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In over my head, arcade repair in South Florida
« on: November 09, 2009, 06:56:33 pm »
Does anyone know of a good reapir shop in the Palm Beach, south Florida area ? I just finished assembling a Multicade machine and of course I am running into trouble.  I admit I don't know where to go from here.....

Any help is appreciated.
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Re: In over my head, arcade repair in South Florida
« Reply #1 on: November 09, 2009, 07:41:12 pm »
A fellow gamer in WPB! And I thought I'm alone over here! I know one arcade shop in WPB, there is several in FT Lauderdale. Just look at craigs list for the people that offer to buy arcade/pinball machines most of them repair them and then resell it. What is the problem that you having?
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Re: In over my head, arcade repair in South Florida
« Reply #2 on: November 09, 2009, 08:11:25 pm »
I am in the Tequesta area, I bought an old Scramble cabinet, gutted it,sanded it,painted it  and replace everything to make it into a Multicade 60/1 cabinet.  Tonight was the first boot up and the screen is wavy lines.......I tried some of the basic adjustments for the screen but I really don't know what else to adjust or look at.  I thought to save me some time I'd just get someone that has a little more experience to help me figure out where I went wrong.

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Re: In over my head, arcade repair in South Florida
« Reply #3 on: November 09, 2009, 08:40:16 pm »
Yeah but why pay "service man" rates for something that could be 5 minutes?

Post photos of the screen here. And also state whether it USED to work normal, and what happened that might have caused the problem (ie: "I spilled my drink all over the monitor", etc)
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Re: In over my head, arcade repair in South Florida
« Reply #4 on: November 09, 2009, 11:15:29 pm »
where is the shop in WPB?

I am on the east coast part time.  I bought a machine from a guy in delray, he knows his stuff.  I can look up his number if you want. 

I have capped a monitor but I am no expert on them, but if it worked before, then it should work now unless you dropped it or something. 
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Re: In over my head, arcade repair in South Florida
« Reply #5 on: November 09, 2009, 11:34:33 pm »
I know you haven't replied yet, but did you check the board's manual and set the dipswitch correctly ?  Those boards can output both VGA or CGA signals.
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Re: In over my head, arcade repair in South Florida
« Reply #6 on: November 10, 2009, 06:18:19 pm »
Update, I played around and got the darn thing working........8 months and I am playing games........wasted youth here I come again.....

Thanks for the suggestions and replys.

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Re: In over my head, arcade repair in South Florida
« Reply #7 on: November 11, 2009, 04:48:37 pm »
Quote from: rickcool on November 10, 2009, 06:18:19 pm
Update, I played around and got the darn thing working........8 months and I am playing games........wasted youth here I come again.....

Thanks for the suggestions and replys.

Cheers,
Rick C.
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Great. What worked?
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Re: In over my head, arcade repair in South Florida
« Reply #8 on: December 17, 2009, 04:52:56 pm »
Wow Florida gamers in my area. I live in Jupiter. Do not get much closer to Tequesta than that.
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