So just picked up a Mata Hari that has been in storage for a loooong time. The MPU board is riddled with battery corrosion. Playfield looks like it will clean up good but it is rather dirty and the rubbers are rotted. Backglass is super flaked and I will need to find a replacement at some point. Cabinet is in fair condition, colors are pretty bright, but some paint flaking and the front of the cab is the worse on the paint.

This is not going to be a full on balls to the walls restore, but I am going to clean this girl up and give her new life. Going to start cleaning the playfield and replacing the rubbers after work today as im still waiting on parts to repair the mpu. Here are a few before pics.1.jpg2.jpg3.jpg4.jpg5.jpg6.jpg7.jpg8.jpg

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I hope so. Playfield seems pretty good shape besides all the dirt and gunk. This will be my first attempt at repairing the corrosion on the MPU, so that is my biggest concern, followed by replacing the back glass.

I was thinking about doing LEDS, which did you go with, got any pics to show off how it looks

Soldered off all the bad components on the MPU and (hopefully) removed all the corrosion from the MPU and took off all the components on the rectifier board. Hopefully can repopulate them this afternoon or tomorrow. Waiting on the big cap on the solenoid driver board to arrive as it was testing bad, but the rebuilt rectifier board may remedy it and put it back in the correct range.

sadly, I have replaced and repaired everything imaginable and cannot get this damn thing to work correctly

new power rectifier board, new solenoid driver board, altec mpu, re-pinned every connector. coils work if i jump them but dont work properly in game. i am just burned out on this game at the moment as it is frustrating the hell out of me.

Sure is

Yeah, not a bad idea, I will do that in the near future