Ok, I just figured out what the guy gave me NIB for this. It turns out Cliffy made a couple of items to fix a couple problem areas. What it was is a fix for the Anti Gravity ramp. So I installed it and it fits great.

After only a few games (maybe 100+... yeah a few) I finally got all five balls in the Atom Smasher.

Now for those of you who don't know what it is, it is a ball lock for 5 balls but is quite unique in that it can be unloaded one ball at a time, so keeping 5 in is a bit of a challenge and the shot to get them there, pretty hard.

Anyway, it was well worth it. In this game for every ball in play for multiball the pf values go up by multiples. 5 ball play, 12X pf.

It did a little sequence ala TAF "Showtime" and launched them. I think I had 5 in play for about 3 seconds.

It was one of those pinball magical moments.

I am going through the electronics, just for my own knowledge.

This is probably an obvious question but, whats the difference between a squawk and talk and a squeak board?

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This is probably an obvious question but, whats the difference between a squawk and talk and a squeak board?

Just different versions of sound boards. The AS-2518-81 Squawk & Talk board was introduced in 1979 with Kiss but was used to it's full potential with Flash Gordon in 1981.

When Bally was bought by Midway, they developed the AS-2518-45 "Cheap Squeak" board which had no speech capability. They then started using the Turbo Cheap Squeak (which is what you have... SS was actually the last Bally with this board) with more sound capability and some speech capability, and then the last generation of sound board prior to the Williams buy-out, the Sounds Deluxe, with much better speech capability.