For Amusement Only EM and Bingo Pinball Podcast
Detailing EM and Bingo pinball features, gameplay, and repair techniques.
- Update frequency
- every 13 days
- Average duration
- 20 minutes
- Episodes
- 478
- Years Active
- 2015 - 2025
Episode 178 - Rebuilding Stepper Units
Stepper Units are crucial to the proper operation of an EM - in this episode, I talk about disassembling, cleaning and rebuilding the typical step up/reset unit - found on most EM games including the…
00:13:05 |
Sat 05 Sep 2015
Episode 177 - Strictly Six Cards with Vic Camp
Vic Camp joins as co-host for tonight's episode - we talk about the payouts, features and gameplay of the six card bingos produced by Bally, starting with Bright Lights, all the way to Dixieland.
M…
01:56:32 |
Fri 04 Sep 2015
Episode 176 - EM Oddities Week of 9-1-15
I've run into a couple of things I didn't know about at all this week, namely:
Some Gottlieb games had a weird Jones Plug arrangement.
Not all woodrails are created equal.
00:07:42 |
Thu 03 Sep 2015
Episode 175 - Motor Lubrication
Properly lubricated motors will ensure that your game functions properly for years and years to come.
Some games have easy-fill tubes or wicks to allow you to lubricate their motors. Other games hav…
00:11:05 |
Wed 02 Sep 2015
Episode 174 - Using Circuit Breakers Instead of Fuses for Troubleshooting
Thanks to previous interviewee Phil Bogema for the subject of this episode.
You can substitute a fuse for a circuit breaker temporarily to troubleshoot problems in any game.
Using the link: https://w…
00:05:28 |
Tue 01 Sep 2015
Episode 173 - Router on Ball Arch Repair
My replacement Night Club playfield came with a problem: the ball arch between the shooter lane to the rebound rubber, was routed down about 1/4 inch.
I've thought about several methods for repair, a…
00:10:01 |
Mon 31 Aug 2015
Episode 172 - 1956 Bally Night Club
Bally's Night Club (1956) was a heckuva game. Rotating numbers in the corners of the bingo card, changes to quadruple your wins in certain areas of the backglass, corners scoring, an extended time t…
00:16:03 |
Sun 30 Aug 2015
Episode 171 - Fixing Cupped Inserts
Insert cupping is much more difficult to fix than sunken inserts.
There are several methods that can be used, and I give some of the pros and cons of each.
Get ready for nerve-wracking sanding!
00:12:50 |
Sat 29 Aug 2015
Episode 170 - Insert Leveling the Easy Way
There are multiple ways to reglue inserts.
In this episode, I give the method that I use.
When inserts are loose, they must be removed and re-adhered to the game to prevent nasty playfield wear.
00:09:23 |
Fri 28 Aug 2015
Episode 169 - Troubleshooting Magic Screen Scoring
The bingo helpline lights up again tonight with a call about how to most effectively troubleshoot the scoring on a magic screen.
I give my personal method for troubleshooting, and explain the (few) s…
00:21:06 |
Thu 27 Aug 2015
Episode 168 - 1952 Williams Four Corners
In 1952, Williams put out a bingo-style game that encourages you to land in the four corners of the card to win the most replays.
As with most woodrails, there are multiple ways to win replays. In t…
00:10:10 |
Wed 26 Aug 2015
Episode 167 - Bingo Hacks
Bally Bingos were big money. If the machines had a feature that allowed for skilled players to earn replays too quickly, some sly operators would disable that feature. Alternatively, they might mak…
00:11:12 |
Tue 25 Aug 2015
Episode 166 - Solid State Bingo Ball Returns
The solid state bingos made by Wimi or GAA have a different type of ball return board - the design has one advantage over the Bally style of ball return, however, it also has a few disdvantages.
00:06:13 |
Mon 24 Aug 2015
Episode 165 - The Ball Lifter
Bally's bingos had a ball lifter that would handle multiple tasks - chief among them, to serve a ball to the shooter lane to allow the player the chance to fire!
00:06:43 |
Sun 23 Aug 2015
Episode 164 - The Ball Return Board
Bally Bingos have a special part underneath the playfield that is designed to return the balls to the trough.
This part, despite its simplicity, is also an elegant solution to getting all the balls b…
00:06:57 |
Sat 22 Aug 2015
Episode 163 - The Shutter
Bingos have a special mechanism underneath the playfield which will trap or release the balls.
This mechanism is pretty neat and actually controls quite a bit of the game logic depending on state (op…
00:11:52 |
Fri 21 Aug 2015
Episode 162 - Night Club Lives! (Partially)
Had a productive evening. Finished cleaning and swapping parts that I had onto Night Club - enough to get the game to turn on.
I have two of the motors moving appropriately, and various relays are d…
00:05:37 |
Thu 20 Aug 2015
Episode 161 - Bingo Ball Lift Button
Bally bingos have a button under the shooter rod that is only usable at certain times during gameplay. What is the function of this button? Why was it included?
Is there any difference between the …
00:06:43 |
Wed 19 Aug 2015
Episode 160 - Bingo Playfield Swap - Night Club Progress
Bingo playfields are not all created equal. I have a bingo playfield swap about 90% complete, and note some differences between solid state bingo playfields and their Bally counterparts.
00:12:28 |
Tue 18 Aug 2015
Episode 159 - Btw75 TekTip
Pinside user btw75 just picked up his first Bally bingo! A Circus Queen magic screen game. He also provided me with a great tech tip (or TekTip) that I just had to share.
Thanks btw75!
00:03:11 |
Mon 17 Aug 2015
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