Arcade Collecting > Pinball
Pinrepair website switches to pay site!
ChadTower:
Ken Layton:
--- Quote from: pinballjim on October 24, 2011, 02:36:57 pm ---
Don't pay more than a couple hundred bucks for a dead classic SS. You'd be surprised how many of them have bad MPUs and displays.
--- End quote ---
How true that is!
I've seen many that not only have corroded CPU boards (due to leaky batteries), but whole game wiring harnesses with corroded connector pins, burnt coils due to overfusing, and bum power supplies due to the owner attempting to fix it himself.
ed12:
that whole thing well very very true olny touch's the top of the problem
plastic's/kicker's/proper lube/over fuseing god oh yes
---steaming pile of meadow muffin--- sleve's/i can go on
black tape on coil wire's and or eos-switch's
man do not get me going
35 year's ltr i have thought i had seen it all
went on a call
were a local >repair< guy put in a bridge rect..in a gottileb to change the coil from a/c to d/c..i had to go wtf,or how about wd40 as a lube ??
ed
TOK:
OK, I maybe should have qualified my RGP deals as buyer only. I haven't sold parts/machines and I definitely wouldn't ship a pin.
I have seen guys complain about some pretty minor stuff on purchased items.
The flakey buyer thing seems to be a growing trend everywhere. Constantly reading about guys getting dicked over on ebay and particularly craigslist deals.
I did have one RGP experience that could have gone bad... I bought an MPU listed as working and when I received it, not only was it apparent it wasn't working, it was obvious that it hadn't worked in years. All corroded, badly bent over transistors and missing parts.
I contacted the dude preparing for the worst and he just refunded my money and kept the board, saying he was getting out of the hobby. It still screwed me up because it delayed getting the machine working by at least a month.
Ken Layton:
Gottlieb System 1 repair guide is back:
http://www.pinrepair.com/sys1/index.htm
Alternate guide:
http://www.pinwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Gottlieb_System_1
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