$%!#%#! Pole Position

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My pole position is cursed. Not the main board, which oddly never gives me any trouble. It's the damn monitor over and over. When I got it, it was a messed up sync signal. No biggie.

Next during a brief gaming session, I smelled magic smoke. A bundle of wires in the matsuSHITa decided to short out. Who the hell at matsushita thought it was a good idea to bundle the neckboard wires with the HV anode lead??

Most recently, a fellow KLOVer (Thanks again!) gave me a K4600 that needed a cap kit. Wheeled it into the shop, cleaned it, capped it, tuned it, and it looks great. Go to bring it back out of the shop, and a when I set it down a distinct delayed thud tells me that I forgot to install the monitor bolts. Crap... I pull off the back to find the neckboard split into two where it hit the cabinet back.

So here I am again with a dead pole position that has seen far more repair time than play time. With any luck, the tube neck isn't cracked, but lucky doesn't describe this machine at all. Anyone know how to remove a curse from an arcade game?
 
yeah stop doing stupid $hit lol....

been there man, been there.

with a pp, be prepared, its always something. Bit worth it to relive those childhood memories...
 
my pole and pole 2 are probably the two games in my collection that I have had to fix the most... everytime I turn them on I cringe... you never know what might happen
 
Hi,
on my PP_II pcb I made all sockets new. What a stupid work. Now driving every day about 1h for the last 3 month with nothing to repair, earning the fruits of the hard work. It is my favourite game. The max speed is about 448 km/h, set one of the dip switches to maxspeed. But I am a bad driver, never got the pole position after the qualify lap. My son (10) gets it.
Greets
 
Everytime I see your sig I want to buy that Pole Position. But with no room and too many projects I must resist. Just recently had Asteroids, Tempest and Battlezone all go out on me. I thinking it is just Atari game that are cursed.
 
Hello,
thanks I feel very pleasured.
I made another modification, never wrote before.
The pcb interconnector often makes trouble. Why you don´t kick him off ?
When I got my cab, the pcb interconnector was damaged. I don't want to give out a lot of money and found an unusual low cost solution, it works fine :
It is an old floppy-disk ribbon cable, soldered to both pcbs. The handling of the "married" pcbs is a bit difficult, but it never fails.
 

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MAME will remove a curse? I'm on it!

Edit: Forgot to ask about the monitor. Will a cap kit fix my broken neck board?
 
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Well technically it does, bc you can slap a PC monitor in there and call it a day LMAO

I'd rather have no image....

Fire usually works, followed by spreading the ashes over a body of water and a short prayer for the recently departed.

Well, that explains the matsushita's attempt to self-immolate.
 
At this point I'm thinking that someone should track down all the designers who worked on the Matsushita and post their pictures online. :D

My best two tubes, as far as tubes with no burn-in, out of all the monitors I have are part of Matsushita monitors. (Obviously these two monitors have seen very little up time). And those tubes can't be used with any other chassis'.

As for your broken neck board, that can be fixed: http://www.therealbobroberts.net/bnb.html

Darren Harris
Staten Island, New York.
 
Yep, my Pole Position II has been through 3 monitors as well. First was a 'Shita that had a blown flyback on arrival, then I put in a GO7 and the tube sucked royally. Then I swapped in a K4900 and its been running like a champ ever since.

*knock on wood*
 
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