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This picture reminds me of an early job I had to do in the Blueroom arcade. They were redoing the bingo and had used equipment sent down to us. A lot of the control boards were faulty so we devised a simple test setup with croc clips, micro switches and bulbs. I would connect each board, power it up and cycle through the 1 coin=1 card/2 coin=2 card then remote reset sequences and find/repair the fault. Mind you, this was all running at 240volts and in a careless moment, a board came to rest upon a croc clip. The blinding flash and explosion jarred me to my bones......then I realized it had gone quiet and dark. Dark, well OK the workshop breaker had tripped but why the quiet ? I staggered out of the workshop door to see about 1/3 of the arcade dark and Big John Craig (senior tech) running towards me lol. I had tripped a whole phase to the arcade. Needless to say, a revised test setup was produced and all boards were eventually repaired and put into service. https://www.seasphotography.org.uk/gwc/y8xeul5e0yt68g8nqdzgv4j2o2qb53

Crimping the pins is the easy bit! Getting the old ones out is the tricky bit. In this case you don't have to so it's not a worry. I think I used to use my Molex tool, which made a good crimp albeit these are AMP connectors. These are far too expensive for a small one off job like this. There are plenty of others on Ebay varying from absolute rubbish to not too bad. Check out https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DXLmuDbcLBM&t=8s In quite a few cases the actual male pins in the board connector have had it and replacing the females, although a lot better, won't last the test of time. I've never found any replacements for the male pins that solder to the board and in that case a donor board for the whole connector is the only solution, assuming the connector is still good.

Hi guys its been a while since i have posted over here at MPU mecca .... its been a funny old year ... with C19 and loss of Wizard, some serious bad shit this year just to cap it off for me, i ended up testing positive 3 weeks ago, although im now on a full recovery it was not enjoyable, But on a positive side im hoping this will prevent me getting it again if my antibodies can break through the red wine in my bloodstream So firstly i would like to wish everyone a happy new year ( its got to be better than the last pile of poo ) anyway the reason for posting here was i was over at another forum that deals with vintage mechanical slot machines and some one posted a link to the George Wilson Arcade photo collection, i have never seen this before and found it fantastic ... so thought i would share it with you guys, if you have already seen it great, if you have not ... then you will love it here is a taster photo here is the Link to the collection https://www.seasphotography.org.uk/georgewilson Enjoy ... all the best ... Dicky

You still not got one mate.just make sure when you do,my herpes dont throw it over your gate.

Cheers Wayne. As with most of these projects they take a while to do

Great stuff. Reminds me of my many trips, with mates to the Kent coast from South East London. A couple of adults with Family Railcards and 8 - 12 kids all going for £1 on the card and trips to Herne Bay, Westgate, Margate, Broadstairs and Ramsgate. Margate were our favourite days, because of the amount of arcades and the theme park. Broadstairs our least favourite because I don't think there were any arcades or maybe just one, but Margate was like Blackpool, littered with them. As ever also, reminds me of the old days at Butlins at Bognor. I remember when it had a large bingo area and the rest of the arcade, was 3/4 full of arcade cabinets, Carnival, Bomb Jack etc.. and a quarter full of MPU3, Sys 80's etc.. and the Cromptons Cake Walk. 5p/10p play was far too rich for me to play though, as we were a one parent family, so I watched more than played and put pennies in the Cake Walks.

Stunning photographs from a golden age of fruit machines and amusement arcades how they were love it thanks Dicky

proper arcade, where people young and old and religious (the nun playing bingo lol) and the dog enjoying them selves, where amusement meant amusement not robbing thieving bandits not a dond or partytime in site ooh times have changed

You know this is a retro machine forum when people open the back door to fill machines up

in keeping with the George Wilson collection there is also this interesting article by Alan Meades it called of showman and seasides it also includes some of the photos https://romchip.org/index.php/romchip-journal/article/view/60 all the best ... Dicky