Arcade Collecting > Restorations & repair
Dig Dug Restoration by a Complete Noob
Kevin Mullins:
I have had to do similar repairs before by repairing a break and then "tinning" the edge connector, but why they didn't tin the entire trace all the way out I don't understand.
That ground trace looks especially questionable, which might explain the red wire adapter thing.
Clean them all off real good with something gentle like a pencil eraser and see how they look then.
And like Chad said..... it probably has some issues on the harness connector as well.
Check for charred blackened tarnished pins and such.
Make sure they all fit tight, the gap between two opposite pins should all be equally narrow.
Also let us know how them ARII board resistors look.
ChadTower:
I've done a bunch of those Atari connectors... sometimes they don't look that bad but have come loose in the crimp. Or you can't tell the tin has snapped because the break is out of line of sight.
Kevin Mullins:
I know what you mean.
I like to ohm them from the game pcb all the way to the ARII and whatnot and if they are even questionable I redo them.
Pop Culture Portal:
Damn...I just stepped on my multimeter and broke it. :angry:
I gotta move this stuff out to the garage where there's more room. Well, off to Lowe's.
Level42:
Hey, it is friday the 13th. First the camera, now the multimeter. ....
The connector was still great looking on my Missile Command cabaret BUT it had very loose tension on the board edge and following it it had burned the resisitor on the AR2. Luckely an easy fix.
This video gives you an idea how an old connector compares to a brand new one (please excuse my English :D):
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