Just picked up a non-working Blackout for $200. No Backglass (broken glass in backbox, probably smashed) but the playfield looks like very low use, not much "dust" or darkness on the underside, I would guess indicating it is a low hours machine. I actually bought it thinking it would make a good donor backbox for my FirePower, but now I'm thinking it simply needs to be repaired. It appears to be quite complete, and perhaps not far from working.
It had ridiculous long (tall) legs on it which put the flippers at about elbow level (I'm about 5'11") and it seemed just too leggy, will be seeking the proper length legs. I like to hunch and lean a little on my machines. Maybe the last owner was some tall Dutch woman from Holland MI (picked it up in Holland MI) Lol. Have you ever been to Holland MI? TALL women.

The PF lights... mostly and the displays light up, but no sound, and no boot sequence.

Will be looking for a decent backglass too. if nothing else, tons of Williams parts for $200. I think it's a candidate for restoration as the playfield looks very low mileage actually.
I don't think it has the WOW factor as Firepower, but looks like a fun drop target game. Seems reviews are very binary on it. Like it or leave it.

Andy

Of course we've met John,
Got my Strikes and Spares and Firepower from you.
Got both at least kind of working i spend hours playing Strikes and Spares (needed some board resurrection), it's a great relaxing game.
I'm still bottom feeding and I see your Star Trek for sale but just cant pull the trigger yet. Gotta get all these others going. Going to do a full cabinet, backbox stencil etc on my Paragon. Really excited to get it going.

It appears to be a printed mylar sheet, is this generally called a translite? I'm not famailiar with translite.
I could get a sheet of glass, or a blank backglass with lift rail.

The sheet seems somewhat dull compared to a real painted backglass, but it's certainly better than looking at the raw machine.

Thanks
I haven't had time to run it through any tests yet, possibly this weekend I'll get to it.
It seems like all the displays worked with all digits, but not sure how it gets there. I fortunately have an almost 100% working Firepower, and I think I can do some parts swapping (boards) to troubleshoot what component may have problems. I'll start with the batteries and checking out the main MPU for obvious component problems.
I don't like doing the board swap thing because it seems the more you mess with this old stuff, handling it "one more time" finishes off a pin or something like that. I'll do the obvious checks too like header pins that need to be reflowed etc, as that is pretty easy, I think I saw just a couple wire hacks in the backbox too, so will investigate why those might be there.

Thanks for all the tips everyone. You pretty much have talked me off the cliff of "breaking it" into sub-parts just to have a better backbox for Firepower. It looks like it could be a fun game.