Jerry riggin'

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what are some "methods" you have used to make something work on a game?
I have mentioned this before, but I used blue cellophane from Hobby Lobby for an over lay on my Asteroids Deluxe because I couldn't source a gel at the time.
I had a Pop-a-Ball game that was old school and used redemption tickets, I couldn't figure out how to override the ticket thing so I found some tickets in the bottom and cut a slot under where they came out and used clear packing tape and taped about 10 of them together to form a loop so it would just keep counting tickets and played great, it looked similar to this one.

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what have you done that wasn't really up to spec?
 
I've done the exact same thing with tickets on a machine that owed thousands but seemingly didn't have an easy way to clear them. I taped up a loop and walked away for an hour.

I've done my fair share of non-factory fixes, but probably the most creative one was replacing the speakers in a Crazy Taxi with a small radio.
The game is on a route nearly two hours away and had already given me a bunch of trouble, this was my third visit there working on it.
I finally fixed everything else only to have the sound drop out. Thankfully the Naomi spits out sound over a couple RCA connectors. I went to the neighboring discount store and bought a little radio with a 3.5mm jack and an adapter and it worked great.
 
A previous tech tried to make a 1/4" potentiometer fit with a 6mm gear by grinding it smaller. That didn't work. I tried to salvage the pot by grinding it even smaller and sleeving it with a 6mm OD piece of brass tube and JB weld. The problem is it wasn't perfectly on center so it wouldn't engage the gears properly. Still useful for a volume control or something similar.
 

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My favorite was "fixing" bad fuse clips with binder clips. For those who don't know, data east pinball power supplies have fuse clips that always break. For reference, I didn't do this one.
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I had a Boot Hill that came with the background plastic broken into several pieces, I used fiberglass matting like that used on cars and boats but instead of the resin (which doesn't stick to plastic) I used plastic epoxy and it seem to make a pretty rugged repair and hid pretty well if done from behind with the pieces lined up good.
 
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