Category Archives: Alpha Bravo One

Alpha Bravo One Lives! Flippers wired up

Posted on June 5, 2012 by pinballproject

Wow, another month with barely any progress! I have too many hobbies I think 🙂 Finally tonight I had time to wire up the flippers. I used Molex connectors so that I can easily disconnect and reconnect the flipper wiring … Continue reading →

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Preparing to wire flippers

Posted on May 8, 2012 by pinballproject

I spent some time tonight getting more familiar with all of the various circuits from the Doctor Who wiring schematics pages. Suffice it to say, the manual and its schematics are priceless when you have a machine completely un-wired 🙂 Then … Continue reading →

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Started playfield assembly

Posted on April 8, 2012 by pinballproject

Today I started assembly of the basic mechanisms on my custom pinball playfield! It was super exciting to install the hinge brackets and drop the empty playfield into the cabinet for the first time 🙂 In addition, the following assemblies … Continue reading →

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Fabricated blank pinball playfield!

Posted on April 1, 2012 by pinballproject

If you’ve been following along on the blog, it may look like I haven’t made any progress in a while… Well, I have 🙂 It turns out fabricating things like pinball playfields is pretty tough with tools you typically have … Continue reading →

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