A set of 3 switch stacks on a motor on an old machine is really giving me troubles. I have a sister machine and could switch out the stacks. If those stacks are ok, my job is done. Probably.
Or is it nobler to keep trouble shooting the fool thing? I'm bound to figure out the problem sooner or later. (This is strictly for me as a hobby, its not a machine on a route that needs to be up and running.)
If the other game works I wouldn't mess with it. Switches don't fail unless they break or contacts burn up,you should be able to verify switch operation by testing continuity across switch
Not all luck good . Swap parts old machine might make it mad and neither work . Buy new parts and be done with it.
Shane
The sister machine is just for parts, so I wouldn’t be ruining a good machine by switching out.
The contacts seem good, although I haven’t taken them off the machine to check. There's a contact somewhere that is confusing the logic on what needs to be happening in which order on an old Bingo style machine.
And the one that I keep bending but it only stays bent long enough for me to think I fixed that one particular sub- issue.
I have a Space Invaders that was having a volume issue with its sound board, and issues with its lamp board. Both boards were original with the original serial number stickers on them. I also have a spare Space Invaders backbox in my "wall of backboxes" purely for decoration, that happened to have all its boards still in it. I swapped out both original boards for the ones in the spare, and now my SI is running perfectly. Kinda bothers me that the SI now has non-original boards, but when I teach myself how to solder and desolder on these ancient boards, I'll see if I can get the originals working again. But the important thing is that the game is now working.
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