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Hope everyone is good and with Christmas fast approaching seasons greetings! So, I came across a machine on facebook (thanks to a fellow member (Lee) dropping me a message) which was local (ish) and cheap at £100 so after some contemplations about 'do I really want another' I contacted the seller and went to get it on a snowy Sunday (struggled to back the motor up the driveway). It was a machine I already own but I though I'd go for it and just get it working again then maybe trade it later (as not much else is coming up at the minute). The machine was MPU4 Jackpot Jump and had display corrupt and also not taking coins (classic battery damage me thinks). Nice old chap owned it, good bit of history with it as they knew it from new in their local club and when the new £1 coin came into circulation the club were getting rid so the sellers daughter purchased it for the mom who has owned it ever since (as she loved it so much apparently). I do like a bit of history with these old machines 🙂 Anyway, got it home, was quite tidy (lovely and clean inside, cleanest reel deck I have ever seen in fact). Had been broken into at some point but a professional repair applied (seen this on lots of club machines, it takes me back to my days behind the bar of a social club where an overnight theft involved removing bricks from the outside of the building right where the machines stood and emptying the cash from outside). Could tell it had been well dry kept as no artwork damage or peeling decals/mask which is very welcome and inside virtually dust free. So, out with the MPU4 (mod 4), and first pic shows, as expected, battery damage. So I de-soldered the battery and found a bit of a mess and holding the board to light could see the top track was definitely broken, the rest looked in tact. A good clean, neutralise and scrub later I decided to do my first repair (as it was hopefully easy) so I continuity checked the links and indeed one was broken so I applied a link wire to the back for ease. I then applied battery fly wires left to dry and tried it next day and BOOM 100% working. On ebay meanwhile a MPU4 with game card came on and I took a gamble made an offer and grabbed it. It too had the original battery and in contrast was right mucky! Again removed battery, cleaned, neutralised but this time no visible damage so much to my luck it also worked 100%. 2 ics before and after. MOD 2 boards seem to cope better with the damage than 4's I seem to find, they don't make em like they used to. Nice when things go right lol ps - Its a start and maybe I will progress to more complicated fixes and can only aspire to be where Matt, Mick, Bob et al are at - we all start somewhere ☺️

Nice work Martin... that board cleaned up well. It all starts with 1 trace repair Other boards are the same repair just repeat X amount of times.

The doorstep king strikes again! Imagine what you’d turn up if you extended your radius to just 30 miles Martin.😉

Very nice, and surely worth £100 of anyone's money. Good find and getting it working was a right touch!

Nice one Martin, and for £100 quid, hard to refuse! Good you spent time on the board got the bugger working 👌

thanks for sharing martin we know where to send the mpu4 s now lol

That will be me i’m the expert.