Nice work, when you write up a post like this it makes it look easy. The reality is often fraught with frustration, not in the least thanks to the excruciating

Nice work, when you write up a post like this it makes it look easy. The reality is often fraught with frustration, not in the least thanks to the excruciating wait for parts to arrive once you've painstakingly found the next fault in the chain. In the end though, I think it's all worth it, if only for the feeling of getting it done and over with. I've repaired a handful of such machines in the past and it's remarkable how available the schematics and parts tend to be, there are whole businesses dedicated to selling cap kits and parts for old arcades.