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Gameplan Sharpshooter-Roger takes the Girls to the Beauty Shop-update 9/20
TopJimmyCooks:
argh- completely rewired the strobe line all the way from one end to the other and it didn't work. no change or improvement in behavior.
:badmood:
I'm going to jump the pins on the MPU to rule that out. I'm going to be cheesed off if either it's defective or, (more likely scenario) i broke it. If the MPU's good i'm going to take it apart, do the fix up work and freaking figure it out later.
TopJimmyCooks:
No, I ran them all and then tested them all like a dumbass. the problems exist on all switches even when individual switches are disconnected. I'm going to jump the pins tonight and see what happens. I know the seller will stand behind the board if it's not working, or repair it if the game jacked it up somehow. I did confirm the power was all within spec at the test points before I plugged it in. Seller has offered to help troubleshoot as well. No concern there.
My family's going to be out of town some next week which means I'm kicking this resto into high gear - no problem sanding, cussing and spitting late into the night! So even if I can't get this nailed by then it's coming apart.
TopJimmyCooks:
OK, I plugged the switch harness into the MPU. powered up, started a game. Unplugged the switch connector. Put a jumper wire on the pin for strobe 4. set the other end of the jumper up with a 4004 diode. If I touch the column pins same behavior as with the playfield connected-kicked into self test.
Am I missing something or is this MPU not working right?
TopJimmyCooks:
I sent the board back to the mfgr to see if they can figure out what I did with it. In the meantime, with apologies to Chris Hudgins:
Roger Takes the Girls to the Low End Pins Beauty Shop
The Bureau of Wood Adjustment has been home to the sharpshooter for 6 months now. Frankly, I need to kick it upstairs to the gameroom but it's not ready for prime time. Rog and gang spent some years in a storage shed before they came to me. So, I've temporarily renamed the shop Low End Pins and am doing a somewhat quick and dirty refresh on this thing.
Tore into it this weekend:
Took a bunch of pictures and started taking everything apart. Cleaned out the cabinet and sanded the bare wood surfaces with a HF knockoff of a fein multimaster. Worked well. Here's the cleaned out cabinet ready for exterior strip and respray. I redrew the artwork and will get it printed on large format paper for re-stenciling.
The plastics are decent - the clear one over the rollover star lane is yellowed, hopefully some of that will polish off. the small clear boomerang one is broken but i'll make a replacement.
Hopefully I can remember where this stuff goes back. I took a bunch of pictures at various stages. I took everything off the top but just the solenoid devices off the bottom. I have a buffing wheel but not a tumbler so I'll just polish the heads of the screws with that.
The PF was dirty, to say the least. here's the cowboy area before:
Heres the same area after a lot of ME scrubbing. The ball swirls are not completely gone, but they're greatly reduced, especially in the yellow background areas where they show the worst. Any more ME would have yielded too much paint loss.
I ended up going over all the yellow areas with ME, otherwise there were transitions as seen in this pic. I'm leaving 2 pieces of mylar in place - they are very well stuck down. The pop bumper rings came right off.
I built a quick rotisserie out of scraps from the shop which has been great to use.
Up next, some Low End touch up painting.
ChadTower:
I have a scroll saw that loves to cut plastics. My playfield has no plastics. If someone were to scan the plastics and send me shapes I could probably get a couple of blank sets cut.
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