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Offline Strangeways

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Re: Jacks Open Cleanup
« Reply #45 on: October 23, 2009, 11:08:17 AM »
Spent hours and hours cleaning, re-flowing solder here and there, moving some relay coils around without success yesterday, best I could get was the machine to kick out a ball.  Turned it on this morning and played about 15 games on it - the machine only reset once.  I am hoping that just maybe she is starting to find her groove and will start working more consistently.  I will reflow solder to the remaining connectoins on the transformer today and see if we can't get rid of that 1% reset.  I re-flowed the solder on the black wire that seemed to be linked to everything that was playing up.  Cleaned the credit meter and ball counter.  Just got some drop targets sticking if they get dropped by a glancing ball strike - some more cleaning to do there.

sounds like you are on the "Right track". Funny as it may seem - EMs can "fix themselves" over time. As you play the game, the contacts "self clean".
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