Tip provided by Treasurecove.

The op who sold me the BSD had a thing. A thing with snipping any wire they could. I’ve counted at least 4 snipped wires on these games so far. Cayle George was willing to help me find a part. Here’s so info if anyone else would like it.

From what I can see, the cables you are referring to go up to the top of the playfield and power the small coil that opens and closes the left gate for the “mist” multiball. This gate is located under the large left playfield houses plastic.

These pictures I took for you should help make things clear:

(The first picture is large, may take a few seconds to load)

http://www.caylegeorge.com/pinball/bsd1.jpg
http://www.caylegeorge.com/pinball/bsd2.jpg
http://www.caylegeorge.com/pinball/bsd3.jpg
http://www.caylegeorge.com/pinball/bsd4.jpg
http://www.caylegeorge.com/pinball/bsd5.jpg

On the way to the top of the playfield, the cable goes thru the hole on the left side of the playfield next to the “castle popper” bracket as shown in the picture.

Hope this helps, if not, give me more details about your problem. :)

Have a great night,

From:
Newsgroups: rec.games.pinball
Subject: Announce: Gottlieb System3 repair guide

Though i have to admit, this certainly isn’t
the most complete repair guide. But at this
time it’s as far as i can take it. There is a
very limited amount of information on
Gottlieb System 3 pinball games. And
you don’t see a lot of these games out there.
I have only repaired a limited number of them.
So my repair experiences are not as deep
as say the more common Williams and Bally
games. But here it is:

http://marvin3m.com/sys3

If anyone has any additional repair
information they can add, please email
me. I would love to hear about it and add it
to the guide. Hopefully this repair guide
will grow with time. I find after i do a
repair guide, the popularity of that system
of game rises a bit, which helps feed
the repair guide, making it better. I certainly
hope this is the case for Gottlieb system3
pinballs too.

I would like to add that Gottlieb System3
is an excellent pinball system. Certainly
on par (if not better) than Williams WPC.
Unfortunately the weakness is in the game
design and themes themselves. I mean
what were they thinking when they did
some of these strange titles (like Operation
Thunder and Shaq Attack).

cfh at provide dot net

Newsgroups: rec.games.pinball
Subject: FS - Custom Logo Pinball Mats

I have had my treasured games in my gamesroom for many years. The floor is
hard and cold, but of course I keep the heat down a bit so I can save up for
more pins! Funny thing is many of my buddies did the exact same thing. We
had been scrounging up old sample carpet mats for years and putting them in
front of the games to make it easier to stand there and beat that elusive
high score! Problem is they look horrible, odd ends of discontinued colors
scattered all about my gamesroom. Warm, but hardly a fitting accessory for
my new LOTR!

I looked long and hard to find mats that matched my pinball themes…. they
just didn’t exist till now.

A bunch of my local pinhead buddies got together and decided that if we
couldn’t find these we’d make them. We pooled our games and skills and are
having mats made for all our pins that we now own. Some 27 different titles
in all. We have a few titles already and they are…. well they are
gorgeous! We only made a limited number of each, enough for each guy who had
the game to get one and a few extras in case of spoilage. We also had
minimum numbers that we had to make so some of the games like Haunted House
still have many extras. On the otherhand TZ, which we almost all have is in
short supply already. Other guys outside our group saw these and were so
impressed they bought mats for games they didn’t have!!As a result we have
added two titles to the end of the run at their request. Games that none of
the original group even have!!

The setup costs for these mats is very expensive so I doubt we’ll reprint
any of these once the left overs are gone as we’ll already have our own
games done. So in short if you want one for your game I’d grab it now. If
you wish to buy say 5 and only three of them are ready you can buy the three
and I’ll set them aside, when the last two are ready just pay the difference
and I’ll ship the whole lot at once to save on shipping. You’d still get the
5 qty discount and you’ll never pay more than $12 to ship them all even if
you buy 20!! But I can’t be setting aside titles for guys unless they pay
for them as you know what will happen with all the cheap ass RPGers. We’d
just forget about it or waste all our limited pinball funds going to
Allentown or buying more games!! :-) Hmmm… not a bad idea. But if you want
a title snarf it while you can.

The website is konker.tripod.com

Thanks
Bob Smith

Newsgroups: rec.games.pinball
Subject: Re: Question for commercial ops.

Here’s what I have done. I replaced the collectable Williams titles
with select Gottlieb system 3 titles. This is in laundrymats and low
profile locations. The customers there just want to play pinball and
eat up time. These are not pinball purists. SF2, Shaq, Waterworld,
911, Op Thunder, Wipe Out, & Vegas. These all make money in this type
of atmosphere.

Higher profile customers, (places with some atmosphere), get Williams
beaters. Getaway, Hurricane, WH20, Dr. Who, & similar. When I say
beaters I mean “not collector quality”.

The party rental folks can get TSPP, LOTR, T3, EATPM, Freddy, IJ,
CFTBL, & similar. These are premium rentals to specfic locations like
resorts and golf clubs. These games get photographed when placed, and
removed, for security reasons. These are also placed by a contract.

Would I place a TSPP in one of my laundramats? No way in hell. In
this part of the country within a week it would have “viva pancho
villa” etched into the cabinet and glass. This along with several
references to your mother. It’s sad but true.

I tried a Phantom of the Opera once at a pizza parlor in a less than
average location and within a week they had the mask etched off the
glass. The ownership could only say “I don no nuting”.
Games are normally location specific. You learn what to put where.

Mario
Pinthetic

From: Wolffy
Newsgroups: rec.games.pinball
Subject: Re: WW HOME ROMS now available to everyone

I was the beta tester, and the release point. Go here for the good and bad:

http://www.gaspar.net/05120901.htm

-wolffy