Continuing the preparations to turn the Kiss back on, some care had to be given to the electronic boards, starting with power and rectifier.

Pinrepair has proven very useful again, with a detailed section on the topic.

I've conducted two operations on the Whoopee lately:

First, I've replaced the broken backbox female connector for which I received replacement thanks to a very nice eBay seller (7059didier). It went relatively smoothly; old solder melts nicely at a relatively low temperature, so despite the fact there there was a lot of solder on each wire, removing them was easy:

I'm waiting to get some rosin flux before soldering back the wires to the new connector, which, as a used part, already has some solder on it.

The past 3 days have been spent removing all the previous broken by design hacks and fixing things, and running tests to identify further issues. There were surprises, good, and bad :-P

• The hologram's motor works intermittently, only when fiddling with the triac board's fuse. Looks like a dry solder, or maybe a damaged Triac board, likely considering the next item...

I've done a few things with the Whoopee now:

More purchases
First, after transporting it from the warehouse to my home a couple weeks after the purchase, I bought the machine's flyer on eBay, as well as complete sets of rubbers, light bulbs (#47, I don't want the plastics to suffer anymore), a used shooter rod, 5 bumper scoring NC switches (many thanks to the guys at PinballHQ for helping me identifying them; they were all broken, and I wanted to have spare), standard 1 1/16" balls, and backglass connectors (which were broken too, as you can see on the pictures).