Chuck,
Im away until Monday, but I think I have a 6100 neckboard.. I'll do
25 + shipping if its there.
> John,
> I will get a picture of it tomorrow and post it to the group.
>
> Chuck
>
>
> On Jul 17, 2012, at 6:48 PM, John Robertson wrote:
>
>> Hi Chuck,
>>
>> Post a picture somewhere of your socket - I'm sure someone
here has one
>> in a junk box they can dig out for you.
>>
>> John :-#)#
>>
>> Chuck wrote:
>>>
>>> Well I guess I should update this thread since so many of
you have
>>> helped out. I desoldered the socket from the neck board and
found that
>>> the wire that was soldered to the tab went into the socket
and did not
>>> have good continuity to the flexible contact that touches
the pin on
>>> the tube. Upon my attempt to solder the wire straight
through to the
>>> contact, I seemed to have dripped solder into the socket
where the
>>> contact would seat, causing it to not have enough room for
the contact
>>> to go in far enough to close the socket and reinstall it.
Removing the
>>> solder from the hole where the contact seats ended up
causing damage to
>>> the socket. On top of that, the flexible metal contact
snapped in two
>>> and is now useless. I have been hunting for a socket for the
neck
>>> board, but have not found one yet. I did get a list of tubes
that have
>>> the CR24 socket on them, but have not found a TV old enough
to have
>>> one. The search continues.....
>>>
>>> Chuck
>>>
>>>
>>> On Jul 6, 2012, at 11:39 PM, Rodger Boots wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Fri, Jul 6, 2012 at 7:19 PM, John Robertson
<pinball@telus.net>
>>>> wrote:
>>>> Rodger Boots wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Seeing that it worked before you overhauled it
(didn't it?) check
>>>>> that you put all electrolytic capacitors in
correctly. A reversed
>>>>> one could cause this.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Most of us here are way to polite to mention this
(ducking- ouch!)...
>>>>
>>>> John ;-#)#
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Before retirement from Rockwell Collins, with highly
trained repair
>>>> operators, you would NOT believed how many reversed
capacitors
>>>> occured. And they would work fine for a few minutes
until they got
>>>> hot enough to leak enough to blow a fuse or trip out a
power supply or
>>>> just cause general mayhem. Sometimes it would require
the 95 degrees
>>>> Celcius of a burn-in chamber to kill them.
>>>>
>>>> I never was accused of being polite or diplomatic but
was damn good at
>>>> finding mistakes (you would be surprised at the simple
problems most
>>>> techs miss---reversed parts, ICs put in incorrectly,
cracked solder
>>>> joints, etc.)
>>>>
>>>> Yup, sometimes I made mistakes, too. Wasn't afraid
of admitting my
>>>> own mistakes.
>>>>
>>>> Still have nightmares of working there.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> So my real point is that a "works for 15
minutes" problem just SCREAMS
>>>> reversed capacitor. Easy enough to check for. (And
DON'T reused a
>>>> reversed capacitor).
>>>
>>
>>
>> --
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3C9
>> Call (604)872-5757 or Fax 872-2010 (Pinballs, Jukes,
VideoGames)
>> www.flippers.com
>> "Old pinballers never die, they just flip out"
>
>
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