Name: Danny
Date: 1/30/11
I am a bit over due for a blog, sorry.
4 has been down for a couple of days due to me waiting on a part. It is a very important part, and the machine doesn't function properly without it. It should come in soon.
Other then that, most everything has been running fine. A couple littles problems with some of them, but after a little bit of tweaking, they are better.
I located out change machine finally, we should get it sooner then later.
The skeeball people are kind of giving me the run around, the company that is, in regards to SB #1. I believe I can fix it, I just need enough time to get in there and do some serious rewiring, Wednesday maybe? My free work time this week all really depends on this class I am going to do, which I still need more information about.
Also, I have ran out of some necessary light bulbs for the establishment. I know one of which we have currently out in the dining area. I'll have to go get some, but due to all the hours I'm pulling from teaching this class, fixing 4 when I get my part and rewiring skeeball, I am not sure when I'll have the time. If you all care to let a busser or any body else go, I will gladly give them the light bulbs we need to replace and they can run the errand for me. If not, it might have to wait till next week.
Saturday, January 29, 2011
Thursday, January 27, 2011
Name: Kristin
Date: 1/27
Problems with lanes:
Lane 4 - Though Danny's rig did work for a few hours, lane 4 wriggled free and began skipping the 5pin each time. I tried the adjustment that Danny mentioned tightening some things on the turret chute but alas, it wouldn't tighten past a certain part and did not improve its condition at all. I put her out of her misery and turned her off.
Date: 1/27
Problems with lanes:
Lane 4 - Though Danny's rig did work for a few hours, lane 4 wriggled free and began skipping the 5pin each time. I tried the adjustment that Danny mentioned tightening some things on the turret chute but alas, it wouldn't tighten past a certain part and did not improve its condition at all. I put her out of her misery and turned her off.
Thursday, January 20, 2011
1/20/11
Name: Danny
Date: 1/20/11
Problems with lanes: 5's turret drive belt was pretty much demolished when I came in yesterday, a new one is ordered and should be here shortly.
I contacted the company where the change machine was sent to. They are seeming to have problems with what happened to our machine. And by that, I mean locating it. I gave them the RA number, and there seems to be some kind of weird issue going on, on their end, They said they would call me back as soon as they can.
I am going back and forth between the skeeball company, trying to figure out what is going on with Skeeball 1. So far, it seems to be the PC board.
An out of order sign was placed on skeeball 4 when I came in this morning, I don't know why, I tried it out and it seemed to work fine.
Date: 1/20/11
Problems with lanes: 5's turret drive belt was pretty much demolished when I came in yesterday, a new one is ordered and should be here shortly.
I contacted the company where the change machine was sent to. They are seeming to have problems with what happened to our machine. And by that, I mean locating it. I gave them the RA number, and there seems to be some kind of weird issue going on, on their end, They said they would call me back as soon as they can.
I am going back and forth between the skeeball company, trying to figure out what is going on with Skeeball 1. So far, it seems to be the PC board.
An out of order sign was placed on skeeball 4 when I came in this morning, I don't know why, I tried it out and it seemed to work fine.
Thursday, January 13, 2011
1/13/11
Name: Danny
Date: 1/13/11
ALL lanes are running.
3 Is back up and running fine.
4 is back up and running fine.
EVERYTHING is back up and running FINE!
it was a long time coming. That was a bit of a rough patch there, but hopefully it is fully behind us.
And as a friendly note to all pinsetters. I found this out for second time today, so I must recommend against it! PLEASE(!!!) do NOT use WD-40 to stop the squeak noise on 5. I tried it after the whole 5/time delay gear fiasco a couple of weeks ago, and it did the same thing last night. It totally lets the time delay gear slip out of place, which will cause it to get jammed into place, which will not allow the 5-pin index to happen. It is a noise we are just going to have to deal with.
Date: 1/13/11
ALL lanes are running.
3 Is back up and running fine.
4 is back up and running fine.
