Just wanting to ask some advice. few months back i had a repairer out to fix my 82 bally. Had stopped working & on the flash test, it was almost getting throw, only missing non the final flash. Got a repairer out to have a look who took the table with him for around 7 weeks & it all ended up costing over $900. Majority of the quote was on reconditioning all the boards. There was one coil replaced & he put some new rubbers on the play field. Game came back working ok but within a week i lost all the sound and lamps, it was blowing fuses and a slingshot had stopped working. I also saw that a circuit had fried on the reconditioned regulator board. Called him out and he isolated the slingshot issue and got it up and working for me (without the slingshot not functioning and isolated) & we agreed to arrange another time for him to come take the regulator board to repair (as not having the game for 2 months and having a party at the house the next day, was keen to have it functioning as we were fine on waiting the 7 weeks as long as it was ready for that party). Took about a month for both of us to both get around to coming back to fix like agreed (no fault on either side) & he has done so but now hit me with a bill for another $200+. Claiming that the issue was caused due to the slingshot coil and it caused the circuit to fry & it was completely unrelated to everything else i had paid for. The other lamp/sound issue he is saying is just a connector issue to the power module and again, completely unrelated.
Not real happy to be paying any more to get stuff fixed as i would have expected the game to work for at least a month or so before shitting itself again. Also, i would have thought that fuses would have blown before any circuits on the reconditioned regulator board would have gotten friend?
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Just wanting to ask some advice. few months back i had a repairer out to fix my 82 bally. Had stopped working & on the flash test, it was almost getting throw, only missing non the final flash. Got a repairer out to have a look who took the table with him for around 7 weeks & it all ended up costing over $900. Majority of the quote was on reconditioning all the boards. There was one coil replaced & he put some new rubbers on the play field. Game came back working ok but within a week i lost all the sound and lamps, it was blowing fuses and a slingshot had stopped working. I also saw that a circuit had fried on the reconditioned regulator board. Called him out and he isolated the slingshot issue and got it up and working for me (without the slingshot not functioning and isolated) & we agreed to arrange another time for him to come take the regulator board to repair (as not having the game for 2 months and having a party at the house the next day, was keen to have it functioning as we were fine on waiting the 7 weeks as long as it was ready for that party). Took about a month for both of us to both get around to coming back to fix like agreed (no fault on either side) & he has done so but now hit me with a bill for another $200+. Claiming that the issue was caused due to the slingshot coil and it caused the circuit to fry & it was completely unrelated to everything else i had paid for. The other lamp/sound issue he is saying is just a connector issue to the power module and again, completely unrelated.
Not real happy to be paying any more to get stuff fixed as i would have expected the game to work for at least a month or so before shitting itself again. Also, i would have thought that fuses would have blown before any circuits on the reconditioned regulator board would have gotten friend?
Am i being unreasonable or what?
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