I am soooooooo happy with this machine. 10/10 ORIGINAL backglass. Had people ask me already if it is a repro. I still can't believe that it is original. 8.8 /10 playfield. Two slightly cupped inserts and one slightly raised insert that needs to be reset. Some slight touch ups needed on lower outlane inserts in the purple. Cab is a 7.5 / 10. Needs a repaint but very decent original condition if I wanted to just leave it as is. Plastics are slightly warped but I will get the new repros this month. Coin door and all metal has been coated with that aweful gun metal grey stuff. Going to get a new coin door, legs and anything metal from PBR. Here are some pictures for you guys to drool.

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Unbelievable original backglass.

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The only noticable planking lines that I could find. I was being nit picky.

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These inserts are flawless and unchipped.

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5000 slightly cupped but so far it is not effecting play.
4000 is level.
3000 is flat but slightly raised on the left side.
2000 is level.
1000 is slightly cupped but not as cupped as the 5000.

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I know.... I didn't get all the wax off the roll over. I assure you I cleaned it after I took the picture

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I will get this playfield touched up and clear coated.

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Oh how I wish I had a new coin door already!

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Your backglass is superb. Mine has been triple thicked and yours has not. I don't feel like moving my machine to take mine out. I have one small spec missing from the wizard's toe. One of my plastics is broken at the bottom one of the bigger plastics on the side has a small but noticeable crack. I am going to just pick up a set so I have a full set available.

Nope I am just waiting for pinrescue to put them out. I am beyond happy that I don't have to shell out 300 dollars for a repro backglass.

Here are some backglass pics. I figured I would take a few since I was back there today. I would downgrade this glass from a 10 to a solid 9. Still an amazing original glass. Most of these back glasses are shot to hell.

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Moderate felt tape damage that I am still searching on the backglass if it shows all the way through. It would take an eagle eye to find it while playing it.

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Typical felt tape damage of the era. Grrrr. Oh well. At least it doesn't stand out much while playing the machine.

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One white spec missing in white of score reel area. You have to be seriously looking for it while playing.

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One of the few noticable specs of paint missing by the wizard's foot. It is really the only specs that you see while playing the machine. Beyond easy to touch up if I felt like it.

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One missing spec of paint by one of the "orbs"

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One without flash. A few small specs missing by wizard's foot.

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Actually a new non yellowed set would be warranted for my machine. I don't feel like futzing around with trying to get them unyellowed and unwarped. I just might order another backglass and put it in storage for a "what if" situation.

BTW Frax came over and fixed some small stuff and helped me get the machine 100%. He FRAXED it with a 115,000 something score.

Yeah that is why I just want a fresh set of plastics to make the game pop. I took the chimes off and cleaned the crap out of them and soaked the little nuts in simple green for an hour. The chimes look like new. I might just take some fine grain sandpaper like 600 grit and get any scratches out. I am about to get some fine sand paper to sand the side rails and lock down bar to make them look fresh.

I just took 600 grit waterproof sand paper and 91% alcohol and cleaned up the side rails and lock down bar. I finished them up with fine steel wool. The siderails and lock down bar look factory now. I also took the chimes off cleaned them, sanded steel wool and bought some new nylon 6-32 washers. Man the chimes look AMAZING now. I figure little by little I will get the courage to take other mechanical things apart to clean them and restore them to shiny new.

By request.... I will most likely take out the small chime bar and work on it a tad more because it has that residue look on it and it is not coming off with simple green. It should take 5 more minutes of wet sanding followed by steel wool polishing.

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A good picture showing the lock down bar

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I am very excited on how the side rails turned out! They look factory fresh. I just need new side rail nails. I will have those installed when I have the cab painted. (And yes I got all the dried wax out from underneath the plastic thingy under the pop cap assembly. It looked annoying as hell after I took this picture)

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pictures don't do it justice. It is not perfect but it is 10 times better now that I have taken 38 years of gunk off of it.

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Aren't they nice and shiny? They sound better as well.

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My cab is the weakest part of my machine it is a 7 to 7.5. It looks like crap with scratches. I got most of the nicotine off but there are just too many scratches in the cab. I have a few people that I know that can do a perfect factory repaints with the perfect amount of factory speckle. I myself enjoy repaints when they are done right. This will be the 4th machine I have had with a repaint and all done up.

I am going to try the plastics flattening trick tomorrow.