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Offline ddstoys

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DAMN I'M A SLACK PIECE OF CRAP
« on: November 27, 2010, 05:41:56 PM »
Well I'm ready to be stoned to death here but I'm repairing a board for Jeff (pinball heaven). And using my gorgar to test it so I figured while I had it in pieces I'd finally do the memory capacitor instalation...

     With the board ou I went to remove the batteries to find that I had soldered them into the holder as it had lost it's tension.  That's not so bad some might say but I did this when I first got te machine over 5 years ago ^&^

     There was no leakage from any of these batteries and guessbehat brand they were..  goldbtop duracell So I guess they made them to a higher standard than they do today.


  Ok let the stoning begin

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Re: DAMN I'M A SLACK PIECE OF CRAP
« Reply #1 on: November 27, 2010, 05:51:56 PM »
Hey, we all learn from our past

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Re: DAMN I'M A SLACK PIECE OF CRAP
« Reply #2 on: November 27, 2010, 06:36:37 PM »
Hey, we all learn from our past

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It is all part of the learning process
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Re: DAMN I'M A SLACK PIECE OF CRAP
« Reply #3 on: November 27, 2010, 07:16:10 PM »
Yes, I'm guessing the older ones were probably made somewhere other than a developing nation churning out to a base spec.. .
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Re: DAMN I'M A SLACK PIECE OF CRAP
« Reply #4 on: November 28, 2010, 10:21:41 AM »
You just taught me something...

Never thought of soldering batteries in before...  :lol
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Re: DAMN I'M A SLACK PIECE OF CRAP
« Reply #5 on: November 29, 2010, 06:11:10 PM »
After soldering batteries, the next step is soldering fuses into broken fuse holders :)

Seriously though, don't let it happen again  *)*

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Re: DAMN I'M A SLACK PIECE OF CRAP
« Reply #6 on: November 29, 2010, 07:22:57 PM »
After soldering batteries, the next step is soldering fuses into broken fuse holders :)

Seriously though, don't let it happen again  *)*

Lol. Sorry John it will never happen again this was all done before I had Internet and parts available so Isis what I had to  !@)

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Re: DAMN I'M A SLACK PIECE OF CRAP
« Reply #7 on: November 29, 2010, 08:31:33 PM »
After soldering batteries, the next step is soldering fuses into broken fuse holders :)

Nak, why solder in a fuse when a nail would do just as well?  <.>
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Re: DAMN I'M A SLACK PIECE OF CRAP
« Reply #8 on: November 29, 2010, 11:11:52 PM »
Yes, I'm guessing the older ones were probably made somewhere other than a developing nation churning out to a base spec.. .
I just had duracells leak in my Guitar Hero guitar, I thought they were quality batteries - maybe not.

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Re: DAMN I'M A SLACK PIECE OF CRAP
« Reply #9 on: November 29, 2010, 11:56:18 PM »
No such thing as quality these days it's all crap

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Re: DAMN I'M A SLACK PIECE OF CRAP
« Reply #10 on: November 30, 2010, 09:59:33 AM »
Yes, I'm guessing the older ones were probably made somewhere other than a developing nation churning out to a base spec.. .
I just had duracells leak in my Guitar Hero guitar, I thought they were quality batteries - maybe not.

Over the years I have found Duracells are not as good as people think, I have had several of them leak, luckly not in my pinball machines.
I definately would not recommend using the standard Duracells in any pin.