Repair help near Providence, RI

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There is real nice guy near Providence RI, has a Donkey Kong which he has restored for a college project. Presentation with the game is in a week and the monitor just developed jail bars. I told him about a cap kit but he has no electronics experience and is to scared to do it. Some local repair guy has quoted him $250 to do it if he brings him the machine and pays for his dinner...Can you believe that! Anyway, he'd be willing to bring the game to someone as far as Boston if necessary. If you or you know of someone that could do a cap kit in the area for a reasonable price please reply asap... You can also call him directly, his name is Kyle (774) 526-7832. Someone please help this newbie out so he does not sour on arcade collecting.
 
NEACF.com has a lot of collectors near RI that can probably do it.

If he's willing to mail the chassis out, arcadecup.com would probably do it for much less than that. If not, there are a bunch of people on this site I'm sure would be willing to do it for a lot less if you send them the board and cap kit.

Also, what college class is he taking that allows him to restore an arcade game?
 
Why's he afraid to fix it himself? It's not really all that hard. For a first time job, expect it to take a couple hours, but it's a good learning experience. Also, wouldn't that be cheating if he had someone else do his repairs for him... I mean, if he's restoring it for a college class, you'd think he should do all the work himself.

-Ian
 
I don't know any details of the class, but apparentally its just about the cosmetic work, no electronics whatsoever. He picked the game up working 100%, but in need of wood work, repainting, t-molding, etc... If he could remove the chass is he could just sent it here and I'd to it for him. But that is the problem, he is deathly afraid of touching anything in there. I'm going to try NEACF, any other local contacts are appreciated.
 
If he could remove the chass is he could just sent it here and I'd to it for him. But that is the problem, he is deathly afraid of touching anything in there.

He shouldn't be afraid. The chances of getting killed are relatively low.

<grin>


But seriously. There is a *lot* of information out there on how to do it safely. The high voltage in a monitor is not going to kill you (it will hurt like hell if you're not careful), and discharing it is easy and safe. I even wrote a huge long sticky thread about monitor repair in the monitors section here. But, still, since he has no background in electronics, repairing the monitor himself might not be something he can do. Hopefully there is someone nearby that can come out and help. I'm too far away to help, otherwise I would.

-Ian
 
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