Quoted from sacredgaming:@mrgone I do. Just got the pin tonight so going to spend some time on it tomorrow.
@chamb No intentions of dropping big bucks on this. Just want to get it in fully operational status and give is some curb appeal. I expect to drop about 100 - 200 or so into it. I think i can get $1000 with the right buyer once good and clean. Any money I get will go into an upgrade.
Maybe someone can shed dome light on its retail value.
First, welcome and congrats on getting a machine for a great price.
Remember this is pinball, retail prices are for new machines, not the resale market.
Check some of the for sale and price police threads for why e-bay and retail prices don't fly at the end of the day. You also don't have a medieval madness, Big Bang Bar, or Wizard of Oz, so to $8k price point is out of this machine league. A great, fully working, clean Millionaire will get $600-$900. Minty at most $1000, it's just not a high demand game.
On to fixes:
If the mylar is good, don't touch it, clean the machine up and fix it up.
Step one is to get the batteries off the MPU board, especially the leaking mismatched ones that are there. Battery acid (alkaline) is the most dangerous thing to a pinball machine.
Step two fix the problems: start with the flippers, check the 50V rectifier board and its fuse. If the fuse is blown, it blew for a reason, so check the EOS switches on the flippers and make sure they work correctly (POWER OFF, a short to the switch matrix from the flipper EOS will fry the MPU).
System 11 did NOT have transistors to control the flippers, it's 50V to the coils and a switched ground at the flipper buttons.
It looks pretty clean in the backbox otherwise, it probably needs new molex GI connectors on the power board, and you need to put in the missing fuse blocks on the two bridge rectifiers on the right side (this is a known FIRE hazard, so put those in). Otherwise just do the simple bullet proofing to save your funds. Do NOT lube anything.
Put some elbow grease into cleaning the playfield, and you'll have a great players machine, that will some have some brother and sisters (no one stops after just one machine).
