Silverball Restorations – Pinball and Arcade Restorations

First of all, people always ask what PCB stands for as they see it often when they read about arcade and pinball machine repair. PCB stands for “printed circuit board”. The PCBs are the boards in your machines that house the brains of the machines. If you have a problem with any of your PCBs, your machine will not function properly and maybe not at all. In this video I show how to remove a PCB from the backbox of a pinball machine and give a couple of tips on how to make sure you don’t make mistakes putting it back in.

There are tons of cleaning products out there for pinball machines. I go over the products I use and recommend. Sorry if I’m a little wordy in the video, but I found that there are lots of questions about this process. Enjoy!

If you listen closely you can hear my baby boy in the background making noise. He loves to interrupt daddy’s videos.

Here’s a cheap fix if you have scratches in your pinball or arcade machine art. You’ll obviously only want to do this if you can find a good color match, but if you can, it works quite well! Enjoy the clip.

Here’s how you clean the translite or backglass on a pinball machine. If you need to clean between the glass and the front of the translite, you can remove the translite by pulling on the translite holder/clips on all four sides of the glass. Be careful not to scratch the translite if you do so, and only clean between the glass and translite if it is indeed dirty. Typically only the back of the translite needs cleaning, so try that first.

Sometimes you’ll need to remove the translite or backglass from a pinball machine to change the batteries on the machine (do this about once a year!), to clean your translite, or to service the boardset. This video shows you how to get inside.

Here’s a video showing how to remove the glass from your pinball machine.

I’m starting up a series of pinball and arcade instructional videos that will range from the very basic up to the more advanced. My goal is to provide a resource for current pinball and arcade machine owners, but also to help people make a good purchase when looking for games. People can request specific videos by using our contact form, found on the About Us page. This first video is really disorganized, rambly, and rushed, but it’s more of a test run than an indication of the final product I’ll be pushing. More videos have already been recorded and they’ll be going up soon. Feel free to subscribe to the YouTube channel so keep up with new releases, or just keep watching this site for new posts.

Summary:

• Replace batteries in the backbox
• Open coin door and enter the adjustment menu using the buttons on the coin door
• Reset factory settings (will usually work if you just cycle the menu and back out as well)
• Exit Adjustment Menu
• Your machine should be back to working 100%