Worst condition boards you have seen?

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I don't think we have a thread for this yet so why not start one :)

certainly not the worst I've seen, but here is a transformer board from a Bally EK I had a service call on last weekend

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Mine might have won. It was the AV board for STTNG. I sent it to Rob Anthony (borygard) for repair and he said it was the worst board he had ever seen...and fixing boards is what he does for a living. He swapped it out for me and last time I had talked to him, he still hadn't tried fixing it and this was a few years after I originally sent it to him. I wish I had pictures. Board was black with traces soldered all over it. It was amazingly bad.
 
I sent some boards I got from Nerdtendo last fall to Mike @ Mike's arcade a few months back. A pair of DK boards. They were NAAAAAASTY. I'll see if I can dig up some pics.
 
Some of the worst boards I've seen are those Williams interconnect boards such as used in Riverboat Gambler where the general illumination section is burnt to a crisp.
 
One of my favorites

http://www.siegecraft.us/the_siege_blog/blog/assets_c/2012/05/IMGP2733-1037.html
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Just for fun, I actualy tried to fix it. Fresh fiberglass, eyelets and I should have just used jumper wires, but tried some copper tape traces instead. Unfortunately they didn't hold, I'm not used to working with the stuff, and I did a lousy job of putting them down.

But hey, if you don't try and practice, you never learn.

http://www.siegecraft.us/the_siege_blog/blog/assets_c/2012/05/IMGP2749-1061.html
 
Quite the undertaking!
That damn think went thermonuclear!

One of my favorites

http://www.siegecraft.us/the_siege_blog/blog/assets_c/2012/05/IMGP2733-1037.html
http://www.siegecraft.us/the_siege_blog/blog/assets_c/2012/05/IMGP2738-1046.html

Just for fun, I actualy tried to fix it. Fresh fiberglass, eyelets and I should have just used jumper wires, but tried some copper tape traces instead. Unfortunately they didn't hold, I'm not used to working with the stuff, and I did a lousy job of putting them down.

But hey, if you don't try and practice, you never learn.

http://www.siegecraft.us/the_siege_blog/blog/assets_c/2012/05/IMGP2749-1061.html
 
Holes

Ooo, oo, we have a wpc power board with a quarter sized hole blown in it. Triac apparently exploded. They gave it to the old pin tech to fix as a joke. He patched it right up, and it's running fine in a Fishtales out in the field.
 
I'll throw up (literally at the time) 3 candidates. ALL were fixed. (I have pic proof). :)

#1 - Theatre of Magic power/driver board GI hack. The guy probably installed trailer hitches at Uhaul rentals.
#2 - Space Invaders rectifier board rats nest from hell. WTF
#3 - GI burn on T2. Board was toasted by a Cyborg.

- Don

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Whoah, is that a pair of staples holding together a rubber? That's awesome. There are very few things even below MY threshold of cheapness, but that one is :D

Come to think of it, there's a clothespin holding one of the leaf swithces on my Pinbot together. I bought it that way, have played it for 6 months that way, and it will likely stay that way. I figure if it's holding fast and works, why mess with it?
 
From an otherwise very nice Black Knight that was at the local AGS auction in Kingsport. The ball was stuck in the outlane and.. WTF! A cell cam moment.

- Don

Whoah, is that a pair of staples holding together a rubber? That's awesome. There are very few things even below MY threshold of cheapness, but that one is :D
 
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