After further inspection...

After working on the playing field last night for about an hour, all of the plastic posts are cleaned as well as the bumper covers ands rollover guides. We also developed a system to mark and organize all the screws. We are going to have some extremely tedious paperwork on our hands, but hopefully it will pay off when everything is installed correctly.

I finished the night off by testing the fourth player display driver. Great news! The driver works perfectly; the LED display glass is defective! This means the replacement part is much cheaper! I may have found a replacement for it for $42. We will see if it is compatible before we order it.
I do have some bad news though. After careful inspection, the playing field overlay is starting to come up. It is bubbling in the middle of the field and lifting near parts. This means I get to do some research and possibly a huge over haul!

In other news, I ran across a program that could potentially provide graphics for the target decals. It is called VPinMame. It is a pinball machine hardware emulator. When you pair it with the appropriate pinball machine table, Sorcerer, you have our family pinball machine on your computer. The great news is that I can potentially use the graphics from this to help restore the pinball machine.

That is all for now. Cheers!

The project begins!

Today marks the first day of actual progress on the restoration of our William's 1985 Sorcerer Pinball. After a quick examination, I found the following things to fix:

• 4th Player Display is not functioning
• Rubber rings need to be replaced
• Playfield needs an intense cleaning, possibly new clear coat.
• 'E' target assembly needs to be replaced
  
• Target assembly needs new graphics
  
• 1 bumper cover is cracked
• Lamps, Lamps, Lamps, and more Lamps!
• Rollover 'A' switch needs to be examined/replaced.
• Coils need cleaning/replacing.
• Screw holes from 'easy mode' need to be filled/sanded
• New pinballs are needed
• Legs need to be polished
• Everything needs to be waxed
• Possibly a new paint job
  

This is just a quick list I came up with, I am certain more things will need to be fixed.
Let the fun begin!