🦎 THE GRAND LIZARD BATTLE IS FINALLY OVER!!! 🦎
🦎 THE GRAND LIZARD BATTLE IS FINALLY OVER!!! 🦎
After what feels like an entire geological era, I have FINALLY defeated the Grand Lizard! 😂 In this episode of Pinball Shenanigans, I battle Lizzie one more time — and hopefully, FOR THE LAST TIME! The biggest problem that has been haunting me for what seems like an eternity has finally been solved: THE EYES FLASH!!! 👀💡 Yes, after nearly a decade of this machine being in my life, I have finally figured out what was stopping those darn Grand Lizard eyes from flashing properly. There have been chips replaced, troubleshooting, testing, head scratching, multimeter probing, questionable decisions and probably a few things that should never have been said around a pinball machine. 🤣 But somehow… WE DID IT! The flashers are working, the eyes are flashing, Lizzie is happy, I'm happy, and most importantly… I DON'T HAVE TO THINK ABOUT THIS PROBLEM ANYMORE! 😂 And apparently I'm on a roll because there's another machine that has been taking up a considerable amount of brain space lately… 🔫 GOTTLIEB 007 JAMES BOND IS GONE! 🕵️♂️ That's right — I SOLD THE JAMES BOND 007 machine! Which means that I have technically resolved every problem with that machine. 😂 Was it fixed? Well… let's just say the problem is no longer my problem! 🤣 James Bond has officially left the building, so I can now proudly declare that particular project RESOLVED using the most powerful repair technique known to pinball technicians: SELLING THE DAMN THING. 😂 So with James Bond gone and Grand Lizard finally behaving, we're making some serious progress around here! With the final Grand Lizard gremlins finally evicted, I finish up the last little details and then it's time for the moment we've been waiting for: 🎯 A PROPER PLAY TEST! After all these years of fighting with this machine, does Grand Lizard finally play the way it should? Come along for the ride as we put Lizzie through her paces and celebrate the end of one of the longest-running battles in Pinball Shenanigans history.
Kineticist’s take
Grand Lizard flasher repair finally solved after decade of troubleshooting.
Synopsis
Mike Dus documents a multi-year restoration of the Grand Lizard pinball machine's eye flashers, ultimately discovering the issue was a missing 5-ohm resistor on a flasher resistor bank. The video covers detailed electronics troubleshooting, explains flasher voltage regulation in Williams 11 machines, and concludes with successful gameplay after the repair.
Entities
- Williams· company
- 007· game
- Grand Lizard· game
- Mars God of War· game
- Pin Wiki· organization
- Pinball Repair Help Group· organization
- Pinball Shenanigans· organization
- Corey· person
- Dan Martin· person
- Hodgees MT / HajesMT· person
- John Highfield· person
- Mike Dus· person
- Steve Young· person
- System 11· product
- Forked River Brewing Company· venue
