Quoted from jgentry:I saw a really nice one last year at TPF that was a 1 year old super nice restore that went for the low 5's
I bought that one. It was the most I’ve ever paid for an old pin by a factor of 2 lol
It was restored by Keith Holbrook. It’s pretty nice. I did some more work to it when it came back (including replacing every switch diode to fix a switch problem nobody else could fix, evidently ...)
I didn’t want to pay $5k for a Fathom.
But there’s no way I could get one this nice for this price - unless I fluked a cheap deal somewhere.
Base game these days - 3500
New PF - 1000
New plastics - 200
New BG - 350
Cabinet stencils - 120
Auto Paint etc for cabinet - 200
New rails - 200
Blue displays - 200
New MPU - 200
Etc
Etc
That adds up to more than I paid for the game - and doesn’t include at least 100 hours of my pin time (which I don’t have) to do all the work.
So that’s my reasoning.
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