*sigh* Alright. So while this was being stored, I had in the old glass in it, the glass from the fire. When I went to remove it, it was being very stubborn. I got it half way off and got just a bit too rough and boom. It was a hell of a sound

Here we go

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Hahaha you ain't lying. This was the original bad glass anyways. I remember putting it on there "incase something happens". Turns out I was right.
Oh well, was being replaced anyways.

Installing some new speakers. I have to be ready for board day. I got ROMs in today from John Wart. If you ever need ROMs, please consider John. He also helped me find the boards for an unbelievable cheap price, $525 actually. Talk about a stand up guy.

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Boards are in. I have to go pick them up about 20 minutes away. I will be picking them up after work. I'll need to run the wires and install boards and roms tonight. The tricky part is going to be getting the connections in their appropriate spot. Remember most of the wires are brown or black at this point. Hopefully the keys will help me out with the connections. A very helpful pinhead on a Facebook group took the time to send me dozens of photos this week. She is amazing. Thanks Christy if you are on here as well!

EDIT: I probably won't be ready to hit the switch tonight but it'll be in the next two to three days for sure as long as everything arrived as it is supposed to.

Yeah I did, they were pretty bad. I'll post some pictures in just a second. I washed them first with mean green and then They soaked in a bath of Alcohol for a day. They got a little better but still not good at all.

I would have to unsolder from the board. For some reason, this pin the wires go from the board connections all the way to soldered on the playfield parts. There is no connections, I've never seen that in a pin. That's not out of the question to try but it won't be until I know I can make this thing run again. Even then, I doubt that would do any better than Mean Green and alcohol.

Wires get darker closer to the connections so I'll have to follow them back.
Box showed up busted to hell. Boards look fine but I'll have to see about the DMD. DMD does have burn in.

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For the metal backbox mount (is there a name for this piece?) it is rusted to hell. I am just trying to make sure I can get the game running before I pull this piece and restore it. So what I am doing for testing is sanding down the mounts to achieve a solid ground. I de-rusted the screws that hold the boards in and they are drying now. Once I verify everything works, I will pull the mount out and will probably have to paint everything but the mounts. It is extremely pitted due to extensive rust.

Holy crap, I'm getting nervous.

Again, I cleaned the board mounts, not the full back. I'm waiting to see if I can get it running before i do any more restoring. I'm way over my price point as it is.

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Had to call it quits for the night. Down to about 15 connections and I need to solder up a couple things.

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I guarantee this is going to be the case as well. I'm not looking forward to it but I realize it needs to be done. Boards do look good though, I hope the DMD didn't get damaged in the move and I hope the MONOPOLY burn in is not too severe when it's being played.

Oh shush

Getting closer...

I lost the light harness for the strip tease toy, so I'll have to make my own when it comes time.

Here's my prediction.
40% chance fuse will blow
30% chance it'll work
20% chance it'll do nothing
10% chance it'll catch on fire again

20% it is.
Lights came on some sound indication comes through, (what does this mean)?

Nothing on DMD. When I first started turning it on, the leds on the driver board, half were on. Now they are all on. The sound didn't come on for like 30 seconds when turned on, now its immediately.

This is the sound.

Well, first step in the right direction.

Hopefully this weekend I'll be able to start redoing the connections. I have the wire harness from the parted out redemption. They have the same connections and even keyed perfectly. I should be able to remove the old wires from those, nip the new wires and plug them in correctly.

I don't know anything about Sterns so bare with me. Is there a switch that is putting it into the menu? Is it going into menu since this is the first time its being booted?

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Thanks Rob. I was curious on the switches at the coin door so I disconnected them near the door. That didn't change it. So that means it's in the backbox more than likely. This was the same sound it was making with the old boards so I know its not the new boards. I will have to trace them up this weekend. More than likely they got melted together.

I got the DMD going, let's just say someone working on this game is an idiot

I was talking about just replacing the connectors, not the whole harness. I have all the ones I need since the redemption game used the same boards and the connections are already keyed the same. Not sure if you can reuse these connections.

I'm actually pretty good at crimping, I have had a lot of experience on Sys 6 games in the area. I think I might go that route, its the safest way really. I haven't decided.

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Centerfold closed correctly. Strip tease motor is running continuously. The pyramid spinny thing is not spinning to its correct spot, but I'm pumped!

I'm building a list of connections right now. There's no point in going all out this far to cheap out now. It looks like I'll be around $35 before shipping on all the connections. It will be a very long process. I'll probably try to do 3 or 4 a day so I don't burn myself out.

Small update. I actually got pretty good at wiggling CN6 and being able to move my way through the menu. Wiggle left for select, wiggle to the right to navigate left, etc. So I got to the centerfold motor test and it turns out that's the one getting stuck running. The Closed switch isn't activating so really I'm at a stand still until I can rebuild the connections. That's going to be almost all of my problems.

Thanks guys, GPE was out of town and their site was down last week (I'm assuming for the expo) so I will get around to purchasing these connectors sometime this week.

That's awesome! It looks like someone deflated the topper.

Just bought all the connectors. It was around $32 shipped. Over 250 parts in the order and I forgot the damn keys...

Email sent, still waiting to hear from them. Hopefully we can get that added with no issues, I can do it without them but I would much rather not. If I was a full on operator I would just break toothpicks in them

Ok, I got the keys added to the order. They were very quick to respond to me, I love dealing with GPE. I have a couple switches coming from Marco that snapped off while I was cleaning them. That should tell you how brittle some of this stuff is to deal with. I am sure I will end up replacing at least a quarter of the switches after a little gameplay.

Thanks, I like hearing that. It has been a very long tiring process. I doubt I will take anything like this on for a few years after this one. If I came across another, I will do some steps to prevent further rusting and I would store it for a bit.

I quit adding it up for the exact same reason.