Fantastic Result!

You can always save money on the next one. . . (or not!)

Budget?..... What is the Budget thing you speak of?

Well done, Ive been down this road a few time myself.

Budgets? Where we're going we don't need...budgets.

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Outstanding resurrection!!
Thank you for sharing your contrasting B&A pics!
~Steveo

Turned out great! And now it's just that much more fun to play, isn't it?

Glad u got it finished. Looks great and goes good with the EK u restored. Thanks again on the advice u gave me with my EK hardtop and stencils.

Great job!

Wow, looks amazing. Xenon was my first game and it looked close to your starting point. Great work!

Let me know if you need help with the sound boards. I just finished fixing the sound boards in my 2nd Xenon.

Wow, that must have been a TON of work. Really impressive. What did you do to remove the rust?

I might need it. I got the vocal board working fine, but the sound board itself might be beyond me. U4 needs replaced (has a broken leg), I know that much, and I replaced the cap's and potentiometers, but there's something else wrong with it, and I don't have an oscilloscope. If I swap out the U4 it makes a high pitched pulsing noise. No sounds at all actually work when using it (this includes vocals). I do think one of the 3 leg transistors is bad as well - but I'm worried other chips might be bad.

There's not much to the board, actually.

If you have about 2.5V on pins 38 and 39 of U3 and TP5, then you should have good clock signals.
If you have a good reset signal on pin 40 of U3, then U6 should be good.
You should be able to swap U1, U2, U3 and U10 into your game and verify they are good.
The Vocalizer board also contains digitized sounds, not just speech, so the two boards always have to be connected to work.
At this point, all that's left is U8 (op-amp) and U9 (amp). A great tool to have is a crystal headset. With it you can hear the audio output of U1 at TP6 and the output of U8 on pin 4. It's pretty obvious U9 is working since you hear the pulsing noise.

Ever find the issue on the sound boards?

Stunning transformation. Great work!

Miracle if he fixes it. He really doesn't know what he's doing

Outstanding work!!

The amount of elbow grease you put into that coin door and drop target mech really shows, and it all looks gorgeous.

-Paul

I never claimed to. I know the basics though. I offered to repair the obvious issues and the usual suspects. Initially he wasn't even going to send the soundplus with it. Wasn't expecting that the two boards would have issues with each other. As I stated in the other thread, both of his boards work fine with my boards, but his boards won't work together. They only go nuts (which is what I was showing in that video) when the two are together. It probably is a simple fix, for someone who's more experienced. Add to that I haven't had a ton of time to dedicate to trying to track it down, it's taking awhile. My issue is that I can't really test one without the other as I don't have a test bench, and since I don't see the same symptoms when I hook them to my boards, I can't tell which board the issue is originating from. I know what the obvious voltages should be, but I don't know all the details as it goes through the IC's etc.

I understand, but the basics are knowing the difference between a resistor, diode, and a capacitor, and what a 6808 or 6810 is. No offense but you you shouldn’t really work on any boards until you learn those basics. You replaced almost everything on the board which I guess is good in the long run.

As of yet I've only replaced what I've found is actually bad. I haven't been replacing random parts. I haven't replaced anything else until I prove it is bad. The whole reason I'm asking the questions I'm asking is so I don't go replacing the wrong thing or ordering the wrong parts. I've not had to deal with bad chips / sockets before. My confusion initially was because I expected my boards and his to be identical, which they weren't.

To be clear, I've worked on all my machines (with the help of people here) and fixed boards on those. I had already told Tim I was doing this to learn a bit more. I know enough to not ruin the boards in the process. Also, I do very much appreciate the help you and others have given.

Anyway, Let's keep the discussion to the other thread for this to keep it all in one place.

Broken budget or not, that looks amazing. No playfield photos, did you use a new CPR and new plastics?

That’s some incredible and stunning work. I need to do the paint work on my eight ball deluxe but I’m reluctant. If I do it it will have to be a rattle can.

Dave

Well that’s good to hear. Did you sand the finished paint and clear over that ?

Dave

Gorgeous work. Glad it went to you.

Damn that is a sharp looking machine. The before and after pictures really help to show the amount of work that went into the project.