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I will Look at that soon, have some other jobs that i need to do on the printer first ... then its next on the list As Cannon man said ... thats the way i wanted to do it ... there is a method in my madness and i have worked out if i did not use Ebay i would have to charge more for each item ... Ebay provides a one stop shop in selling ... i have a central place to go to monitor incoming sales... and it notifies me when you click "buy it now".... it automatically generates a prepaid postage label with your address on.. notifies you when its shipped puts payment into my account ... and allows me to manage sales and stock control as i can put how many i have available and it stops selling when i have run out .... if i had to do all of this manually it would take me many hours more and would cost me more than the Ebay and paypal fee I cant monitor these forums every time someone wants one ... i would likely miss some orders and then i have to process and check incoming payments and the more different items i sell the more confusing it will get ... so sorry Player, i hope you understand ... it really makes life a lot easier for me and makes it more cost effective for the buyer and gives the buyer protection ... especially if i die from an infection of my balls tomorrow all the best ... dicky

Well thanks .. guys It blooming sold out quickly .... no problem ... i have some more in the oven and they are baking Nicely here is the updated Links Here is the current List of Dicky Wink Items for sale and Ebay Links "Dickywink" MPU4 Plug removal tool https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/264734665635 "Dickywink" MPU4 Plug Pull Tab Attachment Kit https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/264743868504 "Dickywink" Fruit Machine Lamp Holder Wire Insertion Tool https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/264751560118 "Dickywink" Fruit Machine Switch Wire Insertion Tool https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/264758394970 "Dickywink" Fruit Machine Button removal tool Kit (coming soon)

Well at long last I've started delving in to the murky world of MPS1. First impressions, there's a bit more to get your head round than MPS2 but being as it contains nearly all discrete stuff repairs are easier to achieve as parts are still available. None of those horrible TIPP116 transistors for a start! Not sure if the PAL chip goes faulty though but I haven't come across that yet. The tester has come into it's own too. A few common faults have shown up starting with short circuit tants on the power fail detection supply. There's two in parallel C97 and C31 (10uF/35v) but so far only C97 appears to go short?? I'm changing them both as a precaution. Quite a few of the normal input output failures due to the 74LS541 chips running hot and others with the odd port failed. Output fails due to bad BCX38 transistors. Had one that didn't boot and my hand touched IC6 (TMS9902) which made me squeal as it was roasting. The board booted on removal and ran the diags OK without it. I suspect only certain games would need this chip fitted? Another board not going to reset was caused by IC27 (74LS04). This was an odd one as BCLKOUT was missing from IC15 (74LS541). As with MPS2 I went straight for this chip but in this case IC27 had gone bad and this controls the o/p from IC15. Funny thing is IC27 isn't connected to anything it just goes to the extension socket on the side so why it went bad is a mystery? Lots more sticky faults to tackle most seem to fall into the Watchdog and I/O failure so quite a bit of head scratching to come methinks. Watch this space.....

@dicky wink Super, I will do that 🙂

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Ta!

Fair point, but this is how Dicky wants to sell them, unless he changes his mind!

Just ordered one - many thanks for designing, producing, and supplying Dicky 👍

Just order mine to dicky One tool we all will need 👍👍 Thank you top work

Just ordered mine too Dicky, looking forward to the plug insertion tool as well, great bits of kit! 👍👍👍

yes no problem .. i have already been supplying them to others in Europe and it costs an additional £3 ... ( £7.75 total ) to send to europe via large letter royal mail ... message me from the item page in Ebay and i can send you an offer which includes the International shipping ... or Buy it from Ebay then PM me on the mecca... the member address and i will send it to them all the best ... dicky

Hi @dicky wink I want to buy one too, I live in the Netherlands, is it ok I have mine shipped to a mecca member on here?

Just ordered mine. My poor old fingers have already given a sigh of relief!

It's like all these techs, once you've worked on them for a while you slowly pick up all the little quirks and the faulting starts to get a bit easier. (he said with fingers tightly crossed)

I bought one too. I'm gonna frame it. Much too pretty to use :).

