Arcade Repair Tips - Your First Arcade Toolbox (Part Two) 

THANK YOU SO MUCH, THESE VIDEOS ARE INCREDIBLY HELPFUL.. I am new to the whole game, and have very limited knowledge, :) This helps soooo much!!

These video's are great, keep it up! And thank you! The website is great too.

Another good episode. Simple stuff which will help form the basics for anything electronic. Another good thing for your tool box is a copy of "The Art of Electronics" by Horowitz and Hill. For arcade work, the version is not important. Version 1 is as good as 3 and costs 1/100th as much money. Pick one up used and learn some basics. It will change the way you look at all things electronic. Any version of 79 NFPA (the national electric code) will be worth the price. Older ones are fine. Get the ideas of ampacity, conductor sizing and over current protection down. I have watched "teaching" videos on RU-vid by legendary "experts" which are dead, flat wrong on these issues. Example, on a two wire machine, you can not, ever, connect the neutral wire to the protective equipment conductor (PE, or what people call ground). You must either satisfy the requirements of ground isolation or replace the power lead with the correct three wire cord. I could not believe what I saw when people on RU-vid were "grounding" with the neutral conductor. Buy the book used and read the very few sections that apply to your trade. A good read beats a law suit any day.

nice vid

I can't even use a soldering iron like that after getting my Hakko soldering station. I used to take mine on my route and fix games with it. Same with de-soldering. Got a de-soldering gun from Hakko as well. Never left home without it when servicing my route of games. Soldering suckers and braid.....ain't nobody got time fo that!

Are the DVD sets you sell on your site better than 240P ?

Note on soldering: avoid silver solder. It will really shorten the life of your iron tip.

What arcade do you got? :D