u/AstrxlBeast

Absolutely amazing erratic deck seed 8EK7QGSS. Very early hanging chad, mime, and two invisible jokers. Any ~5,6ish there are blueprint and brainstorm, and another invisible joker. I copied mime and then sold the copied mime for photograph. But then two barons showed up around ante ~8,9ish. Not a lot of negatives unfortunately but huge five of a kind potential that can carry until very late game, especially if you stack kings with strength, death, and hanged man and use the double mime baron.

Hi all,

I bought a 1974 Bally Flicker machine (EM) from a bar a couple months ago. It was working great until all the lights on the main playfield stopped turning on at once, so I went inside the machine and it was extremely dirty, so I gave it a good cleaning with isopropyl and q-tips. I was quite gentle, I have worked in computer repair so I know how sensitive some of the parts can be.

After the cleaning everything was fine for a couple of games, and then the ball suddenly stopped returning from the out-hole, then the game got locked in a game over state, and wouldn’t restart when we pressed the start button even after a power cycle. I fixed that by hitting the reset switch on the inside of the machine with a pencil when it was on, but now I am getting weird behavior like the “ball in play” counter not advancing sometimes, the score not incrementing at the end of a round sometimes, and the ball not returning to the playfield sometimes. Seems like it can’t complete the reset cycle properly when there is a ball in the outhole.

I went inside the machine again and tried to look for any clear signs of why it’s not working, but I don’t know what I’m looking at too well. I have some pictures of the relays I’ve included in case it’s helpful, but really I’m just looking for any advice you all may have as pinball experts on how I can get my machine up and running again. I also have a video of the weird behavior if anyone wants to see it.

Thanks!

Update: Fixed! Replaced the four 20A breakers with 2 dipole 20A breakers. The red/black adjacents on the separate phases were the ones the inspector was talking about, as the comments helped me figure out. Thank you to this community!

We recently bought a home and had a home inspection where the inspector noted the following verbatim: “There were strand(s) of three-wire being used for 120-volt breaker(s) (two hot, one neutral) in the main panel. Typically, when this condition exists, the breakers will be bridged together so that both breakers would trip at the same time to not have a shocking hazard. It is recommended that a bridge or coupler be installed.”

I am interested in understanding what he means by this, if this is an accurate finding (because the home inspector isn’t necessarily a certified electrician), and if the fix is something I could do myself or not (I’d just need to know which breakers to hand tie together). Pictured are the inspection notes he made and a picture of the full breaker panel. I can’t see where the two hot one neutral are sourced from so I can’t tell if any of the cabling is sharing the neutral. Any advice?