1981 Dark Tower Board Game - Send in Your Broken Tower for Complete Restoration

Description: 🔥🔥 Revised 05-29-24 NEW standard repairs have been added 🔥🔥 Plus lots of good info. ⚔ 1981 Dark Tower Board Game Complete Tower Repair and Restoration with a 100% Guaranteed Customer Satisfaction and 1 Year Limited Lifetime Warranty! ⚔ 👉The turnaround time is about (2) weeks. The shipping time is set at (40) days from purchase. That will provide enough time for the item to arrive, rebuild, then return ship. The price includes return shipping. 🤘😍 This is a repair service eBay item. You need to send in your broken tower for this Dark Tower rebuild. Please send tracking information as soon as possible. I do not have cover for weather at my front door, so I need the tracking info to watch out for your package. 📦After you have purchased the item send to: DT Burbage, 4 Dunbar Way, Sterling, VA 20165📦 👎🤬Current pricing reflects the ever increasing inflation, new tax laws on online sales and the ever increasing eBay fees currently at 13.25%. Due to the changes in tax laws, everyone selling online will be hammered with income tax from these sales in the form of a 1099-K. This turns into a 22% (our current tax bracket) loss on each sale on top of the eBay fees plus payment to Medicare and SS fees of 15% if your not a business. Roughly, selling online will have 50% of the sale lost to taxes and fees.👎🤬 👉This eBay Dark Tower rebuild item is an all inclusive restoration process that covers a majority of the common issues in one package. The goal of this Dark Tower restoration is to provide many years of enjoyment by working perfectly and quieter on every turn with correct carousel picture alignment! 🔥🔥 NEW Repairs Have Been Added 🔥🔥 Carousel motors are replaced with a minty fresh motor. Carousel LEDs are custom aligned for each tower. There are (4) different carousels requiring custom timing adjustment. Digital Displays that arrive broken with burnt out LED segments are replaced. (Optional Super Bright Display and Bulb to LED upgrades are available.) Display Upgrades ==> https://www.ebay.com/itm/223541957890 Bulb to LED Upgrade ==> https://www.ebay.com/itm/225387121052 Keypad repairs are included which includes removing the spots from label to look new, replacing the cable if broken or torn. Keypad must arrive complete. A reproduction keypad label is available if damaged beyond repair. Carousel motor gearing system is cleaned with a custom mod for quieter operation. Tower case and front lens are cleaned and polished. (Optional reproduction front lens is available.) Battery corrosion is cleaned throughout including polishing corroded screw hardware. Battery compartment contacts are removed, cleaned and polished. Power wires and connectors are inspected for damage and replaced if needed. (This fixes glitchy power issues) Power switch is disassembled and cleaned with new switch lubricant. (Solves more glitchy power issues.) Circuit board updatesand NOS electrolytic capacitors are included. (Solves even more glitchy power issues.) Circuit board corrosion damage is repaired. Tower case and tower cap pins are replaced if broken or missing. Speaker repairs or replacement is included. Occasionally the speaker fails with a broken voice coil connection at the cone. 🔥🔥 Shipment 🔥🔥 Please pack your tower well. Use a large enough box with plenty of room to clear all sides and use padding material. There are fragile plastic pins between the tower cases and merlon tips around the Tower top. Send tracking information as soon as possible. I don't have cover for weather at the shipping and receiving dock and need to watch out for the package. After receiving the tower,an inspection will be performed to assess the condition of your Dark Tower for successful rebuild. 📦After you have purchased the item send to: DT Burbage, 4 Dunbar Way, Sterling, VA 20165📦 🔥🔥Correct Dark Tower Power On Self Test consists of🔥🔥 Installing the 2 "D" batteries in the correct direction. Moving the power switch to the On position. A "0" will be displayed in the left digit for 1 sec. followed by (2) continuously flashing dashes (--) in the digital display window. The tower is now waiting for any one of the keypad keys to be pressed to initiate Self Test. Initiate Self Test by pressing any key on the keypad. The tower display will go blank, then the carousel motor will power on and spin the picture carousel to the open slot test. Then an "88" will be displayed in the Digital Display window. This tests all (7) segments in each digit, the individual carousel light bulbs from top to bottom with an accompanying speaker beep. Self Test is complete when a flashing L1 is displayed. The tower is now ready for keypad input to select game level then the player(s) count. Select level 1-4 (L1-L4) and Players 1-4 (P1-P4) can then be selected to start a game. 