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A few years ago DADsFME almost closed its doors for good. Wizard had said "No more MFME" and the site and particularly its staff were getting all kinds of shit from various people and I kind of lost heart in it all. FME at that point wasn't in a great place. What really saved DADsFME was a message from Alex (aamusements) from Fruit-Emu who offered host the site for free and even offered to purchase the domain name from me which he eventually did. This arrangement continued for several years right up to a few weeks back when I noticed the the dadsfme.co.uk domain name was within a month of expiring, that together with the latest batch of outages got me a little concerned and the fact that for whatever reason Alex has been a little quiet of late. Obviously, I hope he's OK and everything is fine but I thought it was time for a change. I really want to say a personal 'thank you' to him at this time for his support for all these years and I hope there's no hard feelings for jumping ship as it were. If it wasn't for you DADsFME would not be still around so "thanks very much Alex"!! This brings me to the new arrangement.. DAD's is now hosted by Reg @ Desert Island Fruits who very kindly made an offer to support the site by moving it over to his more secure server. I once again own the domain name which as mentioned in the thread title is now 'dadsfme.com' so it might be a good idea to update your bookmarks. The move was done by 'Pete W' who runs the Mecca to massive thanks to both of you, hopefully this new arrangement will continue for many years to come. Long live FME

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Cool machine, that will be worth a few quid when it's done. Error 2 is reel error and 4 is the 4th reel. On this machine that will be your feature hi/lo reel which is throwing up an error. It looks like it's a belt reel. Step one, can you see if it's moving or shuddering during the boot up stage. You can unplug one speaker wire to stop the alarm during testing. Step two, Can you take some pictures of- 1, The reel connections on the left of the main board. 2, The feature belt reel assembly. 3, The processor card in the right most slot in the main board. Will try to help further when we have more of a picture.

Hi Barrie thank you for the reel bands they look great 👍,I will be popping down hobby craft over the next couple of days to try and find some suitable black backing plastic or paper to block the tube light out like you said , anyway thanks again mate and your hard work is very much appreciated cheers dave 🍻

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/EVERBUILD-HEAVY-DUTY-DOUBLE-SIDED-STRONG-ADHESIVE-TAPE-SELLOTAPE-STICKY-FIX-GLUE/252901392185?epid=1505253816&hash=item3ae218ff39:m:mJuvmyhngSa9NvLmmXGqvCw https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Double-Sided-Super-Sticky-Clear-Tape-Red-Strong-5m-Craft-DIY-Roll-3-6-12-25mm/162230848621?hash=item25c5b64c6d:m:m0amyFnugbChthtazQ_wTOA but im sure people have there own preferences these are the 2 i use for lamp masks and reelbands

I'm totally new to any of this but I have always wanted a fm in the front room and my partner picked this up yesterday for free it has all keys and powers on beautifully reels spin but then wow alarms sounding and shows the error code 2.4 I would greatly appreciate if anyone could help me with the restoration of this beautiful machine please I'd love to be able to use it and show my children and grandchildren just how cool the old machines are thank you in advance

Just bought one off eBay for £3.50. I will take a look at the mux myself and see if I can fix it, I work on electronics for the day job so should be fairly straight forward. I will see what I find and keep you updated. Thanks for the help so far!!!!

No worries! I was hoping it would be easy. Only bit of advice is be sure to remove and fly wire the battery at some point before it leaks and ruins it. I don't think that's me, I've only go a few jackpot videos. Must be someone elsem

They are knackered.think i would replace all caps.think i have some but not all.but can get them.lifebis about 3000 hours,so i guess being in a arcade that is spent.send it mate,i can replace them,pm me for adress.

If the wiring connection looks good on the reel then check it on this (motherboard) Should be connected here. Marked reel 4. Be sure to lightly waggle the connectors to make sure they're definitely plugged in.

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here it is powered up and done.very hard game

yes mate send it to me i will do it for you it i will have to put the wire links on the back