Allen Schweitzer

I have a couple of AV mods for the Bally, but I don't trust them. They work great, but I want Ken to do some re-designing. There's not much room for them inside the console. They work, but when you put the console back together, they short out. I think a piece of gorilla tape under the line filter will solve this problem, but I haven't tried doing that yet. So, I have a few, but I'm not happy with them. Hopefully, a better design will be coming along soon.

Bally Arcade Service Manual (OCR).pdf (ballyalley.com) See page 24 of 26

YES. That is the data chip! I would like to retract my statement to use Gorilla Glue. I now use a thermal paste. I believe that will allow thermal transfer to the heat sink better. Also, a note of caution about using these heat sinks. They are large. If you have the "card stock" on your keypad it may not fit correctly into the keyboard. If you have only wires, you should be fine. The one in the foreground has the "card stock" and the other has just wires. I will have to use the low profile heat sink on the one with the card protecting the wires.

You would think after contacting them 4 times about this I would have a refund. My coercion through harassment is not working, but they got my money!

I have to pay for a return shipping label. After the buyer sends the broken PS4 back to me, I call e-bay, and they refund me for the cost of the shipping label under seller protection. Then, my funds will be released to me and the case will be elevated to deal with the false claims made by the buyer.

UPDATE!!! E-bay has resolved the issue. The buyer is NOT ELIGIBLE for a refund and I have won my case. My listings will be going back up on E-bay eventually! There is more to the story, but that's it in a nutshell. THANK YOU ALL FOR YOUR SUPPORT!!!!!!

The buyer hasn't left any negative feedback...yet. One of the e-bay employees told me to send them a return label. She got me most of the way through the process, then told me that the transaction didn't "qualify" for me to send them a return label because the buyer had opened a case against me. Another employee told me to report the buyer (which I did) and then wait until the case closed and file an appeal that I would most certainly win. We'll see. Honestly, I'm ready for the whole process to be over, and the buyer keeps harassing me with messages on e-bay. If I win the appeal, I'll sell on e-bay again. If not, I'm sure there are other people who will work on Bally's - probably not as cheap as me, but I'm sure there are others!

I have to wait until the 16th, then call e-bay and begin an appeal. I hope that's right. I seem to get a different answer every time I call them. If they find in my favor, my 39-40 listings will go active again...plus a couple more, maybe. I have some Bally consoles to move, I just need to get them cleaned up, recapped, and the controllers gone through. I feel sorry for the guy selling a console right now that I had a bid on. I explained the situation to him, and he understood and cancelled my bid for me. I will place the bid again, if e-bay finds in my favor. If they don't, I may swear them off for life like I did Amazon about 5 years ago. Then it will just be harder to find a Bally repair person. Assuming anyone is looking.... HA! There's just no way I'm going to do anymore business on there if this is how they treat people who get scammed. It's not worth the risk for a hobby that doesn't put food on my table. I spend and sell thousands of dollars worth on their site every year, and they'll be fine without me. I buy all my parts and tools there, including the Bally consoles I fix up. If they decide they would like to keep me as a customer - buying and selling - that's up to them. E-bay will NOT allow ANY seller to leave negative feedback on a buyer. That's a new policy from about a year ago. All the seller can do is "report a buyer" and/or block them. What he doesn't have is reading comprehension skills. I wonder if I would have actually spoken to him and told him 3 times that it didn't work that would have sunk in? It was in the listing 3 times that it didn't work, but it obviously didn't matter.

It was a PS4. Here is the user name: pacqra67

I am currently not selling on e-bay for any of you who were watching my multiple posts. I will sell items through here, if any of you are interested. I had a buyer purchase an item that had the condition listed as "for parts or not working". The title of the listing said the item was "for parts or repair". The description stated that it needed repair. It was sold as-is, no returns. The buyer who purchased the item initiated a return because the item did not work when they received it. E-bay is using my funds to refund the buyer for the full purchase price and making me pay for return shipping. As a result, I ended ALL of my listings. I apologize for any inconvenience to all who were watching any of my listings.

TV's are both LCD's. yep I tried that too. The 8 RF pins were all reflowed, as were all the pins on the data chip. I think if this were the issue, it wouldn't display correctly on the TV downstairs, but what do I know?!?!?!? Keep the suggestions coming! In the meantime, I am probably going to pack it up and ship it off for a 2nd opinion. I hope it "doesn't work" for the lucky recipient, or he may not be able to figure it out either.

Has anybody ever run into anything like this before? If so, please send me some suggestions. I hope this posts like I want it to, because it's just putting the picutres down at the bottom while I'm typing this, and not inserting them into the body of this message. I was going to list a Bally for sale. Here is a picture of it working on my downstairs TV. Now, here is a picture of it working on my UPSTAIRS TV: And unplugging ONLY the board from the PSU and RF box and cable, here is another working board on my UPSTAIRS TV: It's not the data chip! Any ideas?

The red would look super cool on an older unit with the red RESET and silver EJECT button. It would also stand out on a more common later console. Heck, I never thought about painting those letters, but I might give that a try on one. I love the gold pin striping on the keyboard and console top.

I'd love to see a picture of that if you can find it! That's VERY COOL!

I believe he did paint over the gold trim. I bought some "limestone" paint once to try to make a "faux" whitey. The paint had a rough texture, which was actually kind of cool, but after applying about 18 coats, I finally gave up. I was never happy with it, but I didn't do much prep work on it before I started. The wood grain was messed up, and the gold trim was 1/2 gone, so I was out (I think) 2 cans of fairly expensive spray paint! Still that black one looks pretty bad-@$$ to me.