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46  Arcade and Pinball Discussions / General Arcade and Video Game Discussions / Re: So what's everyone working on? on: July 29, 2014, 10:11:49 am
ongoing shit;

* building pinball electronics control system
* fix wonderboy pcb
* build GBA1000 motherboard (thylacine board + picasso ii board)
* finish c64 multi power supply / disk supply / bus switcher
47  Arcade and Pinball Discussions / General Pinball Discussions / Re: REVIVING OLD PINBALL MACHINE on: July 22, 2014, 11:25:36 am
you can guy 99% isopropyl alcohol everywhere, 91% even. qtips and some alc.

its quite flammable so use in well ventilated area.
48  Arcade and Pinball Discussions / General Pinball Discussions / Re: REVIVING OLD PINBALL MACHINE on: July 22, 2014, 10:14:17 am
alcohol. cleans and evaporates with no residue.
49  General Category / Comments about John's videos and johnsarcade.com / Re: Dragons lair on: July 22, 2014, 09:03:13 am
fuu my PC needs one of those airfilters
50  Arcade and Pinball Discussions / General Pinball Discussions / Re: REVIVING OLD PINBALL MACHINE on: July 22, 2014, 09:02:20 am
some pure alch. wet some sandpaper with alch and give the contacts a clean with that.

let it all evap + dry before turning back on

no wd40, no 'contact cleaner', no grease PERIOD!
51  Arcade and Pinball Discussions / General Arcade and Video Game Discussions / Re: How screwed are you? on: July 18, 2014, 09:58:04 am
im not in a dead zone, my zone does not exist.

my walmart has one of those fancy coin donation bowls, where the races around and around and drops into a hole. does that count?

welcome to the rural mountains!
52  Arcade and Pinball Discussions / General Pinball Discussions / Re: REVIVING OLD PINBALL MACHINE on: July 02, 2014, 11:18:18 am
this thing is an EM, its all mechanical, no electronics to fry.

lots of relays and leaf switches. you can fry stuff but its not like blowing up electronics.

the biggest thing is some relays get stuck, things like if the score reel does not get back to 0, the machine goes into a continue spiral of trying to move the score wheel etc.

you'll see these things right away and you can turn it off.

EM's are pretty hardy machines. good luck working on them.
53  Arcade and Pinball Discussions / General Pinball Discussions / Re: REVIVING OLD PINBALL MACHINE on: July 02, 2014, 07:20:33 am
ooh a 1966 em. I'd plug it in and fire it up to see what does or does not work.

see if reset triggers the steppers and score reels all to zero and go from there.
54  Arcade and Pinball Discussions / General Arcade and Video Game Discussions / New Competition for pins, vids, and prize money on: June 29, 2014, 11:22:52 am
http://replayfx.org/

for pins, Pinburgh 2015 will be here, 700 players max, 100,000 prize money.
for vids, Replay World Championship will be here, not sure what prizemoney will be.

down in pittsburgh at the David L. Lawrence Convention Center, from Thursday July 30 through to Sunday August 2nd
55  General Category / Comments about John's videos and johnsarcade.com / Re: John's Basement: Galaga or Galaxian on: June 20, 2014, 12:29:41 pm
yeah dump both and get a Pleiads instead or a vanguard because vanguard FUCKING ROCKS
56  General Category / Comments about John's videos and johnsarcade.com / Re: John's Basement: What shall leave? on: June 18, 2014, 09:06:27 am
gyruss, gyruss should go.
57  Arcade and Pinball Discussions / General Arcade and Video Game Discussions / Re: Strange Tatio Cabinet Find questions on: June 13, 2014, 08:04:43 pm
i would say def an arkanoid cab.
58  General Category / Comments about John's videos and johnsarcade.com / Re: Which Restore Series Would Make For the Best DVD? on: June 11, 2014, 06:31:33 pm
burn your own dvds. takes a few minutes per disc. cheap as piss.
59  Other Stuff / Video Game Console and Retro Computers Discussion / Re: Commodore 64 with 1541 SD drive and Suzo joystick on: May 31, 2014, 11:28:14 am
the uIEC/SD is a great little devivce. nice plastic cover yours comes in. Do you have an ultimate 1541-ii cartridge? I have one, they kick ass!
60  General Category / Introduce Yourself / Re: Hola from Minneapolis, MN on: May 28, 2014, 08:35:48 pm
very cool! got a lot of fam in MN in warroad, detroit lakes, fargo, lake the woods

Love the data east trio! you dont often see a BTTF or R&B. Might want to get a blind for that window so you dont get a lot of sun fade!
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