Wow I've just seen this thread, that's amazing Dicky! The one created for un screwing the buttons is a brilliant idea and when you sell them on ebay I'll be the first to buy one The mpu4 tool is also amazing, and light fitting extractor too. Great work 👍🙂

Just bought one dicky manythanks

OK guys the Tools are now on sale on ebay here https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/264751560118 I hope they work out for you guys All the best ... dicky

I will look at the spade connector next ... have some other jobs for the printer lined up first but it will be soon Dicky Right side did not feel a thing ..... not even the injection to start Left side next .... FOOOOOOOOOOOKIN HELL three lots of injections and i could still feel everything ... he used an electric cauteriser and it was like having a Police Tazer to the bollocks The surgeon said some time peoples nerves react differently of different sides of the Body ..... Well Really !!!!!!!!! Im Not having that done again ! ..... well .... i dont need to apart from that... no pain afterwards (YET) ... they did it though a 2mm hole in the scrote so no stitches ... quite amazing

Why don't you all just buy straight from DW and cut out e-bay. Outstanding work, fuck giving e-bay a cut

^^^ What he said! I'll be buying one of those as soon as they hit eBay, and the same goes for the spade terminal tool when that's ready

Top work dicky Looks a treat as ssid a must have for the tool box. Could do with the link as to when you are putting them up on ebay Cheers

I'll fire him a text. Thanks, never thought of him

Hi guys ... SUCCESS 😀 The first one came out as near as perfect and a lot better than i expected and they fitted the connector exactly did some test insertions and it works fine a very precise fit to the connector and a firm positive insertion I have made a couple of minor tweaks and started printing the first batch of 5 ( around 12 hours to print 5 units ) So i will leave them printing over night and check that they are ok tomorrow evening The Price will be the same as the plug puller £4.75 inc delivery . i will try and get them on Ebay tomorrow evening depending on my op tomorrow All the Best ..... Dicky

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Hey yes I picked up the machine on Sat it's working right. I can try and burn the sounds back onto another set of Eproms to test them out... thats a strange one as I rekon I dumped them ok... were my game roms ok?? The only thing that's unsual about the machine is it has an extra board added into the serial link for the LED segment displays which I've never seen before on an Epoch. I'll have a look the next few days. If it runs the Reburned sounds that will prove the roms. Sure I can take some pictures for you. Hopefully there's not an issue with it. It's taken me years to find one so I wanted to share the files.

Yep, count me in on one of these also! And enjoy tomorrow! Had that done 20 odd years ago, the p was fine, it was the infection afterwards, like a bloody cows udder for a while 😂😂😂

I've got some lamp holder off a early 1986 ish Jpm if needed dicky Prototype is looking very nice i will be in the market for one or two Good work👍

Hi Cannon Man I have some of the spade connectors for the buttons and they are a different tool as the IDC insert is a different spacing ... but i will look at that also So here is design V1 i have not copied the "MoonPoint" tool exactly as im not sure if there is patent on this ... so i have redesigned hopefully with some improvements I know that these tools have a flat end ... the expensive meta tools have a radius in the end to help centre the wire when pushing down .. so i have added this to the prototype The Printer is running some other jobs at the moment so will print the test version of this when they are finished ... im also in hospital tomorrow for a quick op "snip snip" so may be out of action for a day or two all the best Dicky

I can send a few of those IDC spade connectors as well, if required.

I'd certainly take one or twonoff you dicky .what cannonman had in the picture is fine and also for doing plugs like mpu4. Not sure if there are any differences in the measurements for what different companies used .I can send you a bulb holder and mpu4 plug if it helps you .let me know

Love the effort you put into this. Many thanks for it

You may have started a new trend, post a query, think about it some more, post the answer! Sounds crazy but it will still help others.

Button Nut Spinner here's an Update

Regarding the Plug Pullers on Ebay I just wanted to say a big personal thank you to all that responded The Total Print time for the 12 units on the bed at the moment is 28 hours ... which works out to around two and a half hours each unit ... but the most efficient way to produce small batch items ... to have an ejection mold made would cost thousands of pounds but would take seconds to make all the best ... Dicky

Cheers. Anyone got a decent ram for it? NQ.