EVERYTHING is back up and running FINE!
it was a long time coming. That was a bit of a rough patch there, but hopefully it is fully behind us.
And as a friendly note to all pinsetters. I found this out for second time today, so I must recommend against it! PLEASE(!!!) do NOT use WD-40 to stop the squeak noise on 5. I tried it after the whole 5/time delay gear fiasco a couple of weeks ago, and it did the same thing last night. It totally lets the time delay gear slip out of place, which will cause it to get jammed into place, which will not allow the 5-pin index to happen. It is a noise we are just going to have to deal with.
Tuesday, January 11, 2011
1/11/11
Name: Danny
Date: 1/11/11
7's power problem last night has been solved. I am not 100% sure what it was, but I believe it was a combination of a couple things. (electrical cables and deck jam tube jam.
6 has been having problems with the clutch motor belt falling off. I made a crappy attempt to fix it two days ago, but luckily Brian did a better job on it last night.
6 has also been having problems with the pin gate. It will lock and not allow pins access to the turret. I believe it is a combination between pieces that are bent out of shape and components having to much play. I did some reshaping and some lubing, and it seems to be doing ok. We will see after tonight.
3 & 4 have been having problems cycling when they are NOT supposed to cycle. 3 was FAR more the problem child and only occasionally dragging 4 along with it. I figuered after looking into to it, that was a problem with the "auto trig" box that the two lanes share. The LED alignment lights on lane 3's side have been sporadic and inconsistent. Flaring up and down. My theory, which was backed up by tech support from the components company agreed. That 3 was sending so many consent false alerts, that it was sending some cross signals that it was messing with four and fucking it up occasionally. I ordered replacement lane sensors, popped them in, and fixed the LED lights and the triggering issue.
2 has been down forever! The company I ordered the replacement part from FUCKED UP and screwed my ass to pieces. They claimed they had 1 IN Texas, which was not true, turns out. I got an invoice and everything...turns out it has been on backorder for a mallinia. After doing some research, I found a place that had 3 of them. I ordered to, just in case. And had it 2 day mailed to us. It will arrive tomorrow morning. I will come in early, pop that shit in, an fix that shit.
At this point, we will be fully functional once again. Like a high quality, top notch tranny hooker.
Bada bing
Date: 1/11/11
7's power problem last night has been solved. I am not 100% sure what it was, but I believe it was a combination of a couple things. (electrical cables and deck jam tube jam.
6 has been having problems with the clutch motor belt falling off. I made a crappy attempt to fix it two days ago, but luckily Brian did a better job on it last night.
6 has also been having problems with the pin gate. It will lock and not allow pins access to the turret. I believe it is a combination between pieces that are bent out of shape and components having to much play. I did some reshaping and some lubing, and it seems to be doing ok. We will see after tonight.
3 & 4 have been having problems cycling when they are NOT supposed to cycle. 3 was FAR more the problem child and only occasionally dragging 4 along with it. I figuered after looking into to it, that was a problem with the "auto trig" box that the two lanes share. The LED alignment lights on lane 3's side have been sporadic and inconsistent. Flaring up and down. My theory, which was backed up by tech support from the components company agreed. That 3 was sending so many consent false alerts, that it was sending some cross signals that it was messing with four and fucking it up occasionally. I ordered replacement lane sensors, popped them in, and fixed the LED lights and the triggering issue.
2 has been down forever! The company I ordered the replacement part from FUCKED UP and screwed my ass to pieces. They claimed they had 1 IN Texas, which was not true, turns out. I got an invoice and everything...turns out it has been on backorder for a mallinia. After doing some research, I found a place that had 3 of them. I ordered to, just in case. And had it 2 day mailed to us. It will arrive tomorrow morning. I will come in early, pop that shit in, an fix that shit.
At this point, we will be fully functional once again. Like a high quality, top notch tranny hooker.
