Shopping White Water Part 5: Conclusion

In this final post about shopping White Water, I wanted to list everything that I worked on or changed. It's quite a list!

• New Mirco playfield
• All new rubbers (white)
• All new plastic posts
• All new ramps except for Insanity Falls
• All new mountains
• All new coils
• All new plastics
• Cleaned all metal parts, replaced broken or fatigued parts
• Installed LED kit from Pinball Bulbs
• Cleaned all stand up targets
• Cleaned Bigfoot
• Installed new flippers
• Installed color DMD
• Installed Rottendog Power Driver Board
• Waxed playfield
• Installed new remote battery pack
• Rebuilt pop bumpers
• Reflowed bad solder joints
• Installed green target protectors
• Cleaned wiring harnesses
• Cleaned cabinet interior
• Installed new start button
• Installed new accessory outlet (was missing)
• Installed secondary power supply
• Installed lighted flipper buttons
• Installed Cliffys (including upper playfield VUK)
• Installed mylar pieces
• Installed (watch for drop" sign on Insanity Falls
• Installed left outlane guide decal (covers bare metal guide)
• Installed new Pyle speakers and subwoofer

Not yet installed:

• 3-D Translite
• Skull Mountain
• Back mountain LED strips
• LED spotlights
• Bigfoot hotfoot light kit (lights up Bigfoot, lights up red during hotfoot)

This thing is now absolutely gorgeous. I took the best photo I could after playing a game and getting grand champion (River Master), but without the new translite installed (I can't find the damn thing!) there's a lot of reflection from the backbox lights. There's a bit too much blue at the top so I will be swapping the blue for cool whites. Still, I think you can idea of how it looks now...

It's finally great to have a fully functioning machine again! I added the secondary power supply to prevent resets, and used it to power the lighted flipper buttons and the Hotfoot light mod. This was my first playfield swap and I learned a lot...in other words, I learned from my mistakes. I applied that learning to my next playfield swap, The Creature from the Black Lagoon, but that is a story for another day...