The Repair That Broke Me - Part 2: Rescuing a 1980s Defender

A VERY broken 1980's Williams Defender Arcade machine - Part 2. This was sent to me by a viewer called Alex, who bought it for spares or repair a couple of years ago. It has been worked on previously by someone else, and Alex said he thinks they made things worse!
Let's see how bad this is... spoiler: IT'S BAD!

I'm not an expert, but I do enjoy trying to fix things.

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Some of the tools and equipment that I use:

De-soldering station I used in this video:De-Soldering Station:
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TOMLOV 4K AF Microscope:
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Grinding pen: https://amzn.to/4aaocZq
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Rework station: I was using a 858D clone but now using an ATTEN ST-862D .

Capacitor Discharger by Dan Wilson: https://github.com/wilsondr9999/1024-...

Other Equipment:
Main Overhead camera: Sony HDR-CX450 with 3rd party remote and RODE VideoMic Pro
Other cameras: Canon G7X, iPhone 6s, Go Pro Hero Silver 7 (which repaired)
Microscopes: Amscope trinocular (clone) with FHD 48MP Camera V8
& TOMLOV TM4K-AF Max.
Bench PSUs: TTI EX4210R & TTI TSX3510P

Editing Software: DaVinci Resolve

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