I am restoring a horribly abused Capcom Airborne. It seems to be in fairly good mechanical condition with only a few exceptions. The one I am working on now is a bank of 8 lights that is out on the back board. I've traced (well, not really, the self test kind of told me) the problem down to the driver board JP9 / JP10.6 . I don't see anything physically wrong here (the harness is not disconnected or anything). I pulled the harness on both JP9 and JP10 and reseated them. No change. So, what do I look at next? I have limited knowledge on working on pinballs but I have all the tools, etc to fix whatever is wrong. I just need pointed in the right direction.

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Believe it or not I bought it in a lot of 10 games for $400 and have spent about a month restoring it so far. I have over 600 pictures of the restoration and have posted a few on my website (more will come as the process winds down). I will probably have the machine (play field) back together by the end of next week and will start on the electronics/mechanicals. So far the only thing I have found that doesn't work is that one bank of lights. I do need to do something about the bottom of the cabinet (it is pretty soft) and will have to polish up the legs a bit. They are still full of old mud dobber nests.

The rear can be reached when the play field is raised but it sticks down inside the body so it is tough to get to things.

My Airborne webpage:
http://www.lightweightmiata.com/arcade/airborne/

Anyone have an answer to my question???

A neat pair of pictures for SLeRiC (took me a month to get here)...

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