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are we all gonna hold hands and sing kumbaya soon?

Why do people need to be "more understanding", "nicer", "more patient" just to appease certain others. People are who they are, they say things the way they are, they go about their business the way they do..... Why exactly do people "need" to change the way they are? If people don't like criticism etc,maybe they should research by the means of reading or listening before offering comment,criticism and advice on topics that is completely wrong, blatant guesswork and in-factual, no matter what their state of health or well being.

Anyway, an actual piece of good advice is to check that the tube clamps have not been over tightened, seen that a few times when an "engineer" gets a big screw driver and thinks they are tightening up the screws that will hold the Space Shuttle together.

You stupid tit replying 3 times....is the big A getting to ya !!!

Ooooohhhh! Not getting involved lol. Peace and love people👍 Tuck into an Easter Egg 😆😆

Well I can make a tambourine out of all the beer bottle caps I have gathered this weekend if you have the guitar mate. 😁😁

I just leave my machines as standard and don't fiddle with them.

Too fucking right Russ dog !!! Some of these nutters are doing my internet head in.

Pics of said roms

Shocked by a coin mech 😮 didn’t even know that was possible.

I could list 10 wally things I've done and you'd be sitting there thinking what an IDOTTTT! But take into account I have a hectic life, I'm a bus driver for a start and I have never met so many stupid people. Flag bus to stop, pay fair, sit down, get off, thanks, see ya, bye. This is challenging for 70% of them! If I had some form of power I would sterolise 70% of people. And I'd include management in that statement too.

never heard so much shit

The basic running costs are pretty much just the plastic filament at around £20/kg and the power the printer uses.

Shush Del this is a serious conversation!

Me too but I love a good ole sing song, knees up and bit of happy clapping especially when I'm pie eyed... ps.i can also bring the beer.👍

You should have highlighted the word 'after'!

Haha, I would love to go toe to toe with you also BUT for one you do have some good ideas, give good input and do seem to know what you are talking about regarding certain things. You don't talk like a prick like some others seem to on a regular basis. I appreciate that guys like Eastenders, Ben Moore and others may have learning difficulties but it would help if they didn't talk rubbish at times by researching first. Second, we seem to have a different outlook on what a rat's tail is. Where I come from and what I do, i would call a rat's tail and Auger bit ( i thought the name you used may have been an in trade name for such a bit) , that is why I thought this being a round profile and have a good length (with a little light lube to keep friction down) may have been another good idea. Third, I am not an expert, I only have many years of experience (probably been here on the Mecca over 15/16 years) and have seen these topics plenty of times. Have repaired boards, built test rigs, stripped dozens of machines and probably given more away than I have ever used myself, among other bits and bob's I have chipped in with, helped here and there with the emulation guys also. Personally again, using my work experience, being a maintenance technician for over 25 years my approach would would have been to stick the tube in the chuck of a lathe (at work) , find a Morse Taper drill bit around 24mm and drill the tube out or failing that, use a boring bar and skim a mill or so from the inside of the tube. This would keep it smooth and uniform down the full barrel, ensuring cooling fluid/lube is being used of course. I appreciate this option is not available to everyone although a couple of years ago, I would certainly have volunteered to bore such tubes out for anyone who needed them doing..... sadly over the last couple of years (or so) the Mecca has been swamped with bell ends, hence my supporting membership has not lately been renewed. Don't get me wrong there are still many many that don't fit into the "bell end" category, both of which are old and new members. I do hope my method of opening up the "tubes" passes muster with the "others" you mention and hope it is a "good one" for you as I dread the repercussions if it doesn't meet approval. 👍

Well today is the day, time to set up and attempt these repairs, burnt fingers blood a sweat time .

You can't tell some people or offer good advice. Some have done it before, so it must work. Bear in mind i am small minded and not a nice person. I am also becoming "boarded" of trying to help and read nonsense posts and replies. Just can't wait to see the results of jabbing a 24mm x 300mm long spade drill bit in the end of a had drill down an acryllic tube that may be around 400mm long.... Rat's tail maybe RHM, with a bit of lubrication. Token tubes seem to be the most sensible answer but sanding and drilling have been done before it seems.

Talk sense. Being nice?? How old are you? I don't suffer fools lightly.... You seem to be still making shit statements.... if nothing is impossible, may I suggest you walk to the moon. Let me know when you start the journey.

I 3D printed a new £1 tube for my JPM Hi Roller...

I have read many posts over time on many different forums from cars to arcade machines. It seems like the standard of posts or it may be the way posts come across is getting worse and worse. "I am scared of getting an error on machines, stress??" Really, some of the posts that appear on the Mecca at the moment or some of the people that make the posts don't live in the real world..... Do they? How do some get through daily life? Other posts give advice that is completely wrong and miles wide of the mark.... Ford forum (won't say which)..... guy Want's to disable airbags and warning lights (to pass Mot) as he was scared..... scared of the airbags going off if he ever had a collision..... Need I say more.... The worry fruits, the advisors who would advise looking for a gas leak with a lighter are taking over. Makes me so glad I dropped the interest in electronics, fruities (from such an involved level) a good while ago and made brewing my new hobby where worries, being scared and shit advice seem to have no place.... yet.😩

Honest, loyal and a genuine wally.

