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Any pointers on where to pick up a cabinet these days? After years (decades) of lurking on here and dreaming of a machine or two of my own I got a place with a shed that I'd love to turn into a bit of an arcade over the next few years.

The problem is that all supply seems to have dried up. I was subscribed to Rklok but around the time I was in a position to pick something up he seems to have packed it in as I haven't seen him list anything in months.

I do keep an eye on UKVac but I wouldn't really be in a position to collect something from the UK.

Thanks a million guys, I'll follow up on facebook and UKVac and I've dropped you a message Dav09

theres a golden tee cab for 100 quid..get a monitor of mitch and your away in a hack for about 200 quid..add about 50 if ya want change control panel ,maybe psu ..youve a full jamma original cab for 250

https://www.adverts.ie/arcade-retro/golden-tee-99-arcade-cab-needs-monitor/36740246

also theres a lad that commented on that add that has 25 of crt monitors…worth sussing him out and finding a cab will be way easier with no monitor

Any one have any advice or experience with flakey jamma Pcbs?

I fetched my sunset riders PCB that's been stored and picking up dust for years and years .

On initial ROM check it shows 3G ROM BAD and doesn't start .

Ive found the 3g socket and chip. Seems ok in my eyes but I see damage on top left side .you can see it in pic.

Solder side looks ok also but I haven't really a breeze!!

Can i pop that chip out and reseat it first of all. ? I remember I did it before with a snow bros PCB and all was well

It seems fairly jammed in.

If I can and reseat it and still same ,what's next steps

Or if I can't ,do I need desolder it , resolder it, get a a new chip and have to reprogram it

Don't want to lose my sunset riders PCB 😢

Yeah I've copped it's soldered , pins go through and soldered to other side .

Yeah first thing to do is actually clean it all thoroughly and I'll removed and clean any of the chips that are socketed ... thanks. Fingers crossed

Mm ya know I haven't. I'll stick it in another cab later.it bloody workerd last time I played it ..even if it was 10 years ago!! Nothing drastic can have gone wrong surely

Yeah it got caked in dust during its hibernation.. unfortunately that is one of my sentimental ones :(

I ain't got any IPA . Well I have a few in the fridge .would Bishops finger work?

Ill just use a small drop of water and a cotton bud

Ahhh boo. Cleaned up the board and removed and cleaned up the board and the 5 socketed chips ...same error

Suppose its time for one of those logic probes is it and check all traces ?

Some lad on a forum has same error and traces it to some random chip so hopefully he has done my job for me .

" Address line A4 was stuck low at the sprite RAM. It's driven by the LS08 at 15G which had failed on 1 channel only. (Of course I only found this after I had switch the customs out "

 Sure makes perfect sense to me 😂

Will check tomorrow when I've time

That's a ram chip. Looks like a sharp lh5160n-10l sram. Standard 64k so anything will do.

Desolder, pop in a socket and a new ram chip. If you are stuck I can do it for you (Dublin).

Yeah it's a sharp . So what's the story . Do I just get similar 64k chip and solder in another socket ? . I don't have to dump data on it or anything first . Just swap it out?

Sorry again I've not a breeze about PCB maintance. I may need your help

Oh I did blow myself back a few feet against a wall messing with a flyback monitor turned on ..but that would have happened anyway if it was turned off I'm sure . I actually had a buzz and something similar to pins and needles in my veins for a few days .

That was another hard lesson learnt . Never wear a **** ring when messing about with HV. I had just got married so just completely forgot I had one on

Just took the delivery for this right hand side bracket for the Naomi. The one it came with was split due to it originally housing the hopper and all that nonsense for Club Kart Prize but I wanted it to look as close to Crazy Taxi as possible and not have all of the wiring exposed.

It set me back €40 with €30 delivery from Italy, bought it off of the same lad that I got the front door off of as he happened to find a spare one for me in his warehouse.

Score!

The restoration continues slowly but surely. I still need to fix the green gun in the crt but I'm pretty sure that's just a variable resistor issue which I have yet to replace.

I did replace one when I thought the issue was with the red gun being dialled up too high but yeah... Eventually I'll have this machine up and running properly 🤣

Mmm yeah ...sexy .

I looking for a candy cab shell and came across alot of lads in the arcade game in Italy selling parted out cabs and bits and bobs on the interwebs. Seems like the place to go in Europe