When some 7.62mm rounds hit a few inches above my head I felt like a dodged a few bullets

That's crazy Stack where you in the forces?

Psh. I hear gunfire probably at least once a week in the creek behind my house, and I live in Dallas proper.

I just replaced the batteries from my newly acquired Stern Quicksilver, from a remote battery pack. They were corroding already even though they said they were good until 2013. Making me think I now need to spend a some time to go through all my other machines.

2003??? I change my batteries every year on every machine around august, just did it again about a week ago I had that machine for 2 -3 years, that is very strange..... I could have missed them i.e. not changed them one year, just strange

I hear muscat shots everyday and cannon fire once a week
work opposite an historic theme park

Yes. Though I can't say I dodged or they missed.

LTG

Dude. Send me a PM when you can find a dependable clock replacement. It seems like every once in a while I have to replace mine. The price you have to pay for owning a top #1/2 title.

I put my Black Knight 2000 in the garage at the rental house I was moving into with the idea that I would be setting it back up inside of 3 months or so, so I had left the batteries in it. Turns out I never got my machines set up at that house, so it was 6 years in storage total. Fortunately the batteries were completely non-leaking, and the first thing I did was take them out and throw them away. Since then I've had a remote battery mount installed.

Yep, when a machine at a bar burned up due to bad power and we decided not to route pins there anymore. Could've killed another game!

I suppose I could have put in new old batteries too, that would explain how they were fine yet old. Weird indeed, glad she is doing well out there in CA!

All batteries now are junk, I have had new ones that were leaking in the package.
All my games get remotes on long leads and I never change them unless they go dead, the newer the battery the bigger the chance they will leak.
Holders are cheap, if they do leak cut the holder off and toss it and solder on a new one.
Way cheaper and easier than 60 new batteries a year and if you get a bad batch you now have a bunch of leakers all at once.

Yeah, it's a new game room that used to be a storage area and they didn't upgrade the circuits back there so the A/C is overloading everything... found 5 blown fuses (one actually exploded) and it killed the driver board and playfield power board. Going to be fun replacing all those transistors.

Actually, I was incorrect. The batteries said 2017!

I prefer the capacitor mod for the older games. If I lose a high score because the game is not turned on in months... oh well, I guess I really didn't care.