Recent content by Skarv

Problem Solved OK, troubleshooting 101 worked. While my son played the game, I jiggled every chip, socket and connector until we found the one that made things go awry. When it did it, it became clear that what was happening was the lines were getting shifted to the right by a pixel or so...

Thanks for the input. Sorry, but no other vids. Though that is about to change. This freebie will now force me to return to my youth and get an asteroids and a Galaga and a centipeded.... and ....... but that is another discussion. I'll try to get pics but it it just appears to be a line...

Hi Guys, I slipped into my G07 conclusion a question about adjustment, but I want to make it topline here. The Defender now works great, but there seems to be a bit of pixel shifting intermittently. This makes text look broken and the ship to kind of change shape a bit. It is only one or...

Hi guys: Here goes the redux... Defender works great thanks to the Real Bob Roberts! The Deluxe Electrohome kit worked like a charm! A couple of the takeaways... The multicolored blotch that I showed in my pictures is just the aftercharge in the monitor. I still get it when I turn the...

The first picture is very hard to see, but there is a 1-2" hazy vertical bar roughly down the middle of the screen. That bar then narrows to a blotch in the middle over the course of a second. Then it pops open again. I suspect it is the various consumables in the chassis, but I was...

Thanks man. I'll report back after the cap kit is in. Two comments though... The dust and fuzz I'm talking about is more than just electro-static attraction. There is some liquid that somehow got in there. I'll go with it being the flyback and hope. But that doesn't really make sense...

Hi Guys: I'm new here thanks to a neighbor who found out about my pinball addiction and gave me her Defender 'cause it hadn't worked in years so it just had to go. Bummer! So here is the deal. It is in really great shape but no Play. I already ordered Bob Robert's Deluxe cap kit with...