Lanky Kong
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So, last night I found a local Craigslist ad for a couple of machines that I thought were probably gone already. I decided to send the seller a text & email anyway.
This morning I heard back from him that they were still there so I got everything together and headed out.
I brought home, a nice condition Ice Cold Beer and an Asteroids Deluxe Mini.
Both "weren't" working. While at the Seller's house we plugged in the Mini and I saw neck glow on the monitor which was good enough for me.
I got them home and after warming up some, I decided to pop open the AD Mini and give 'er a looks over. I noticed the edge connector wasn't connected at all. So I plugged in the edge connector and plugged her in. Everything lit up except for the game board. The red light on the game board wasn't lighting up at all. I pulled the edge connector and noticed that a couple leads on the board's edge connector were pretty raw. My guess was that that was the problem so I attempted to finagle the edge connector a bit to see if I could make contact.
My results were:
I had to reconnect a button and the Control panel wire harness. Then I was off to playing my first game of AD.
As for the Ice Cold Beer, it has a broken belt. Also the rod (thing the ball rests on) is leaning upward behind the bezzle. When we plugged it in at the Seller's place the lights came on and you could hear a motor in the bottom of the machine running constantly but that's it. I'm not familiar with the machine but hopefully it will not take much to get it going.
I'll update with more pictures soon.
This morning I heard back from him that they were still there so I got everything together and headed out.
I brought home, a nice condition Ice Cold Beer and an Asteroids Deluxe Mini.
Both "weren't" working. While at the Seller's house we plugged in the Mini and I saw neck glow on the monitor which was good enough for me.
I got them home and after warming up some, I decided to pop open the AD Mini and give 'er a looks over. I noticed the edge connector wasn't connected at all. So I plugged in the edge connector and plugged her in. Everything lit up except for the game board. The red light on the game board wasn't lighting up at all. I pulled the edge connector and noticed that a couple leads on the board's edge connector were pretty raw. My guess was that that was the problem so I attempted to finagle the edge connector a bit to see if I could make contact.
My results were:
I had to reconnect a button and the Control panel wire harness. Then I was off to playing my first game of AD.
As for the Ice Cold Beer, it has a broken belt. Also the rod (thing the ball rests on) is leaning upward behind the bezzle. When we plugged it in at the Seller's place the lights came on and you could hear a motor in the bottom of the machine running constantly but that's it. I'm not familiar with the machine but hopefully it will not take much to get it going.
I'll update with more pictures soon.
