Well, in order to save my back, I decided to remove the head from my new WPC pinball, before moving it down some tight stairs.  Little did I realize that there are about a billion connectors to put back.  So... I save my back but I spend most of the evening trying to figure out where the hell everything goes back!

In fact, the body of the WPC game seemed lighter than a 70's EM that was also moved today (just ask Mark).

Click on the image for a larger picture.



(Im sure some of the pin vetrans can figure out what pinball I just got from the large version of this pic)

Can I guess???  

1) It's definitely a Wide-Body...

I'll say that guess 1 is IJ...(if not then it's a TZ)

Hint: Check the upper right corner...  

Frosken

IJ

Look closely on the paper stapled to the door on the left.

And for all of you that intend to remove a head off of a pinball, remember this little piece of advice:

A SHARPIE PEN IS YOUR BEST FRIEND!!!

All of the header pins have a location ID written on the circuit board... whether it be a WPC, old Bally, and even Gottliebs, which had one up on everybody by actually having stickers on the connectors to make sure you put them in the right place!!!

Always write on the connector with a sharpie pen the location ID on the circuit board. And for connectors that go with other connectors, and not on the board, I always number both connector ends.

This will add maybe 10 minutes to your task in the beginning, but will save you hours at the end.

When I took the head off my BSD when I delivered it, it took me 20 minutes to put all the connectors back in place.

Right on sparky !

Took me an hour to label Johnny Mnemonic and about 20 minutes to put it back togheter with RAT

Annoying at first, but very handy !

monkeybug: your display flat connector is not at the right place on the cpu board.

I know you put it in the "display" connector but it should go on that top-right connector right next to the one going to the fliptronic board.

Actually, I wonder if both places work since it is marked DISPLAY but all my other dmds are on that top right one.

Yep, Indiana Jones.  Sparky gets the MAACA Sherlock Holmes award (with honorable mention to Frosken).

Sparky: I realized now that I should have labelled them.  I was in a rush, out in the cold garage with help arriving soon (and for a limited time).  I figured with everything keyed unique (well 95% unique) it would be easy.   I will be labelling them from now on.

Mr Hide: You are referring to the grey ribbon cable?  I will check that out.  The machine was fully working before I took it apart and I did not move any of those cables.

If you have any trouble, send me an email. I have an IJ and can tell you where things go I would take a picture for you, but I had to send my digital camera in today (again  ).

Duane

Quoted from Monkeybug

Mr Hide: You are referring to the grey ribbon cable?  I will check that out.  The machine was fully working before I took it apart and I did not move any of those cables.

the one where it is plugged in should go to that additional 8 transistor little board

see:http://www.ipdb.org/showpic.pl?id=1267&depth=0&picno=9428

So you don't have it plugged in to your dmd board in your pic... but now we all know where it goes

Quoted from Monkeybug

Yep, Indiana Jones.  Sparky gets the MAACA Sherlock Holmes award (with honorable mention to Frosken).

Honorable mention????

I got it first!

I could read the sheet too...

I went for less 'obvious' things like:

The small auxillary driver board in the top right-hand corner and the fact that the siderails were close to the backbox which indicated it's a wide-body...

I should have said just IJ when (later) I noticed that it was a DCS sound card...which would have cancelled my 2nd guess...

The picture was fuzzy, thus I wasn't 100% sure it was written "Indiana Jones" or "Twilight Zone"...

Frosken

Actually I misread your post... I thought you said IJ or TZ (not IJ first).  I stand corrected.

Ok, I'll send you the prize money instead of Ian.  

It's OK Monkeybug...this time...



Nice dig!

BTW, what does your line-up look like now?

Frosken

Quoted from frosken

BTW, what does your line-up look like now?

It looks like a mess.  I seem to acquire games faster than I can fix them.

Anytime you want to drop by and fix something, let me know and I will leave the front door open.


I'll post a pic soon, when I get all the re-arranging finished.