Awesome $10 G07 deal turns out to have a broken neckboard

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Awesome $10 G07 deal turns out to have a broken neckboard

So I see this craigslist ad for a dead monitor out of a PacMan for $10. I email the guy to see if he still has it and he does. So the next day I drive over there after work to look at it. The guy seems really nice. Tells me how it just quit working and how he called a few places and it was going to cost over a hundred dollars to fix so he just bought an LCD to replace it instead. He shows the PacMan to me and while I don't like LCD replacements myself, he seemed happy with it. We talked and he showed me his other games, a Space Invaders Deluxe which worked and looked pretty good, a Cruis'n USA which worked but looked washed out, a pinball machine I had never heard of. The manufaturer name started with an F and so did the game name. And another "pinball" that I don't think was a pinball. There were a bunch of holes on the playfield with numbers and then the backbox had what looked like a bingo card on it. Guessing the corresponding number lit on the backboard depending on the hole it went it. He said his dad left them to him when he passed.

Anyway, I leave and am happy about getting a project G07 for $10 as it looks like it will be a lot easier than the Polo 25 I am also working on. I wanted to remove the chassis and put away the rest tonight and I go to remove the neckboard only to discover that it is almost split in half. The guy seemed so genuine that I just didn't take the time to really look it over all that much. I guess I can't get too mad over $10 but he had to know he broke it. I would gess he did it when he removed it to put in the LCD.

I have no idea how easy it is to find just the neckboard but my fingers are crossed.
 

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maybe someone here has a visual on how to fix this. I have fixed cracks like that in neckboards before, though it may be easier just to put up a WTB g07 neckboard thread and score one for $10-$20.
 
It's a very clean crack. Are any parts bothered on the other side? If not, that shouldn't be too hard to repair. If you feel like shipping it out I'd happily have a crack at some solder surgery.
 
Put a little gel super glue in the crack and bend it back to straight until it sets. The, just bridge the crack all the way around. Easy...
 
this is actually pretty easy to fix. someone might disagree with me, but I wound up fixing a Polo with a cracked deflection board (around the flyback area) by scraping the traces, and bridging each trace with wire and also blobbing the two halves of the traces with solder as well, unless I had 2 solder joints that I could connect between, then I did it that way.
 
maybe someone here has a visual on how to fix this. I have fixed cracks like that in neckboards before, though it may be easier just to put up a WTB g07 neckboard thread and score one for $10-$20.

I've done this. One of my first repairs:

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I've done this. One of my first repairs:

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do what he did. After soldering in all your jumpers (I have used capacitor legs too) check for continuity between the joints.

If you don't want to fix it. Send it to me. I like fixing things. I am working on a Sanyo 20EZ chassis that was cracked worse than that. I might get to test it today too.. woot!
 
Thanks for all of your replies! You have convinced me that this may indeed be repairable. I appreciate all of the offers to repair it for me, but looking at it again, I think I am going to try it myself. It's the perfect opportunity since I only paid $10 and it will be a huge boost to my confidence at repairing things if I pull it off. I looked at it just now and maybe its your words of encouragement but suddenly it doesn't look nearly as bad as it did last night. I will post updates.
 
It's a very simple repair mate, I'm sure you'll pull it off. I personally wouldn't use jumper wires on this one, I'd scrape off the solder mask and reconnect the tracks with solder. I'd certainly use wires on a more complicated board like the one smalltownguy2 did.
 
If you end up giving up let me know, I have a spare G07 chassis. I'd like to sell it whole but nobody's biting. I suppose I could let the neck board go and keep the rest for spare parts.
 
I emailed the guy about that monitor too, guess you beat me too it.

Arthur, I have a bare tube sitting in my shed with a neckboard still on it, if you give me a couple days I can dig it out and see if it is a g07 neckboard.

Anyone know what Qbert usually had? Because that is what is burned in the screen on that tube.
 
Thanks! It's comforting to know that if I end up needing one, it looks like it won't be too difficult to find another neckboard. I am in the process of ordering all of the parts to do a full rebuild and probably won't start in on trying to repair the neckboard until after the parts get here. Especially since I have parts in for my other projects that I need to find time to work on. ;-)
 
I think it is him

I have seen them with 4600 in them but not sure if that was original or not.
I emailed the guy about that monitor too, guess you beat me too it.

Arthur, I have a bare tube sitting in my shed with a neckboard still on it, if you give me a couple days I can dig it out and see if it is a g07 neckboard.

Anyone know what Qbert usually had? Because that is what is burned in the screen on that tube.
 
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