your video will help thx!
Timely - I have a Williams _High Speed_ I need to do this to. Thanks!
High speed is a tricky one, it's hard to take that back set of rubbers off!
@@LyonsArcade Yes! I just noticed you have a highsped series - I'll be watching it later.
Flat surface syndrome, it’s when anything with a flat surface becomes a work table for all my junk. Co workers typically hate this kind of behavior lol
hahaha I can see that :) Thanks for watching Jordan!
how about painting light bulbs in a blue row with a blue termanent marker or headlight paint to make them glow blue?
I'm not that worried about it!
Smoth polish with Carnuba Wax 😎👍
That's the way to go for sure :)
Love the videos. How do you clean the haze off from the magic eraser?
I usually wipe it down with windex or something. You could also use a wet paper towel. You could probably wax it off too, wax is a cleaner.
JOE CLASSIC, why does the flash bulbs use those big square power resistors for what reasons? in this schematic look at those big square power resistors and they are connected to the flasher bulbs
Someone was saying it was to help the bulbs be 'pre heated' so that they could light up faster, instead of taking a few seconds to get bright.
@@LyonsArcade ok thanks for the info
amazing 👏 🤯
Thanks Roger, we appreciate it!
I been hiding under a rock.lol
We thought that's where you went!
I read on Pinside that One Grand Blitz wax was the "best" for playfields. Ever used it?
Used to use that on my cars...it's really excellent wax but not easy to come by
@@chrisfreemesser5707 I found a great deal on it online: www.thezstore.com/
@@808zhu I use a wax called Collinite 845 now...easier to apply and lasts longer than One Grand!
I've never used it... but if Pinside said it, it must be true :)
On my Xenon the upper playfield posts were small, and bent. After replacing them, they bent again, so I upgraded them to a larger size. Especially after a flipper rebuild giving more power it makes sense to increase the weight of the hardware from the original spec.
How do you take the glass off? Lol
There is a lever inside the coin door to take the front lockdown bar off, then you just slide the glass out. Thank you for watching Ran!
Dear ron , what is the best wax ? Have you had to try some different ones? Project farm did a test about new types of car wax , maybe there is a new breed thats even better against ware.
I haven't tested that many, but the white wax doesn't work very well because the white gets in all the little cracks and makes the playfield look faded. If you use this thick carnuba stuff like we use it is more of a yellow, and if the wax gets stuck in the micro cracks in the playfield it looks cleaner.
@@LyonsArcade thanks
Good call on going back to the white rubbers. Ron, what is a fair price a guy could expect to pay for this machine in similar condition to this one once you are done?
We just sold this one for $2600 as part of a package deal, so if you can find one in pretty decent shape for $2500-$3000 that would be about right.
Educated guess, $3500 and up (probably $4500 to $5500 for a fully restored machine). They made 12 thousand of these, but this was an _incredibly_ popular machine back in the day and a lot of them were "rode hard and put away wet", so the price for a restored machine is correspondingly higher.
@@LyonsArcade That seems reasonable. Thanks for videoing and sharing your work.
@@SpearM3064 Thanks for the info. Glad they made so many. Awesome machine.
I was just wondering Ron ,have you any games at home ?
I do! One of these days I'll have to show them... it's nothing super desirable, just personal favorites.
@@LyonsArcade I’d love games in my house ,unfortunately it isn’t big enough for a Pinball Machine, so I make do with emulated games 😀
We all have our limitations!
@@LyonsArcade Indeed we have 😀
@@j-pinball3930- They are pretty much the same. Car wax is usually cheaper to buy in the long run. The pinball wax is a specialty product, that is why it usually costs more to buy. It usually comes down to your personal preference.
don’t glue it. replace the guide.
White are always better, makes it pop....
I believe every pinball machine has shipped with white rubbers from the factory.