Found a TV on the street a few months ago. Screen was the same size as the cocktail, so I thought I’d take a chance. It was a dead on match. Lucky me! Took me a few hours to get everything all converged correctly. But when I did I had […]
Yearly Archives: 2008
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Replaced the bezel retainer after stripping it down and repainting it. Looks much better now. Sanded the insides and vacuumed. Board still doesn’t work, I tried some other things. James from RGVAC seems to think it’s something other than the ROMs, like a bad socket or something in the address […]
I was using the Defender cab to test out my newly assembled Stargate boards (which didn’t end up working, I suspect a RAM fault). I’d made an adapter to use 4164 RAM in place of the stock 4116. I’d bought a lot of 4164 RAM off a guy I found […]
Finally assembled a boardset, complete with metal mounting board. Tested it in my Defender. Didn’t come up. I suspect a RAM problem. Wish I could tell which one it was!
I had a flash of brilliance the other day. I’ve been putting off removing the rest of the vinyl because…well…it’s a heck of a lot of work. Not that I’m opposed to work, but the last time I removed vinyl I removed a whole lot of skin from my hands […]
The extent of the work that’s been done has been a tweak here and there. The monitor wouldn’t sync when I first started working on it, so I swapped it with a K4600 from one of the other games. It was perfect…for about ten seconds. Then it went all scrambled. […]
The reject on the door has been frozen for…who knows how long. I’ve been trying to free it up since I brought it home. I tried 3-in-1, WD-40, propane, even beating it with a hammer. Didn’t do anything. Finally I doused it with 3-in-1 and set it down for a […]
I don’t know if any of you guys know, but Home Depot closed down 11 of their stores. One of them was in my town here. So when they were clearancing stuff out I picked up a spray bottle of Goof Off 2 for latex paint. I figured for a […]