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Bride of Pinbot is nicely lit thanks to the arcade forums and my ignorance
4 Comments · Posted by beerorkid in arcade man cave, games
Now that the pinball machines are down in the man cave they have been getting lots of love. I have had them for about 10 years and recently they have not seen much play. Now I am babying them and wanted to fix an issue I had with the lower playfield general illumination not working. Headed over to the arcade forums to get some beginners help.
I had traced the wired to where they are on the main board and got a digital multimeter to do some testing. Well I do not know how to use one of those so I asked and got some tips. Then they helped me narrow down my issue. After wasting their time it all came down to a blown fuse. (smacks forehead) But there is some obvious damage and there is a reason the fuse blew so i need to do some more work on it for sure, but it looks awesome. I am planning on doing a playfield strip down to clean and polish everything including LED lighting so I will never have to do that again. It is going to be awesome.
And it also seems like I will be buying a cool arcade game from a friend he desperately wants to get rid of. Escape from the planet of the robot monsters. The plan is to play it for a while and then carefully remove the guts of it and turn it into a MAME cabinet. Will see what happens, but I am pretty darn excited.
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