Bada bing
Monday, January 10, 2011
Name:brian
Date:1/10
Problems with lanes:Lane 7 is dead. No power. No nothing.
Lane 6 was the problem lane of the night. First, the clutch drive belt kept popping off. I added a spring to hold the motor in place better and that solved that problem. 6 is now also not indexing past the 2nd pin sometimes. It will just stop and not want to put any more pins into the turret.
Other than that, 8 had some deck jams and some balls got stuck randomly.
I also cleaned up the pit a little bit.
Date:1/10
Problems with lanes:Lane 7 is dead. No power. No nothing.
Lane 6 was the problem lane of the night. First, the clutch drive belt kept popping off. I added a spring to hold the motor in place better and that solved that problem. 6 is now also not indexing past the 2nd pin sometimes. It will just stop and not want to put any more pins into the turret.
Other than that, 8 had some deck jams and some balls got stuck randomly.
I also cleaned up the pit a little bit.
Saturday, January 8, 2011
Name:Brian
Date:1/8
Problems with lanes:Lane 4: Having problems with the 5 pin release lever/interlock probe. Sometimes it will engage but not release the pins, much like Lane 6 or it will not engage and you have to manually hit it. Other times you will get a jam in the turret with the 8 pin.
Other than that lane 8 had a couple deck jams/blackouts.
Also at the end of the night lane 4s solenoid was having problems. It was really hot and I had to manually activate the machine after every ball. It seemed like it wanted to activate but it would not push into the solenoid all the way. It is fine now I guess it just got tired?
Date:1/8
Problems with lanes:Lane 4: Having problems with the 5 pin release lever/interlock probe. Sometimes it will engage but not release the pins, much like Lane 6 or it will not engage and you have to manually hit it. Other times you will get a jam in the turret with the 8 pin.
Other than that lane 8 had a couple deck jams/blackouts.
Also at the end of the night lane 4s solenoid was having problems. It was really hot and I had to manually activate the machine after every ball. It seemed like it wanted to activate but it would not push into the solenoid all the way. It is fine now I guess it just got tired?
Sunday, January 2, 2011
1/2/11
Name: Danny
Date:1/2/11
Lane 3 was having a problem that consisted of it recycling through the first frame and landing you right on the 2nd frame, every time. And it would normally get stuck in the 270 position as well. I performed numerous adjustments, end result being, it works again.
Lane 2 on the other hand, is not so lucky. The Put cushion link broke. I mean, literally snapped. We of course don't have a back up one. because wow, they aren't ever supposed to do that. I am in the process of tracking one down. but need to wait till the morning to actually talk to someone from the company about it. Long story short, Lane 2 is going to be down for a while, until we get tht piece, that is.
I am coming in way early tomorrow to dedicate time to skeeball 3. It wiring in it is all jacked and pretty much needs to be gutted out and replaced with some fresh wires. So that unit should be up again come tomorrow and better then ever.
Also, I'm going to home depot tomorrow to get the right screws to fix 4's relentless turret problems.
I am number one. All others are number 2 or lower.
Date:1/2/11
Lane 3 was having a problem that consisted of it recycling through the first frame and landing you right on the 2nd frame, every time. And it would normally get stuck in the 270 position as well. I performed numerous adjustments, end result being, it works again.
Lane 2 on the other hand, is not so lucky. The Put cushion link broke. I mean, literally snapped. We of course don't have a back up one. because wow, they aren't ever supposed to do that. I am in the process of tracking one down. but need to wait till the morning to actually talk to someone from the company about it. Long story short, Lane 2 is going to be down for a while, until we get tht piece, that is.
I am coming in way early tomorrow to dedicate time to skeeball 3. It wiring in it is all jacked and pretty much needs to be gutted out and replaced with some fresh wires. So that unit should be up again come tomorrow and better then ever.
Also, I'm going to home depot tomorrow to get the right screws to fix 4's relentless turret problems.
I am number one. All others are number 2 or lower.
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