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"No Body Escapes " The Black Hole , repair and cleanup
« on: November 25, 2014, 04:36:44 PM »
I acquired a Black Hole in March 2013, after sourcing parts and sitting on it for while on Friday last week, I finally was able to move it from the garage to my home office.
First I would to start with f@$k these machines are heavy!

Repinn ef a missing connector was cut off.

Then I replaced the power supply board, MPU and driver boards with a Pascal board. I didn't want to mess around with original boards as pcb repair is not my strong point. Also my experience with pascal board has be great. I have several in my system 1s.

I removed the lower playfield for ease of access while I work on it.


Replace one coil so far. Large drop target bank cool with fried.
Replace 4 displays with spares I had. No look nice and bright . I would like to thank
Blair for his advice about rejuvenating these display.
Tightened the screw on both bottom transformers as they were loose and buzzing.

Replace a lots of fuses quite a few were blown, a few over sized fuses replaced with correct ones. I did put some 3amp fuses were there was 2.5amp. I have thought about putting 2amp ones..not sure these drive the Pop bumpers individually .

Metered all the coils to check for shorts or open circuits.

Replace 2 pop bumper boards as one missing the other suspicious (blow fuse associated) .

Replace a lot of lamps.

Games is booting up ok, with most lamps on the upper Playford working except 1. I will check the plugs soon

I have new plastics , rubbers, flipper bats, new drop targets, new lower playfield window, yet to install.

Just a few pics, nothing really interesting yet.

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Re: "No Body Escapes " The Black Hole , repair and cleanup
« Reply #1 on: November 25, 2014, 05:51:14 PM »
sweet, I will enjoy your write up

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Re: "No Body Escapes " The Black Hole , repair and cleanup
« Reply #2 on: November 25, 2014, 07:03:42 PM »
Amazing game. Difficult to work on due to it's weight, but the reward is a fully working machine. I will follow with interest !
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« Reply #3 on: November 25, 2014, 09:28:25 PM »
Great stuff Dan, this will be fantastic to see up and running. I'll also be following with interest.  ^^^

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« Reply #4 on: November 25, 2014, 10:55:25 PM »
I'm looking for an original Black Hole MPU and maybe a driver board if it is in good condition, let me know if you want to sell them.

Thanks.

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Re: "No Body Escapes " The Black Hole , repair and cleanup
« Reply #5 on: November 25, 2014, 11:35:42 PM »
Good stuff Dan.  I will be keeping an eye on the progress as well.  You cant go wrong with the Pascal boards.  He also has pop bumper boards for the Sys 80 machines if you ever need replacements.

Keep the updates coming.
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Re: "No Body Escapes " The Black Hole , repair and cleanup
« Reply #6 on: November 26, 2014, 09:04:35 AM »
Watching with interest, particulaly keen on how the Pascal performs as I have original boards in mine but lots of success with those in other games. Worth the extra functions alone.
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Re: "No Body Escapes " The Black Hole , repair and cleanup
« Reply #7 on: November 26, 2014, 09:04:52 AM »
I'm looking for an original Black Hole MPU and maybe a driver board if it is in good condition, let me know if you want to sell them.

Thanks.

My boards have already been sold off sorry.

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« Reply #8 on: November 26, 2014, 09:10:27 AM »
Good stuff Dan.  I will be keeping an eye on the progress as well.  You cant go wrong with the Pascal boards.  He also has pop bumper boards for the Sys 80 machines if you ever need replacements.

Keep the updates coming.

Pascal boards for me is certainly the way to go. With the addition of test functions, game options , high scores 1 to 5 saved. They have great features.

I got some Pop bumper boards from Mike Homepin.

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Re: "No Body Escapes " The Black Hole , repair and cleanup
« Reply #9 on: November 26, 2014, 09:41:17 AM »
Pascal boards are brilliant, but it does not support all SYS 80/a/b boards. The new Rottendog does. There's also another great board done by Swemmer Electronics.

I've used a Rottendog in a James Bond and it works flawlessly - and this game was a parts machine brought back from the dead.
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Good to see another Black Hole being resurrected . Will watch with interest . Hoping to get back to working on mine soon.
I need more room ! and more $$$

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Yesterday started , replace insert lamps , changing them to leds.

I will not be doing and cabinet or playfield touch ups

Next is to strip the playfields, clean , install new plastics, rubbers etc .

Hope to have in going by Xmas, if not before.

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Some pics of the playfield before cleaning.
Also someone in their wisdom, has put post or something to block the left capture hole.
Playfield overall looks pretty good.
Under the bumpers is a bit rough as they normally are.

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Every plastic except for one was cracked or broken.