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Went for RAL7045 in the end

Your very welcome mate glad to see the old girl back to her former glory and now firing on both cylinders 😊After what we said double jackpot more tokens would be required lol and thanks again for a great day jackpots galore all round 😀

This next one had me going all the way to the finish line but as per usual I wasn't going to be beaten. The board was listed as 'dead, no power' and it was well and truely dead on power up even after all the usual suspect transistors and other bits had been replaced. As there was no triac test, suspicion first pointed to IC8 (68B21) but a swap out proved it to be OK. All outputs appeared to be OK from the CPU but after swapping it out, and the RAM, things started to happen! it would now boot but showed the second half of the lamps stuck on (64-127), there was also a motor drive stuck on. This was caused by two ULN2803's IC13 and 30. Unfortunately IC13 going bad had also damaged IC3 (68B21) so that had to be swapped out too. So it's all running and I'm going through all the tests OK thinking it's nearly time to wrap up when 'click' it all stops!! Hmm switch off and on and I get '6840 IC2 error' on the Alpha. In with a new one and no difference? Left it for a bit, came back and this time it's RS232 error but the Alpha is one character out of sequence?? After a few more power cycles the 6840 error comes back? Now I'm going demented as nothing is making sense! Putting my logic hat on and not my panic hat showed that it was definitley changing fault when warming up and eventually squirting freezer and warming IC5 (68B21) showed it to be the cause. After a swap out all was back running correctly. PHEW!! Mind you looking at the state of it I'm surprised it worked it all!

Great machine Chris hope you enjoy her :)) god knows how you find them 👍

Massive thanks to Duane on here who came round and sorted my Lite a Nudge for me. It was on all cash payout,but now its back on tokens when I get the jackpot!

Heres the rat race ones that Tony scanned on the same scanner just printed by different printers..... They all added up when measured and should be good. Sure they will nail it rich, if these had been wrong too id believe we stuffed it up but they are fine mate. Looking forward to seeing them when they get it right 🙂

Haha no you don’t need it as well but if you are desoldering a d sub connector it’s best to remove most of the solder from the retaining clips with the wick as these can have a lot of solder.

I have the one linked below. Been great for me. Also get some good solder wick, not the cheap stuff from eBay or Amazon. https://cpc.farnell.com/duratool/d00672/desoldering-station-uk-eu-plug/dp/SD01384?st=Desoldering iton

Yeah sounds sweet I might try it.

Yep, RP1 is 3K3. (CPU schematic) D11 & 12 are on the 'Power supply and battery back-up' page. (D12 looks like D1 on my diagram!) C27 and C5 are normally OK but often suffer from being accidently melted with a soldering iron, same goes for C7 & 11. Lord knows why?? The sound synth chip is OK to socket as it doesn't handle any power to speak of. You've got to lift it anyway so makes sense to put a socket in.

Not that I hold them very straight! 😂🤣

Well that has to be one of my most disappointing wanks ever.

I might be joining you at some point Rog.

Also. The link that you used is just the gun, not the pump. You would need the pump with it also https://uk.rs-online.com/web/p/soldering-stations/1372292/