Pretty much fast forward to the end now. With a few of these under my belt, it gets easier every time. I do not bother labelling any stuff as the wiring loom is fairly self explanatory (although i do label all the plugs to the boards in the backbox). Plus, all the photos i take along the way are reference for the order that things go back together.
So pretty much dropped all the cleaned cabinet hardware in. Replaced the line filter as these are prone to going in an old machine that has been stored for sometime. Had to replace some drive transistors on the power driver board, put a remote battery pack on the CPU board, check all the fuses and had to do quite a bit of work on the sound board. Once i put the headbox on i fired the machine up with no playfield and it booted fine..... well after about 2 hours of stressing and swapping components it did. I ended up misplacing one of the ribbon cables (the smaller one that goes between CPU and DMD driver board), and as it turns out the machine will not boot if the larger one is connected and the smaller one is not! Anyway, was all good once i replaced it.
Stripped the playfield, and again my dad helped clean all the plastics, posts etc while i gave the playfield a clean up and polish. Rebuilt the flippers and replaced the plunger and links with the newer style springs. These early non fliptronics flippers were a bit dodgy with the spring over the plunger, and with the newer return spring on the tab on the end work a whole lot better. LEDs were put throughout the whole machine, a new 'cosmic cottage' was ordered and installed. Then i dropped the clean playfield in, tidied up a few cables, printed out a few new warning and fuse description stickers and it was pretty much done. Also has a new lockdown bar, new legs and repainted coin door, a very good 2nd hand translite was also purchased thanks to another forum member as the original was pretty nasty. No real issues apart from a few switches needing minor adjustment, and it is quite a fun game. The ramps are great, and being able to select a song during the game is cool as well. Anyway a few pics
