Recent content by tony90

I think the term chassis comes from the olden days, when tvs as well as radios, used the whole metal frame, ie chassis, to mount all the electronic components onto. There was no pcbs, just joining tags and wires

We have 240v down under here in Australia, and I can tell you, that even with an earth leakage detector, you still get bloody shot well before the dam thing switches off.. from the mains supply, just didn't burn any holes in my fingers this time!

I've got in B&W screens the following: 1. Fuji/Taito Speed Racer [orig] 2. Gremlin/Sega Commotion [orig] 3. Nintendo Spacer Fever kit fitted to a Taito Stunt Cycle upright cab [Australian] and painted up like a SI cab.

if hot [horizontal output transistor] is shorted, there won't be nothing to make fbt work, which means no HV, and therefor no image, also no heater circuit, generally for crt

tube's cactus.. glass degassing nipple is missing, probably find something has hit the neckboard, bending pins and knocking the plastic key off. If you hook it up, all they do is hiss and arc internally. They don't bite you tho. To dispose of them, I carefully tap the nipple off to let the air...

My speed race cab has the wheel butchered because the seller tried to take it off to sell separate. He only suceeded in brutalising it badly. He gave up. From what I can see, you got to take the gear off the shaft from inside the cab, and then pull the wheel assembly off the cab, which will then...

A good practice is to solder a socket in the ic's place and push the ic into the socket. Saves hassles later if you got to change them again. Also you get absolutely no damaging heat into the ic. You can get average sockets and real good ones.... obviously you pay accordingly

I think if the battery dies, so does the board... dead as a dodo!!

Hi I got a Fuji/Taito 1974 Speed Race, hard to play as the fat ass cat wants to play it as well - tries to grab the cars as they come and go off the screen, and a vectrex that a pawn shop gave me years ago cause they were going to throw it out. I didnt count that one because I'm sure its an xy...

Hi interested in main pcb if willing to post overseas Tony