I decided to document my adventure with my first pin here instead of adding to the roadshow club thread.
I had been looking for my first machine off and on for a few months now, was working out a deal on a inexpensive High Speed, but I saw this table put up on ebay.
As you can see the auction closes with 0 bids, since the price was pretty high. I decided to send a offer over messages and it was accepted.
Electronics are all good, the shaker will rattle your teeth out, DMD nice and bright, flippers strong, every switch works. I was thinking I was getting off cheap here.
I went and put my first order in for parts, ordered a complete rubber kit, some LEDs, a set of sector gears and drive gears for both jaws (they both worked, somewhat but were quite sloppy and noisy) and some shooter rod parts to fix the wasted main shooter springs.
Going through the machine for playability, I was pretty surprised, other than the mentioned eyeball issues, nearly everything was working, flippers all nice and strong, all the kickouts and switches were working, until I hit multiball and found the dozer blade wasn't moving and ted's mouth was stuck closed.
I found the opto board for the dozer blade totally gone from the cabinet, I did find it in the "spare parts" box I was given, missing the down opto and rough from a really bad attempt at soldering in the past. I was given a spare opto so I did try getting the board working, but still had no luck. Ted's mouth was stuck because the gears were slipping and hanging on his plastic face because it had no screws in it.
Order number 2.....new "improved" dozer opto board incoming.
I disco'ed the dozer and left it up and ran Ted naked for a little bit to see if I found any other issues before I started taking parts off to clean and fix the heads, everything seems to be working rather well, you can see from the pic how dirty everything is and the little bits of crumbling rubber everywhere.
"Fish wear" I think I lucked out as its contained almost entirely in the green.
Decided to tear into red and see if I could fix her state of constant shock easily, or if I needed more parts, she could look left and right okay, but no eyelid action.
Found out the operator decided that when the vertical coil went out, the best way to fix it was to remove her eyelids entirely...And I didn't get them in the parts pile...crap.
Also, the Jaw doesn't seem to be the right color at all...but it doesn't have the same dimple as a Ted Jaw, so I am not sure what happened here.
So Red will need 2 eyelid coils, an eyelid plastic and two nyloners.
I also found last night that again, a lovely shortcut was taken when the eyes right coil on Ted went out. They hot glued teds eyes center and removed all the hardware to move them...and of course, I didn't get those parts either. I haven't taken him out yet but I assume the lids up and down coils are shot too. The plunger rod seems to be intact.
Hopefully my first pile of parts come in this weekend as I can really start getting things done.