How To Repair an Arcade Kiddie Ride - Coin Operated Electric Motor Not Working

ladies and gentlemen this is Joe's classic video games back with another cool arcade game repair video for you today we are working on this Kitty ride it's this sweet little motorcycle that looks just like the one in Sega hang on but it doesn't work so these things are pretty simple so we're going to uh see if we can fix it and get it working again so what it's doing is they're all kind of very similar this is an older one so it has a really uh simple uh internal setup so basically the coin mech's missing but you drop a quarter through it would fall through and hit this switch and that would start this timer which would move this little bar around and when it gets to a certain spot it closes this switch uh which makes it so this goes around it closes this switch after a certain amount of time which which turns off the ride so it's not doing anything right now and the reason is because this breaker has flipped so if you push this circuit breaker in it'll try to do its thing for a little while the motor underneath is humming if you look very close the timer right here is actually turning but eventually it trips the circuit breaker again so there's something going on with the motor the motor's never actually making the thing move so it's either jammed or U we think there's a capacitor maybe a start capacitor on the side of the motor that might be messed up so unfortunately to get to it you have to take this top off so we're going to take this U fiberglass piece off and so that we can get underneath it and just look at the frame and the motor and everything will be exposed once we can get the frame and everything moving then we can just Bolt the fiberglass back on so um you can you can reach under it too and get to some of it but there's not enough room to really mess with the motor so we're going to pop that off and then we'll be at the motor and we'll be able to see everything that's going on so I'll show you what it looks like with it popped off so we took the bolts loose it just had four bolts that were holding it a place two on the back and two on the front and we're down to the frame and it's real simple we had we also had to take this loose this is the sound box it was on the side so power comes in it runs up the box if that switch is on it sends power to the motor which also sends power to the it's just daisy chain together to the sound box there's a soundboard in there that makes it do things but whenever you turn it on the thing just hums so it could just be um that it's jammed or it could be on the side here I think this is a capacitor it's like a start capacitor little lay down we'll see if we can what we can see on it here capacitor start SE flange US Electric Motors division of Emerson Electric company Milford Connecticut blah blah blah blah blah okay so I'm going to take this off and look at it I think that might be the capacitor maybe not but we'll see what's going on with that and then it may just be that the thing is jammed that it just needs some oil and to be knocked out of uh being stuck so we'll see I'll come back whenever we figure something okay so we were able to get it to go but it's still doing the same thing whenever you start it uh it won't start but if you beat on the the uh the boss up here where it's moving if you beat on that to get it going a little bit it'll start up so I I think it's this capacitor that I think's under here because if it I think the way these work is that there's enough power to run it but there's not enough power to start it so they use the cap to give it enough juice to start it uh but since we've got problems with the cap it's not going to start so I'm going to take this cover off and see what's under there okay we have found our cap so it is an aerovox maler made in USA 189 to 227 MFD 110 volt AC blah blah blah blah blah 60 HZ blah blah blah blah blah I wonder if that is the date code 8742 which would be the 42nd week of 1987 could be could be so we're going to try to find another one of these and I think that'll fix our problem they probably still make stuff like that I know they still make caps I just don't know if they make that exact one where we can just pop it right back in our little case and be all happy so the other thing that we've got going on is we have this sound board here so the way it works is it gets 120 volts uh from whenever the motor turns on it's just all pigtailed together when it sends the power to the motor it also sends the power to this and then this board creates sound so I need to see if we can figure out um what's going on with it or if it could be repaired or what so I think what I'm going to try to do with it is take it off the machine and then I can take it over to the bench and just give it 120 volts and see if I can get it to work um and we can check and see if the speaker's good and all that stuff okay folks so we're looking at this board and the very first thing to check is the speaker and the speaker's bad so basically to check a speaker you check the ohms between the two connections and it's harder to do with one hand basically we got nothing it's supposed to be a u says right on the back of it that it's supposed to be an 8 ohm and it is not an 8 ohm it's a nothing oh so the speaker is not connected so we're going to try to put a new speaker in it or just quickly hook one up and see if that gets us any sound all right so we put a new speaker on it and we cleaned up the um pot a little bit so you can turn the volume up and down and it just plays a motorcycle sound the whole time but that's what you want so we'll put the new speaker in to replace the old speaker uh we cleaned the two Ry chips too they were pretty dirty looking but it looks like everything's cool so it's just going to do that until it's uh the power turns off going to the motor it'll turn off going to that too and that's that so we'll put all this back together okay so here's the old one and here's the new one that the mailman just brought us exact same size same hookups simple enough so we'll swap that in see if that takes care of our problem okay folks the capacitor did not fix anything same exact problem so I took it finally took the back off and there's a contact in here that whenever it's in the start position it's like that and so that contact is connected see if you can see it down under there let's see there you go now you can see it see the two little contacts so whenever it's in this off position it's connected that's what connects the capacitor to everything as soon as it starts the centrifugal force pushes this thing back like so that shouldn't stick like that so I need to work on that too it pushes it back like so which makes that open up which means that this is no longer on start so if sticks like that too it'll do the same problem so we need to uh oil that and get it where it moves real good like it's supposed to and there's just some Springs and stuff in there that make it do what it does so I'll uh I'll oil that and mess with a little bit and get it where it uh where it does its thing right and then we'll put it all back together and we'll test it out again okay folks so the problem was I noticed that spring was broke there on the top and so so with the spring fixed and back in there that is pushing out like it should which means that contact is going to work like it should so that was probably the whole problem the spring was broke so we've got it doing its thing now I'm going to put it all back together and we'll test it out again okay so we've got it all put back together um that's our sound box down there that we redid we'll go ahead and hit the coin like we put a quarter in it plays a little warning noise whenever it first starts that's kind of funny so I think we're good to go now so you can see that little this is just like an old school timer and there's this little wheel that turns around that does the that handles the time and eventually it gets around to where there's a little hip in the wheel and whenever it does this switch pops out and that kills the power very cool all right so now we just got to uh clean it up a little bit paint it up a little bit put the seat back on it the actual motorcycle and uh we'll be good to go so I'll film it whenever we get it all back all all ready to go so we have put it all back together got everything looking good put some nice shiny black paint on a lot of it got it looking pretty decent a little bit of Nix on the red there but they don't have to be perfect these things are just fiberglass so you can actually spray paint them and do whatever you need to do but we got it all back together and I've been informed that it's ready to go but I haven't tested it yet so we're going to drop a quarter in it and see what we get hold on hold on [Music] people man that thing's cool wonder what the weight limit is on one of these [Applause] [Music] I like it so there you go folks that's how you can fix yours if you uh get one that's not working I think that capacitor was probably fine but the thing was cheap it's like a $6 part so we put a new capacitor on it we uh clean the contact on the motor fix that broken spring which was probably the whole problem but the contact could have been a problem too so now the thing should be good to go for a long long time so leave your comments below if you've worked on one of these and uh subscribe to us here and we'll see you on the next video