BALLY BOBBY ORR POWER PLAY 1978 Bally Full 3-Stage Pinball Restoration Update

Posted: November 7, 2021

Main cabinet is now in the paint booth, head is complete and being stuffed.

The power rectifier board has been rebuilt, and upgraded. You can see photos of very tarnished & fatigued fuse clips being changed out.

My standard remote mount 3-bridge rectifier upgrade can be viewed as well.

There are 10 twin star rollovers on this playfield. I have run into problems here before on other playfields.

Problem is, the new rollovers have the shaft diameter increase to soon for the inserts, and the rollover won’t travel correctly through the insert. If you experience this installing new rollovers, DO NOT try to back it out of the insert, you cannot without doing damage to the insert, then you have real problems.

Push the top side down, and snip the switch blade actuator tip off to remove.

If you examine the attached photos you will see what I mean with the side by side shots of new, and old.

To correct this issue, one must trim the shaft down to the same narrower diameter to match the original.

The chime box has been fully restored, with powder coated chimes, and mounting frames, as the were very burnt from overheated coils.

Coin door has been restored, and reassembled.

f you wish to see “Before” photos you will need to visit the old “absolute pinball-Facebook” site, and scroll back.

Hi Devron, I picked up the Buckaroo yesterday at the airport and got it put together this evening. It made it through the trip in great shape, thanks to your great crating job! Nothing was able to shift or get loose and you did a fantastic packing job! The machine looks and plays great! The new backglass arrived last week so I have to put it in to make it look even better. I'm real happy with the machine, and thank you for your very accurate description. Thanks, again, for everything and maybe we'll have the chance to do business again in the future.

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JSM

Thank you...thank you...thank you for the Galaxy pinball machine!!!! A couple of friends of mine set it up this past weekend and it's fantastic!!! Whoever packed it for shipment did an outstanding job!! We are having the best time playing it. In fact the first night it was set up, I couldn't sleep so I went downstairs at 2:00am and played a bunch of games.

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