(Topic ID: 28788)
Cumming, GA
Beauharnois
Quoted from LBJ:Came across this on eBay, not really a hack or repair but a WTF were they thinking??!!
had that on two machines... a screw in the playfield.... why ... WHY?
1 week later
Quoted from jimster102:they soldered all the pins together game was full of this kind of stuff
On a DE PS, CN8 is a GI connector. Output I believe.
4 pins are supply, and 4 are return. The top 4 are tied together via trace, and the bottom 4 are tied together via trace. They often burn, and that repair you see is actually pretty typical.
I did the same thing by laying a solid 18ga wire alongside the four ends of the pins on the solder side, then continued it over to the pin on the relay. Better but maybe still a little hackish.
Recently picked up a LW3 with some issues. Power supply fuse holder clips were busted off so someone soldered/clipped some fuse holders in place. Also found a big garbled up mess near the coin door. They used old telephone wire to tap into the power supply and added some little circuit board amongst other things, haven't started to unwrap that mess yet.
Quoted from barakandl:Here is another one.
I get not being able to desolder and reusing the leads on the old component but come on. You couldnt cut the lead shorter.
Those remind me of the aliens walking around in the movie "War of the Worlds"!
Homemade Gottlieb System 80 CPU Reset board. This was installed in my Black Hole when I purchased it 10 years ago. Amazingly this still works, though I should probably remove it from the game.
Quoted from mcclad:Speaking of old rubber, I have seen some rings on a playfield that had turned to chalk and the owner kept trying to wash them instead of just getting new ones.
I recently got a machine that the person had replaced the rubbers with rubber bands and even a woman's hair tie...
Quoted from Leeb18509:Came across this one recently.
Hah! Effective use of CB mic cable.
Quoted from woz:Homemade Gottlieb System 80 CPU Reset board. This was installed in my Black Hole when I purchased it 10 years ago. Amazingly this still works, though I should probably remove it from the game.
If it works, save it. Kind of a "Badge of Honor". Note the Rockwell logo on the PCB. I spent some time at the plant where they built those boards at 6 Butterfield Trail in El Paso, Texas. Rockwell IC's were wafer fabricated and encased on Jamboree Road in Newport Beach, CA.
Quoted from woz:Homemade Gottlieb System 80 CPU Reset board. This was installed in my Black Hole when I purchased it 10 years ago. Amazingly this still works, though I should probably remove it from the game.
That is awesome!
There are some awesome hacks on Steve Kulpa's page!
Quoted from woz:Homemade Gottlieb System 80 CPU Reset board. This was installed in my Black Hole when I purchased it 10 years ago. Amazingly this still works, though I should probably remove it from the game.
This one for the win!
Two years ago my uncle purchased a "bargain non working DE Star Wars" on ebay for $900. Listing had ONE crappy picture, but he incisted on purchasing it and freighting it from CA to CT for me to rebuild.
Machine showed up... a terrible re-import from somewhere in South America. I found car parts substituted for proper connectors, a non-stock push button on the up/down lever, held in place with crumpled up newspaper from Brazil, and best of all, the coin door hack. Someone crow-barred the cash box and basically ruined the front of the machine. Instead of fixing the issue, it was masked by a homemade metal bezel.
Need to dig up the pics, they're epic.
When I bought my White Water, it was showing the F114-F115 error and the previous owner said it would instantly blow a new fuse. So first thing I looked at was the rectifiers.
http://www.siegecraft.us/the_siege_blog/blog/assets_c/2011/05/100_1937-386.html
The left side piece was the problem. Wouldn't have been too bad of a repair actually, using a lug style instead of a lead style..... except they put it in 90 degrees off, and thus was causing a loop short.
-Hans
We've all seen and done "quick" repairs and I'm guilty, due to things seem to break at the worst times. For example, a quick 5 minute epoxy on a ramp repair when all your friends are over having a pinball tourny! some things one can't predict.
bought an X-files from a company (wait for the kicker)...... got it for such a nice price that it was a "grab and go" deal. After getting home and tinkering with a few things i looked on the boards and saw a stiff copper wire was soldered in at a fuse socket!!!! talk about hard wired!
now the kicker: It was an electrical contractors company and this was in the office for the employees to chill out with at lunch time and the likes!
sigh.
(i unsoldered the wire, replaced it with the proper fuse for the spot and it never had a problem... wow too lazy to get the right fuse.... hacky mchacky mchack hack )
Forgot to click a picture off... but my Champion Pub had a melted down skateboard wheel used for the center pop up. It was melted onto the top of the solenoid plunger. That piece is/was available everywhere for $5.
Quoted from LBJ:
Volano_Wood_Screws!.JPGCame across this on eBay, not really a hack or repair but a WTF were they thinking??!!
Quoted from LBJ:Came across this on eBay, not really a hack or repair but a WTF were they thinking??!!
site messed up. double post
Quoted from LBJ:Came across this on eBay, not really a hack or repair but a WTF were they thinking??!!
site messed up. triple post
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Gee I can hardly compete, mine pails in comparison. This one had reset issues, replaced with a NOS one.
Guess there was no choice but to make due....
Someone previous decided that instead of using the correct coil & stop for drop targets on my Time Warp, that it was easier to put old flipper rubbers behind the coil stop, to hold it in place when. Nice.
I've got this corrected now...
Larodde
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