Buck Rogers Gottlieb System 1 Pinball Pin Ball

Buck Rogers 1979 Gottlieb System 1 Pinball table.

This is my personal table that I acquired recently. It has new rubber rings, new bumper caps and drop targets coming soon, new solenoids, new cpu board with ground/battery modifications performed, power supply has larger capacitor installed for better dc filtering, new coin door decal and paper cost inserts, minor playfield wear, minor backglass wear, minor body wear. Polished and waxed earlier this month (September 2008).

The video starts with a wide shot, then comes in for close ups of the action on the lower field, then the upper field, followed with various close ups of some of the action on the table. My knowledge of the scoring is limited, please feel free to correct any verbal mis givens on how the scoring works in the comments section.

Category:

Entertainment

Tags:

• buck
• rogers
• pin
• ball
• pinball
• 1979
• gottlieb
• system
• fast
• table
• action
• 70's
• fun
• groovy

[theefxman]

First I scrubbed it with harse and then light steel wool and novus 3 then I used a sock stuffed with some papertowels wrapped around a plastic hanger plugged into a battery operated drill, on that I put novus 3 and it rotates oblong slapping the coin door as it rapidily rotates, and doing this in thin 1 inch patterns I worked my way up and back down the door until it started to create a reflection in the metal.

Don't forgot while you are laughing that you asked the question, good result? :)

[chrisfi3d]

Can I ask what method you used to make that coin door shine like that??

[theefxman]

@chrisfi3d Well.. hehe first I used heavy gauge steel wool and scrubbed the life out of it using stainless steel polish as a lubricant. Then I used a sock stuff with some papertowels in the tip and wrapped around a plastic hanger, The broken piece of hanger then in my drill chuck. I use that which rotates the sock at a funny angle and full speed I used that to slowly and painfully run it along the surface, this gave it a nice shine once you wipe all the crap off. Funny right? :)

[ddjrico489]

My grandpa has one of these in his basement, but unfortunately I've never seen it in working condition :(

[croboing]

The best pinball ever.... and is from 70-s.....

ekrem rastura :)

[DiscGolfLive]

I've got a Buck Rogers as well, my only pin so far. Love this era of machines. I'd have preferred a Bally machine from the same period, but Buck became available at a nice price so I grabbed him up. Once the main board gets switched out, they run pretty reliably (knock wood).

I keep the sound switch on my machine on the other option, which is less spacey sounding, more traditional.

Thanks for the video.

[Schush]

That is a sweet machine!!!!

[NardDogz]

Sweet machine! Looks VERY nice, especially considering the game's age.

Looks like a good player. Captive ball, too.

Love the blue LED displays.

Wow, the audio is really doing weird things in the video. Either that, or I really need to adjust my medication.