King of Diamonds
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I will be getting my $100 King Of Diamonds in a few weeks, and the owner has never had the key in the 20 years he has had it. He says the previous owner told him he never had a key either in the 15 years he owned it. It will probably turn out to be nothing, but I am really curious to see what's in there. Hopefully it's nothing like what Vid found in that Space Invaders.............cabinet-o-dicks !!!
Quoted from Wolfmarsh:I helped BadBrick pick up a game from a high school once. They didn't have the keys, and didn't even know the backglass came out. We mentioned there might be acid damage from the batteries, and they didn't even know batteries were in it.
I taught one of their shop classes how to properly drill a lock in just a few seconds, then I realized I had just taught a bunch of teenagers how to break into stuff....
Their parents will be coming to you for the bail $$$$
Quoted from vid1900:I don't open them in front of the sellers.
Just load it into the van and wave goodby.
If the lock is still "loose", you can pick it faster than you can drill it (usually).
There is that treasure hunt fun of opening something locked up for so many years, thats for sure!
Agreed, no way in hell I open this up until it's home. It's not going very far, keeping the head on in the back of my pick up is no big deal.
Quoted from EMsInKC:Why would you do that? Just drill out the back door lock, or just take a screwdriver and break the lock.
The back door lock is easy to get rid of.
It's no big deal until something busts the backglass.
Don't drill the front door. Just drill the back door, take the head off, and off you go.
I stand corrected, good take on that backglass nightmare scenario.
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