Hi amadama,

We've been busy planning and doing the road-trip to the UK. Hopefully I'll have more time for BPM in the next 6 weeks or so. Meanwhile the playfield has been completely cleaned.

And as I'm totally new to pinball-restauration I've asked a professional to help me out with that. We've made arrangements for september 1st.

I've ordered new side-art and a new CPO at Arcaderenovations. They have arried today, after I had been ripped off by Dutch Customs.

Before september 1st I'll do the CPO, than the pro checking and replacing everything needed (he's a BPM expert, I'm lucky to get the chance to learn something from him).  
And when all's done I'll apply the new side art as the finishing touch.

So next job on BPM is the CPO, I'll keep you posted, will add some photo's later on as the job progresses.

Your's been fired up yet    Take your time I love what you are doing with the 2/3 DL.  Stunningly beatiful.

Simply amazing Bruno.

Congratulations !

Your photo of the "famous M20" made me smile because my brother and I drove the M20 too yesterday. We did a road trip to Bracknell to pick up 5 cabs in one go.

But your latest catch is very impressive indeed, and good luck on upgrading Nuno's Lair V1.0.

No worries, I've got a lot going on as well (still gotta find the time to mail this forum's admin with the story and pictures of this project's road-trip)

Update on the battery:

After spotting it last week I was thinking "no time like the present" and cut it off the board. I have taken pictures and will include them in the WIP on BPM. Battery had no signs of having leaked.
Effects from removing the battery were: a wacky high score table, and 99 credits. This is quite normal I think after this little bit of surgery.

This week is a short one over at work so I'm planning on disassembling and cleaning the playfield later on this week. I'll take pictures of this phase aswell.

I'll also order the CPO reproduction of BPM at Quarterarcade this week.

Also the switches (the ones with the long metal blades) directly behind the flipperbuttons are all used up. One, in fact so much, that the sparks have worn a hole in the metal. Thankfully I can order those over here in the Netherlands. All these chores to be done in the near-future.

Then, coz I'm still not happy about the colors on my monitor I'm thinking of replacing the vidiot-eproms wich influence this function.
The Eproms are also available over here.
Also I think installing a cap-kit will help reviving the monitor's colors. But, being not sure all of this will help, I'll post pictures of the screen in action and maybe you guys have an idea or two how to fix those fading colors.

Then I'm planning on replacing all the solenoids (coils) and have a check-up on the power supply aswell.  (Old Bally power supplies tend to be problamatic, so chances are I'll do some preventive maitenance on those suspicious parts) Learning the hard way: If it ain't broke, don't fix it, and for this reason  being against my experience, l still think it's a good idea to tackle any power-supply problems rather sooner than later.

Then when all the hard work is done I'll install the fresh side-art as the finishing touch.

If all goes well I'll have an (almost mint    )  BPM that will -hopefully- run another 25 years.

Hi amadama,

That's very nice of you to do so. First time since 1999, how you live with the suspence if works or not, is beyond me  

I've read about the presence of a notorious "leaking battery problem" inside Baby Pac man on the net.

http://www.marvin3m.com/bally/babypac.htm

I just spotted that nasty battery in my cab, it's on the MPU Module. It's a NiCad battery, white, marked "Everready". (Item # 68 - service manual)

The battery doesn't look too bad but I'll get rid of it as soon as I get the chance.
Leaving it there is not an option since it will lead to major problems in the end.
Do you have any experience removing the battery ? For example: can I just cut it from the MPU board or do I need to de-solder it ?

Bye

The seller says it's working fine. The playfield-paint of the pinball section is a little worn in a few spots but I'm planning to restore that.
Monitor has no burn marks.
I've read all your tips on transporting a cabinet (we will betransporting is horizontally, so I'll check everything on the inside of the cab. is securely fastened)
Will take and post pictures (is there a way we can exchange e-mail-adresses ?, would indeed be easier)
Do you have any other tips ? Things I should be aware of when collecting it).

Earlier tomorrow my brother is picking up a an other pinball machine (his second) so he has quite of a road trip ahead tomorrow (700 km). Than he's picking up me, and we'll collect the "baby". (near the Dutch-Belgium border)

Anywat one cab down (well after restoration) and many more to go.  

In another post you said you were looking on the Dutch E-bay site. Also make sure to give "marktplaats" a try. Cabs cabs be found under
Verzamelen
Automaten - Overig

Now they are offering a non-working Tekken cabinet witch looks authentic to me (altough the control panel looks a bit non-original), for a few euro's (35 I thuoght is was)

Hope this helps you.

Any progress on your massive Galaxian Theater project ? (I'll check that thread later).

Oh, and the section on ebay where they are is problably somewhere in - Verzamelen - (collecting stuff)
I don't find too many cabinets on the dutch e-bay site though.
I think it's much nicer to seach the UK equivalent.
But judging by your lair and road trips you probably know this already  

Congratulations on your 3 laser games. If I was a resident of the US I'd be on e-bay all day and probably lose myself in some auctions. Not to say that you did, I think it's a great catch you've got there !

Enjoy them a lot !

Hi everyone,
 
This is my first post on this great site. My first reaction was one of
awe.  

Thank you for making such a nice looking informative site.

I think it is very, very impressive the way you collect and restore
these classic jems.
 
As many of you (judging by the photo's on the site   ) I grew up in the 80's and living -in those days- on the Dutch North-sea coast with lots of tourism.
Because of the tourists we had 2 arcades, back  in the day in my home town village.
 
In one of those arcades I did my summer-break-job (is this English ?)during a few summers(1983 till 1987) so I witnessed "history in the making" hands on.
Lucky for me I was able to keep my lunchmoney, as I was an employee I got to play for free (some memorable night-parties pop in mind now, ah well).
anyway, got to play SA for free, "our" arcade never featured DL. But DL was hosted in Amsterdam, so I lost my lunchmoney on train-fare and DL overthere.

 
I'm currently working on a mame-cabinet (model: Mortal Kombat) running Mame and Daphne.
I thought I was on the right track with that project but now I realise I want a Space Ace cabinet.
I'm thinking of builing one in the future. Allthough building something is very nice to do, because is more genuine, my wish is obtaining an original cabinet one day if I'm lucky enough.


A few words on the collection of Mr. Finn. (I can't resist) Ever since I saw the photo's of Mr. Finn's Lair I eat less, don't sleep that well, I seem to be
drewling a lot and according to my friends I speak in an incoherent
manner. All since that day...................

Well just a lot of words to say, once again, I'm deeply impressed.
I'm amazed with the efforts of every-one metioned on this site.
 
Hope to see you all one day.