Well a little more success (especially after last time) at the garage. Got my Asteroids swapped into a new cab, and its looking and (almost) working great. I have to solder one broken wire back onto the volume control but other than that the new cab is much better and its nice to see the wiring and everything finally done right. Cleaning the monitor really helped - picture is crystal clear now! Huge thanks to Ray for providing the replacement cab and Todd for coming over and helping me get everything swapped over.

In other news, I sold the Nintendo Playchoice cab :-( I will miss that thing, I probably shouldn't have sold it but I need the room. Good luck with it Chris!

Finally...been building up my stash of test equipment for repairing boards. Recently added an HP Signature analyzer, and soon an HP 1630 logic analyzer as well. Soon I'll be able to analyze anything..I think.

Outside of the arcade...Halloween was a blast this year...my electroluminescent (EL) costume was a hit around Conshohocken. I'm definitely keeping it around for future fun lol.

Another update - I recently spent some time re-organizing the garage. While this doesn't mean much at the moment (still overloaded with CRAP), I do have a much better layout now I think and hopefully it'll be easier to make the crap go away!

On another front, I got back from my Western PA road trip and since the weather here is nasty and hot as its been, I decided to hide inside with the AC and did some more tinkering with the Pinball stuff. I got my order in from www.pbresource.com while I was away, so I got the rectifier board finished up with all new parts and mods, and tested it with good voltages, so at this point I'm ready to start re-assembling the backbox and installing all new light bulbs. Yeah...44 light bulbs in the backbox ALONE, this should be fun!

Click HERE for pics of the Bally rectifier board rebuild. It was done following the guide located here: http://www.pinrepair.com/bally/index.htm