Fuses Are Blowing, Chips Are Being Probed... Send Help! Grand Lizard & 007 Woes!

Grand Lizard vs. James Bond 007: Two Battles, Zero Surrender! 🦎🔫 In this episode of Pinball Shenanigans, I head back to the garage for yet another battle with the mighty Grand Lizard! The good news? I FINALLY figured out my sound problem! 🥳 The bad news? The problem was me. Again. 😂 Thankfully, Grand Lizard is now making noise once more, and somehow I managed to fix the problem without blowing up anything else. Progress! Next up, the battle continues with the mysterious locked on flasher issue. I bust out the multimeter, fire up my logic probe, and start poking around chips like a man who is mostly sure he knows what he's doing. I'm still learning how to use the logic probe, but so far... nothing has exploded that I'm aware of! Then it's time to visit my old friend, Gottlieb James Bond 007. Unfortunately, James Bond apparently doesn't want to cooperate either. Fuses are blowing, bridge rectifiers need testing, power supply voltages are being checked, and 007 continues to resist all attempts at diplomacy. So the battles continue... 🦎 Grand Lizard: Sound fixed! Flasher still fighting back. 🔫 James Bond 007: Blowing fuses and refusing to cooperate. 🔧 Me: Armed with a multimeter, a logic probe, and questionable confidence. Two machines. Two battles. One stubborn pinball repair guy. I'm not giving up yet! If you enjoy pinball repairs, troubleshooting, classic machines, electronics diagnostics, and watching me occasionally discover that I caused the problem myself, you're in the right place!