Jurassic Park T-Rex Repair

The T-Rex in Jurassic Park is a neat toy, but it can be prone to problems.  In fact, it can be down right aggravating at times.

My T-Rex stopped eating pinballs.  It would bend down, but it could not pick up the pinball.  Let’s do some investigation and see how things look:

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AFM Strobe Capacitor Repair

The capacitor located at C1 on the strobe power supply board for Attack From Mars (AFM) is notorious for failing.  Bally/Williams used a 100v non-polar capacitor in a location that has at least 140v across it all the time.  Finding a replacement non-polar electrolytic capacitor with a voltage rating of greater than 100v proved difficult.  Actually, you can find them, but they are usually so large they will not fit within the strobe’s power supply box.  So I decided to take matters into my own hands.

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