{"id":1789,"date":"2011-03-16T21:16:06","date_gmt":"2011-03-16T19:16:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/taf.gozzled.com\/?p=1789"},"modified":"2012-03-19T13:06:54","modified_gmt":"2012-03-19T11:06:54","slug":"new-pinball-machine-attack-from-mars-afm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/taf.gozzled.com\/?p=1789","title":{"rendered":"Taking my AFM apart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The AFM I acquired was supposed to be fully functional with some cabinet fade. Electronically the machine was supposed to have just two problems: the Strobe light didn&#8217;t work nor did the LEDs in the Mother Ship.<\/p>\n<p>Having received the machine, I wasn&#8217;t able to test its functionality before moving it down into the cellar. Instead I took the machine apart in order to facilitate its transportation. The legs were already off, so I just had to take off the backbox and take the populated playfield out, which I did.<\/p>\n<p>On taking the backbox off, I had to disconnect the plugs from the boards in the backbox. As to be expected, there were a couple of burned connectors:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1790\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/taf.gozzled.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/IMG_2133.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1790\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1790\" title=\"J106\" src=\"https:\/\/taf.gozzled.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/IMG_2133-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/taf.gozzled.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/IMG_2133-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/taf.gozzled.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/IMG_2133.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1790\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">One half of the original J106 not looking too good<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_1791\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/taf.gozzled.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/IMG_2134.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1791\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1791\" title=\"Dodgy connector\" src=\"https:\/\/taf.gozzled.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/IMG_2134-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/taf.gozzled.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/IMG_2134-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/taf.gozzled.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/IMG_2134.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1791\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Another reworked connector<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The AFM I acquired was supposed to be fully functional with some cabinet fade. Electronically the machine was supposed to have just two problems: the Strobe light didn&#8217;t work nor did the LEDs in the Mother Ship. Having received the machine, I wasn&#8217;t able to test its functionality before moving it down into the cellar. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":70,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/taf.gozzled.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1789","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/taf.gozzled.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/taf.gozzled.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taf.gozzled.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/70"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taf.gozzled.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1789"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/taf.gozzled.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1789\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1798,"href":"https:\/\/taf.gozzled.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1789\/revisions\/1798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/taf.gozzled.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taf.gozzled.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taf.gozzled.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}