Star Tech Journal

Resourcefullness
Ronnie Belitz
Lark Amusement
Bristol, Tennessee
PROBLEM
Sometimes, the need arises to seek solutions
to problems wherever possible. For in-
stance, when I checked my brushes on a
Sega Out-Run s/d motor the first time I
found that the brush cap was cross threaded
and because the brush holder is plastic it
broke.
Well I called Sega and was informed that the
ONLY spare parts I could get for the motor
were the brushes and that was it ... or I could
order a whole new motor from JAPAN!!! at
great cost and delay.
SOLUTION
I decided to check two local motor rebuilding
shops and one motor manufacturer. Need-
less to say, they laughed and said GOOD
LUCK when they saw the motor made in
Japan.
To make a long story short I cut a round plug
out of Plexi-glass (from Ace Hardware) with
a hole saw the same diameter as the brush
holder cap.
Then I put a worm clamp bought from Sears
around the motor to hold the Plexi plug
which held the brush intact.
It has worked like this for 18 months now
with no problem. (I couldn't tighten the
worm clamp down real tight though or the
brush would be too tight so I used electrical
tape (K-Mart) to hold the worm clamp in
place).
The moral is don't knock it 'till you've been
there or it might come back to haunt you!
Wico Trackball
Installation
Todd Erickson
Summit Amusement
St. Paul, Minnesota
SUBJECT
Trackballs are as easy to install in a game as
ajoystick. With the tremendous earnings of
both Cabal by Fabtek and Cabam Bowl by
Capcom, there will be more trackball games
earning in the future.
INSTALLATION
To make the hole for the small 2-1 / 4 inch
track ball, a Greenlee chassis punch
#5004059 is recommended. A pilot hole
must be drilled first. We also use the Green-
lee punches for our button holes.
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Wiring the T-ball requires +5 (red) and
common (black). With the wires coming out
at 7 o'clock the blue and violet are the
horizontal wires. Reversing these two wires
will reverse the direction your object moves
on the horizontal axis. The same applies for
the yellow and green wires for the vertical
axis. If the ball must be rotated 90 degrees
the vertical pair and horizontal pair must be
reversed.
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