Frax
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So I was looking at the flash lamps not working issue..there's so many things going on under this playfield that I can't believe the thing works as well as it does. I wish I had taken pictures last night, it'll have to wait until tonight.
First thing is that the resistors on the board aren't soldered correctly, just like someone said might be the problem. So I've got that to work on. There's these wierd brown-tube resistors that someone tried to solder the leads to some other metal piece, and then put it through the PCB hole...it's a friggin mess, but fixable. They didn't even clip off the back of the legs after doing the soldering...there was just an inch and a half of leads sticking out the back of the board waiting to short something out. Clipped those flush, obviously. Didn't have time to clean up the board...
Problem 2. Every resistor board under the playfield has some kind of...plastic...rubber....goo...all over the ends of the resistor boards. It's like hot glue, but opaque white instead of transluscent clear? I can only assume this was done to keep things from shorting out with all that's going on under that playfield, but it's a friggin MESS. There's no way for me to get at the component leads where this crud is... please tell me this is another hack someone's done and not normal. I'd love to clean it up..shouldn't be all that hard, but it looks horrible and will make future repair a nightmare...
Problem 3. This one I know I can fix easy. They broke the diodes on the coils that are in there somehow..they bought replacements, but they just wrapped the long legs around the coil terminals and put huge blobs of solder on there. I'm completely rebuilding the full flipper assemblies on both sides anyways, but it's just LOL-worthy to look at and know that someone thought this was a quality fix.
I'll try and get pics of the goop up tonight so I can get some opinions on what to do about it. =P
First thing is that the resistors on the board aren't soldered correctly, just like someone said might be the problem. So I've got that to work on. There's these wierd brown-tube resistors that someone tried to solder the leads to some other metal piece, and then put it through the PCB hole...it's a friggin mess, but fixable. They didn't even clip off the back of the legs after doing the soldering...there was just an inch and a half of leads sticking out the back of the board waiting to short something out. Clipped those flush, obviously. Didn't have time to clean up the board...
Problem 2. Every resistor board under the playfield has some kind of...plastic...rubber....goo...all over the ends of the resistor boards. It's like hot glue, but opaque white instead of transluscent clear? I can only assume this was done to keep things from shorting out with all that's going on under that playfield, but it's a friggin MESS. There's no way for me to get at the component leads where this crud is... please tell me this is another hack someone's done and not normal. I'd love to clean it up..shouldn't be all that hard, but it looks horrible and will make future repair a nightmare...
Problem 3. This one I know I can fix easy. They broke the diodes on the coils that are in there somehow..they bought replacements, but they just wrapped the long legs around the coil terminals and put huge blobs of solder on there. I'm completely rebuilding the full flipper assemblies on both sides anyways, but it's just LOL-worthy to look at and know that someone thought this was a quality fix.
I'll try and get pics of the goop up tonight so I can get some opinions on what to do about it. =P