If you are a Wally mate, you hide it well, others evidently struggle with hiding it. You my friend are no Wally.

I'm just a genuine wally who appreciates everyone's input, but I do find you funny though.

I'm small minded too, I don't suffer fools gladly or whatever the saying is. It's like... Listen to your eldors they know best, they have lived. You go ahead and drill your hole then.... Told you so. I think it all comes with age (the mind shrinks), I love having teenagers re living my life, told you so! Being dumb is a different matter though, I've electrocuted myself on a coin mech, but that's OK!

it would be nice

I used DesignSpark Mechanical for creating the models, it's available for free from RS Components.

that is very cool, how did you design the part?

Send you pics tomorrow am taking it in so it’s not scrapped can only tell you about it tomorrow when it arrives 👌

Insulting me by job title and because I like repairing broken fruit machines... ha ha ha ha ha Thanks for letting me know you can block knob jockeys on here!

That light unit needs fiddling with a sledgehammer. Fucking stupid thing!

Nice one Rich, just check your solder over to make sure nothing is shorting to other legs or tracks and you have no rogue solder drops anywhere. Plug in and hold breath..

Ok thank you

Haha, bless her, i am sure you will get to grips with it mate. Better melt a bit of plastic that doesn't hurt , rather than your fingertips....

And finally after advice, why not block them? Finally, i never knew you could do that so i don't have to read, be alerted by or notified of any more shit from Bellends (unless i am bored of course).... 😃

Ok..... one more ace up my sleeve..... non alcoholic ale.... surely you can't say no to that or juice it is.

Happy Easter everyone. A couple more vids to add on here. Hope you enjoy watching as always. First up is JPM Hi Note Here is Pound Stretcher by ACe Sorry about the lamp fault. Hopefully sort it soon and a duel of SRU goodness Eachway Shuffle vs Two Step Thanks in advance for watching and any comments on here or my YouTube channel👍👍👍

The cap direction doesn't matter but the diodes have to go the same way as you took them out. Don't have access to a board at the moment Rich to let you know. And stop touching the yellow caps and the rom cart connector with your solder iron......

You can always jump in the river, works for me. Good luck.

Nice work TTX. That looks pretty darn smart mate. Don't seem to have issues with my JPM machines luckily Although my Maygay Cashpack jams. But this pays out 50s as well,so I just leave it on 50p payouts for now as it holds about 90quid in the tube and the bank limit only goes to a 10er lol. Also it has a curved tube in the overflow and the £'s jam in that too! Top job👍

Haha yes, I added the after part when I read back.... made that mistake before. Just have a beer to help clear repair fog and the mind..... not long later, would be sat in the sun with more beer and more in the fridge thinking repairs can wait.

Tbh I do think your a small minded and highly objective person too mate. I never see any friendliness or really advice in your posts. You wanted ridicule some of these fella's right from the get go... for what opening up a tube slightly!?!? All I see is objecting, objectivity and objection. I'm a high end tradesman- I work with hand tools daily...my work has been featured on Grand designs Tv show and if I'm honest sand paper round a rounded bit of wood will work fine... a rat tail file will work fine... lubrication why!? It's not metal?? It's opening up a plastic tube fractionally. It's not hard. It's a 20 minute job lol. Sure I agree token tubes would be lovely but I doubt I will get any as everyone will want to use them. If you are such an expert why don't you tell everyone reading how you would approach the job??? I and I'm sure others would love to have your expert opinion? It better be a good one :)

Quatrohead you need to be more understanding of other people , just because you know everything dont mean other people are stupid or nutters like you just said

Im autistic im good at some things but not in others but I do try to learn things

No sense worrying about stuff like this, if your that paranoid about old equipment failures, you should mabye find a hobby other than collecting old equipment. Even machines we consider modern are now getting on for 20 years old, and the ones we tend to collect are 30-40 years old sometimes older! thats 20 odd years of hard service plus how many years in damp garages before we got our hands on them and then more years of constant play! things are going to break its just the way it is. I dont worry about meters etc anyway, I just bypass them for home use.

I want to live in a world where my only worry is a fruit machine giving me an error code lol

Bump*** working fine now chaps, so go on you know you want to.😄

Test equipment does not have to be expensive, lots of bargains about, just depends how you want to do repairs, and they are not difficult to use, these days of the internet there is always a video on what you want to know, different in my day when I bought my first scope there was no internet! had to learn myself, so you all have it so much easier these days!!! this was my first scope, bought from Maplins Southend NEW when they were a proper electronics parts supplier! went there special to buy it, it is still in the loft too in its original box with the receipt!!

There are a few m1a repair threads I think. Unfortunately if you don't have the most basic of test / repair equipment and knowledge, pcb repair isn't going to be easy whatsoever. They only thing you can do, is read repair threads and guess at a fault on your own board. Then I can guess the only option would be to start trying to remove components (ic's) and replacing with new. You can replace many components on a board, which will make it a very expensive process and may not produce the desired working board. You need to read data sheets and understand what inputs on ic's do and what is needed to give certain outputs etc etc. Then be able to test these are working as per... Very difficult for someone with little or no electronics knowledge or test equipment. Can't knock people for wanting to try. M1a/b manual may be in the download section on here although I am not 100% sure without searching.