Back together and working

Enjoyed working on a piece of history. Found  a nice home for it, a local collector.

Painting Cabinet

After some deep thoughts about whether to completely repaint the cabinet, if another color would be a good option (black and neon green), I decided to keep the cabinet as close to original as possible.  I was able to find some paint that is very close and looks real nice.  Here are some pics of the progress.  I will post more pics when painting is complete.

Cabinet repair, ready for paint

The lower Cabinet was in rough condition.  It was stored up ended in a damp or wet basement or location.  I cut about five inches off and totally rebuilt the end of lower cabinet with matching plywood.  I was careful to match the size and cuts of original.  Now ready for paint.

This what I started with

made this jig to drill leg bolt holes, worked awesome

Head fits nice, level and solid, now to get it ready for paint.

Backglass repaired

After sealing the backglass, I had it scanned by a company near me.  They have one of only 5 large high end flat bed scanners in the US.  The scan used 1 G of space on a thump drive.  The scan was awesome.  After that my son who works with Photoshop all day for a living, spent 10 hours fixing and cleaning up the scan.  He also made three layers for the print shop.  The three layers are as follows: 1 for color 2 for white 3 for shading or blocking.  We are very happy with the finished product.  Even made a coffee cup of the print.

Backglass before sealing.

Backglass after sealing.

New Finish Backglass

Back of New Backglass

Test print a mini glass.

Coffee cup

Testing an Alltek MPU board

I have an Alltek MPU that has the LazerLord option/programming.  I wanted to see if the few minor game play glitches would stay or go away with the Alltek board.  The game play is exactly the same, no different.  They (Stern) never made the corrections and went right into making the other LazerLord.  Hope to find someone that can make the corrections and post the new programming?

New Drop targets

If I have not said this before I will say it now.  The game is real fast.  So fast and strong it is breaking all the old plastic parts.  First parts to replace are the drop targets.  Really did not like the blue blank targets so went with white with yellow Stern S.

Old target blue, New targets white with yellow S

New targets installed

Stern Solenoid Driver Board

Some time on or after 1992 the solenoid driver board was replaced with a Bally driver board.  There is evidence of smoke above the location of the driver board.  Picked up a real clean Stern SDU-100 Driver Board on ebay for a good price but untested.  Did all the ground modes and replaced the two large caps as recommended C23 and C26.  Tested all outputs and then did a solenoid test and tested out good.