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After 4 years in the hobby I finally did my first capkit today. I did the k4900 in my wife's Ms. Pac, as it was the worst off of the bunch. Took about an hour, as I kept double checking and second-guessing every cap. Fired it up and it looks great!

Pretty pleased with myself right about now!
 

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After 4 years in the hobby I finally did my first capkit today. I did the k4900 in my wife's Ms. Pac, as it was the worst off of the bunch. Took about an hour, as I kept double checking and second-guessing every cap. Fired it up and it looks great!

Pretty pleased with myself right about now!

First cap kit after 4 years?? Wow. Well, congratulations on your first cap kit! lol
 
It took me a year or two before I was brave enough to try it. 4900's are generally easy to work on (only had to give up on one so far) and to this day I still spend at least an hour on one. I'd rather take my time to double and triple check everything rather then regret a potentially disasterous mistake later. After a few cap kits, I started getting comfortable changing flybacks and other soldering jobs. Welcome to the start of soldering with confidence.
 
Congrats! You are stepping in the right direction. Getting through the first one is the hardest. Just don't let yourself get complacent after doing a bunch of them, that's when you start making mistakes.
 
Gotta start somewhere. Doesn't matter it's a week into the hobby or four years. Once you've done it it's not as daunting a task as it seems before you give it a try.
 
First cap kit after 4 years?? Wow. Well, congratulations on your first cap kit! lol

I've been collecting for 5 years and still don't know how to solder. :-/ Kinda been lucky with what I bought so far I guess... Though I'm gonna finally need to learn as the monitor on my Neo Geo is a little wavy at the top and will need a cap kit.
 
I've been collecting since last April and I've not tried my hand at a cap kit yet. I have several monitors that absolutely need to be capped. What keeps me from doing it is not that I'll make a mistake. Accidents happen. I'm secure enough to admit what keeps me from trying. I'm afraid I'm going to jolt my ass good discharging the monitor. It probably sounds stupid but when I was single, living at home, and had less to lose I would've been more likely to say "Ah.. F#$% it!" and go it... So, yeah! Congrats on your first cap kit.
 
I've been collecting since last April and I've not tried my hand at a cap kit yet. I have several monitors that absolutely need to be capped. What keeps me from doing it is not that I'll make a mistake. Accidents happen. I'm secure enough to admit what keeps me from trying. I'm afraid I'm going to jolt my ass good discharging the monitor. It probably sounds stupid but when I was single, living at home, and had less to lose I would've been more likely to say "Ah.. F#$% it!" and go it... So, yeah! Congrats on your first cap kit.

My biggest consern is to take a working machine and break it so it's unplayable. Right now my neo geo needs one and is wavy on the top. Even though it's weird and needs fixing it doesn't detract much from playing SNK vs Capcom since it's mostly the health bars that are wavy. I would fell better if it was completely unplayable because then "what's the worst I could do?"

As for the jolt, yeah that's a concern too especially if one of the cats sneaks down while I'm doing it.
 
I've got a Bob Roberts cap kit sitting in a bag for my G07 in a Joust cabinet. Haven't had the courage to take the next step (or the time). I did however eat the Moon Pie....

Soon....


Congrats!
 
You guys must be buying nicer machines. Most of the stuff I buy is bottom of the barrel non-working. I have had to rebuild almost EVERY monitor in every machine I have. I have only had 2 screw-ups. on a WG-4500 for my galaxian, kit came with an incorrect cap and totally screwed up my convergence. And I fried a k7000 chassis because of using the silver heat sink compound instead of white.

I have done probably 35 or 40 monitors. Only the 2 fatalities. And I may still fix the 4500.
 
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