Re: Gottlieb System 1 Adventures with Sinbad

On Dec 4, 8:48 am, seymour-shabow <seymour.sha...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
homebrood wrote:
No, they want you so solder each lead to the conector, like a needle
hole to thread the wire through then solder. No crimping on these.
I did'nt even solder them because it is a ridiculously close and
awkward solder job, I just put the wire through twisted on then placed
shrink tubed that came with the connector from Docent over it. Tested
and it was working before I shrank the tubes, so I just went for it
and shrank the tube over the connections to seal them in there, so no
solder and no crimps! I know not the best idea, but you know what, I
played it for four hours last night and it works fine for now booted
up this morning to check again and it still works fine so oh well.
I'll report back when it all goes to hell but for now it is working
great. I have the pins to replace the originals but my housing for A1-
J3 is kind of hacked up, someone couldn't get the pins out or
something and some of the holes are screwed up and from what Ed at GPE
says you can't find this housing anywhere. If all else fails I'll go
in and solder the leads to this connector or repin and go back to the
molex. I'm just glad it's working and playing good for now. As much as

That's ok I have the left gun wires on my STTNG held in with toothpicks
I keep forgetting to replace the missing connector and it keeps
working..... I keep forgetting it's like that until a thread like this
pops up.

Trying to figure out what connectors you're talking about though, I
think by solder normal edge connectors you don't actually thread the
wire through the hole - you just lay it in the trough and flow solder
into it.

I go for the crimp myself, never have soldered wires into crimp style
connectors.

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Toothpicks, that's great! I had a sewing needle subbing for a broken
pin on
a rom chip for a few months on my gorgar till I decided to fix it
right.
Pulled the chip and found the pin was just bent up backwards and not
even broken. bent it back and it didn't even
break off now it's fine. Some little hacks work fine and like you
said
you forget about them till someone brings it up or you go to sell it
and someone's like hey WTF is this hack? I try not to do any uglies
that's where I draw the line. No hacks that can't be easily reversed
at least. Oh and the connectors I used from docent the leads aren't
crimp style and there is no trough to put the wire in just a littl
metal tab with a hole in it. You can check them out on their website.
They do have some other very usefull stuff on there even though I
wouldn't quite endorse the Gottlieb system 1 edge connectors that I
got they are a pain but if it works then that's all that matters.

Toothpicks, that's great! I had a sewing needle subing a broken pin
on
a rom chip for a few months on my gorgar for a few months till I
decided to fix it right. Pulled the chip and found the pin was just
bent up backwards and not even broken. bent it back and it didn't
even
break off now it's fine. Some little hacks work fine and like you
said
you forget about them till someone brings it up or you go to sell it
and someone's like hey WTF is this hack? I try not to do any uglies
that's where I draw the line. No hacks that can't be easily reversed
at least. Oh and the connectors I used from docent the leads aren't
crimp style and there is no trough to put the wire in just a littl
metal tab with a hole in it. You can check them out on their website.
They do have some other very usefull stuff on there even though I
wouldn't quite endorse the Gottlieb system 1 edge connectors that I
got they are a pain but if it works then that's all that matters.

Toothpicks, that's great! I had a sewing needle subing a broken pin
on
a rom chip for a few months on my gorgar for a few months till I
decided to fix it right. Pulled the chip and found the pin was just
bent up backwards and not even broken. bent it back and it didn't
even
break off now it's fine. Some little hacks work fine and like you
said
you forget about them till someone brings it up or you go to sell it
and someone's like hey WTF is this hack? I try not to do any uglies
that's where I draw the line. No hacks that can't be easily reversed
at least. Oh and the connectors I used from docent the leads aren't
crimp style and there is no trough to put the wire in just a littl
metal tab with a hole in it. You can check them out on their website.
They do have some other very usefull stuff on there even though I
wouldn't quite endorse the Gottlieb system 1 edge connectors that I
got they are a pain but if it works then that's all that matters.

http://www.docentelectronics.com/AmusementGames/Pinball/Gottlieb/System%20One.htm


Tom





Tom


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