Dr Who completed

Dr Who is now completed and ready to be picked up.

While I had the time expander disassembled I cleaned and waxed the mini playfield, cleaned the target assembly and polished the ball deflectors and ball guides.

 

The skirts of all three bumpers were damaged and I changed those. This was an operation of almost four hours. While the bumpers were removed it was easy to clean and polish this part of the playfield. The bumper bodies and bases were cleaned and the rod an rings polished before I put it all back together again.

 

 

The blue signal light of the doctors TARDIS was misaligned, I took it apart and put it back as it should be.

 

 

The front of the cabinet had holes drilled for a locking bar, these holes are now covered by flathead bolts. These was chromed from the beginning, but it didn’t look right since the coin door are black and the cabinet is quite dark so I ended up spraying them flat black.

 

 

The batteries are removed from the CPU and put in to an external holder. This is the most important modification to do to a machine. There are a lot of pinballs out there who have had their CPU’s damaged by leaking batteries. 

On top of this the playfield are cleaned and polished, the cabinet vacuumed from scrap and dirt, the coin box, flipper buttons and playfield glass cleaned. All plastic ramps was cleaned and polished while out of the playfield, including the one at the underside guiding the balls from the time expander to the VUK. There was a lot of broken lamps and flashers ( 29 * #555, 4 * #42 and 6 * 906) most of the broken 555’s sat in the backbox. A GI fuse for the backbox was also blown (F110), so there was not much light in it from the beginning. There was some scrap between the translite and glass which I removed.

All in all it was about 25 hours of well spent labor.