Category Archives: Pinball Restoration

The current state of Firepower- after fixing a couple of broken connections and replacing all (ALL) of the fuses, most of which were horribly mismatched, Firepower boots! Sort of. One of the coils is most likely shorted, as evidenced by the knock you hear when you flip on power, the horrible smell, and the immediate […]

So my Firepower’s playfield is, to use a technical term, fucking nasty. In addition to general dirt and grime there were these small white circles of what I assume are some kind of mold. Most people’s go-to cleaner for everyday polishing and removing fine or heavy scratches is Novus. But for just getting rid of […]

Today’s plan was to put the legs on Firepower and start cleaning it in earnest. The previous owner had stripped the threads on the front leg brackets. They were total garbage, and had to be removed. I tried to be fancy and replace them with some more solid brackets in a newer style. Some folks […]