Main Street Amusements

Main Street Amusements Indiana's premier pinball destination with 25+ pinball machines and about a dozen vintage arcade games.
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It's been a lazy kind of week, so not much progress had been made on Xenon. The playfield tear-down is just about finish...
06/01/2026

It's been a lazy kind of week, so not much progress had been made on Xenon. The playfield tear-down is just about finished, next is the grunt work - cleaning and / or replacing all of the bits and then reassembling everything. Flippers and pop bumpers will be rebuilt, playfield will be cleaned and waxed and all new rubber and LEDs installed, and then it will need to be converted back to coin operation. Lots to do on this one!

Well, I managed to get this one un-hacked and working, without breaking the bank. I can guarantee that it's working bett...
05/24/2026

Well, I managed to get this one un-hacked and working, without breaking the bank. I can guarantee that it's working better than when its owner bought it, so even though it's not 100% perfect I think he'll be happy.

I decided to dig a bit deeper into Flying Chariots, and found another cooked coil, this time on a score reel. Should hav...
05/24/2026

I decided to dig a bit deeper into Flying Chariots, and found another cooked coil, this time on a score reel. Should have been an easy fix, except some genius decided to use hot glue to glue the reel mech in place.
Did I mention that there's been a fair amount of hackery on this game?

Thinking that this was a one-day repair was definitely wishful thinking. The obvious burned coil and what caused it was ...
05/23/2026

Thinking that this was a one-day repair was definitely wishful thinking. The obvious burned coil and what caused it was an easy fix, but there is so much more wrong with this game. Its new owner said that it was working when he bought it, but he must have been using an extremely generous definition of "working". I'm guessing it lit up, and maybe rang some bells, but not much more.
It is absolutely repairable, but is it economically repairable? This is maybe a $1000 game on a good day. I'll have to have a talk with its owner before I dig much deeper into it.

I'm going to see if I can knock off a same-day repair on this old Gottlieb Flying Chariots. Fella bought the game, it wa...
05/23/2026

I'm going to see if I can knock off a same-day repair on this old Gottlieb Flying Chariots. Fella bought the game, it was working, took it home, and it wasn't.
It didn't take any special tools to diagnose this one, just a nose. The coil on the 0-9 unit was a real crispy critter. It had melted the coil sleeve and caused the sleeve to fuse itself to the plunger. Had to use a torch to melt off the remains of the coil sleeve.
I've got the correct replacement coil in stock, so that's good. As to what caused the coil to lock on, that should be easy to diagnose. That burned coil is controlled by the 1's relay. So there's probably a stuck switch on the playfield somewhere causing the 1's relay to stay engaged, in turn keeping the coil that burned energized. Fortunately the coil on the 1's relay didn't go up in smoke too.

Today’s quick pre-opening repair, a flipper rebuild for Scorpion. My timing was off, I only got three of the four flippe...
05/22/2026

Today’s quick pre-opening repair, a flipper rebuild for Scorpion. My timing was off, I only got three of the four flippers rebuilt before I ran out of time, so I’ll have to finish up later.
I'm not sure how I missed this last year when the game was originally refurbished. Somewhere back here in the rubble there's probably a post-it note from a year ago reminding me to order the parts and do the rebuild.
Scorpion still has an intermittent issue with its displays, so I need to track that down too.

Just got the lamp driver and aux lamp driver boards from Alltek for our Xenon. There are a few different ways to elimina...
05/22/2026

Just got the lamp driver and aux lamp driver boards from Alltek for our Xenon. There are a few different ways to eliminate flicker when switching from incandescent to LEDs on an older Bally / Stern game, but this is the easiest and cleanest solution. Ignore the battery holder on the MPU board. I haven't decided whether to install an NVRAM on the current MPU or just replace it with a new board. Either way the batteries will be gone.
Also got a big Marco order, so we should be able to make some progress on the game this weekend. Other than the sound everything seems to be more or less working. Gotta get the sound and speech working - this was the first Bally game with speech, and I believe it was also the first pin with female speech.

The calendar doesn't lie, somehow it's already almost Memorial Day weekend. We'll be there for you when you need a break...
05/18/2026

The calendar doesn't lie, somehow it's already almost Memorial Day weekend. We'll be there for you when you need a break from the relatives.
==> Friday 7pm-11pm
==> Saturday 5pm-11pm
==> Sunday 7pm-11pm
CLOSED Memorial Day

I'm just getting started on our Xenon project. Checked all of the fuses, and as usual about half of them were the wrong ...
05/16/2026

I'm just getting started on our Xenon project. Checked all of the fuses, and as usual about half of them were the wrong value, so I took care of that. All of the voltages checked okay so I turned the game on - and it actually booted up! Maybe this game won't be as much of a pain as I was expecting.
Check out he awesome backglass on this game! And it's even better in person.

Today's quick repair:This was an easy fix, but also kind of a strange one. It's on our Fathom, and the symptom was that ...
05/15/2026

Today's quick repair:
This was an easy fix, but also kind of a strange one. It's on our Fathom, and the symptom was that in certain circumstances it would score 4,000 points every few seconds, even when nothing was happening on the playfield. Interestingly, when it was doing this, it would also repeat the phrase "help me."
The culprit was a bad two-cent part, a capacitor on a rollover switch that was causing the switch to constantly show as closed. The purpose of these caps is to allow a switch to register a quick hit. They do fail occasionally, and back in the day it was common for operators to just snip the leads on all of these caps before the game was ever routed. No caps = no cap failures.
We're not ones to half-ass it though, so this switch got a new cap and also a new diode for good measure, and now it's registering as it should.
Check Fathom out tonight. This is a beautiful and much sought-after game, and for its era, an expensive one. A Fathom in decent condition can fetch upwards of $5k. You can save $4999.50 and play it for only 2 tokens :).

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