As long as the inner backglass is in good shape it's totally worth it. The only thing that concerns me is the sound not working on that one-off sound board. I say go for it and hope the sound board is in good shape and the sound problem can be repaired.

Sounds like a decent deal to me.
It could just be some fuses.
The parts alone are worth more than 300.

That playfield is unsavable by any mere mortal. A few guys here could probably do something with it, but it won't be worth it with all that damage.

$300 of parts .. possibly, if you want to sell things off one by one -- mainly backbox parts and a few unique things on the PF).

It probably will cost you about $50 to get it 'playable' and $100 to get it good enough; but nothing gets you past that PF wear, so it will remain a $300-$400 even after you work on it. If you're keeping it to play, that's probably fine; but there won't be a market if you want to flip.

i talked to this guy this morning and passed after he decribed the playfield...thought maybe it was a gem for 300 but nope......

Expect to spend at least $800 and closer to $1200 on a playfield.....plus 40 hours to swap. I've learned the hard way.

Based on that picture, the game is in attract mode. So, you at least know the boards "mostly" work already. With Bally's from this era, getting them to boot consistently is the main challenge 80% of the time.

The displays and boards are worth 300 so you may be able to get 500 for it... if you part it out. But what's the fun in that? You do realize that it will never be worth much more than what you pay for it, even fully working and complete, in that sort of condition, correct? If the BG is really nice, I could see it being worth 200 alone to someone...

I was wondering who got this. Nice Score!

Go to Big Daddy's and order up the sound board capacitor kit. It's usually the bank of diodes in the bottom corner that are toasted.

Heh... this thread is deja-vu for me...
http://www.vidiotarcade.com/xenon.html

Can't go wrong for $300 imho. Congrats!

Congrats on the Xenon. It was my second game, I also bought mine non-working but she had good bones. I ended up restoring her and selling to a collector in CA. Mine had a dirty outhole kicker switch that caused the game not to start. If you didn't know it, Xe is a 2 ball multi-ball game. 2 balls must be in the trough in order for a game to start. Game WILL NOT start with only 1 ball. The first ball will kick over the ball release and wait by the shooter lane while the other ball will hang out in the trough, the area in the center between the flippers. If the game is running like it should, when you hit the start button, the ball by the shooter lane should kick into the shooter lane. Immediately after that, the other should kick over to ball release area. This cycle will repeat. So when you lock a ball in the side saucer, the second ball is ready to be released into the shooter lane.

For the sound board you can try adjusting the speech and sound volume pots, these are troublesome and sometimes a few turns will get the sound going. You can keep pushing the red test button while doing this. If still no sound, double check the coin door volume to rule out the possibilty of a bad volume pot there. Double check the coin door connector as well since the volume goes thru that connection as well. These Sounds Plus and Vocalizer boards seldom come up for sale and if they do, they are expensive. They were only used in Xenon and the early part of the Flash Gordon run. Sending them out for repair might be your best bet. I suggest Coin OP Culdron or Borygard. Keep me updated and look at these, t might give you some inspiration..
http://southjerseypinball.com/gallery/v/lovef2k/

Rich

Congrats on the deal. I chased the sound issues on mine for a month before pulling the trigger on a new sound board. Turned out that was all it needed.

They're a fun machine to work on.

Good call $300 dont matter how nice the PF is or not go get it would have been my advice. The PF is restorable no fun it would be though but even @$1000 for new PF its still within value.

If you can find one, is the problem. I looked for nearly a year for a Xenon PF and begged CPR to do another run to no avail. Finally settled on an overlay, got the game working and passed it along to another pinsider with more artistic talent than me. Fun and beautiful game, but barring a miracle, you'll be stuck with that PF or an overlay.

Does someone need a playfield?

Try re-seating the connectors on the sound board and checking for any cold/broken solder joints on header pins. On those games, there were often issues with connectors.