Truth be told could be the quality of work that I put in requires me to come back, could be the desire to always make them better, could be boredom ! I don't really know.
I had some buddies over on Sunday for a poker game, had all four machines fired up and playing.
I learned that I play these machines like they were fragile eggs, tapping buttons, not SMASHING buttons !
During play my buddy was hitting the buttons so hard on DK Jr that the E-Clip came off the jump button.
My other buddy was so rough with the joysticks that a micro switch in the joystick went.
Not only that, but I learned that I need to secure my control panels in place, as several times the panels almost came off my Popeye and Mario machine.
When everybody left the poker game I was downstairs doing my repairs.
I still need to add some latches to my Popeye control panel. My Mario panel however is so full with the 2 player, 6 button layout that the latches when raised interferer with the wiring. So for Mario I'll need to find another solution to lock the panel down.
My Mario cabinet was also plagued with the fact that connections to the iPac were forever coming loose.
I promised myself while on vacation I'd get the inside of Mario cleaned up and all wires secured properly!
Truth be told I should have done this the first time when I did the install! Ah well, another lesson learned, another reason why I'm NEVER DONE with these machines.
Anyway vacation for me has started, I'll be off the majority of December and to be productive I pulled out the trusted iPhone and did the all too familiar "To Do List."
Topping the list.........................FIX MARIO !
And I'm happy to say today that I did just that.
PC mounted to the inside wall of the cabinet, iPac mounted to the opposite wall.
All wires nicely wrapped and not all wrapped up together.
Everything done, and fired up for testing, happy to report all was working.
Another project off the to-do list ! Now all that remains is install side art!
Oh I also added an additional support to the back of the cabinet where the monitor is.
