Armed and ready

Yesterday I've finished with the playfield. The machine is now in it's full playable form. Needless to say, all the other work stopped for now since everybody want's to play it. Here are some pics of the final steps. There's not that many of them, since I was rushing to get the thing playable ASAP.

Bigfoot ramp installed


Rail attached


Insanity falls is so huge, I had to use a tub to clean it


Installed Insanity falls.


Finished playfield. Boulder garden still missing.


And here's a thing waiting to be done:

Busy weekend

After a long long time I dedicated almost a whole weekend to the Whitewater again. It all started with my friend finally getting the DMD controller back in order. It's been out since these events. It's been all my fault really. I am almost ashamed to tell, but I put the wrong transistor on the Q6 position. I gotta be more careful the next time.

Anyway, here's the result (taken with the phone):


The working display gave me a true rush, so spent almost entire weekend working on the machine. I did the following.

First, I cleaned, repaired and reinstalled the Disaster drop ramp. I also installed the ramp protector and new lock target in front of it. I could not find the originals, but the green ones from TZ look much better than the orange ones.


Then, I replaced the Hot Foot targets with the new ones, both yellow.
Before:


After:


Then I disassembled the entire upper playfield, cleaned it thoroughly, fixed what was needed and re fitted it to the machine


I know Bigfoots are not supposed to be very neat animals, but mine is. He's ready for a hot date with the Bigfoot lady now.




I also cleaned and re fitted the Spine chiller ramp and installed a protector for it also.
Before cleaning:


...and after cleaning


Lock targets before


and after, with protectors


and this is where I stand at the moment.


I am determined, that I'll get it in the playing condition next weekend. I just hope I'll find the time to go home.

I will report.

Home for the hollidays

Indeed, I had an opportunity to spent an entire week near to my Whitewater. I wasn't dealing with it for the whole time, but I definitely made same progress. What I did was the following:

• Finished the cleaning of the upper part of bottom playfield
• Replace the rubbers with the new ones
• Replaced all the broken flashers
  
• Cleaned all the bottom pathways and places where the ball is moving underneath the playfield
• Cleaned all the lamps and replaced the broken ones.
  
• Cleaned the lamp PCB s.
• Cleaned the entire bottom of the lower playfield
• Fixed the broken bounce back target
  
• Started fixing the disaster drop ramp
• Even took some before and after pics. Here they are:

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This concludes at least a couple of chapters of the cleaning story. I wasn't naming the blogs properly, but I'll try to sum it up here:

Chapter one - stripping down the playfield
Chapter two - cleaning the upper part of the lower playfield
Chapter three - cleaning the bottom part of the lower playfield (here you are)
Chapter four - cleaning the upper playfield (not yet started)
Chapter five - cleaning and re fitting the ramps (not yet started)
Chapter six - cleaning the cabinet (not yet started)
Chapter seven - I bet something will show up (not yet started)

This is how I plan the things will take place, but we'll see what the time brings.

Oh, and happy new year to all.

With a little help from my friends

It's been a busy November. So busy, that I don't think I played a single game of pinball in the previous month.

But finally, this weekend I found some time to get back to my White water. A couple a friends jumped in and together we finished the first part of cleaning. We cleaned bottom playfield and all the basic parts that I left on the machine. Here's how the action looked like:


And a couple of hours later, the result was playfield, all clean and shiny. Here are some pictures:













This concludes the first chapter of the celaning story. I will continue with the ramps, and all the bits that I will be putting back to the machine. I hope that I will be able to find some time to continue before the end of the year, but it looks pretty grim for now.

Cleaning, chapter one - stripping down the playfield

Finally, I got to the job I managed to postpone for months. Although the display still isn't working, I decided that it's time to get my hands dirty and begin with hideous task of cleaning the Whitewaters playfield. And boy did I get my hands dirty. It seems that this one is even dirtier then the Star Trek was.
Here are some pics that I took, so that I'll be able to put the thing back together.

Filthy upper playfield


Filthy stripped bottom playfield


Filthy right side


Filth


Filthy ramps


More filthy ramps


Removed filthy upper playfield


Filthy whirlpool lamps


Filth


More filth


Even more filth


Filthy secret passage


Filthy removed parts


Entire playfield, filthy