Not a great deal at $500. Put pretty good considering condition of back glass and playfield, and it worked. Have a few minor issues like a ghost ball kicking out at the and of a game. And the person who put stick on pop protectors on without doing paint touch up first. But happy to join center pop club.
image (resized).jpgimage (resized).jpgQuoted from DCRand:Not a great deal at $500.
Yeah - a little too $$ to be considered an LEP buy, but prices are creeping up & it worked.
I prefer the derelict, neglected beaters as a starting point. - So satisfying to get them running.
I keep trying to be a LEP man but after buying them dirt cheap or getting them for free I always end up breaking the rules and making them pretty 
Quoted from mrm_4:I keep trying to be a LEP man but after buying them dirt cheap or getting them for free I always end up breaking the rules and making them pretty
That is what I do most of the time. Buy low price derelicts and make the pretty and working. Think really that is what this thread is all about. It isn't how they look and play when you are finished with them, it is how little you pay and how they look and play when you buy them.
Quoted from DCRand:Not a great deal at $500. Put pretty good considering condition of back glass and playfield, and it worked. Have a few minor issues like a ghost ball kicking out at the and of a game. And the person who put stick on pop protectors on without doing paint touch up first. But happy to join center pop club.
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Cool! I liked my Fan-Tas_tic, but you can't keep them all....
Not only my first middle pop game, but the first time I ever rebuilt pop bumpers. The "middle" one between the flippers was so weak it barely did anything, so I bit the bullet and followed Steve Kulpa's excellent pop rebuild guide, and that bumper would slam that ball in a circle all the way around and back out the top of the other side - i couldnt WAIT to rebuild the other 3! lol
This time got two for $500. Double Barrel with decent backglass and pf. But terrible cabinet. And Stardust with interesting repairs on backglass but ok overall.
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Nice. Great graphics on that Double bbl playfield, & easy to duplicate paint scheme on the cab. Good score!
Time to get this thread some life. Still deals to be made. I’ve missed more than I’ve got. Currently working on my $400 LEP Fireball Classic. It’s all there luckily. Ordered $100 in parts. It’ll never be pretty but it should play just fine. Previous owner(s) hacked up some wiring, pulled the mylar, removed plastic decals and it appears repainted then removed the paint on the playfield. It’ll be a player and that’s okay by me.
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Sad it got to that point.
Just picked up one last week and still going through it, fun game.
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I repaired the MPU, installed NVRAM, replaced one borked display, new caps on the solenoid board, installed leds, added resistors to the lamp drivers, touched up the playfield and painted the legs.
63620d91a32e299ddeeb3fe720fdfe8b6ad175a4 (resized).jpgBeen awhile since I've posted a LEP buy. They were described as sitting in a basement, not plugged in for years, and 'should work' but might need a little tuning. Dear god they're beautiful. And $60 each.
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Finally a real LEP buy for the short green.
With all of the postings boasting of $350~450 "LEP" buys, I was wondering if the great deals had all dried up.
Congrats!
Got a free VGC Jungle Princess and a free soda machine from the new owners of a former KOA’s recroom back in the day. Grinned all the way home!
Quoted from steve-o:Got a free VGC Jungle Princess and a free soda machine from the new owners of a former KOA’s recroom back in the day. Grinned all the way home!
Free is of course the the holy grail of the LEP man. does not happen often, but when it does it's glorious.
Quoted from dasvis:Free is of course the the holy grail of the LEP man. does not happen often, but when it does it's glorious.
No free yet, but I have given one away.
Coworker with 3 nonworking pinball games. Basement had flooded but hadn’t gotten up to the cabinets. She just wanted them gone for 3k. Restored all three. Sold the police force and Addams. Still have the cyclone after restoring and playfield swapping it. Best deal I’ll ever come across.
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Wow, just wow
Hadn’t seen any recent LEPs so here you go 9 miles from my house. Had to give it a good whip down. I think it’s going to clean up nice.
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My first acquisition. Also featured on a sidewalk in Goodfellas.
Congrats
Quoted from dasvis:Always liked the graphics on that pin.
How much green did you part with for it?
$350, I think thats well within LEP range. It will need a MPU but I’m okay with that.
Quoted from punkin:That ninja's leg is disappearing.
That’s the ghost of the house. If you ignore it usually there’s no issues.
Apologies for paying the attention. Hope any small issues that come of it aren't a bother.
Better off having a kid in a white dress than a fucking ninja but. once had a Lebanese girlfriend i was sure was gunna kill me in my sleep. Fucking ninja would do it just for practice.
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Awesome find!
Quoted from mrm_4:Twist my arm at $250
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Fun game
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you win!
Quoted from mrm_4:Twist my arm at $250
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Great buy, love my Space Mission. And yes I paid more for it, although it was in great shape.
BTW: Nice you have the blue pop caps. Mine had the white, which would compete for the ugliest pop caps in pinball. Changed to transparent red, look great.
Quoted from DCRand:Great buy, love my Space Mission. And yes I paid more for it, although it was in great shape.
BTW: Nice you have the blue pop caps. Mine had the white, which would compete for the ugliest pop caps in pinball. Changed to transparent red, look great.
Got my Space Mission for $400 just on lucky timing. It also was in great shape. I alternate between the Yellow pop bumper caps I bought and the blue that it came with and I like both.
Not sure if it was you or not but someone posted a pic of theirs a couple of years ago with the transparent red caps and it looked sweet.
Quoted from Sea_Wolf:Got my Space Mission for $400 just on lucky timing. It also was in great shape. I alternate between the Yellow pop bumper caps I bought and the blue that it came with and I like both.
Not sure if it was you or not but someone posted a pic of theirs a couple of years ago with the transparent red caps and it looked sweet.
Yep that was probably me.
Well, in that case, I’ll post this beautiful Old Chicago picked up out of a teacher's garage for $600. Not strictly a LEP, except it’s in such nice condition. And only an hour away. Approx 38,000 clicks on the counter.
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I’m searching for one of those! Congratulations!
Quoted from DanMarino:I’m searching for one of those! Congratulations!
Here’s one that’s in fair shape with a nice backglass. It’s a good ways away from you and obviously you’d have to get stencils for the cabinet repaint but it looks like the base coat is already there, or really close to it.
Most Old Chicago’s you see have really faded colors on the cabinet and are in need of a repaint anyway.
Quoted from Sea_Wolf:Here’s one that’s in fair shape with a nice backglass. It’s a good ways away from you and obviously you’d have to get stencils for the cabinet repaint but it looks like the base coat is already there, or really close to it.
Most Old Chicago’s you see have really faded colors on the cabinet and are in need of a repaint anyway.
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You might get lucky and it’s acrylic paint. In that case you can remove it without hurting the original paint.
Quoted from bluespin:You might get lucky and it’s acrylic paint. In that case you can remove it without hurting the original paint.
I bought a Wizard last year and I didnt get that lucky. The cabinet had an oil based dark brown gel stain on it to make it look like furniture lol.
I think that off white that’s on this Old Chicago is close to the original base coat color and would work for a stencil repaint from pictures I saw on IPDB. Could be wrong not seeing it in person.
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