Chicken4U2
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After restoring/repairing many things through the years, and always wanting to get a few arcade games to fool with, I just bought my first. It is a Bally Strikes and Spares. The back glass is pretty nice, but the playfield has some crappy touch-ups. The lights come on when I plug it in, but nothing else seems to work? Somebody mounted a switch in the lock hole, and wired it in to bypass the coin slots. Anyway, my many questions....I really want to restore it, but financially, would it make more sense to restore or just fix and clean it up a bit? Based on my crappy pics, am I better off just replacing the power supply and MPU? I've done plenty of soldering on electronics, so I'm not afraid of that, but just didn't know if they are worth a salvage attempt. I'm planning on either trading or selling this for something like a pac-man, some sort of race car game, and/or a pin that is more kid/family oriented, but still want to fix or restore this one first, just because. Thanks for any help or pointers!
Jon
Jon