Tools for repinning System 80 connectors
Use Molex card-edge pin extractor 11-03-0016 (better than the 11-01-0014). For crimping use a Molex WHT-1921 (11-01-0015), Molex 63811-1000, Amp 725 or similar hand crimper. Buy loose (not chain-strip) tin-plated phosphor bronze pins, never gold.
Systems
Related tips
- Card-edge connectors are System 80's weak point
- Molex housings and pins for the System 80 CPU connectors
- Connector parts usually needed to repin one System 80 game
- Gottlieb System 80 edge connector housings can be reused with crimp pins
- System 80 board "A" numbers
- Control board A1-J1 power connector
- Control board display connectors A1-J2 and A1-J3
- Switch matrix connectors A1-J5 and A1-J6
Source: Repairing & Upgrading Gottlieb System 80 Pinballs from 1980 to 1989, Part One, Clay Harrell (pinrepair.com)