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Currently the plan is for a June 23rd & 24th repair party gathering. Yes, I know this is a Friday and Saturday event. It just seem to work for the people in AZ. I thank you for traveling so far away to be a part of this event.

Coindork mention having a cook out/BBQ.. I wonder if he knows we are at 19 people. I am suggesting that we kick in a few buck so we don't get this look of "I am feeding How many people?". You are getting Just a 1/4 of a hot dog Laughs.

Certain things I would Like people to bring.
-Your smartphone.. To take pictures of the cabs inside and out.
-Screw drivers.. Most of the Cabs are screwed closed..
-A pen to scribble on notes.
-A sleeping bag for those who want to stay over night in the arcade an air matters cause the carpet in the arcade is just thin carpet over cement.
-a roll of paper towel- Not only great to wipe your hands. It make an ok pillow.
- Your good attitude, #1 goal is to have fun, #2 goal is to fix arcade machines.
-Things you can use to repair an arcade machine.

Things I would like people to bring for fun
A Black shirt, Dark glasses and a horse mask. Photo OP!
Technical tool or a thing for tech show and tell.

The rough plans is to go through all the machines on Friday and do repairs on Saturday.
Taking many breaks along the way and having fun.

Original post below..

Currently, I am doing repairs over at Banning Expo. I am strictly doing volunteer work over there repairing arcade machines. There has been many other great techs who have done a ton of work over there. I still recall the first show where most of the games were running at first and during the show a huge amount of machines went down. A lot of machines were repaired on the fly during that first show (thanks to the talents of particular tech). The show 2 years later, we had about a dozen go down. Many thanks for the techs past and present who made that possible by doing all those repairs.

Banning had a repair Tech event recently which was basically for the Pinball side. I was there to work on the Video side. Basically there were 2 guys working on video side. The pinside had about a dozen people there. The pinside people stole a guy from us. He called the video side the dark side. Lucky for us he came back to the dark side. It's dark because frankly running the full lights for 3 guys is kind of expensive.

Why this post? I am thinking of creating a series of video repair events over at banning. I am thinking of getting people who are interested in helping out repairing machines even if they have little repair knowledge. You don't need a lot of technical knowledge to check joysticks, buttons and seeing if there is something wrong with a monitor. I typical start with the simple things and move to the more complex problems.

There are more than 400 plus machines at banning. While the next show is in October and that might seem a long ways off. I rather avoid the last minute rush. I would Love to have spare working machines and spare monitors. So if a machine goes out it can be replaced or repaired quickly and easily.

I am wondering anyone on Klov is up to doing a little arcade machine repairing. You might ask about when is this event is. I am pretty sure, I can arrange these events almost any time in the day including weekends. I am leaving this open depending on who is interested.
 
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Rock on Joe, thats awesome.
I had a total blast at the last event.
If volunteering some time to help out ensures that these events continue, I'm game to drive out from AZ to help out from time to time.
A lot will depend on when and how it fits into the work schedule though.
I would bet theres several people out here in the AZ community that would do the same.
That place is amazing and well worth donating a little time to to insure it thrives.

There were quite a few games at the last event where some really basic things like simply adjusting the monitor, fixing leafs on buttons, rebuilding joysticks would have made a big difference in gameplay. Some of this stuff is pretty basic, but it all takes up time to fix (especially with a collection that massive).

You could probably even make a repair event out of it.
It might be fun do do something like make a camping trip out of it or something like that where you repair games during the day and camp out at night.

On a related side note. I would also love to see more of the EM games working at the next event ;) Only about half of them were working last time :(
 
Hey, I was that young lad the pin guys stole... I had to sneak back over to the dark side as quickly as I could. I want to learn as much from you Yoda masters as much as possible :p



Currently, I am doing repairs over at Banning Expo. I am strictly doing volunteer work over there repairing arcade machines. There has been many other great techs who have done a ton of work over there. I still recall the first show where most of the games were running at first and during the show a huge amount of machines went down. A lot of machines were repaired on the fly during that first show (thanks to the talents of particular tech). The show 2 years later, we had about a dozen go down. Many thanks for the techs past and present who made that possible by doing all those repairs.

Banning had a repair Tech event recently which was basically for the Pinball side. I was there to work on the Video side. Basically there were 2 guys working on video side. The pinside had about a dozen people there. The pinside people stole a guy from us. He called the video side the dark side. Lucky for us he came back to the dark side. It's dark because frankly running the full lights for 3 guys is kind of expensive.

