SaminVA
Well-known member
Hello all you STTNG pinball fan's
I acquired my STTNG pinball back in 2003. Wow I just realized I have had this game for 10 years now. My how time flies. When I got the game I gave it a good cleaning, replaced the batteries, blown bulbs, rubber rings and bumpers and for the most part it has been trouble free ever sense with only minor repairs along the way. June of 2011 I rebuilt the flippers, the upper right flipper was sticking so I rebuilt all 3 wile I was at it. Things were going good till a couple months ago. Wile I was playing a game it started doing weird things and seemed to even reset once. I had a sinking suspicion what the problem was, I could not remember when I last changed the batteries on the CPU. Space is kind of tight in the game room which makes it almost impossible to get into the back box. So I moved some games around to make some room so I could get into the back box and my suspicion was confirmed. Battery corrosion damage to the CPU. It wasn't too bad if their is such a thing and the game had also developed a few other problems before it succumbed to the battery damage so it was time for an intervention. I decided to video my findings and repairs and make a video repair log. I have uploaded the first video dealing with repairing the CPU battery damage and will soon have a few more videos ready detailing the other repairs. I also have a new laser cannon mod which is next on the list and I have ordered the new Color DMD kit which should be here next Thursday so I plain an install video of that as well.
Here's the first video, it's long and provably boring to most unless you have a pinball game with battery damage and don't have a clue where to begin so I hope it will be of some help to someone.
More to come.
I acquired my STTNG pinball back in 2003. Wow I just realized I have had this game for 10 years now. My how time flies. When I got the game I gave it a good cleaning, replaced the batteries, blown bulbs, rubber rings and bumpers and for the most part it has been trouble free ever sense with only minor repairs along the way. June of 2011 I rebuilt the flippers, the upper right flipper was sticking so I rebuilt all 3 wile I was at it. Things were going good till a couple months ago. Wile I was playing a game it started doing weird things and seemed to even reset once. I had a sinking suspicion what the problem was, I could not remember when I last changed the batteries on the CPU. Space is kind of tight in the game room which makes it almost impossible to get into the back box. So I moved some games around to make some room so I could get into the back box and my suspicion was confirmed. Battery corrosion damage to the CPU. It wasn't too bad if their is such a thing and the game had also developed a few other problems before it succumbed to the battery damage so it was time for an intervention. I decided to video my findings and repairs and make a video repair log. I have uploaded the first video dealing with repairing the CPU battery damage and will soon have a few more videos ready detailing the other repairs. I also have a new laser cannon mod which is next on the list and I have ordered the new Color DMD kit which should be here next Thursday so I plain an install video of that as well.
Here's the first video, it's long and provably boring to most unless you have a pinball game with battery damage and don't have a clue where to begin so I hope it will be of some help to someone.
More to come.
