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Today's cosmetic fixes includes the Mando's ship gun that fell off last Wednesday. These tiny parts are a bit challenging, as there's always a chance they get hit by a ball, so they always need some kind of reinforcement.

I drilled a hole in both, the gun and […]

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Ha, gotcha! It has a bad LED in it. It's supposed to have 6, but only 5 light up fully. I wonder why does it light up at all. #pinrepair #arcaderepair #electronics #repair

Huh, curious. The the QR reader's backlight isn't all dead, it lights up during the self test but then goes out and never comes back. I had assumed it was completely dead. Need to continue digging. Too bad it's all super tiny SMCs, so poking it in-situ without my […]

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An airball hit Mando's ship and knocked the other gun off it. It's pretty flimsy originally, I'll probably have to drill a support inside it before epoxying it back together. #pinball #pinrepair #arcaderepair

I've seen these failed QR code readers elsewhere, but this is the first one to fail of mine. I'm tempted to take it apart to see if there's some obvious failure. Anyone else diagnosed this issue? #pinball #pinrepair #arcaderepair

Godzilla was reported to have a dead bumper. Usually it's a case of a broken wire but this one was mechanical. It didn't take too long to see a situation where the bumper's skirt was stuck in a way it needed a ball hit from another angle to release it. Bumpers […]

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#fridaynightintheshop Working on another addition to our Sente collection. 🕹 Stay tuned!
#nonprofit #arcade #museum #retrogaming #arcaderepair #garyisthebest

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We made progress on 3 games tonight, thanks to the help from our volunteer, Andy! Stay tuned for when these games make their debut to the floor soon, for the first time! #fridaynightintheshop

#nonprofit #arcade #museum #retrogaming #arcaderepair

Exerion's monitor is fixed! 🕹

#nonprofit #arcade #museum #retrogaming #arcaderepair #neverendingrepairs

#fridaynightintheshop

Working on monitor rebuilds tonight! 🕹

#nonprofit #arcade #museum #retrogaming #arcaderepair

#fridaynightintheshop
Rebuilding the audio section on Sega's Bank Panic from 1984 so that it has sound once again, and also installed a new power supply to get it up and running! 🕹
#nonprofit #arcade #museum #retrogaming #arcaderepair

My Who Dunnit project is nearing end. I printed the first production version of the reel and applied the decal to it. I intended to buy a set of decals, but this one peeled off intact. I had feared I'd never get it to look good, but this filament saved my day, I […]

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I encountered an odd problem with Jaws. I booted the game up to check it before cleaning and I had an operator alert about the shark fin being disabled. The game asked me to run the test to enable it, I ran it back and forth couple of times and could not […]

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Mister Bond is no longer dirty, he's actually so shiny you can see the perfect backbox reflection off the playfield! #pinrepair #arcaderepair #pinball #arcade

The lamp tests have become a lot less eventful when the games went natively to LEDs and there's virtually no lamp sockets to mess up things either. #pinball #arcade #arcaderepair #pinrepair

Who Dunnit is having bit of a crap day. Last Wednesday a player reported the rightmost reel in its slot machine behaved oddly. I made a note it didn't seem to find its zero position and it rotated somehow oddly, so I just disabled them as the game doesn't need […]

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I've posted some videos of leg bolts with bad back plates. I've often been told in the comments that it's going to be a horrible job to fix it.

I never got that take, the backplate in WPC games for example is just 6 small screws away from being pulled off. In a […]

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Closeup of a ramp behind the playfield's backboard in Elvira's House of Horrors pinball machine. There's two vertical holes in the ramp, currently nothing attached to them.

Closeup of a ramp behind the playfield's backboard in Elvira's House of Horrors pinball machine. An opto bracked has been added.

Closeup of a ramp behind the playfield's backboard in Elvira's House of Horrors pinball machine. A solenoid and its bracked have been added.

I investigated the Elvira's opto issue further. As I suspected, it has a design flaw, similar to the ramps; the hole for the opto switch's LED to shine through is misaligned.

1st pic: The two holes seen in the ramp that's attached to the playfield back board […]

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I got a report that Guardians of the Galaxy wasn't seeing the drop target being dropped. The target mechanism itself worked fine and since it uses an opto fork switch, they're usually pretty long life if they get q-tipped every now and then.

But immediately […]

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Party time #TMNT #ArcadeRepair

There's some mechanisms that use flipper coils in unexpected ways. This is Revenge from Mars' jumping ramp, that stays up extended times, resulting normal single coil overheating.

This thing is starting to stick in up position and I'm investigating why. #pinball #pinrepair #arcaderepair #mechanism

Ah, the fun part in owning pins: finding a loose screw in the cabinet. Always a hoot to find where they came off from. A lot of parts in Sterns don't have Loctite in them, I use the blue version in most places. #pinball #pinrepair #arcaderepair

Working through boxes of CRT chassis I found another Kagi, I have successfully fixed a number of these so worth having a go. The main board is quite clean & recap was easy. The power board is a bit of a mess, I suspect someone put 240v instead of 110v through it. #retro #gaming #arcaderepair

Looks like I have a couple things to replace to get this puppy running. At lunch I’ll take a look at the other layers to see what surprises lie in store. #TRON #discsoftron #arcaderepair