It's complete including the belly pan but in bad shape.
If anyone needs anything let me know before it goes in the scrap metal pile.
John
Wolcott,CT
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On 2019/11/01 3:26 p.m., John-Del wrote:
It's complete including the belly pan but in bad shape.
If anyone needs anything let me know before it goes in the scrap metal pile.
John
Wolcott,CT
delstv|at|aol|dot|com
Give it to Peter to take to Kutztown...what is rough to you may be an opportunity to someone else.
John :-#)#
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On Friday, November 1, 2019 at 7:41:11 PM UTC-4, John Robertson wrote:tuning caps are seized. But I figured if someone needed a transformer or something else off it I'd rather someone get some use out of it.
On 2019/11/01 3:26 p.m., John-Del wrote:
It's complete including the belly pan but in bad shape.
If anyone needs anything let me know before it goes in the scrap metal pile.
John
Wolcott,CT
delstv|at|aol|dot|com
Give it to Peter to take to Kutztown...what is rough to you may be an
opportunity to someone else.
John :-#)#
I don't live near Peter, and it'd cost way more to ship than what it's worth. The donator told me it was a cocktail table radio once but the whole thing got wet and the cabinet fell apart. He brought the carcass in to me. It's really rough and the
Hey, off topic, but I have a Premier System 3 that needs a battery. Instead of installing another coin, I was thinking about remoting two AA lithiums in a holder off board and using a diode right in the holder to drop the voltage back to three volts.Thoughts?
John
Wolcott, CT
The AK55 chassis, working, in the Kiel Table is quite valuable. However, the 55 Chassis, per se, is not, being fussy, common, and requiring expensive output tubes (45s). Add white-metal disease (very common), and even thought they can be excellentperformers, they are just not very popular.
However, I will ask around and see if there are any interested parties around here. We have a sort-of rescue fund for transporting orphans to where they are needed when the actual value does not otherwise support such things.
Peter Wieck
Melrose Park, PA
Thoughts?Hey, off topic, but I have a Premier System 3 that needs a battery. Instead of installing another coin, I was thinking about remoting two AA lithiums in a holder off board and using a diode right in the holder to drop the voltage back to three volts.
John
Wolcott, CT
On your Gottlieb game there is no advantage to moving the battery
off-board as the lithium button cells don't appear to leak. And they are good for upwards of 25 years...current draw is essentially zero uA.
John :-#)#
The AK55 chassis, working, in the Kiel Table is quite valuable. However, the 55 Chassis, per se, is not, being fussy, common, and requiring expensive output tubes (45s). Add white-metal disease (very common), and even thought they can be excellentperformers, they are just not very popular.
However, I will ask around and see if there are any interested parties around here. We have a sort-of rescue fund for transporting orphans to where they are needed when the actual value does not otherwise support such things.
Peter Wieck
Melrose Park, PA
On Saturday, November 2, 2019 at 4:04:40 PM UTC-4, John Robertson wrote:Thoughts?
Hey, off topic, but I have a Premier System 3 that needs a battery. Instead of installing another coin, I was thinking about remoting two AA lithiums in a holder off board and using a diode right in the holder to drop the voltage back to three volts.
who owns this after I'm fertilizing the ground.
John
Wolcott, CT
On your Gottlieb game there is no advantage to moving the battery
off-board as the lithium button cells don't appear to leak. And they are
good for upwards of 25 years...current draw is essentially zero uA.
John :-#)#
Thanks John. I read (of course!) that the button cells should be changed every 5 years. If that was true, then remoting the battery off board would make sense as opposed to soldering in a new one. I wasn't worried about corrosion - just the next guy
But if it lasts 25 years, then I'll just replace the one that's on the board.
John
Wolcott, CT
On 2019/11/04 4:02 p.m., John-Del wrote:volts. Thoughts?
On Saturday, November 2, 2019 at 4:04:40 PM UTC-4, John Robertson wrote:
Hey, off topic, but I have a Premier System 3 that needs a battery. Instead of installing another coin, I was thinking about remoting two AA lithiums in a holder off board and using a diode right in the holder to drop the voltage back to three
guy who owns this after I'm fertilizing the ground.
John
Wolcott, CT
On your Gottlieb game there is no advantage to moving the battery
off-board as the lithium button cells don't appear to leak. And they are >> good for upwards of 25 years...current draw is essentially zero uA.
John :-#)#
Thanks John. I read (of course!) that the button cells should be changed every 5 years. If that was true, then remoting the battery off board would make sense as opposed to soldering in a new one. I wasn't worried about corrosion - just the next
But if it lasts 25 years, then I'll just replace the one that's on the board.
John
Wolcott, CT
No guarantee they will last 25 years, it is just that we are rarely see System 3 games needing new batteries and the last machine was made in
1996 - Bard Wire.
On Monday, November 4, 2019 at 8:11:18 PM UTC-5, John Robertson wrote:volts. Thoughts?
On 2019/11/04 4:02 p.m., John-Del wrote:
On Saturday, November 2, 2019 at 4:04:40 PM UTC-4, John Robertson wrote: >>>
Hey, off topic, but I have a Premier System 3 that needs a battery. Instead of installing another coin, I was thinking about remoting two AA lithiums in a holder off board and using a diode right in the holder to drop the voltage back to three
guy who owns this after I'm fertilizing the ground.
John
Wolcott, CT
On your Gottlieb game there is no advantage to moving the battery
off-board as the lithium button cells don't appear to leak. And they are >>>> good for upwards of 25 years...current draw is essentially zero uA.
John :-#)#
Thanks John. I read (of course!) that the button cells should be changed every 5 years. If that was true, then remoting the battery off board would make sense as opposed to soldering in a new one. I wasn't worried about corrosion - just the next
But if it lasts 25 years, then I'll just replace the one that's on the board.
John
Wolcott, CT
No guarantee they will last 25 years, it is just that we are rarely see
System 3 games needing new batteries and the last machine was made in
1996 - Bard Wire.
Since this game is from around 1991 and it worked a couple of years ago, it did indeed make it to 25 years, assuming it wasn't changed sometime in the past. I'll pull the board out this weekend and see what's in it now. I did all the solder work (mostly monitor work) for the vendor who gave me this game when he closed and I can't recall changing a coin cell in a pin for him.
But a new coin cell is what it's going to get. Do you know which one it is or is any 3V lithium fine?
John
Wolcott, CT
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