A couple of successful fixes involving some speculation and little science/diagnostics for once:
(1)Midway through a game the sound started producing horrible noises. Power cycling resulted in further sound outages/crashes.
The game has a Vector labs kit fitted and since I know that it has round turned pin headers and star wars has flat single wipe sockets that are usually horrible its a reasonable chance the socket is not making contact. The socket looked shot for the soundboard CPU so I replaced it with a turned pin socket after replacing the five(!) tracks that lifted on the component side when I removed the old one. Reassembled, tested, working.
(2)the bump stops / bumpers disintegrated on the yoke controller a few months back, I frankly would have ignored this but it was allowing me to move the pot past the end stop when going right thus damaging it.
Looking on the forum I found several options for replacement (i)repro parts from US at quite a few $$ (ii)tap washers (iii)(real)mini tie bar buhses cut down to size. (i)too slow for such a minor fix (ii)I had some tap washers but not necessarily the right size and wickes had just closed for the day (iii)I have these in stock but would require modification.
So what to do to avoid tripping over the CP for the next few days? I figure like a few vac peeps I have toyed with pinball on and off and had some spares laying around so I rummaged through my antique bag of Suzo universal pinball rubbers until I found four suitable 'rings' (yes I know the originals are not rings). I saw no reason to remove the metal inserts from the yoke but after cleaning the residue off with a spirit based wipe I lifted each ring onto them with two screwdrivers (don't roll 'em on or they'll just as likely roll off again) then a small dab of superglue to reduce the chances of them coming off. Initial tests are good , time will tell how long they last.
karlcdoe2018-04-09 03:54:25
(1)Midway through a game the sound started producing horrible noises. Power cycling resulted in further sound outages/crashes.
The game has a Vector labs kit fitted and since I know that it has round turned pin headers and star wars has flat single wipe sockets that are usually horrible its a reasonable chance the socket is not making contact. The socket looked shot for the soundboard CPU so I replaced it with a turned pin socket after replacing the five(!) tracks that lifted on the component side when I removed the old one. Reassembled, tested, working.
(2)the bump stops / bumpers disintegrated on the yoke controller a few months back, I frankly would have ignored this but it was allowing me to move the pot past the end stop when going right thus damaging it.
Looking on the forum I found several options for replacement (i)repro parts from US at quite a few $$ (ii)tap washers (iii)(real)mini tie bar buhses cut down to size. (i)too slow for such a minor fix (ii)I had some tap washers but not necessarily the right size and wickes had just closed for the day (iii)I have these in stock but would require modification.
So what to do to avoid tripping over the CP for the next few days? I figure like a few vac peeps I have toyed with pinball on and off and had some spares laying around so I rummaged through my antique bag of Suzo universal pinball rubbers until I found four suitable 'rings' (yes I know the originals are not rings). I saw no reason to remove the metal inserts from the yoke but after cleaning the residue off with a spirit based wipe I lifted each ring onto them with two screwdrivers (don't roll 'em on or they'll just as likely roll off again) then a small dab of superglue to reduce the chances of them coming off. Initial tests are good , time will tell how long they last.
karlcdoe2018-04-09 03:54:25