Arcade Collecting > Pinball
To repair or recreate, that is the question of the Galaxy.
ChadTower:
Then sell it to someone who will save it. That's not even close to a partout game. Those old Sterns are classics that are not VP candidates.
MTPPC:
I've decided to try to bring this galaxy back to its glory. I have isolated the transformer and it clearly is a failed component. There is red goo dripping out of it and it starts to belch stinky smoke as soon as I put AC to it.
It says Ravenwood 16b-6 on top of it and 37-8008 on the side. I'm probably going to need a rectifer board, too because I see someone has already repaired it once or twice. I can probably get by without one, but if someone has stripped both the transformer and the rectifier board from a bally/stern of this era, I'd rather use a matched set.
I guess I'm going to throw some money at this project, but I'm very concerned that this thing is just going to be a money pit. I bought it to build a simulator, but I realize now that it's a pretty good table because I've been playing it on my simulator. O, the irony.
If someone can help me out, I'd be extremely thankful.
TopJimmyCooks:
post on RGP or pinside. I know the stern mpu 200 was interchangeable with Bally of the same era and I bet the TXformer and rectifier board could be too. Check there for some cross referencing. The bally's were more common and easier to find old parts for.
ChadTower:
Shouldn't cost that much to find a replacement. Might cost a bunch to ship because they weigh so much.
Be careful interchanging the parts. The boards aren't all plug and play swappable. Some need certain mods in certain configurations and require certain rectifier boards, etc.
The Stern rectifier board is a pain in the ass but you absolutely need to rebuild it. Those wires soldered directly to the back make it more reliable but harder to work on. Since you have to swap out the transformer may as well rebuild that recitfier board while you have it disconnected anyway. It's not an optional task - just do it. Replace nearly everything on it as it's pretty safe to assume that transformer nuked it from orbit.
MTPPC:
I isolated the power supply with no loads and it started boiling red goo when I put power to it. I suspect there are a bunch of problems with the rectifier board, too. My research says that the power supplies and rectifier boards are interchangeable from all these machines:
Ali, Big Game, Black Jack, Catacomb, Cheetah, Cosmic Princess, Dolly Parton, Dragonfist, Eight Ball, Evel Knievel, Flight 2000, Free Fall, Freedom, Frontier, Future Spa, Galaxy, Harlem Globetrotters On Tour, Hot Hand, Hotdoggin’, KISS, Lectronamo, Lightning, Lost World, Magic, Mata Hari, Memory Lane, Meteor, Mystic, Night Rider, Nine Ball, Nitro Ground Shaker, Nugent, Orbitor 1, Paragon, Pinball, Playboy (Bally), Power Play, Quicksilver, Rolling Stones, Seawitch, Silverball Mania, Six Million Dollar Man, Skateball, Space Invaders, Star Gazer, Star Trek, Stars, Stingray, Strikes and Spares, Supersonic, Trident, Viper, Voltan, Wild Fyre
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