Space gun and solenoids...

Ill post the pictures here too incase someone may need them. Here is some shots of my Space Gun board and the area needed second pic is the closeup of the underside of IC82. I cropped that pic and realized I only got 1/2 of the pins of IC82. A couple posts down is the full pic.
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One last one of underside of ic82. I didnt get the other row of pins in a good picture.
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Nice! If you really want it flashy.....make each side pulse when the solenoid energizes. Left side flashes as shots are fired from the left gun and vice versa. Ha!
 
Digging up this old thread because I'm having issues with the Space Gun solenoids too — neither gun's solenoid is working. I took one of the guns apart, and the solenoid isn't stuck; it moves freely by hand. Both solenoids read about 13 ohms at the connectors, so they're probably fine.

I checked the board, and both transistors seem okay, but I haven't been able to dig much deeper since I don't have a schematic. Does anyone happen to have a Space Gun schematic, or know what else I should check on the PCB?
 
Off the top of my head i cant remember if there is one here, but check for a fuse mounted on the underside of the control panel.
 
There were no fuses under the control panel, but I traced the coil wires — one wire from each coil goes to a box next to the PSU that contains a single common T5A fuse. This fuse was fine. In the same box there's also a rectifier bridge, which I tested with the diode function and it seemed OK, and one 10,000 µF / 50 V capacitor, which measured 12,000 µF on the meter. So it looks like the fault must be somewhere on the PCB.

I also measured the 74LS32N chip on the PCB using the ohm range. All inputs to ground showed roughly the same value, and two outputs to ground showed roughly the same (if I remember correctly, about 400 kΩ), but the other two outputs to ground were only about 0.9 kΩ. I don't know if this is normal or not, or what else I could check.
 
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