Quoted from Aquapin:Living in Canada, Robertson is pretty much the only option we have...yes, they can strip but nearly always from an incorrect or stripped bit. They are miles ahead of flat head, but philips is great too.

Quoted from Boat:

Forgot I had these photos . Stern HRC. Surprisingly it worked but there was a literal hole burnt through the board and there are patch wires going through it. Oh and the zip tie, no clue.
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Quoted from Pablito350:

I was tearing down a Party Zone I picked up recently, and came across this....
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Yep... that's a hacksaw blade.
I still don't know why.
-Paul

Quoted from the9gman:

wow soldering on an alkaline battery is like playing with an M80 ...that dude was either stupid or lucky or both

Quoted from jibmums:

Just pulled the drop target mech from my STTNG and I'm horrified. Is there a prize for greatest number of botched hacks to a single mech? Let's take a closer look.
1. Base: Screws to attach mech to playfield replaced with much longer screws. Didn't bother using the holes in the base for one since it would involve the trouble of feeding the nut driver around some wires, so screwed down the outside corner of the base in a new angled hole instead.
2. Microswitch: not quite sure what's going on here. Wrong switch entirely, swapped in from who-knows-where; a toaster perhaps? Looks like it's attached to the mech with some random bent/unbent scrap of metal, and by a single screw, plus it's still got a clipped wire attached to it, which may or may not be from this game.
3. Reset plate: let's replace this with a key! Maybe it's the key to the coindoor lock that I had to drill to get into the machine.
4. Target knockdown assembly: coil is missing entirely, and actuator arm is strangely bent, perhaps to keep the target from moving at all. Not that that could possibly happen with this mech.
5. Target: swapped in from a Terminator 2! Maybe the whole mech was swapped in from a Terminator 2 to replace a worse mech, but again, I don't see how that's possible. Spring has been pulled out of shape. And then there's the missing plastic ledge that the face of the target rides against on its way down, not that this one ever goes down. Looks like something that may have once been a pop bumper fiber yoke has been cut down and hot glued in its place.
6: Coil stop: One of the studs has been sheared off entirely. No problem, one stud will do, especially if we install the coil stop loosely and at an angle.
Fortunately the fix for this mess will be quite easy, just buy en entirely new one. Bright side: I now have a replacement drop target for my T2 with a relatively nice decal, should that one ever break.
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