Easiest Repair Job Ever.

[XY4u]

I replaced a power cord and repaired an Asterroids Dlx

 

[pipcade]

bought a dead pc10 at auction for $40. open it up at home and there is an obvious cable not plugged in. plug it in and it worked fine.

bought a dead mspac. got it home and a fuse was blown. replaced the fuse and it worked for years til i sold it

 

[viewsonix]

Bought a 'dead' game from a guy, he said it wouldn't power up.
Got home, plugged it in, nothing. Checked fuses, etc. everything looked ok. Checked for the interlock switch on the back, nope, none there. Scratched my head for like half an hour and then walked to the front of the cab, and saw the coin door was slightly open. The interlock switch was on the coin door. After pushing that flush, bingo! Game fires right up.

 

[justbriand]

I got $20 for plugging a guys MK2 board back in haha. Nice guy, told him not to worry about it but he insisted.

 

[Alpha-tron]

So I get this call to look into a game I sold 20 plus years ago, Funny how some people expect free support even after 20 plus years. Laughs

So I grab spare parts and stuff just in case I need them.

So I drive over and flip on the switch and it's dead. I need to go to the bathroom and while I was in the bath room. I notice the GFI Socket has been sprung. So I rest the switch. I hear the Arcade machine roar back to life.

 

[AlkalineJay]

Got a new one to add to the list: A buddy from work got a free ms pac from a friend of his, the friend told him it just stopped working and he could have it. So I dropped in, pulled the edge connector off and cleaned the board connection with an eraser. Put the harness connector back on and viola'! Powered right up. I made some adjustments to the monitor, and showed him how to take the cp, and bezel off to clean the game up. He loaded me up with some good beer and a fresh mason jar of good ol' tennessee moonshine! Score!!!

 

[Teknotoyz]

I sold someone a multicade a few months ago. He manages several properties and put this on location in an upscale downtown Atlanta. He contacted me saying someone played the game too hard and broke the joystick. I wasn't sure exactly what happened, but I expected to replace the joystick. However, when I got there the joystick had simply come off of the CP bolts. I simply put four new bolts, and tightened it down with four new nuts. That was perhaps the easiest money I've ever earned.

It's amazing how hands-off some people are. I mean, if you simply opened up the control panel, you would see how to fix this. Absolutely crazy to me that someone would be willing to pay repair fees for this type of fix.

What your easiest repair you got paid for?

Sounds like a seller didn't tighten up some bolts.......

 

[Compute]

Funny, nobody has a story about replacing a blown fuse and the thing sprang to life.

 

[cadillacman]

um. yeah theres a couple...

 

[Nutty 5.0]

Mine wasn't super easy, but first game, well pin, and was pretty easy: HS2 kept popping fuse for flasher circuit and the mars lamp wasn't spinning. While apart for cleaning and adding LED's, I found one of the flasher bulb sockets had a small hairpin clip in it shorting. Best part it was causing the mars lamp to not work too! Not as easy as some, but still pretty simple albeit took a little while to identify.

 

[caddysrule]

A guy In my town Is opening a arcade. He wanted me to go thru his games so they are ready to go on location. I adjusted 4 monitors, changed a leaf switch, changed 3 microswitches, and did 10 mins of soldering. I got $200 and Im going to sell him 10 games

 

[jawhn]

I bought my Pac-Man "non-working" for $150. (Beautiful cosmetic shape)

Got it home, plugged it in, nothing. Turned the on/off switch to on, fired right up. Guy didn't know it had an on/off switch, I guess.

Bought an Astro Blaster last night that I was hoping would just be the interlock switch, but that wasn't it. But it is missing a screw-in type fuse in the interlock connector box, so I have my fingers crossed that that's all it is...

 

[Robomayhem]

The first game I ever bought was a nice Donkey Kong, playing blind, for $50.00. Once I got it home, I turned up the brightness and had a beautiful picture on a no burn tube.

 

[TransAmFan]

Coupla stories... My Frogger machine's picture seemed to be slowly "creeping" off the top of the screen... Pulled my hair out tryin to figure out where the control were to adjust the monitor, posted questions on here about it, etc. Finally, one day just looked at the screen area for a moment, said "hmmm", and pulled the glass off the front of the display area, and realized the problem wasn't a monitor issue, but a cardboard bezel slowly sliding down the screen issue! Doh!!!

Also, once had a succession of new batteries each "die" about a month after installing them in my '79 Trans Am... "What the Hell is this expensive problem that keeps killing my perfectly good running vehicle?!?!" Well, turns out the connector inside the glove compartment that shut off the glove compartment's light when closed was worn out, thereby leaving the light "on" unbeknowst to me when the compartment was shut and the car wasn't running. Solution: Remove the little light bulb... Presto! "Major" car problem SOLVED...