speleo_de
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Got a Williams Jungle Drums almost for free, so this is my first EM game. I am more into the Video Games till now. My education is electronics but microprocessor based, so a whole new world I am entering. Luckily schematics and service manual are there and are beginning to make sense to me. What helps alot as well, are the EM repair guides from Marvin that are still found in the Internet Archives.
I don't have the room to take a decent picture of the cabinet, but someone decided to apply vinyl with a 'dark wood' pattern - awful. When removing th evinyl, almost 50% of the original painting came with it, though the artwork outline is still visible to be used as producing the masks for a re-paint. My focus is to get the game working and cleaned. Painting and restoring is thereafter.
Game was sort of partially working with some lamps and recognizing the coin entry. Also the score wheels were resetting to zero. But certain motors didn't turn and also 50VAC were missing at the trigger switch. Found the issue to be with the lock relay and bad contacts, cleaned contacts and here we go. Now the motors are working and I can shoot with hits being scored. But I can shoot only a couple of times. I think the shot (score) counter is the problem, movement is sort of tarish. I am in the process of cleaning and now waitiing for the recommended grease to arrive.
Unfortunately during separation of the unit one of the 'EM Style' female connectors broke. Any chance to buy a replacement? My search didn't reveal anything. Would need a 5x2 per attached picture.
I don't have the room to take a decent picture of the cabinet, but someone decided to apply vinyl with a 'dark wood' pattern - awful. When removing th evinyl, almost 50% of the original painting came with it, though the artwork outline is still visible to be used as producing the masks for a re-paint. My focus is to get the game working and cleaned. Painting and restoring is thereafter.
Game was sort of partially working with some lamps and recognizing the coin entry. Also the score wheels were resetting to zero. But certain motors didn't turn and also 50VAC were missing at the trigger switch. Found the issue to be with the lock relay and bad contacts, cleaned contacts and here we go. Now the motors are working and I can shoot with hits being scored. But I can shoot only a couple of times. I think the shot (score) counter is the problem, movement is sort of tarish. I am in the process of cleaning and now waitiing for the recommended grease to arrive.
Unfortunately during separation of the unit one of the 'EM Style' female connectors broke. Any chance to buy a replacement? My search didn't reveal anything. Would need a 5x2 per attached picture.