Tim's SKYLAB thread

[singlezero]

looks like Bruce Brigham used to own your machine . Wow now it is famous . Price just went up !

that is good to know. watching that video i see my cover girl and 4 million bc. should i be writing a cheque for 20% more to him on the 5 or 6 machines now?

 

[singlezero]

A quick search found Bruce in a mini doc:

Bruce was at my place a month or two ago with Ted/Novaguy looking at one of my machines. I put this video on for ted as i have a 55 inch hooked up to a computer. Bruce sat down to watch it too then admitted he never saw it before.

 

[singlezero]

A quick search found Bruce in a mini doc:

i went and picked up a Bank Shot the AAB of Sureshot a couple months ago in Guelph. "Dan" had a "pinball sessions" tshirt on. i mentioned that i had seen Bruces pinball sessions and Dan told me he was the one that made the video. That was confirmed. I see he regularly has machines for sale out of guelph. he had a flying carpet recently and an xfiles.

 

[Vengeance]

heres something to add to the mystery. your glass is showing it as an AAB? not sure if it plays as an Add a Ball. However at ipdb if you look the AAB version was "Spacelab" a game they only made 30 of confirmed.

All skylab's are add-a-balls, you can see the reverse side of the backglass with the numbers for the add-a-ball

http://www.ipdb.org/showpic.pl?id=2202&picno=48353

But there is also a space-lab add-a-ball which is more rare

 

[singlezero]

i was at ipdb.. in the description of "skylab" it said the AAB version of skylab was spacelab. perhaps that picture of the BG is from the same machine? i was just going from the ipdb informtation provided and it didnt say it was an AAB

 

[Vengeance]

i was at ipdb.. in the description of "skylab" it said the AAB version of skylab was spacelab. perhaps that picture of the BG is from the same machine? i was just going from the ipdb informtation provided and it didnt say it was an AAB

I've played quite a few different Skylabs, they are all add-a-balls

 

[tim.sanderson]

Yup, definitely an add-a-ball. Like Adam said, you can see the extra numbers on the BG.
Also, at some point, I had gotten a ball or two added. Not sure how yet, but I got it.

 

[Vengeance]

You have to get all the captive balls to the side with the lit insert to add a ball

 

[tim.sanderson]

You have to get all the captive balls to the side with the lit insert to add a ball

Ahh, cool. I thought it wasn't very much points (100 to start) when you got all the balls on one side. That makes more sense.

 

[tim.sanderson]

I've changed all the rubbers, save two. The two posts on either side of the captured balls is an odd size, and Starburst didn't have them. It looks like I'll have to track those down online.

I think the flippers that came on the machine are actually Gottlieb flippers. Mine were in rough shape, one of them were actually cracked. I had a couple of bats from the System 11 era, so I've temporarily thrown them on.

I also made some new score/rule cards. I just used the Arial font to make this Skylab logo, but will eventually do a proper one.

 

[WARLOCK]

Nice work Tim.
Looking forward to playing this once you are done.

 

[tim.sanderson]

I've pulled out the score reel assembly for two reasons.

1) The 'ten' reel (the first real number reel) doesn't want to reset at the start of the game. You can here the sounds it makes as it tries to reset, it just doesn't turn. However, it advances just fine.

2) The same reel is a disaster.It's smudgy as hell. I'll try to clean it up, but I think I'll have to make a decal to cover it up.

 

[luch]

decal will be the only choice .

 

[tim.sanderson]

Yeah, I was hoping the smudgy parts would 'wash' off, but they don't. I figured a faded number was better than a faded number covered in smudges.

I'm chefing up some numbers in CorelDraw right now.

 

[luch]

there was a thread on pinside about this , score reels restoration

 

[tim.sanderson]

I don't need no fancy pinside walk through!
I still need to fix the spacing of the numbers, but I think something like this should do:

 

[luch]

you da man

 

[WARLOCK]

Dude!
Well done.
Very good start.

 

[eh97ac]

Peter did the work already. Williams Score Reel File

 

[tim.sanderson]

So it appears I've got my first hiccup. Skylab has become very random when awarding the bonus points at the end of a ball. When the ball drains, I can hear the bonus relays going under the playfield, but it doesn't add any score to the game. Sometimes it'll go all 5 balls without giving a bonus, but then in another game it'll reward sometimes. (sometimes all 5 balls get the bonus added)

I've got the day off tomorrow, so I should have plenty of time to tackle this one.