1991 Gottlieb Class of 1812 Refurb |

Here’s a great game with a great theme. Someone at Gottlieb (probably Ray Tanzer or Joe Kaminkow, listed as the designers) thought that lets have a game with a lot of famous monsters all having a class reunion. Dracula, the Werewolf, Frankenstein, Medusa, they are all here with a few other familiar looking characters. Why not make it the Class of 1812? To just name a few, the game features Tchaikovsky’s 1812 classic music with full on chicken sounds as the chorus, chattering talking teeth, a severed hand and a fully lit up and pumping heart. Sounds like pinball gold to me!

This Class of 1812 was brought to me needing quite a bit work after years of neglect. The goal was to clean it up and make it fun again. Mission accomplished! Now it plays like a new game! Here’s what was done with a parts list.

New correct 27″ legs. The game was bought with two different sets of two different sizes.
New leg bolts and leg levelers.
New power cord plug since the ground prong was missing on the old one.
New ball shooter rod.
New shooter spring and barrel spring.
Two new highly polished pinballs replaced the old, dingy ones.
New and correct Gottlieb thumb screw bolts for the head.
New playfield acorn nuts.
New playfield plastic posts.
Playfield pop bumper area was touched up and mylared.
Playfield scoop outhole was restored.
Playfield was stripped, cleaned and polished.
Playfield habitrail drops were touched up and mylared.
Area above flippers was touched up around inserts.
Right ramp drop for multiball was touched up and mylared.
Original playfield mylar was high speed polished.
All playfield plastics were cleaned and polished.
New flipper rebuild kit.
New flipper bats.
New white Bat targets (3).
New red round drop target bank targets (6).
Drop targets were cleaned and adjusted.
Sling shot switches were cleaned and adjusted.
Replaced two mini posts that had stripped mounting holes. They were switched to #8 machine screw type with t-nuts.
New pop bumper skirts.
New roll over guides for the top holes.
New playfield rubber was installed.
Head was clamped and glued in the rear bottom and top left because it was splitting apart.
New black wrinkle t-molding for the cabinet head.
Back box and ramp flashers were rewired for proper polarity (needed for LED flashers).
All bulbs and flashers were replaced with LEDs. Added LED strips under apron, in the rear of the cabinet where the heart is located, and additional #44 lamp socket and purple LED was added under the left ramp.
Lock down bar mechanism was restored and painted silver.
Ramps were cleaned and polished with Novus #2.
Backglass was cleaned.
Cabinet side rails were cleaned.
Lock down bar was regrained and cleaned.
Front lower cabinet was damaged. This was fixed.
Cabinet was touched up.
Coin door was touched up.
Playfield ramp flaps were polished.
All playfield mini-posts were polished.
Scoop outhole diverter bracket, lower bracket and activater switch were polished.
Chrome habitrails were polished.
Shooter housing was polished.
Flipper buttons and front cabinet buttons were replaced.
Back box lock was drilled out and replaced due to lost key.
Back box cabinet hinges were removed, de-rusted and repainted.
MPU coin battery was replaced with new battery holder and 2032 battery.