Here is a good one i just came across. Paint the legs with them still on the cabinet.
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Not sure what happened here. The connector was stretched as tight as it could be. Under the masking tape and electrical tape of course they used no solder connecting the wires.
Speculate they where trying to lengthen the connector failing to realize they could just cut a few zip ties and reroute the wire run better.
Quoted from TopJimmyCooks:Barakandl - was that stern MPU the one you got from me? For the record I did not do any work on it!
Possibly! I do not remember.
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Quoted from vid1900:You do nice work, lol
Have to add the square plug so you can remove the head and pf.
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No one has found it yet! Keep looking. =D Clearly visible.
Hints: Someone attempted to fix the non working relay and gave up with the zip tie.
Not burnt parts. The burnt resistor is in a different solenoid circuit.
Nope!
The 2n4401 transistor is installed backwards. They went as far as replacing the PIA before zip tying the relay shut.
Quoted from johnwartjr:I found it on Facebook in about 10 minutes. The clue to me was probably that I've started at a ton of these recently, and the offset solder pad on that transistor was facing the opposite direction as the row below it.
The Sys 3-7 driver has a few design errors that are annoying. For example, look at a modern PCB. All ICs have pin 1 facing the same direction if they are mounted North - South. And All ICs have pin 1 facing the same direction if they are mounted East-West.
On a Sys 3-7 driver board, that is NOT the case. Pin 1 is marked on the back of the board, but when the boards are filthy (and most of the ones that come to me ARE), it's not always perfectly clear!
WMS MPUs do the same thing with ICs going all different orientations. There is not much silk screening. If you look close at the PCB they identify pin one, but if you are not familiar with these PCBs mistakes can be made easily.
I have a 24"x36" print out of firepowerpinball.com's MPU and driver board layouts up on my wall in the work shop. I am going to do the schematic pages soon. I is nice to have it blown up in 24"x36".
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Depending on how low that ebay goes, might be worth it for the transformer, it is only used on a few games.
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Quoted from jmountjoy111:I have had a lot of good luck with reimport games. My Flintstones is super nice and clean. However, this corvette I picked up has so many hacks. I just started laughing with each one I found.
Most are your normal run of the mill crap wiring jobs (I have no idea where that super long wore goes). Then there is the classic replace the translite glass with Plexiglass and why bother with trim. Just throw some tape on there lol. That's $100 flushed down the toilet. Not to mention all the sound ROMs. were in backwards. Lol
I did okay until the last picture...
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Quoted from thedefog:Here is that toasty sys 11 I've talked about with the PIA soldered into a socket. Now that I look at it, it doesn't look as bad as some of the other hacks here, its just really stupid. And I swear this board weighs like 1 lbs more from all the solder. R81
Ouch that poor MPU....
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Quoted from dothedoo:Mata Hari? Paragon?
I think it is a Mata Hari Cabinet... but will be a Bullseye 301
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