Once again....it's been awhile since I've posted.  Let's get back to having fun!  Last week I purchased a non-working Roku M1000 for $15.  Roku is known for making devices for streaming music and videos from the internet to your home devices.  This item will stream music from the internet to your stereo.  Lots of radio stations from around the world now broadcast over the internet.  Very cool!  The seller listed this only...no power supply or remote control came with it.  When the Roku was delivered, the box was smashed.  I opened up the box and found the unit was jumbled pretty bad.  The endcaps of this thing are known to be pretty brittle.  Sure enough, the clips that hold them to the unit were broken. I heard something rattling when moving it around.  I emailed the seller and made mention of the problems.  I asked if I could tear it apart to see what was rattling.  If it was something major that broke off, I wanted to send it back.  He had no issues with me opening it up and checking.  Turns out one of the endcap clips had broken off and found its way into the main unit.  While I was in the guts of the Roku, I looked around to see if there was anything else noticeably burnt or broken. All looked good.  So, I put the unit back together and plugged in the jack from a power supply of my own.   I'll be darned if the thing didn't come right up.  Plugged it into the internet and it found stations.  I love it when things work out!   I think I will keep it and hook it up to my main stereo in the living room.  I just need to get a spare remote for it.  Plenty of those on ebay....

For the past few months I have been working on Donkey Kong arcade boards.  Value has really skyrocketed on Ebay so I figured I better try and capitalize on it.    I had around 7 or 8 boards that I was not able to repair from years ago.  I decided to move on to other boards.  When you get frustrated with repairs, sometimes it is just better put them away and come back to them later.  Well...later is now.  All of a sudden things clicked and I was able fix them all.  I sold them at prices ranging from $150 to $250.  KaChing!!  Now I have some Donkey Kong Jr's I will start working on.

I also had a few Cook Race arcade boards that had been sitting for years.  So, I thought I would give those a quick look see and try to fix them.  Cook Races are pretty much BurgerTime clones.  I have three of them.  Once again, things clicked and I was able to repare two of the three.  The third I was able to diagnose but need parts for the repair.  I doubt I will get a lot of money for them, but I only bought them for the fun of trying to fix them anyway.

I had a few Atari Crystal Castle boards that had been sitting around too.  Found that the issues on those seem to be memory chips going bad.  Replaced those and I now have two working boards.  I sold one on ebay to a guy that had a bad board.  He plugged mine in and said it would not come up. He sent it back to me.  I plugged it in and it fired right up without issues. The buyers original board would fire up in his cab. I built a jamma adapter for my boards to run in the cabinet I have.  I may have to find an original Crystal Castles cabinet to test my boards in.  I can't picture why my board would not work in his cabinet.

On a different note....Congratulations to Bo Pelini and the Nebraska Cornhuskers on their win over Michigan yesterday.