Why this post? I am thinking of creating a series of video repair events over at banning. I am thinking of getting people who are interested in helping out repairing machines even if they have little repair knowledge. You don't need a lot of technical knowledge to check joysticks, buttons and seeing if there is something wrong with a monitor. I typical start with the simple things and move to the more complex problems.

There are more than 400 plus machines at banning. While the next show is in October and that might seem a long ways off. I rather avoid the last minute rush. I would Love to have spare working machines and spare monitors. So if a machine goes out it can be replaced or repaired quickly and easily.

I am wondering anyone on Klov is up to doing a little arcade machine repairing. You might ask about when is this event is. I am pretty sure, I can arrange these events almost any time in the day including weekends. I am leaving this open depending on who is interested.
 
I got inivite to help out a few days before the show. There wasn't enough time to do a lot of repairs on my part.

There was an EM tech that was suppose to be there, I don't think he made it. I know someone was trying to find a gear to one of the em games out there.

I hope with more help and more time. Parts can be found for some of these really neat old em games.

There this neon painted game were a ball floats around. It was pretty interesting and I was kind of sad that it wasn't working at the show.
 
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I think what CoinDork was trying to say in a thousand words or more was....."great idea, when and where?" ;-)
 
If we can set a date, the rest will follow. I love the camping idea!

Yep. If you set a date and make it a repair event you should get a pretty good draw from both the Arizona and Southern California community.

They actually have space for camping there at the faculty where you can camp out during the expo. I think making it something social like this could draw some good people from the community to show up and help.

Count me in, as long as the camping has AC...

You can always rent an RV :D
 
While there is a camp site, I don't know if permits are need to be pulled to use camping site.

It would be kind of neat to camp out in the arcade itself.

Let me see if I can get approval for either ideas.

As for the when for a repair event, Practically anytime given enough time to organize it.
 
While there is a camp site, I don't know if permits are need to be pulled to use camping site.

It would be kind of neat to camp out in the arcade itself.

Let me see if I can get approval for either ideas.

As for the when for a repair event, Practically anytime given enough time to organize it.

Camping inside sounds fun, as long as we follow the Boy Scout rules....

- leave it cleaner than it was when you got there
- kick down your fire ring when you're done
- wet your ashes down good and stir them up

;-)

Kidding aside, what are you guys thinking? Weekend? During the week? Some time soon?
 
Camping inside sounds fun, as long as we follow the Boy Scout rules....

- leave it cleaner than it was when you got there
- kick down your fire ring when you're done
- wet your ashes down good and stir them up

;-)

Kidding aside, what are you guys thinking? Weekend? During the week? Some time soon?

Sometime soon and multiple times...Most guys are working during the week but I can flip my work stuff around to make it happen during the week.

While a roasting marsh mellows in the arcade over a fire might be fun. The new fire alarm system will cut that fun short Laughs. I really don't want to fix 400 plus machines with water damage. I pretty sure the pinball techs would lynch me.. LOL

I want this event to be fun and to fix and work on lot arcade machines :)
 
Weekends work for me as well, and heading out Friday sounds great.....get out of work early and jam over.

Brien and Kent, do want to try and coordinate going over as a group or people just show up when they can?
 
Weekends work for me as well, and heading out Friday sounds great.....get out of work early and jam over.

Brien and Kent, do want to try and coordinate going over as a group or people just show up when they can?

We could car pool or caravan... I'm happy to drive and have lots of room in my truck. I have a covered bed so everything can be put in there and seats 5 comfortably.
 
While there is a camp site, I don't know if permits are need to be pulled to use camping site.
It would be kind of neat to camp out in the arcade itself.
Let me see if I can get approval for either ideas.

Either way would work. I not sure you will need permits for it since its not a public event. I.E. a private volunteer event. I could be wrong as I'm not well versed in the legalities of event planing, but I think that might be the case.

Also, this month would be out and first weekend of next month I think is an Arcade party, so any time after that works for me.

My schedule is about the same. Im booked up with work travel until the second week in June, so about a month out. After that I have the rest of June and July free and dont have to travel again till August. Like everybody else weekends are best for me. I.E. drive out Friday afternoon, return Saturday or Sunday.
 
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