Flash
Williams, 1979I have an issue with score display. Looks like someone before I got this pin has used sandpaper on the board connectors. My question is what is the fix if any? Looks like that went to town on it pretty good. All score displays are very finicky works for a bit and goes out. I wiggle connectors they start working again.
image (resized).jpgimage (resized).jpgA brandishing tool would be appropriate for the contacts, not sandpaper, hopefully they didn’t remove too much material from the contacts.
If the contacts are clean my next step (although time consuming) would be to rebuild the connectors you have to wiggle to get the displays to work.
I would probably go over them with solder and then solder wick to try to fill in the gaps but I'm sure someone else will chime in here
I replaced all the terminals in each connector for now but I was thinking about building them up with solder. Right now you can see more brass color then silver on most of the contacts.
You can solder them and wipe off with a cloth to make it smooth. Don't leave lumpy solder on there it will negatively affect the springiness of the contacts you just replaced.
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