The difficult part will be stripping the enamel coating off the coil wire. Fine grit sandpaper attached with double sided tape to flathead tweezers is how I would do it.
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great advice!PrincessPrinPrin wrote: ↑October 12th, 2018, 1:09 pmThe difficult part will be stripping the enamel coating off the coil wire. Fine grit sandpaper attached with double sided tape to flathead tweezers is how I would do it.
The wire I found was too thick so I will wait for your package to arrive. Strip the enamel, pre tin and overlap a little to solder the wires togethers and attach to the right tab.
Exiting times!
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At this point i can't wait to see this thing work again.
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Hi guys,
So I got a package today from PrincessPrinPrin which included 2 stripped enamel copper wires, 2 degauss connectors + wires and 2 yoke connectors + wires. What a nice gesture for a fellow arcade lover! I heated up my dusty solder station and I dug in.
First I glued back the small magnet using superglue and some small twezers. I also removed the enamel coating from the wire I was going to use.
Using my tweezers again I made 2 small hooks to connect the wires. I pre-tinned my solder iron and applied the solder to the connection.
Not the most beautifull job but it' s firm. Now I pulled back the wire over the magnet to the top.
I removed the old wire, stripped some coating again and twisted the new wire in between the other ones. Put some more solder on and presto!
Before testing the screen I measured the resistance again.
looking good!
At this point I really wanted to test a game but I first changed the bad connectors.
I fired up groovymame and look and behold!
awesome picture! Still needs some tweaking but definately a big success!
First 3 times I started a game though, the picture would squeeze again like in the first picture. I turned the screen off an on and it was gone. When I start a game now it doesn' t do that anymore. Maybe the fact that not everything is grounded yet?
Anyway, thanks again and all hail PrincessPrinPrin !
So I got a package today from PrincessPrinPrin which included 2 stripped enamel copper wires, 2 degauss connectors + wires and 2 yoke connectors + wires. What a nice gesture for a fellow arcade lover! I heated up my dusty solder station and I dug in.
First I glued back the small magnet using superglue and some small twezers. I also removed the enamel coating from the wire I was going to use.
Using my tweezers again I made 2 small hooks to connect the wires. I pre-tinned my solder iron and applied the solder to the connection.
Not the most beautifull job but it' s firm. Now I pulled back the wire over the magnet to the top.
I removed the old wire, stripped some coating again and twisted the new wire in between the other ones. Put some more solder on and presto!
Before testing the screen I measured the resistance again.
looking good!
At this point I really wanted to test a game but I first changed the bad connectors.
I fired up groovymame and look and behold!
awesome picture! Still needs some tweaking but definately a big success!
First 3 times I started a game though, the picture would squeeze again like in the first picture. I turned the screen off an on and it was gone. When I start a game now it doesn' t do that anymore. Maybe the fact that not everything is grounded yet?
Anyway, thanks again and all hail PrincessPrinPrin !
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Great work to all involved.
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Great stuff although I still like the pic in the 1st post
<trk>:I remember catching a big fat one and my friend said "throw it back in, that one already tastes like wood"
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Good job!
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Great stuff
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Nice .. well done.
Btw what front end are you using for GM ?
Thanks
Btw what front end are you using for GM ?
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That's one of the built in layouts of Attract Mode
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That's great work. Fantastic thread
The connectors to my chassis look like that too.. brittle and broken with age. Does anywhere sell replacements?
The connectors to my chassis look like that too.. brittle and broken with age. Does anywhere sell replacements?
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Awesome!
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It's indeed a fascinating effect. I've read that some 'artists' ask techs to cause frame collapses (single horizontal line) on purpose for their CRT installations. They'd love this.
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Good to see another tube is back in action and saved from the scrapheap!
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congrats on your project lazarus
always nice to see resurection
always nice to see resurection