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.
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.


