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old crystal castle machine
missioncontrol:
There was this flea market in town that had a small arcade. well when they cleaned up the area and tore down the building they set out a crystal castle well lucky for me i ended up with it. It's pretty beat up and sat out in the weather till i could get someone to open the gate up so i could grab it so I'll have to fix it up a little. when i was going over the wiring it all looks fine but there's one blown fuse so tomarrow i'm off to get a fuse for it and plug it in to see if it works. LET"S HOPE SO. So now I'm adding restoring this Crystal Castle machine to my list of arcade projects.
AlexC:
Cool, hope that gets it going.
I love to hear stories like this, I hope I get lucky like that one day.
missioncontrol:
well went and got a fuse for it today put it in and turned it on and I got sound....Horray :D....but then looked up at the monitor and it was dark ??? went to adjust the brightness and that's when I discovered a crack on the circuit board for the monitor >:( well now looks like I'm in the market for a monitor... but will continue to fix it up....
paigeoliver:
If you just NOTICED the crack, then it is likely on the neckboard. Fix it. It should be cake, I have fixed several broken neckboards.
Or, you can buy a neckboard that isn't broken, but frankly, it will be harder to rerun all those wires than it will be to just fix the broken neckboard.
missioncontrol:
it's about cracked in half...I'll look at it again tomarrow. Thanks. Replacing the neckboard should be cheaper :)