New video is up in the How to Restore EM Pinball Machines tutorial series! This one is on everything you need to know to rebuild your score reels! Lots of well lit and well explained shots to help you demystify fixing EM pinball machines!
Follow along and watch this 1973 Williams Triple Action come back to life!
Let me know what you think!
Woah.....I was practicing for a tournament this weekend and had an unreal game of Tales of The Arabian Nights pinball. Not only did I finish it....I finished it twice! Super cool. I think I'll be good for TOTAN this weekend. Now off to practice some Circus Voltaire!
Just a heads up, tomorrow I am starting up a tutorial series on restoring EM pinball machines and the first one up is on how to restore score reels! I'm super happy with how the video turned out so you'll have to check it out and discover the dark secrets of fixing EM pins!
Cheers!
New video is up for how to use Vpin Studio to create custom playlists for quickly and beautifully sorting your pinball tables! Enjoy!
Big announcement!
Way of the Wrench is building a Squid Game pinball machine from scratch!
This has been keeping me up way too many nights so I need to start and get this going. I will be sharing my progress as I go so keep your eyes peeled for updates!
Let me know what you think in the comments!
#pinball #squidgame #vpx #homebrewpinball #marcopinball
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I show 4 different ways to input high scores so your cool looking gameroom monitor or high score cards on your vpin have lots of different ways to keep it updated!
So much cool stuff in this video, honestly it is one of the best reasons to use Vpin Studio!
So here's an update to see the progression of the start up issues. Looks like drop targets are next! Also it seems like the ball trough switch needs cleaned and adjusted so there's another video to do for all of the playfeild switches too. Soooo good!
Marco Specialties thanks again for all of the tools and coil sleeves for this resto!
Tutorial video coming soon!
So here's an update to see the progression of the start up issues. Looks like drop targets are next! Also it seems like the ball trough switch needs cleaned and adjusted so there's another video to do for all of the playfeild switches too. Soooo good!
Tutorial video coming soon!
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These ones are really gross, someone tried to spray graphite all over everything to get it working.....big no no. Plus I noticed a shady looking coil and sure enough its burnt out. Let's get this done and make another video for you guys!
#wayofthewrench
Moving on to the stepper units on the 1973 Triple Action and boy oh boy do they need rebuilding. They're really dirty and barely move.....all of them.
Gonna start with the match unit which is a single coil and then rebuild the ball count unit. Take a lot of pictures if it's your first time so you know how to put it back together, mark the spider finger and the pcb with a sharpie to put it back on after in the correct orientation ( only required if there are 2 coils), polish the pcb and fingers with metal polish, ultrasonic clean the parts (I polished these too to make it all look good), take a Dremel with a small stainless brush and buff the leaf switch contacts, and reassemble the parts with a new coil sleeve. The torsion spring should be 3 turns of tension before attaching.
Check the leaf contacts are correct and adjust as needed. It's easy to see which ones are open or closed based off of the position of the home position pin and end of coil stroke. This is gonna make another great diy tutorial, video coming soon.
So satisfying to see the difference and see them moving smoothly.....like mechanical art!
#wayofthewrench
New video is up on how to install Vpin Studio and how to quickly and easily install new vpx tables! This is the start of a bunch of Vpin Studio tutorials so stay tuned
Wanna free pair of pinball dolly skates? Got a cool name for my subscribers?
Enter the contest to win!
See details in video description!
Link in bio and link to the Patreon contest in bio
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#pinball #diy #coolproject ##marcopinball #giveaway
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New tutorial video is up and it is on how to make your own pinball dolly skates so you can move your pinball machine around quickly and easily!
For$60 USD too!
You gotta check out the end of the video to see what terrain I go for a rip on!
Plans, part list, and cut list are available in the video description!
Enjoy!
New video is up for the "How to Become a Gearhead" series!
This time it's on everything you need to know to be 100% successful and confident to change your vehicle's oil.
There's a lot of tips and tricks in here that you only learn from decades of experience and I thought I'd share it with you all! I tried to make the very best oil change video I could so enjoy and let me know how I did!
#oilchange
#shopclass
#teach #learnauto
She's ALIVE!!!!!
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Here it is, the finale for the big budget virtual pinball cabinet build! I thought I would do something different and invited the vpin community to a question and answer video where I show the cabinet off and ask their questions about the build.
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I hope you enjoyed the build and are looking forward to additional content on this build and future projects!
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Thanks for watching and supporting the channel!
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Last addition to the custom topper for the Creature from the Black Lagoon vpin is done and the tutorial video for custom flashers from L'atelier D'Arnoz is up!
I'm really happy with this addition and feel that the drive in theater scene is complete. Fully interactive and now we have Creature feature and Move your car modes fully lit up with custom light shows.
Let me know what you think!
Just a heads up, I will be at the Northwest Pinball and Arcade Show in Tacoma this weekend (Friday to Sunday) and I will be doing a presentation on how to build vpins on Sunday at 11 AM at the PinTech Homebrew stage. So if ya wanna learn more about vpin/cabinet construction, wanna ask questions, or just wanna say hi, I'll be there! Hope to see some of you there!
Just a teaser of tomorrow's video for the last addition to finalize the interactive Creature From The Black Lagoon pinball topper....
Full tutorial for custom flashers out tomorrow.
#pinball #virtualpinball #marcopinball #diy #wayofthewrench
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It's all lit up and fully interactive with the game triggers. Complete with the food guys, snack bar is now open, and the Mega Menu mode!
Let me know what you guys think!
I feel like something was missing......so I fixed it!
New video is up and it's a custom addition to the Creature From The Black Lagoon pinball cabinet. This video is how I designed and built the physical parts to fill in the void in my topper. Yes yes, it's a part one....
Check it out and let me know what you think!
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Small engine part is $50? Can't find/buy an outdated part?
No worries, just scan the part, draw it up in CAD, export it as a STL, and 3d print it out! Easy peasy and all done for .50 cents in plastic and wee bit of time.
Plus, I now have a new lesson to teach my automotive students!
#teach #teched #diy #3dprint #engineering
New episode for the "How to Become a Gearhead" series is up! It's been a while since I've posted an automotive video and needed to put some new wiper blades on my vehicle so now I have a video for people who want to learn how to do this easily on ANY vehicle on the planet!!
Lots of extra tips in here too!
Sometimes the simple things aren't so simple for people still learning how to work on their car!