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Used the Fiver online marketplace to get the pcb layout artwork drawn and the Gerber files created. I sent the pcb scans and within 48 hours the design was done. I got some advice from @midibob to check my selection of replacement components, he suggested adding additional pads for modern ceramic capacitors. Here’s the layout ready for manufacture.

The cost to create the Gerber was £60, which I thought was reasonable given the time that it takes. Once I've built and tested one, I'm happy to share the boards with anyone who needs any spares for £5 each. Cheers Ed

I’ve had an SRU Lite a Nudge deluxe for a while now, the machine has been perfect and has never missed a beat. I recently bought an SRU Eachway Nudger and this machine has been a bit of a pain to get in to a reliable playable state, I’ve been working through the faults and I’m getting there. While I have been working on the Eachway Nudger I have started to get some spares together. I managed to get a spare program card, in looking at the card and after recently getting some boards made for the 2708 programmer project from PCBway in china I thought I’d give it a try. First step was to strip the board and get back to the base pcb. Then scan the blank pcb to get the Gerber files created.

very nice, getting the fingers gold plated usually costs a arm and a leg, but needs to be done for low resistance, Cant believe that's done for that cost! when I looked into getting MPU3 ones done it was prohibitive because of the hardened fingers, solder wetted ones just don't cut it.

Agreed. I did a service on the reel studs and the drive but the solenoids seemed ok so wanted to minimise the effort at this stage to ensure all the electronic functions were ok and I can always pop the deck out to get the rest done when back in the den. 👍

Here's the progress from PCBWay. Already manufactured and with Fedex in transit.

Thanks for the insight and information on the gold plating. Good to learn. I will explore the hard gold option if I get any more made. For me it’s not about money, just trying to help the community to find a solution. I’ll try the boards in my machine then decide.

Fantastic work as always Ed it will be interesting to see how they come out 😄

Nice project... nothing like tracking your pcbway package halfway around the world 😎 Really good of someone to lay the board out for £5. The original looks like it's drawn out with the radius around the corners. The person who laid that out did them exactly the same... its pretty cool.

Thanks Ronnie, Yep, perfect for the project. Having plenty made so many available for spares, the bare boards will come out at being about £5 each. Cheers Ed

Re fitted the coin mechs, adjusted and tested with old 50p and 10p coins, all worked fine. Test play went well, just need a minor adjustments to the solenoid on reel 3 as its not always engaging fully. I'll leave that to Dan to sort later. Other than the reel adjustment the machine is back up and running, ready for to go home and join Dan's electro mechanical collection.

Awesome job Ed

Great work Ed, that game cart looks familiar lol Ronnie

I would recommend Tim Harrison for moving machines from the south / south west to the midlands. He’s based near Gloucester.

Again top notch work Ed and a nice little project .

Fantastic to see this old girl back to full working order . Notice that no3 reel looks like the solenoid is sticking a bit ?