Most of the threads on here for Ice cold beer are for the older 80's version. I wanted one of those and like 4 or 5 have sold local to me but I never bothered picking them up. A local member here posted a 2003 version made by ICE that needed some tlc and decided to jump on it. It was converted and wasn't working when I got it from him. We came to a price and he dropped it off.
Starting off with how I got it from scottva33. This is the picture he took and listed it with.
The error it was dropping. This error is not in the manual.
I should note that the pdf manual that ICE will send you if you email them is missing a bunch of pages. I got lucky and saw a printed one that coinopwarehouse in maryland had on ebay so I bought it.
Fun package from Ice(received about a month ago)
The pictures really don't give that glass justice. The gold on it really pops.
Stupid marquee light that was in it. I ordered the bulb online for it and it blew it right away. I ordered a standard light from twisted quarter along with some misc parts I needed for other games.
Cleaned up and running.
Close up on playing field.
Now more into the detail of what was wrong with it. I'm pretty sure something was wrong with the original motherboard in it although I haven't plugged it back in to verify. Bought a set of boards off KI4SWY on here untested. His motherboard did work although i didn't know it at the time. After dealing with a few things trying to figure out what was wrong and working with ICE support they figured it was the display board and I sent both in for repair. After a month or so it came back that the ribbon cable between them was bad(their test station was down and had to be repaired). They didn't have any more cables and claimed they fixed mine. It didn't work when it came back so I sourced the 26pin cable elsewhere(I have spares if anyone needs one). Got them in today and swapped the cable. Game came right up.
Past that I've replaced the top 3 bulbs on the play field and replaced some of the locks.
Whats Left to Do
Need to put coin mechs in it as they are missing(just noticed this)
Need some more ice keys for it(if anyone has some for sale let me know as ICE doesn't have them anymore). The keys don't come out of the standard locks unless you have them locked and I need a second for the control panel(right now the locking bar is off one side).
The wood grain on the control panel needs to be redone as it is messed up. Scottva33's picture shows it better then mine as it is on the right side the worst. It gives it some character so I may or may not fix it in the future(not to mention I'd need to find the right kind).
I don't have the side artwork on it. I might call ice and see about ordering it although the few of these games I've seen for sale in the past don't have it on them so I don't know if it was a factory option or what.
Edit:
The motherboard screw mounts are built into the metal cp and are not lined up perfect. It causes the mb to flex wrong and I'm guessing that is one of the reasons the first board was messing up. Right not I have it just sitting in the game. I need to mount it better later on.
I also have new set of drive belts that I bought from ice when I bought the glass. I didn't put them on though as the ones on it are in good shape. They have just been pushed to the side for future use.
Starting off with how I got it from scottva33. This is the picture he took and listed it with.
The error it was dropping. This error is not in the manual.
I should note that the pdf manual that ICE will send you if you email them is missing a bunch of pages. I got lucky and saw a printed one that coinopwarehouse in maryland had on ebay so I bought it.
Fun package from Ice(received about a month ago)
The pictures really don't give that glass justice. The gold on it really pops.
Stupid marquee light that was in it. I ordered the bulb online for it and it blew it right away. I ordered a standard light from twisted quarter along with some misc parts I needed for other games.
Cleaned up and running.
Close up on playing field.
Now more into the detail of what was wrong with it. I'm pretty sure something was wrong with the original motherboard in it although I haven't plugged it back in to verify. Bought a set of boards off KI4SWY on here untested. His motherboard did work although i didn't know it at the time. After dealing with a few things trying to figure out what was wrong and working with ICE support they figured it was the display board and I sent both in for repair. After a month or so it came back that the ribbon cable between them was bad(their test station was down and had to be repaired). They didn't have any more cables and claimed they fixed mine. It didn't work when it came back so I sourced the 26pin cable elsewhere(I have spares if anyone needs one). Got them in today and swapped the cable. Game came right up.
Past that I've replaced the top 3 bulbs on the play field and replaced some of the locks.
Whats Left to Do
Need to put coin mechs in it as they are missing(just noticed this)
Need some more ice keys for it(if anyone has some for sale let me know as ICE doesn't have them anymore). The keys don't come out of the standard locks unless you have them locked and I need a second for the control panel(right now the locking bar is off one side).
The wood grain on the control panel needs to be redone as it is messed up. Scottva33's picture shows it better then mine as it is on the right side the worst. It gives it some character so I may or may not fix it in the future(not to mention I'd need to find the right kind).
I don't have the side artwork on it. I might call ice and see about ordering it although the few of these games I've seen for sale in the past don't have it on them so I don't know if it was a factory option or what.
Edit:
The motherboard screw mounts are built into the metal cp and are not lined up perfect. It causes the mb to flex wrong and I'm guessing that is one of the reasons the first board was messing up. Right not I have it just sitting in the game. I need to mount it better later on.
I also have new set of drive belts that I bought from ice when I bought the glass. I didn't put them on though as the ones on it are in good shape. They have just been pushed to the side for future use.
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