Kaydee and I had a very productive weekend!
* Completed monitor repair on an Asteroids Deluxe we picked up locally for $170 playing blind. The Y-channel had pretty much completely blown, taking the chassis mounted transistors for that channel with it. Took us a while to determine the full extent of the damage, but when we eventually got the monitor up, it had vertical collapse and was blowing a fuse... switched the fuse, disconnected the transistors for that channel, hooked up the transistors for the other channel, and got collapse the other way... Fry's Electronics had the NTE replacements for them, and its all running great now. We also replaced starters and tubes for the marquee and blacklight and this thing is pretty at night
* Applied Cap Kit and B+ kit to a Sanyo 20EZ that is in our Escape from the Planet of the Robot Monsters, because of course that's the monitor that would be in there. I got this machine off eBay about a decade ago. This monitor was getting some weird weakness on whites as well as having a few lines from the top of the screen cut off, so you could only see about 1/2 of the text that it puts up there. Worked great after applying these kits. Didn't take a photo of this one yet.
* Applied Cap Kit to WG4903 inside of my System I with RoadRunner installed. While working on that, found one of the disc shaped capacitors on the neckboard was dried and cracked. This monitor was very dim on one side and had pretty bad color bleed. Applied the cap kit, found a suitable replacement for the broken neck board capacitor, and it looks like a new monitor. Amazing what not having components that are cracked and split open can do!
Our next big project is Spy Hunter. We have a cabinet in bad physical shape (no water damage, just needs to start with lots of wood work)... new art on the way from This Old Game, and about three full sets of boards, none tested, a couple of monitors that might work... wish us luck! We'll share this one as it progresses, and with any luck, I'll have some Spy Hunter parts to sell when we are finished
