Want to fix: Heavy Sixer

[boek]

I have a busted heavy sixer. The slot where you put the game in has been pushed down, and the channel select switch is broken. I'm looking for someone to fix it for cheap.

[BigO]

I have a busted heavy sixer. The slot where you put the game in has been pushed down, and the channel select switch is broken. I'm looking for someone to fix it for cheap.

 

The channel select switch is probably easy enough to find a replacement or suitable substitute for.

 

I'm not sure how that slot-pushed-down thing could happen without seriously busting up something. If I recall correctly, that cart slot/socket is mounted directly to the main board which is supported from the bottom side. Now I'm curious and will have to go pop open one of my heavy sixers...I probably am not recalling correctly.

[boek]

I have a busted heavy sixer. The slot where you put the game in has been pushed down, and the channel select switch is broken. I'm looking for someone to fix it for cheap.

 

The channel select switch is probably easy enough to find a replacement or suitable substitute for.

 

I'm not sure how that slot-pushed-down thing could happen without seriously busting up something. If I recall correctly, that cart slot/socket is mounted directly to the main board which is supported from the bottom side. Now I'm curious and will have to go pop open one of my heavy sixers...I probably am not recalling correctly.

 

Here's a pic of the slot. Sorry about the dust! Maybe there's nothing wrong with it, and I'm just putting the game in wrong, and that's why my games are getting stuck in there.

[ninermaniac]

I have a busted heavy sixer. The slot where you put the game in has been pushed down, and the channel select switch is broken. I'm looking for someone to fix it for cheap.

 

The channel select switch is probably easy enough to find a replacement or suitable substitute for.

 

I'm not sure how that slot-pushed-down thing could happen without seriously busting up something. If I recall correctly, that cart slot/socket is mounted directly to the main board which is supported from the bottom side. Now I'm curious and will have to go pop open one of my heavy sixers...I probably am not recalling correctly.

 

Here's a pic of the slot. Sorry about the dust! Maybe there's nothing wrong with it, and I'm just putting the game in wrong, and that's why my games are getting stuck in there.

 

Just do one thing and it'll tell me if I can in fact help you. You actually have a light sixer which really doesn't have a whole lot of differences inside as a heavy. Just basically the ribbon cable that connects the main board to the top board and a few slight differences in the resistors in some. Get a very thin emory board, old t-shirt, and some rubbing alcohol. Take the t-shirt and then put a little alcohol on the t-shirt and set it over the thin slot where the cart goes in. Push the emory board in the slot while pushing the t-shirt with alcohol on it in the slot and gently work your way side to side. This will clean the slot and wont ruin the contacts inside as long as the emory board itself does not make contact with the contacts inside the slot. That's what the t-shirt is for inside the slot. If this doesn't work then it could be the RF cable inside, the modulator or the main board could possibly just be bad. I can help but try cleaning inside the slot first and see if that helps. ALSO, the reason the cart might be fitting to tightly is because someone has already opened it up and hasn't aligned the slot correctly with the case . That will make a very tight fit. It's an easy fix if you just open it up by unscrewing the screws on the bottom and realign the slot with the case slot. The slot should be centered in the case with no metal showing from looking at it from the outside. Let me know if the alcohol t-shirt and emory board works.

[A.J. Franzman]

In six-switchers, it's fairly common for people without experience or sufficiently developed mechanical skills to reassemble the mainboard into the shielding incorrectly, which is what I believe you're trying to show has happened to this console. (The plastic inner portion of the cart port is too far down/forward in the opening of the metal shielding.) To fix it you only have to disassemble the console all the way down to separating the circuit boards from the shielding, then put it back together the right way.

Edited May 25, 2008 by A.J. Franzman

[boek]

I ended up fixing the tight cart slot problem, but I now have another one. The cord coming out of the back is all stripped and exposed. Maybe this one will just be a display..

[mimo]

I ended up fixing the tight cart slot problem, but I now have another one. The cord coming out of the back is all stripped and exposed. Maybe this one will just be a display..

Fit a new cord

[Waterborn]

I have several sixers (one heavy) that I am offering up for spare parts. All but one works, but each has some issues (broken switches, cracked case, etc). check them out in my post on the Market place here:

 

http://www.atariage.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=125742

 

I would be willing to work something in trade, as these are all curerntly just taking up space. Let me know if you are interested.