This evening we tried a first game with the Elektra. First observations as well: some targets do not score, and the machine apparently freezes in two specific cases:

• when the ball is captured at the top of the upper playfield, it is not ejected afterwards, but if it's freed "by hand" the game continues.
• when the game continues to the lower playfield, after the timeout the machine freezes.

After looking around a little bit, we made a quick list of the things that will need attention on the Kiss:

This afternoon was dedicated to the Creature's Power Board. After running the tests I had a bunch of nasty surprises (see the previous post on this topic), so I had to try to clean the mess.

Roughly put, since it was obvious that the problems stemmed from any of:

• Bad components
• Bad solders
• Bad tracks

It seemed logical to clean out the whole bank, remove all components so that they could be replaced with new parts, but also so that the tracks could be tested. And of course this would make room for new, clean solders.

The past 3 days have been spent removing all the previous broken by design hacks and fixing things, and running tests to identify further issues. There were surprises, good, and bad :-P

• The hologram's motor works intermittently, only when fiddling with the triac board's fuse. Looks like a dry solder, or maybe a damaged Triac board, likely considering the next item...

I had a better look at the CFTBL now, and here's the result:

There are a few missing items:

• The lockdown bar
• One ball has gone missing
• The left slingshot plastic is from another machine, a Doctor Who, see this picture:
  

Also, all the rubbers need to be replaced, the plunger knob is damaged, and the wiring needs a thorough check (there are obvious plugs mismatches, unsoldered elements, and weird shunts and other electric hacks that look really wrong)!