Here is one more going out to earn its keep:
bad trough switches, broken back box, no general illumination on playfield, jury-rigged plunger, bad coin switch, no tilt bob.
Fully LED’ed
Category Archives: Repairs
Space Invaders ready for pickup
I had to send out the deflection board to someone with more skills than me. He ended up giving me a different board so I don’t feel so bad that I couldn’t fix it.
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Bally KISS complete
This one has been down for 14 years. It will be back home and playing well tomorrow.
Rush the Rock ready for pickup
This machine came in with plenty of problems:
Wells Gardner LCD Blown (Replaced with Weiya M3129D)
Force Feedback Controller Blown (OPA541AP chips)
FF Motor wired backwards
Bad Steering Pot
Melted Coin Reject Button
No Keys and a Locked Coin Door Lockbar
Dead PCB Battery
I also upgraded the Hard Disk to a CF Adapter
This is what a burned trace looks like on a Bally solenoid driver board.
This was the trace for the outhole kicker on a Bally .
And this is the repair.
It must have been a smelly fire.
Bally Kiss and Elvira Pinball Machines in da House.
Two nice machines came in for shops and repairs. Between the two of them, they have lain idle for over 20 years. Their rest is almost over!
Pinball games in the shop.
A couple of new machines came into the shop today. They will require minor repairs & Shop jobs.
Space Invaders Deluxe Motorola monitor failure.
This machine came in the shop some time ago. It was not booting, but after manipulating the conncector, I got the board to come up with the following images on the display:
I wasn’t sure if it was the board or the monitor so I hooked up a little monitor and isolated the problem to the monitor:
