First, wear your dust mask. Who knows where these machines have been?

  • SeedyOne@lemm.ee
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    11 months ago

    I can’t wait to watch this having restored an early 90s Williams machine years back. Doubly so with it being a TC vid, his channel is excellent.

    I wanted a machine in college but knew I’d have to understand and maintain it with so many moving parts, thus shelving the idea pretty quickly. Years later, I stumbled into an arcade abused cabinet with a decent playfield and had to have it. It was a challenging few months but a decade later it still works great and I’ve grown comfortable with crawling in there. Great forums like Pinside were also a tremendous help, I wouldn’t have taken the gamble without the Internet.

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      11 months ago

      My god, if you understand how these systems work, I’m impressed.

      I’m good with DC stuff of this era (switches, relays, etc) and man I have to work hard to visualize these things.

      I’m seriously impressed with the engineers who designed these crazy complex electro-mechanical systems.

      I have some older relatives who were aircraft engineers back when these types of systems were used… Aircraft up through the 70’s. I’ve read some of their manuals… Staggering complexity.