z0ner and the order of the Phoenix.
Acquired said bird. Cabinet 6/10, but the original side art and control panel are still pretty decent. K4901 has neck glow but no picture, plays blind. Neither marquee or coin slots are lit. Coin-up switches are both broken but respond to a credit by rolling them. Player 1 is defunct. This one's been through hell, boys.
Went to pull chassis and neck board for examination. Taking the red "Y" from the flyback out of the neck board cracked about a dime-sized piece off. This one needed the Kragle and a nice jumper. Reflowed the header on the neck board only, after the voltage regulator and HOT came up AOK. Popped it back in and viola, we have picture. It's possible the neck board was cracked before I pulled "Y".
I cleaned the contacts on all 6 leaf switches with a business card (and they were filthy). P1 still wouldn't start. Troubleshoot at the PCB connector and got nothing. Troubleshoot at the Molex and finally figured out the contacts weren't conductive enough. Interestingly my metal file between just the contacts was enough to coin. Swapped with another leaf switch.
Marquee was missing both a bulb and a starter. Such a PITA to put in the starter - you basically have to do it blind. I couldn't test the ballast either due to this stupid design so I was risking killing the bulb. Luckily it works.
I'll replace the coin-up switches with ones where idiot(s) didn't break them off in the next few days, but we're golden and after about an hour I got a really nice high score (61K). Board seems to work great.
The one diamond in the rough is the tube is beautiful, and in great shape. No burn, and my B&K says all three guns are in the far right of the green.
Another one rises from the ashes
