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Category: Tech / Repair

31 July 2014

Repair – Namco NA-1 boards, leaky caps

Written by S11
I’ve not been updating the site much lately, I’ve been watching loads of films and doing almost nothing in the way of gaming or keyboard use.  There’s a good reason for that too, tendonitis. Anyway, someone recently posted on...
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Arcade, Tech / Repair
29 March 2014

Repair – Irem games and leaking capacitors, it’s real.

Written by S11
If you saw my post a while back about the very poor condition Undercover Cops which required …. a lot of repair work due to leaking capacitors, you’ll have seen the damage they can do. Well today I picked...
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Arcade, Tech / Repair
10 February 2014

Repair – Mitchell Lady Killer (Electronic Devices license)

Written by S11
There are some collectors out there who want things perfect, the way they came from the factory. Well….  Let’s just say that’s not always a realistic fantasy.  I’ve had an odd looking (possibly Korean) Lady Killer PCB for a...
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Arcade, Tech / Repair
11 October 2013

Repair – Cave CV1000 colour problems

Written by S11
Recently I’ve become aware of a growing number of Cave boards offered for sale (just search Yahoo auctions for many examples) which have colour faults.  Usually these aren’t even advertised as being faulty, I’m not sure how much of...
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Arcade, Tech / Repair
05 October 2013

Repair – Edge connector contact replacement

Written by S11
If you collect older games, sooner or later you’re going to run into burned out connector pins.  Sometimes it’s just from a bad loom or dirty contacts, other times it’s due to people soldering adapters to boards – one...
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Arcade, Tech / Repair
26 September 2013

Repair – G07 flyback transformer

Written by S11
One of my cabs is a Missile Storm I’ve had a love/hate relationship with for some time.  It came from the famous Duke Of Lancaster cab raid, I actually had two of them – put all the best parts...
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Arcade, Tech / Repair
25 September 2013

Repair – Undercover Cops cap damage / bad seller

Written by S11
A bit of a sad story this one, one without a complete ending in fact.  A few weeks ago I bought an Undercover Cops PCB + art from a French PCB shop called ‘Video Game Addict’ (www.video-game-addict.com, don’t buy...
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Arcade, Tech / Repair
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