I'm sure that a kit like this would mostly go to experienced pinballers who already know the ins and outs of a machine. I can't imagine that to many inexperienced pilots would build their own airplane.

I'm sure that warranty conditions would be different for a game that you build yourself compared to a factory built game. It might not even have any warranty. That dosent scare me. I've yet to own a pinball machine thats came with a warranty.

Care to elaborate why not? I'd buy one and I'm sure others would too

Honda has a DIY car.....

Ok. That was just an April Fools joke. But come on, I wanna build a pinball kit.

Really all were talking about here is a wiring harness and cabinet. Maybe a couple special game specific parts and that's it.

Let's take f-14 tomcat as an example.
Soon you will be able to buy a CPR playfield. I've heard their in the works.

You can already buy a rottendog MPU board and rom chips to run it. Marco has the pop bumper mech, flippers, pinscore display, power supply. Ect. Ect. Ect. They have damn near every piece for the game. But no wire harness.

Why couldn't they sell complete machine kits. Just a premade list with all the parts, have proper amounts of screws ect. Just offer a deal to the customer on a bulk order and sell everything together.

Why can't this happen? I guess I could do all the legwork. Buy a f-14 manual, and use that to count all the pieces and buy everything in one order. Build a new cabinet (already have done that) and assemble all the pieces.

But If I could buy a wire harness; and find a premade parts list it would be a whole lot easier.

Ideally it would have to provide a wire harness. That's probably the most time consuming part of the whole build.