I May be posting this in the wrong spot, I wasn't sure where to ask.

I bought a Black Hole, After getting it home and looking at it? It needs way too much. All the circuit boards are gone, the upper Play field is gone, I have 3 other projects going and probably won't ever get to this one. It was for sale and I had a DA attack and had to have it, that day, right NOW!! I'm sure some of you know what that's like!

I'm fairly new to pinball, I've been kind of playing around for about a year or so off and on so I have no clue what's rare or hard to find. So,,, My question is.......Is this cabinet a harder to find cabinet? Or are they a dime a dozen?

The reason I want to know, I have a High speed that the cabinet is just wasted on one side, I thought if the Black Hole cabinet isn't all that hard to find, I'd cut it apart to fix the other cabinet. I hate to do it, The black hole is really nice, It would be perfect for a resto, not in mint shape, but still nice and sharp corners, good and solid, etc... I just don't have the room or money to buy all the stuff it needs with the 3 other projects I have going.

I just wanted some opinions before I hack this thing up! I hate to do it anyhow, but would hate to find out later that it was a harder to find cabinet! I Think Haunted House is the same cabinet too?

Thanks for any thoughts or input.....

And if anyone local wants to trade me something for it? PM me! I hate to chop this cabinet if someone could use it! My location doesn't show up for some reason I can't get it to stay in there, I'm in Dallas, GA.

No, I knew it was missing the boards and the upper play field when I bought it......At the time I thought I would fix it up, after getting them home and thinking about it? I have 3 other projects and I'll probably never get to this one. I bought 2 project machines from the same person(DE Simpsons and the Black Hole). I had to take them both for one price. I was after the Simpsons project which needs a lot too, missing back glass, needs all the circuit boards, display, pretty much everything that goes in the back box. The wife and I played Simpsons when we were younger at a local pizza shop, a lot!! So, we wanted to redo that one over the next couple of years for our son. We also want to find a Turtles. She's making me keep the Pac man too.

Since then, I've traded for a Pac man project too, so the Black Hole is getting pushed to the end of the line, It just needs too much. It looks like it would be a cool game though...I'd rather fix the others first, they are more complete.

I have the lower PF, which is almost mint! Just a couple small chips here and there, but other than that it is almost perfect! The back glass is there, the inner glass does have some flaking, but it looks like it's in spots that wouldn't be noticed if repaired. It does have the disk, the motor has stripped gears though. I was actually thinking about possibly making a clock , a lighted wall hanging sign, or something out of it. The displays are all there, I'm not sure how to bench test those yet...

Yes, I paid too much. But I really wanted the Simpsons. If you saw it then you know that it's in decent shape.Ohh, And it is a LOT cleaner now! Those things were filthy! The lower cabinet is stripped. I took everything off of it.

Your mixed up ...The Simpsons was hand painted down one side and the back box.. They did a real bad job. The Black Hole just has some writing on it in pen or something in a small area. I didn't scrub at it too much to see if it would come off. I just went over them real quick to clean them up, so my hands wouldn't get dirty every time I touched them. PM sent...

I just reread your post, maybe you were talking about the Simpsons cabinet. Maybe I'm the one that's mixed up.

Eventually I'll look for boards that need work. For the Simpsons. I like messing around with that kind of stuff. I'd be happy just finding non working boards for now. But, That's a distant project for right now.

I agree! I would much rather see someone that can use it, with it. I know the cabinets are different. Plywood is 50 bucks a sheet. so, I thought if the cabinet wasn't hard to find or no interest out there, I could cut the side down to change the side on the high speed. Hopefully, Racing Pin can use it. I'd rather do that, than to chop a good solid cabinet. I thought I was going to save it, but it won't fit in the garage loft for storage. It's too wide to fit the pull down stairs.

Yes, the williams cabinet, was destroyed, the bottom was tore out in the coin box area, then the side was half tore off, so they tried to patch it with sheet metal and bondo. About a 2 foot section. It was just a really poor repair job. I'm going to cut the hole square, drill.glue, and peg it, then add a section of plywood back in there. so that it at least won't look like it was all patched up, unless you really look on the inside. Then the leg will have some real support too, other than bondo and sheet metal. it was moving all around.

Sure no problem! I'll even take trades on stuff I may need if you have parts laying around for other machines. PM sent...

Yes, it's still sitting in the corner of my garage. I never did anything with it. I still haven't even started on repairing the High Speed cabinet yet either. That whole project was shoved to the side for now.