WMS Firepower SS Refurbishing project - Part VI!

FIREPOWER (SS) 1980 - Diary


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Firepower Refurbishing Log

Paint touch-up playfield
Date Time Description
2007-03-01 - 2007-04-30
 80h Playfield paint touch-up and and repair of minor damages on playfield.

Backbox
Date Time Description
2007-09-02
 11.00-12.00 (1,0h) Cleaning of backbox.
2007-09-04 21.00-01.00 (4,0h) Exchange of IC6 #74154 - 4 to 16 decoder. Exchange of 40 pin Interboard connector and resold pins on other male Molex connectors.
2007-09-05 20.00-24.00 (4,0h) Exchange of male Molex connectors on CPU board and trouble shooting display problem.
2007-09-10

21.00-23.00 (2,0h)

 Exchange of lamp PIA6821 IC10 on the driver board.
2007-09-11

21.00-22.30 (1,5h)

 Exchange of diode D17 for 5101 RAM chip circuit on CPU board and lamp matrix resistors 27 ohms 5W on the driver board to avoid over heating.
2007-09-12 21.00-22.00 (1,0h) Remote battery pack.
2008-08-14 20.00-23.00 (3,0h) Fixing problem with lamp matrix. Replace tranistors on Driver board.
2008-11-11 18.00-22.00 (4,0h) Change of PIA, and solder on female connector points as a quick 'n dirty fix.
2009-01-17

13.00-16.00 (3,0h)

 Exchange of solenoid PIA6821 IC5 driver board and display PIA6821 IC18 på CPU board.
2009-02-22

12.00-16.00 (4,0h)

 Trouble shooting wire harness between CPU board and Master Display board. There is intermittency in the wires when flexing them. Change of wires without getting displays digits stable. Need to exchange the connector to the Master Display board.

Underneath playfield
Date Time Description
2007-05-24 15.00-17.00 (2,0h) Cleaning units/details underneath playfield.
2007-05-27 20.00-22.30 (2,5h) Cleaning units/details underneath playfield.
2007-06-15 22.00-22.30 (0,5h) Disassembly kick-out units times 3.
2007-06-16 22.00-23.00 (1,0h) Cleaning of kick-out units times 3.
2007-06-17

21.00-23.00 (2,0h)

 Cleaning of inserts.
2007-06-18

22.00-24.30 (2,5h)

 Cleaning units/details underneath playfield.
2007-06-20 21.30-23.00 (1,5h) Cleaning units/details underneath playfield.
2007-07-10

22.30-24.00 (1,5h)

 Cleaning units/details underneath playfield.
2007-07-11 21.30-23.00 (1,5h) Cleaning units/details underneath playfield.
2007-08-06 21.30-22.30 (1,0h) Cleaning units/details underneath playfield.
2007-08-07 20.30-24.00 (3,5h) Paint touch-up stand up targets.
2007-08-13 21.00-23.00 (2,0h) Cleaning units/details underneath playfield.
2007-08-16 20.00-24.30 (4,5h) Cleaning units/details underneath playfield.
2007-08-17 21.00-22.00 (1,0h) Working with stand up targets.
2007-08-18 10.00-17.00 (7,0h) Working with units/details underneath playfield and stand up targets.
2007-08-19 10.00-12.00 (2,0h) Working with units/details underneath playfield.
2007-08-22 21.30-23.00 (1,5h) Exchange of EOS switches flippers.

Playfield
Date Time Description
2007-08-20 21.00-22.30 (1,5h) Cleaning of playfield plastics and parts/details.
2007-08-21 20.00-23.30 (3,5h)

Cleaning and polish playfield with Carnauba wax. Review and polish of coin door, legs and side rails on the cabinet with Autosol.
2007-08-23 21.30-24.00 (2,5h) Rebuild playfield parts/details.
2007-08-28 21.00-23.00 (2,0h) Rebuild playfield parts/details.
2007-08-29 20.00-22.30 (2,5h) Rebuild playfield parts/details.
2007-09-03

21.00-23.00 (2,0h)

 Rebuild of ball arch and the last playfield parts/details.

Total work time
159 h

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