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When I need to drill a lock I never use a small drill, but one with a diameter of 8 - 10 mm, so the pins fall out of the casing when drilling through. (easy and quick to drill with a good drill and machine, and no damage to cabinet whatsoever)

yes I am getting them dumped and sending them over to retrofruit on desert island.

Morning all, just to be clear, my recent rant about unlicensed AWP sellers was not aimed at Legacy & pre legacy machines ( like the stuff we all collect ) its aimed solely at people selling modern machines in big numbers without an operating license, theres loads of fruit machines for sale & wanted on Facebook & theres clearly people selling them commercially without the proper licence, i have to pay £5k per year for our Sell, Supply , Manufacture & repair license, these guys are just flouting the law, which makes it an uneven playing field in my eyes, we dont sell much in the lines of AWP other than PX`s we take that we just flip into licenced dealers we know, we have to hold a licence for Cranes, redemption machines & the likes of that as they are all classified as gambling, im about to approach the GC to see if they will listen about making legacy & machines before that Exempt from the Gambling laws, probably on a 20-25 year rolling age ( bit like classic car tax ), i will try this through a consultant to see if we can make any headway. cheers for now, Ian

You need to start your own thread bud, if you jump in on another thread you won't get the help that you need.

What the hell has that got to do with this thread?

"let it snow" I bet!

Sorted i managed to cut down the pic tool 👍😁

call shirts up .. he will sort you like he did b4

@pete_w

LOL, they're all out there waiting for us.

I've got 3 MPU3's in at present which at first inspection didn't look to bad. Two of them though have been absolute horrors. This one has taken the best part of two days to get going and has had me going quite a few times. The first thing was the power regulator had the wires removed which was odd so these were reconnected. All the usual corroded bits were swapped out so then it was on to testing. Power up and a nice 5v but no sign of it booting. After a couple of minutes the 5v has dropped to about 1.5V and the regulator is running hot!! Checked for shorts and there weren't any. Switch on again and a nice 5v but a few mins later and here we go again. After disconnecting a few bits to try an isolate it I just ended up with the regulator board??? With it switched on and delivering a good 5v as soon as I touched the back of regulator transistor it shorted itself out?? I've never come across anything like that before. Anyway after a replacement was put in the 5V remained stable. That would have probably been enough for most folks but I'd hardly scratched the surface.So it still doesn't boot and after flexing the chassis up and down a couple of times the was no 5V on the board again. This time the red wire had broken and no amount of stripping it back showed any clean copper, which is normally the case. Off with the regulator board again, fit a new loom and off we go again. On power up the first check is to see if the CPU is running, which it wasn't. In with a new one and now there was activity on the address and data lines, stil no boot though it did initialise. Normally if you see a second twitch of the reels the diagnostics will show you what the fault might be by operating one of the triacs. In this case all the triacs were operated!! At some stage I discovered that the RAM chips were bad as well so it was in with my test motherboard to eliminate that one. The next chip to check was the 6840 as it's only a 28 pin device. With the chip removed it booted so it was time to move on as to why all the triacs were firing. This turned out to be IC3 (6821). With all the new IC's fitted it would now run all the diags with sound but I noticed one set of lights wasn't working and this turned out to be a BDX33 gone bad. Now the next one also had the wires removed from the regulator transistor!! Once these were connected and powered I was greeted with a big puff of smoke! C4 (1uf/35v tant)on the regulator board had gone short circuit. Once changed the 5v was good and the CPU was active. No boot though.... That's all for now folks, tune in later in the week, if I can work in the freezing cold, to see if I can sort this one.🥶

That's the one! Not sure if I ever played it the right way up or not though?