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Cost of Building 90's Pins vs Buying

By wolfemaaan

5 years ago


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“Cost of Building 90's Pins vs Buying”

  • Buy a finished machine for $10K 9 votes
    29%
  • Build a $10K machine 7 votes
    23%
  • I’m fine with the sub $5K Pin I own 15 votes
    48%

(31 votes)

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#26 5 years ago

The OP should ask a upfront question.

Have you ever performed a playfield swap?
If not, this is a even deeper different level of added experience to build entire games.
Having built games from scratch, parts availability is different today, and much harder for oddball requirements, not considering special mounting bracket fabrication.

Bottom line: This is not a project for novices, and you will easily spend $7K+ BoM, and still be missing crirical components for added costs. Personal labor cannot be estimated unless experience is known.

Good luck.

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