Teaching arcade repair

Riptor

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Anyone else tried teaching someone arcade repair? I have a friend who always comes over and hangs out while im working. I figured he may as well help with some repairs so I asked if he wanted to recap some monitors since I had 4 waiting to be recapped. So after teaching him the mandatory stuff like discharging the monitor and what-not, I turned him loose on a K4600. After the cap kit....dead. Ok, here's a Sanyo 20EZ. If you can do that you can do any of them. After....dead. Alright, here's another 20Z....Success!
Not sure what the issue is with the 4600. I checked all his work and it looks great. No caps in backwards, values right, solder work looks good, etc. Its a low HV problem and may have been there to begin with because I dont remember if I tested that one before. The second one was totally dead after the rebuild but previously working with foldover. Cause was he knocked a pot loose during the cap kit install. Resoldering the pot on brought it back to life.
Thats it, not an exiting story. Im just bored and thought I would share.
 
Thanks to people on this website, I feel like I've been taught how to repair arcade games.

Tip of the day: When doing a cap kit, use styrafoam to hold the old and the new caps. It also helps to "sharpie" the cap number (C8) next to the old and new caps on the styrafoam with +/- labeled also.
 
Thanks to people on this website, I feel like I've been taught how to repair arcade games.

Tip of the day: When doing a cap kit, use styrafoam to hold the old and the new caps. It also helps to "sharpie" the cap number (C8) next to the old and new caps on the styrafoam with +/- labeled also.


yeah, pacray helped me with soldering skills a while ago, and watching dan (p1899m)'s videos on discharging helped.

but here's a real good tip -

when it's hot as heck in your garage, and you're drinking and soldering chassis, keep your beer on the other side of the soldering guns electrical wire so that when your dog makes a noise and you jerk around, you don't spill beer all over the chassis.
 
when it's hot as heck in your garage, and you're drinking and soldering chassis, keep your beer on the other side of the soldering guns electrical wire so that when your dog makes a noise and you jerk around, you don't spill beer all over the chassis.

This might sound strange, but I could totally imagine the exact events you described.

I've dropped a soldering iron and caught it. The one time I wished I actually missed what I was trying to catch.

Here's a great tip from the Great Jimmy Duggan: "Avoid the clap...Jimmy Dugan" That's good advice kid!
 
Done both at the same time. Cord to soldering iron knocks over beer, drop soldering iron to grab beer, use other hand to catch soldering iron.
 
Good tip on putting the caps in foam. Im going to start doing that to speed things up. I usually have two drawer bins, one with new caps and one to throw the old caps in. If they were all presorted on a piece of foam it would make things much easier.

I never put drinks in the middle of my work bench because my soldering or desoldering cord will knock it over every time.
 
I never put drinks in the middle of my work bench because my soldering or desoldering cord will knock it over every time.

I now use one of those hats with the beer holders and straws...Yes, seriously.
 
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