Tuesday, March 4, 2014

Woof Woof

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Just an article about Harry Williams the creator of Signal that I found interesting.  The article is courtesy of Rob Hawkins at http://www.p...
Friday, January 24, 2014

The Super-8

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I started a new blog to chronicle my restoration of the Super-8.  You can read about it here:  http://1934super8.blogspot.com/
Monday, January 13, 2014

Coming soon...

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I will shortly begin restoring my newest 80 year old machine.  I purchased a 1934 Super-8 pinball machine made by Stoner Manufacturing.  Luc...
Tuesday, November 19, 2013

1934 Bally Signal video demonstration

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I was asked to make a video demonstration on how the game works.  I have uploaded a fairly brief video of the machine to youtube.  It is not...
Monday, November 11, 2013

How the Game is Played - Part 2

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So I originally tried to make my own instructions off of a photo of the original instructions.  I was not very happy with out they came out....
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Tuesday, November 5, 2013

99.44%

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I am 99.44% done.  So pretty much done... :) As previously mentioned, I stripped the legs and repainted.  I purchased new leg levelers and...
Monday, November 4, 2013

A few kinks to work out

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So, I finished my coin door (twice as the first one was damaged when drilling the hole for the lock).  I painted the old legs and the machin...
Friday, November 1, 2013

Finish line in sight...

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The finish line is definitely in sight.  I think I will be done by the end of the weekend.  My glass came in today.  I also purchased new le...
Sunday, October 27, 2013

A Sigh of Relief

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OK, I am nearly there (do not search this site to see how many times I have said that before).... The one thing that was scaring me most a...
Friday, October 25, 2013

It's Alive!

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So I ordered the glass and it will be here next week but in the mean time I put everything together to test it and it is working great for t...
Tuesday, October 22, 2013

Clean and Shiny

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I feel like I am in the home stretch but I keep thinking that and my completion date keeps getting pushed out... Today I took the cabinet ...
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Monday, October 21, 2013

My aching arms...

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I just put the 2nd of the 5 recommended coats of SC Johnson paste wax on the playfield of the Signal. All I can say is, I can totally see wh...
Thursday, October 17, 2013

A History Lesson and an Update

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Just a quick update on where I am with the restoration and a little bit of history of pinball itself. The restoration update: I have spe...
Wednesday, October 9, 2013

How to play the game...

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One thing that I am still working on is to recreate the instruction card for the machine.  The original instruction card was no longer on th...
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Saturday, October 5, 2013

The Dirty Parts

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I have been working at night a little bit to clean up some of the dirty and or rusty parts.  Some were extremely dirty and oxidized and othe...
Tuesday, October 1, 2013

Cabinet art

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One thing with my Signal, is as long as we have had it, the side art has been missing.  In fact I only noticed recently that it had any art ...

Electrical tests

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I next tested the electrical.  I was not even sure how the battery hooked up at first as it was disconnected years earlier.  Ken at Prewar P...

Rust Removal of Metal Playfield Parts

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The next step was to remove as much rust and oxidization from the metal parts on the playfield as I could.  As you can see the rails around ...

Cleaning of the Playfield

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I first started out with cleaning the playfield with a wood cleaner.  To do this I removed all of the railroad gates first.  The playfield w...

Electrical switches under the shutter

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Under the shutter is a board where the electrical switches and bell are.  When the balls drop either through the Signal hole or when the shu...

Initial Inspection and Breakdown

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So the first thing I did was to start to take the machine apart to get the jammed balls out as well to clean and inspect the machine.  The b...
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