🔥🔥 Common Dark Tower Failures 🔥🔥 Erratic Power On issues: This failure example is where you turn on the tower,the tower may show a number "8" in the left digit or a number "0" in the right digit. The tower will power up with erratic behavior including strange speaker sounds and a slow rotating carousel. It may or may not spin with dim lights, without even having to touch the keypad. Then, power off the tower, pause for the recommended 10 seconds, then power back on. Sometimes the tower powers up correctly, sometimes it takes a few attempts for the tower to finally complete a self test. This can also be caused by the 🔥🔥weak batteries🔥🔥 This very common power on failure is related to the early production Dark Tower circuit board versions. These early circuit boards with part numbers 7924149001, A01, A03 need important wiring and component updates for reliable operation. This problem is actually mentioned in the Dark Tower Game Instruction Manual as a workaround! This warning is listed starting in Chapter 3, Steps 1-2, Pages 4-8. This problem is solved with updates to the circuit boards. Here is the warning in the instruction booklet. IMPORTANT -- WHAT TO DO IF THE TOWER TEST FAILED If your tower did not emit the above signals in the order described, it is not functioning properly. Try the test again but be sure to wait at least 10 seconds before turning the unit back on again. ALWAYS OBEY THE FOLLOWING CAUTION -- WHEN TURNING THE TOWER OFF, WAIT AT LEAST TEN SECONDS BEFORE TURNING IT BACK ON TO AVOID MALFUNCTIONING! 🔥🔥 Download the Dark Tower Manual 🔥🔥 https://voiceofthemummy.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/milton-bradley-dark-tower-manual-1.pdf#page=6 Powers on with "0", then 2 continuously flashing dashes, press any key, display goes out, then nothing. This is the most common problem caused by a failing carousel motor. The towers powers up normally, you press any key to initiate the self test, the display goes blank and nothing else happens. The carousel does not spin and the tower does nothing else. The carousel motor needs to be cleaned or replaced. Replacing the motor is the best remedy for long term reliability. The motor magnets have weakened over time and the brush contacts have oxidized. These motor issues won't allow the carousel motor to spin on self test. The replacement motors are new and extremely reliable and operate very quietly in comparison. Cleaning the original motors can be performed, but will fail again soon after the tower has been sitting unused for a while. Periodically turning on your tower and spinning the carousel in L4 learn mode - Inventory will help keep the motor magnets energized. Another failure example: The Tower powers on with "0" then 2 flashing dashes, keypress, display continues to flash dashes, nothing else happens: This failure example is a normal power on, you press any key on the keypad, the display still shows dashes and nothing else happens. That means some or all keypad contacts are failing. It needs to be cleaned or repaired as a keypad wire trace may be broken disabling one or more keypad buttons. This is now included in the DT rebuild. Here is the Keypad Repair item by itself: http://www.ebay.com/itm/223811278905 Another problem is: Tower powers off or resets in the middle of a game.This is a very frustrating problem where the tower powers off or resets in the middle of a game! Your playing a game for however long and the tower is bumped and the tower has reset and displays flashing dashes or just dimly flashing lights and the carousel slowly spins or just powers off. This symptom can also be caused by weak batteries. Check that first. Most of the time, this is caused by many known issues with a momentary power interruption to the circuit board. This causes the game processor to reset and lose the game progress. Sometimes, the power interruption is too fast where the processor powers on in an unknown state. The bulbs lights can flash dimly and maybe the carousel spins or the tower just resets. A full power off, pause then a power on may result in a normal power on. This problem can be one of many known issues by itself or combined. The battery contacts may have raised oxidation bumps that loses contact with the batteries. These are hard to see. Small black spots. Next are the soldered wires to the battery contacts. These are old style wire that are brittle if moved back and forth a few times. Oxidation can corrode the black wire visible from the side of the red power connector with black staining and maybe some green oxidation. Next on the list is the power switch. These were contaminated with excess solder flux which can cause intermittent power issues. You can power on the tower, wiggle the switch side to side and can see it power glitch. Then there is the white male connector on the circuit board. This can develop green oxidation from past battery corrosion issues which causes power issues. Any of the symptoms by itself or together can cause these weird power problems. One of the main reasons each tower is completely disassembled, inspected and everything is rebuild. 