how do I put my cartridge back together?

xucaen · September 28, 2005

Hi, Just purchases some carts on ebay, one of them Space Invaders. Unfortunately there was something wrong with it. The cart would not go into the VCS! And when I looked there seemed to be a paperclip jammed in with the PCB board. I took the cart apart and it turns out it was the spring that had come off somehow and got jammed. Probably the reason it was being sold but I can't be sure of that.... Well anyways, I can figure out most of how to put the cart back together, but I don't see any place for the spring to go. Maybe something else snapped off is missing? I did a search on google for "atari put cartridge together" and "atari 2600 cartridge" but didn't find anything I could use. I tried searching the user forums here but it would not let me do a search. (they must be cracking down on excessive bandwidth usage)

So, can any one point me to some info about how to assemble the cart or at least how to attach the spring? I've attached some pictures of my cart in case something is missing or broken. I've never seen the inside of a cart before. pretty neet.

at any rate Space Invaders just got a little more rare.

Edited September 28, 2005 by xucaen

vdub_bobby · September 28, 2005

Hi, Just purchases some carts on ebay, one of them Space Invaders. Unfortunately there was something wrong with it. The cart would not go into the VCS! And when I looked there seemed to be a paperclip jammed in with the PCB board. I took the cart apart and it turns out it was the spring that had come off somehow and got jammed. Probably the reason it was being sold but I can't be sure of that.... Well anyways, I can figure out most of how to put the cart back together, but I don't see any place for the spring to go. Maybe something else snapped off is missing? I did a search on google for "atari put cartridge together" and "atari 2600 cartridge" but didn't find anything I could use. I tried searching the user forums here but it would not let me do a search. (they must be cracking down on excessive bandwidth usage)
So, can any one point me to some info about how to assemble the cart or at least how to attach the spring? I've attached some pictures of my cart in case something is missing or broken. I've never seen the inside of a cart before. pretty neet.

at any rate Space Invaders just got a little more rare.

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Probably get more/better responses if you post this in the hardware forum. Or the 2600 forum. This really isn't the place for this.

And, sorry, I don't know the answer.