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Thanks guys a little Deoxit on the deflection board X&Y pots solved the problem!

So I was playing this morning and I noticed the screen was a bit jumpy, mainly the copyright area and the score. All the movement was up & down. Any thoughts?

Hi all, Just wanted to say thank you to everyone who chimed in with tips, excellent ideas and advice. An extra thanks to Lilypad19 for going above and beyond helping me with multiple board repairs! So I got this Asteroids in a trade. I traded an old gutted video poker machine that I converted...

Wow! My screen issue was the weird L shaped type edge connectors that connected to the logic PCB. I cleaned the board edge and ever so slightly tightened the pins in the connector and I haven’t had the problem since! 🤞 I did recently lose my laser base explosion sound though. At some point I’ll...

Trying to track down a louder hum too. When replacing the 2N3055 bottlecap transistor on the heatsink of the AR does it also require an insulator?

Thanks for all the tips guys! So I got a chance to pull my deflection board this morning in preparation for my Deoxit arriving today. Looks like someone already tried a “repair”

What version of Deoxit do you recommend? Thanks!

Awesome thank you, will do!

Are the transistors soldered in or is just the socket soldered in?

I’ve been pretty busy lately but I’m going to try and pull the monitor from the cabinet this weekend (so I can replace the frame transistors) I’m thinking I’ll order up and replace all of the transistors on the frame first. Any tips on replacing them? Do you just pop the old ones out and screw...

Any tips on discharging the monitor or can I discharge it the same way as a raster monitor?

So here’s the latest, Lilypad19 repaired my board in record time and it looks brand new, but I definitely have a monitor issue (which I kind of suspected) The game plays and all sounds are correct, still only have half a screen though (looks like right side collapse). The image sometimes...

Here’s some pics of my board. Looks like some previous repairs were attempted, possibly bridging some solder joints?

Thanks, the previous pics I posted were of the game play. Here is a picture of the test mode. When I have it in gameplay mode you can play the game and all sounds are present but the fire sound is just a beep.

Wow, thank you guys so much for all the help and info, what a great resource this place is!! I tried to attach a video of the game in action but couldn’t figure out how to attach it?