😉🤙 🔥🔥 The Rebuild Details 🔥🔥 👉New Carousel Motors: These are much quieter and spin the carousel pictures slightly faster. That will be a huge bonus at speeding up your game on every players turn. I have not had any long term success with cleaning the original motors. Even after a thorough cleaning, these old motors aren't guaranteed to be reliable. The original motors seem to fail or run slowly after the Dark Tower game has been put away in storage for a while. The motor magnets have weakened over time and the brush contacts have oxidized. 👉Carousel Picture Cell Alignment: The carousel timing LEDs are custom adjusted on each tower. Each tower timing and picture alignment is completely different. There are (4) different picture carousel versions issued in these towers. (3) of these picture carousels have timing changes to the black slotted ring at the top of the carousel. Units with circuit board updates or new motor replacement will need these alignment LEDs to be custom installed and adjusted for each tower. 👉Why do some Dark Towers have very dim displays and bulbs: The later version towers with carousels picture prints have a slightly darker(less translucent) front lens which make the lighted pictures appear dimmer. There is a picture carousel bulb to LED upgrade available that is much brighter and doesn't dim as the batteries deplete. Note also: the picture bulbs dim quickly as the batteries become used. Another note about dim pictures: Brand new fresh batteries at 1.617V will have the brightest picture bulb illumination and the carousel pictures align slightly to the right. As the batteries weaken, the pictures appear dimmer and the alignment drifts slightly to the left. The towers are tested and aligned at the point the batteries have the majority of their battery life. This will keep the pictures alignment centered. This voltage is roughly around 1.57V at that point. 👉Circuit Board Updates: Updates needed for the earlier released circuit boards are included. The Dark Tower circuit boards were issued in (8) different versions throughout production. With that, they can have a wide range of age, revision and battery corrosion related problems. Version part numbers are on the top back of the circuit board as: 7924149001, A01, A03, B03, D01, D02, E01, E02. The electrolytic capacitors are also being replaced with NOS as part of the service. Earlier version circuit boards needing updates have a known erratic power on problem mentioned in Dark Tower Instruction Booklet. This problem is solved with these updates. 👉NEW REPAIR ITEM - Digital Display Replacement or Upgrade: If your display is missing one of the lines(segments), the display will be replaced with an original. Broken display must be present for replacement. 👉OPTIONAL - Super Bright Display Upgrade is available. New display upgrades are very bright and can be seen in a bright room with no problem. The brighter displays are available in original size .36" or larger .56". The eBay item with pictures of the display size comparison can be seen here. http://www.ebay.com/itm/223541957890 👉 OPTIONAL - Carousel Light Bulb LED Upgrade: Another optional upgrade are the (3) carousel light bulbs to LED. The LEDs are very bright and do not dim as the batteries weaken. This upgrade is very helpful on the later issued Dark Towers that have slightly darker front lens and darker print on the picture carousel. This is a common problem on the overseas units in Germany and the UK as these are all the later DT units. The original incandescent light bulbs appear much dimmer in these units. Upgrading to the LEDs solves this issue. Another issue with the original bulbs are dimming as the new batteries become weaker. This is noticeable when the batteries are new and dim quickly as the batteries drain. The LED bulb upgrade stays the same brightness as the batteries become weaker. 