Talkin' BaseBall Pinball machines

[Rob D.]

Mine also is a one-player model, Mark. From 1963.

http://www.ipdb.org/search.pl?any=sl...ype=quick#2210

[tedzan]

Here's a story you "pinballer's" will appreciate.

Everytime any of our 3 grandchildren are visiting us, they go straight to the Super Slugger. Six years ago, Kurtis and Madison (then
11 and 8 years old, respectively) were competing with each other....running up their scores on the machine.

Suddenly, I hear them calling...."Grampie, Grampie "

I run down to our lower garage to see (and smell) smoke emanating from the machine. Apparently, they had held down the Batting
button too long; and, this caused the Bat actuator solenoid inside the machine to burn up. I had instructed them to always moment-
arily press the Bat button. But the're just kids, these things do happen. My daughter Debbie was really upset, she knows how much
I enjoy this pinball machine.

I lifted the top of the machine and unsoldered the electromagnet coil that energized the bat mechanism. I acquired an exact replace-
ment coil from a supplier in upstate New York. Soldered it into the machine and turned on the power.

"SLAM-BAM".....now I really had a "Super Slugger", as the Bat was significantly more powerful than before. My grandchildren did me a
great favor (although they sure didn't think so that day). Obviously, the original solenoid had lost some of its juice over the past 50+
years.

What was more satisfying than realizing that I had revitalized my machine....was the glee on Kurtis' and Madison's faces, when I told
them that they had inadvertently did us all a great favor.


TED Z

[oaks1912]

Ted.... With the update made to the machine, you'll have to start tabulating a new summary of high scores. All new home run totals made after this "juicing", shall we say, will have to include an asterisk to reflect this artificial supplement, which was not available to previous record holders (you, Pat Roche , Ronnie & myself). By some longshot of a chance, was this part manufactured by Balco Enterprises.........? Hmm.......