02/04/08 20:28
| Item | Cost | Comment |
|---|
| Game | $200 | Craig's List Buy |
| AR Board | $23 | John had known working boards |
| Coin Door Parts | $40 | Mechs, Rejects, Labels and springs |
| Board Repair Estimate | $125 | This assumes buying from Alex |
| Shroud Artwork Estimate | $30 | |
| Transport | $45 | |
| Sale Target | ($500) | TK this one's for you |
Hopefully the $100 is not actually consumed by the additional costs of transport and I can count some money on the labor side.
Tags: Final
02/04/08 20:26
I replaced the dingy old buttons with nice, new, tidy white ones. I also replaced the reject plungers and installed coin mechs. Things are looking better.
02/03/08 12:47
The coin mechs are missing but the customer wants to drop quarters. I am ordering Coin mechs, reject buttons and the associated parts. The reject buttons are not working well and have no labels and one is cracked. I ordered new springs to return the normal function of these buttons. I ordered label inserts I think I have the bulbs in stock.
01/03/08 16:26
The boards arrived form John. I swapped one in to the cabinet and the sound is working.
I examined the "dead" AR board and found that pin 4 on J8 is sheared off. That probably happened while we were moving the game from the basement of the seller's house. That was a very difficult move. The J8 connector is the audio output connection. The broken pin 4 means no sound was leaving the board.
21/02/08 16:24
I bought a few compatible AR boards from John. At $23 each, shipped it is well worth not continuing to guess the cause.
01/02/08 16:21
I tested the machine and discovered the sound is not working. I checked the volume pot, that is up all the way. The Test Points on the AR board show acceptable voltage ranges. The wires to the speaker are fine.
06/01/08 12:55
Ran for about 2 hours. The Vectors are
squashed on the Y Axis so I asked about a fix. I was directed to the Digital to Analog Converters.
The Marquee doesn't light up. I didn't coin up yet so I am not sure if the sound and buttons work, but the Player buttons lit on start up.
05/01/08 21:39
I split a deal with Doug on this Asteroids and a Centipede he wanted. We had a bear of a time loading them, but they got home safe. This was my first Craig's List Buy.
Tags: Acquisition