Wellesley, ON
Just finishing up going over a mousin around. Ball trough guide was broken so they fixed it wit a piece of metal, coat hanger, broken plastic and two screws.
I replaced it with a new proper part.
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11 months later
Quoted from eh97ac:That will buff right out Mitch
Already rebuilt the connectors and re pinned the headers
11 months later
2 weeks later
Quoted from HighVoltage:The blue wires actually go to the back of J121, the other burnt connector was J120 in line with J121, both the GI. Those are the ones I planned to and replaced yesterday. It's the backside stuff I wasn't sure about.
The funny thing is, this hack to wire to the back of the board seems totally unnecessary. Why would soldering to the back be done rather than soldering to the pins (not that I'm recommending that, just wondering why one hack is better than the other). An even simpler hack would be to use a combination of the J120 and J121 headers that are the same. J120 was missing the left 2 pins, J121 the right 2 pins.
I decided the other pins were ok and just replaced the 2. The connectors are all trifurcon'd now. Here are the after pics.
After all that work why not just replace the whole 120 and 121 header. It still looks hacked up now.
Quoted from HighVoltage:I thought about it, but did you see the rest of the board? Ha, seemed like the appropriate fix level. Function over form on this one. But like I said, I don't do much board work, I'll take it under advisement if that's best practice.
The other thing I was wondering about is the connector. Would IDC be frowned upon for GI? I kind of wish I had one, as crimping each pin was the only thing that made it "all that work", otherwise this would have been fast and easy. I also wondered if I should solder after crimping. This stripper supposedly crimps, but I found it way too fidily and found I could do a nicer job manually. Does this thing actually work for crimping? I need a proper crimper.
Molex connector and proper crimping tool. One time purchase.
11 months later
5 months later
Quoted from Billc479:Pretty good work considering what else I've seen on this thread. Also, I think that kicker arm is unobtainium - you have to convert to Williams.
Luckily I have lots of used spares
3 months later
Quoted from cottonm4:Mine would be a custom application for my old Sterns. I have to find the right springs and figure out what kind of bracket to use/make. It is on my to-do list. I would like the spring to be self-contained within the flipper bracket
Like this? Couldn't stand the flipper bounce when it was released.
20191008_183215 (resized).jpg20191008_183220 (resized).jpgQuoted from cottonm4:That's perfect, Mitch. What are those springs from?
I think its just a wpc return spring. I may have shortened it a little.
1 week later
Quoted from cottonm4:What's the story on the Star Gazer on F2K's left?
Not much of a story, very worn players conditionbut still alot of fun.
3 weeks later
2 weeks later
Quoted from ForceFlow:Who knows. The reason I went with HSA was that they had a good rep, showed off a lot of their work, and wasn't crazy expensive (just mildly expensive). Maybe my experience was a fluke, I dunno. At some point, I'll probably hand it off to someone else to fix, but I already have about as much into that one playfield as a whole new deadly weapon game
Any pics?
2 weeks later
Some of the worst hacks are the smallest ones.
The previous owner paid someone to repin the connectors.
Looked ok except the insulation wasnt in the crimp.
Started pulling the wires out of the connectors and was disgusted by the hack way they were all crimped. Looks like it was done with side cutters.
Had to redo them all. Must have been over 50.
20191210_181447 (resized).jpg20191210_182209 (resized).jpg20191210_181516 (resized).jpg20191210_182201 (resized).jpgQuoted from j_m_:impressive
I love how your post goes so well with your picture.
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1 month later
Quoted from PghPinballRescue:Corked?
It was a joke, bigger bats on a baseball game. Corked bat
4 months later
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