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I can help if your struggling, means i'll have to travel a quarter of a mile to your house though Steff ;). You still got your beer fridge????? You got rid of those shitty maygays? I don't wanna be in the same room as them. I don't really want to touch a shitty epoch board to be honest

@superbank is one horrible bastard! Don't tar me with that brush!!!

Never forget that time when you pulled your green screen Nokia from your pocket. Remember thinking "tight cunt"

No

ah its done now! just got in so my input would be 380 deg C

Still on the same number John but have finally upgraded my Nokia 3110 to a shiny new Iphone lol 🙂

I'll drink more beer than your fruit machine collections worth

R3 btw mate, just so know. Like in photo. You should be able to connect to any ground spot if you have to, have had to that before when changing caps on Epoch.

Hey Darren that method may be doable the battery pads are non existent so didn't even turn my soldering iron on but R3 and the Ground sections look OK will have another look tonight Just a quickie fellas ..is there an ideal temp to set the solder station to when dealing with epoch boards i.e soldering a tag onto R3 cheers Stef

Like this.. it could be done better but it works

when you fiber pen the board dont scrub to hard has you will wear tracks away

I quite like (electrical)contact cleaner. You can use IPA which is alcohol and not the bitter lol. Also degreaser for getting flux off and cleaning. I would keep blasting it for a day before you run it mate.

Well done... Matrix! Could defo do with a good clean and neutralise Ben.

all you can do ben is keep on running it in the mean time look around for some more that are not so bad

@superbankYou got me back good there lol and I don't think its realy that much of a false statement if I go back threw you comments lol I was joking about you being a nice person as you seem ok to me and polite half the time I rest my case lol about you swearing theres probably a lot more if I go back lol Guaranteed way to slice you fingers open. FFS Ben, use a proper tool for stuff like this. Fucking around with knives will end up hurting yourself! How the fuck did I miss this???? Must have been pissed! Thanks ever so much for this Frig, up to the usual high standards that we have come to expect from you. I'll be giving this a good go over the next few weeks. BUT WITH ALL THAT SAID IT JUST WOULDN'T BE RIGHT ON HERE ANYMORE WITHOUT YOU AND YOUR SWEARING

A can of Heineken wold probably be worth twice the entire collection!

How rude! I'd threaten you with libel but no point as you wouldn't understand!

if it does carnt see it lasting long

Excuse the potentially dumb question, but does this board actually work? It looks in a pretty bad way. I'm hoping it does.

Good news glad to help and Martix a top guy for doing that

Not yet mate, was thinking anout them today actually

Now that one is defentily right actual at least you don't use the word c**t or f***k every sentence like him and your are actul nice and polite to members on here unlike superbank lol

Pour that beer down the sink and get me some whiskey 😂

Yup exactly my thoughts Ben, I thought the temp would vary per boards.. Damage etc

For the battery can’t you not connect 1 lead to R3 and one to ground? Or is corrosion stopping the solder from sticking?

Evening folks ...Bens board has arrived at mine and im afraid to say its beyond my skills to solder on his battery there doesn't appear to be anything left to solder too :-( Is there anyone local to me here in Nottm who fancies a go at this cheers Stef

Erm this is a 11 year old thread lol

I would have been digging in the bin too.

Yup, they didn't make the bin once I had seen them

All tech docs have been obtained by me. Theres nothing else. The system 85 I had to beg for. Theres nowt left.

Thanks for the shout mate. You've got another one coming your way soon. On a side note thanks to the Mecca members that have helped me out: Fruit58, Louiebee, Majik and a massive thanks to the legend Andrew96 for all the invaluable repair threads. 😎

Another job done - rotten DMD connector replacement... Corrosion has travelled up the wire, notice the blackened copper. Wire cut back a few inches to reveal some half-decent copper to crimp onto: Brand new crimps and housing:

did this ever get released if so can someone pm me it please either on here or pm me it on fruit-emu as i can,t do much on here at the moment only via phone. as its an all time favourite of mine. thanks

Hi all Im very sorry to have to announce that Bell Fruit games factory will be closing. The clear out starts in Jan. All of the shop floor are being made redundant. I’m not 100% about development but would assume it won’t be good for them either. It’s such a shame but the market has moved on so much. The video products are doing really well now making games easy to distribute. Online also takes a huge chunk of players. I have had some great years there and met some brilliant people. I wish them all good luck for the future :(. Cheers John

Sad news. Bell-fruit machines are the main reason I started collecting.