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For sale: Flash Gordon - Fall price drop

By epeabs

4 years ago

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For sale: Flash Gordon - Fall price drop

Added: 2019-06-06 22:00:00 UTC • Re-listed: 1 time (September 14th, 2019) • Ended: October 5th, 2019
Condition: Fully shopped/refurbished

Price

$ 3,000 (OBO)

Open for offers

Up for sale is my Flash Gordon. I picked this game up and have spent countless hours and a bunch of $ to get it to where it is today. Unfortunately, I don't love to play it, even though it is a brutal game and plays very fast. I have numerous photos other than what is shown. Some before and after photos for comparison. I would prefer not to ship.

PROS:

Hardtop installed
Comet 2SMD cool white LEDs in backbox and GI
Comet 2SMD color matched in all inserts
Pini-tech LED displays with red/ and or amber filters
Cabinet sanded down and repainted
Pinball Pimp stencil kit used for stenciling
New chrome legs with new leg levelers
New playfield plastic screws and stainless acorn nuts
Slingshot plastic protectors
CPR repro non-mirrored backglass
CPR repro plastics set
All new flippers bats
All three flippers rebuilt
All new coil sleeves
New pop bumper white bodies and red skirts
Weebly MPU board
All new locking header pins on boards
New dual speakers
New playfield glass
New Titan translucent rubbers
Sound board rebuilt by Allan at Ardvark
Coin door disassembled, cleaned and reinstalled with new coin door decal
New correct shooter rod and springs
New flipper buttons and flipper switches
Microswitches installed on all outlanes and shooter lane
New polished pinball
Titan Lockdown receiver decal
“Power plate” removed, cleaned, repainted and reinstalled
New Tilt assembly mounting board
New backglass trim
Cabinet wiring organized better
New black Reese Rails installed
Shooter lane 2Pac cleared
New clear (not opaque) playfield inserts
New star-rollover inserts and "stars"
New hot stamped drop down targets
Drop down assemblies removed, cleaned, reinstalled and adjusted
Saucer assembly removed, cleaned and reinstalled
All switches cleaned and adjusted
All switches have new diodes installed
Many parts tumbled to freshen up
New backbox board connectors re-pinned
New coin door and backbox locks
New strobe bulb installed and works properly

CONS:

A couple wire jumpers on back of light board, auxiliary light board, and Talk & Squawk board
One small (owner induced) blemish on Hardtop 6” above right lower flipper
It currently plays 99% (One switch not registering).

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Item location

Auburn, NH, US

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No, it's not. It's a type of plastic that's 030 thick with all the graphics screen printed underneath, which is then adhered to the playfield. https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/official-hardtops-thread/page/16#post-5036907

Quoted from NevadaNutJob:
How did you ding the hard top ? I thought it was durable enough that it would be pretty difficult to blemish it like that . Pretty game ! Glwts

Not a ding. I was redrilling a dowel filled screw hole from the underside. Drill bit hit an air gap below the dowel and pushed through. Ahhhhhhh!!! (No, I didn't have a drill stop installed, my bad). Filled with clear epoxy. It doesn't affect game play and I haven't mixed the right color to dab it to hide it.

I've just been trying with little to no time to fix my random reset issue. Just haven't had a lot of time to delve into it. So I haven't tried to push too hard.

Quoted from TractorDoc:
In regards to your resets. . .
I'm sure you've ruled out power supply issues to your MPU.
I was chasing a reset problem on my Paragon a little while back and was able to resolve it after trying a lot of other things -- all it took was routing some of the wiring a bit different. Here is a link to a post in the thread that discusses the situation should you want to pursue it further.
https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/project-paragon-breathing-life-back-into-the-beast/page/5#post-4969964
Nice looking Flash Gordon -- hope I can make mine look as good!

I have a solid 5V on TP5 on the Nvram Weebly MPU. I will try rerouting some of the backbox wires (its definitely worth a try). My resets seem to happen when I hit a switch in the same row. Right pop bumper, bottom right lower stand up, bottom left drop on lower playfield. But I can't for the life of me find anything shorted, touching, etc. But the ironic part is you mentioned the roll tilt and removing the "ball". I have noticed that while playing around during switch test, if I roll the ball tilt, the right drop target fires, which can't be right. Maybe I need to pull the roll tilt channel and reclean, and tumble the "ball".

Quoted from Madmax541:
When does the reset occur?
Did you repin connectors?
If so which ones?
Is SDB rebuilt?

Jim- I answered part of yours above about when it occurs. I repinned all the connectors in the backbox with the exception of the display connectors, and I installed all new header pins on the original boards. The SBD has been gone over and checked out, capacitors are not original.

Quoted from Colsond3:
Pics look like they go in perfect order to me. Before shots, then he did the playfields first, put back in and tested (you can see the paint on the inside of the cabinet wasn’t redone yet at that point). Then took those out and worked on the coin door and redoing cabinet. Then put it all back together.
Reset issue or not, game is beautiful as hell. This game has been on my wish list for a long time, and I’ve been coming back to look at it almost daily. Never thought I would pay that much for a FG, but it’s starting to feel like this one might be worth it. A lot of the heavy lifting’s been done already.

@Colson3 - thank you. I purchased as a project to keep. But personally don't love it. I didn't intend on going as far as I did, it's just once you touch something, you move on to the next. Damn hobby.....

Pintastic price drop to $3100. I will be at Pintastic from Thursday afternoon but have to leave Friday night. I can bring the game with me, but it is not going to be set up in Free Play due to my schedule. Since a previous post, I have tried to isolate the switch matrix wires as much as possible from the flipper circuit, and I found the random reset problem which involves the upper playfield single inline drop target scoring switch. With the Hardtop this thing plays fast and furious, but I just have too many great memories playing my Black Knight.

Quoted from Madmax541:
Played this FG at Pintastic, it plays as it should.
Good deal for someone wanting a FG with all the work done.
This is a very challenging game to restore.

Thanks Jim. I appreciate it.

Quoted from gdonovan:
Thanks for bringing it- The only game that I played "one more time" trying to get a handle on it, outstanding!

Your welcome. Glad you enjoyed playing it. If we had more time, I wouldn't have minded bringing a couple more games.

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