Atari Tempest - Maintenance and A. Cleaning

Maintenance
and
Repair
All games
require
certain
maintenance to
keep
them in
good
working
order.
Clean,
properly
main-
tained
games
will
attract
players and
earn
more pro-
fits.
The most
important
maintenance
item is
running
the
self-test
every
time you
collect money
from the
coin box.
Just
looking at a
game
will not
tell you
if
the
encoder
wheel,
light-emitting-diode
switches or
leaf
switches
are
broken, or
if LEDs
have burned
out.
The
self-test
will inform you
of
any of these
possible
problems.
Second, you
should
regularly clean the
outside
of
the
game
and the
coin
mechanisms.
In
addition, you
will
need to
regularly clean the
leaf
switch
con-
tacts—
or lubricate
the
encoder
wheel:
for details
see
this
chapter.