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Replace these terminal strips?

By rockwell

2 years ago



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#3 2 years ago
Quoted from rockwell:

mine have wires that have broken loose or are barely attached, so will need to at least be re-soldered

If you mean the conducting wires have broken loose then yes, just resolder them. No different than if they broke off from a coil, lamp, or switch lug really - that's required basic maintenance.

If you mean the terminal lugs have broken off the wafer/plate and are loose, then that's a little more bothersome. It's tough to get the original ones to reattach securely, and those terminal plates can be inconvenient to find. Best (but most aggravating) repair is to suck it up and replace the whole terminal. But for a functional fix, depending on the nature of the break, you can try screwing the terminal lug back down through the "square hole", making sure that the screw doesn't short the adjacent terminals (or poke through the playfield).

If you need to replace a single terminal lug on the strip, you can use a ring terminal commonly available at any hardware store/section: the ring makes a convenient screw mount and the terminal is for soldering wires. You'll see these used as such in certain places on many games so it's need not be a brazen "hack" if done cleanly and carefully; it's easier and arguably safer than disturbing all the other ~dozen functioning joints on the rest of the original strip.

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