👉 NEW REPAIR ITEM - Keypad Repairs: Keypad repairs are now included. The keypads are failing from oxidation to the conductive areas or have battery corrosion damage. Your keypad may need to be disassembled and cleaned or if needed, new foil traces will be added to restore functionality. The keypads are reassembled and fully tested for reliability. Refoiled keypad presses will respond from a light touch in key presses. No more having to dig in a fingernail to press a key. This restoration reuses all original parts. This is not a keypad replacement with other keypad parts off eBay. The keypad label is restored removing the visible spots as part of the rebuild. Look at the 2nd picture to see the difference in the before and after restoration. You must have a keypad installed with useable label. Reproduction keypad labels are available. 👉OPTIONAL - Reproduction Front Lens: A custom reproduction part is available for your Dark Tower if yours is missing the front lens at an additional cost. This front lens part uses the same bottom slot in the case and pin at the top like the the original lens does. Each front lens part is hand made using the same smoked lexan plastic that is custom bent to fit the curve in the front and custom paint masked to replicate the viewing area. 👉Tower Case, Top Cap Pins and Castle Top Merlons: are repaired when needed. These 4 pins keeps the outer case in place so the carousel doesn't rub against it. This also keeps the front lens in place so it stops falling off. The Tower cap pins are also replaced when needed. Any of the small square Castle Merlons on the top are replaced if missing. Having missing Dark Tower merlons will increase the crenel areas and make it much more dangerous for your defenders. This will increase the enemy siege penetration on your tower. 🤘😂 👉NEW REPAIR ITEM - Dark Tower Speaker repairs or replacement: are included. Occasionally speaker have broken voice coil connection and can be repaired. If it can't be repaired it will be replaced with a Dark Tower speaker replacement. 👉Corrosion Damage from Leaking Batteries: Most of these towers were damaged by batteries that were left installed and powered on. With power left on, the battery power was drained and then leaked inside. The batteries in the 80's were well known for leaking. The heavy potassium hydroxide and related gases from these leaky batteries permeated inside the tower case and caused many types of damage to the Dark Tower components. Any metal components or wire can be damaged. The keypad label can also be damaged with discoloration of the label button print(red color is dissolved) or completely destroyed with the print bubbling up altogether. 👉NEW REPAIR ITEM - PCB Repairs: These damaging gases can destroy the PCB traces as well. This will bubble up the green coating and oxidize the copper metal underneath. These bubbled up dark spots can be seen behind the green PCB masking and are no longer making any connection at those locations. It hard to see until you scratch away the green coating and clean the area. The corrosion has dissolved the metal to the PCB foils underneath causing circuit failures. Repairs to damaged PCB circuit boards are now included. 👉NEW REPAIR ITEM - Board Connectors: The white power/speaker/motor and/or the black keypad flexible cable circuit board connectors are replaced if damaged by corrosion. 👉Battery Contacts Corrosion: The battery contacts are removed for reconditioning by cleaning and polishing. If the contacts are missing or the base metal of the battery contacts are too damaged(pitted), they are replaced with custom stainless steel contacts at additional cost. The orange corrosion is cleaned up as bestest as possible inside the battery compartment. Usually if the contacts are heavily corroded the power wires and connector will be replaced. 👉NEW REPAIR ITEM - Battery Compartment Power Cables and Connectors: are removed, inspected, recrimped, cleaned and re-tinned or replaced where needed. These may need to be replaced in leaky battery corroded towers. The white power/speaker/motor connector with wires will be replaced if needed. The black power wire is commonly corroded throughout the wire evident by stripping back the wire and exposing the green and black oxidation. This oxidation will travel up the wire to the power connector and oxidize these contacts in the red connector. 👉The Battery Compartment Power Switches: are always disassembled and cleaned for reliable operation. New switch lubricant is added. The switch contacts are another factor of glitchy power problems from leaky battery oxidation and/or excess factory solder flux hardening causing failures. A symptom is when playing a game and you bump the tower, it resets the game or turns off. In some cases you can wiggle the power switch in the "ON" position and the power will glitch on and off. 👉 Any questions, please ask. Thanks for looking. 😁🤙 View more great items

Price: 319.99 USD

Location: Sterling, Virginia

End Time: 2024-10-27T21:47:53.000Z

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