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Tonight I was finishing a 3 hour marathon of repairing and getting my PP cab ready for new parts. After I cleaned up my mess, I noticed I forgot to put the rest of the monitor bolts on the 60-1 cab I had just freshly re-capped. It was working great. While doing this, I got distracted by my Neo cab's volume being a bit too loud.

While turning the Neo cab around the power cord grabbed the back door of the 60-1 cab and sent it on it's way......right into the fucking neckboard of the 60-1.....CRACK!!

The damn thing completely snapped in half. Well, I guess the pc monitor goes back in.

Is it hard to find a neckboard for a WG 4900??? I have also been completely cut off from buying anything else arcade related for a month by the wife. And she means it this time :)

The bitch about all of this is I'm completely sober. I normally do these things after a few beers. This really stings. Hell, I almost cried.
 
we have all been there in one way or another - broken monitor bezel glass - monitor neck snap - fried board... whatever ...we have all had our moments
 
A cracked neckboard is repairable.
As long as the TUBE didn't crack, then you're good.

And yes...... we've all had stuff like this happen before.
 
PM me you address and I'll send you one. No charge, so you should still be cool with the wife... ;)
 
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Here's the damage. The neck survived.
 

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PM me you address and I'll send you one. No charge, so you should still be cool with the wife... ;)

I REALLY appreciate the offer!!! However, I must pay you. I'm weird like that. I can wait until "Mrs. Vagina" releases funds. For the time being, I will throw the pc monitor back in. I made a bezel for it and friends/family can't tell the difference. Only we can, so no hurry.

Thanks again. I am truly humbled by the offer.
 
that it totally repairable and not all that difficult either, though it may be a bit time consuming if you're not up to speed on your soldering.
 
Originally Posted by Cliffo
PM me you address and I'll send you one. No charge, so you should still be cool with the wife...



I REALLY appreciate the offer!!! However, I must pay you. I'm weird like that. I can wait until "Mrs. Vagina" releases funds. For the time being, I will throw the pc monitor back in. I made a bezel for it and friends/family can't tell the difference. Only we can, so no hurry.

Thanks again. I am truly humbled by the offer.


This is why I stick around on this forum.Some people are still honest and are willing to help out another for nothing.It ceases to amaze me how nice some of you really are.I feel I'm the same way. Jaymax that suck's about your neck board I do stupid crap like that all the time and there's no one to blame but myself.Let us no how you get it fixed.
 
As far as the board goes I've fixed worse, one-sided PCBs are pretty easy. Try to glue the pieces together with epoxy, scrape the masking off around the broken traces and solder jumper wires across, if no components need replacement that should do it.
 
I cracked my neckboard once too. Trying to hide a cab in the basement before the wife saw it. :rolleyes: The cab bounced the last 2 steps and the game no longer worked. I didnt know what was wrong. Enter Cadillacman and he found it was a cracked neckboard, 3 days later reinstalled and as good as new. :)
 
That sucks, but hey it could be worse... you could have busted the tube :)

Nice offer for the neck board! Yours is repairable, looks like a fun project :)
 
I REALLY appreciate the offer!!! However, I must pay you. I'm weird like that. I can wait until "Mrs. Vagina" releases funds. For the time being, I will throw the pc monitor back in. I made a bezel for it and friends/family can't tell the difference. Only we can, so no hurry.

Thanks again. I am truly humbled by the offer.

No problem, if you want we could trade neck boards. Yours looks totally repairable as others have said. I've got several 4900 chassis' that I'll likely never use, so I'd have no problems swapping you neck boards. I'm just glad your tube is alright, that would have really sucked!
 
That's not too bad. Some hot melt glue on the component side, possibly with a popsicle stick splint or two for support and some jumpers on the traces that cracked. It is hard to tell, but it only looks like about 10 traces need jumpers. It could have been a lot worse.

ken
 
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