DK 4-board question

[ArtsNFartsNCrafts]

Can anyone tell me the easiest way (if any) to undo those little plastic clip things that hold the 4 boards together on DK?  I'm trying to "rearrange" them as to make room for a high score save kit.

k thx!

[WunderCade]

Needlenose pliers....squeeze the two prongs together and push the plastic spacer out through the hole on the pcb.

The spacers look kinda like this: <--)
The prongs you want to squeeze together are the < part.

[ArtsNFartsNCrafts]

Do they still make these little connectors, in the event that I break the old ones?  They look pretty old and brittle..

[WunderCade]

Yes, just Google pcb spacers and look for the closest match. I found them that way before but don't recall the site.

[Kevin Mullins]

http://www.keyelco.com/products/prod15.asp?SubCategoryID=101

You can match the Keystone part # and then search a distributor like Mouser.

http://www.mouser.com/

I'm sure others carry these as well.

[Bender]

Mike's arcade has em to

[Level42]

Can anyone tell me the easiest way (if any) to undo those little plastic clip things that hold the 4 boards together on DK?  I'm trying to "rearrange" them as to make room for a high score save kit.

k thx!

Yeah, I already moved my audio board as well Do you have a soldered or socketed Z80 ? Mine is soldered so I'll have to socket it first...

[ArtsNFartsNCrafts]

you should definitely make a tutorial on how to do that!! I would cherish it...

[Level42]

you should definitely make a tutorial on how to do that!! I would cherish it...

Of what, of socketing the Z80 ?

Well I'll do it like I always do it: cut off all the legs of the IC, as near to the top as possible. Then re-flow the old solderings by adding a tiny bit of new solder to every island. That makes it very easy to remove the left over legs. Then clean the soldering islands with a tin-sucker.
Then solder in a new, good quality socket and put in a new Z80 (or the kit, and put the new Z80 in the kit).

I've explained this with pictures in my Centipede thread:
http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=63654.msg652707#msg652707